I am a social and cultural historian with a keen interest in food, consumption, and the environment. I completed my PhD in International History at The Graduate Institute, Geneva in 2021. My PhD thesis Meat in the Heat: A History of Tel Aviv under the British Mandate for Palestine (1920s–1940s) was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation’s Doc.CH grant.
At the Institute of Jewish Studies, I serve as a postdoc for the project “Jewish Studies, Ecology, and Sustainability”. Here, I study the ecologies and economies of livestock and meat in Palestine and the region from the Mandate period into Israel’s first years. I teach courses on Jewish environmental encounters with the land of Palestine, focusing on topics such as agriculture, animals, climate, food, hygiene, and the body.
My areas of competence are global food studies, environmental history (with a focus on agriculture and animals), Palestine/Israel, modern Jewish history, urban history, imperialism, colonialism, and settler-colonialism
