Welcome to our 2022-2023 Fellows

Please join us in welcoming our 2022-2023 Fellows. The Starr Fellows are recent Ph.D. recipients working on topics in Jewish Studies and the Arts, including History of Art and Architecture, Visual Studies and Visuality, History of Music, and Ethnomusicological studies, Film Studies, History of Theater and Dance, Performance Studies.

The Faculty co-hosts for this cohort are:

  • Joseph Koerner, Victor S. Thomas Professor of History of Art and Architecture
  • Kay K. Shelemay, G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music and Professor of African and African American Studies
  • David Stern, Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature; Director of the Center for Jewish Studies

Starr Fellows:

  • Paula Ansaldo, University of Buenos Aires (spring semester)
  • Samantha Cooper, New York University (academic year)
  • Rivka Elitzur-Leiman, Tel Aviv University (academic year)
  • Sivan Gottlieb, Bar Ilan University (academic year)
  • Jules Riegel, Indiana University Bloomington (academic year)
  • Victor Tiribás, Scuola Normale Superiore, (academic year)

Silver Fellow:

Rabbi Jeff Sultar, Congregation B’nai Jacob in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania  (spring semester)