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2012-2013 Frankel Institute Fellows Announced: Frankel Institute Assembles Roster of Accomplished Jewish Studies Scholars

Each year, the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan invites scholars to Ann Arbor to pursue research projects on a general theme. For 2011-2012, the group—led by U-M English Professor Jonathan Freedman—will gather around the theme of “Borders of Jewishness: Microhistories of Encounter.”

“The Frankel Institute hopes to foster an ongoing conversation among historians, literary critics, political scientists, students of religion, and anthropologists,” explains Freedman. “This theme year honors the interdisciplinary quality of scholarship at the University of Michigan and of Jewish studies at its very best by bringing together as varied a crew as possible—historians of the U.S.; students of rabbinics and theological history; sociologists and political scientists; art historians and literary scholars—and seeing what, working together and relationally, we can all come up with.”

For a complete list of this year's fellows, click here.