The Musician, Tamara de Lempicka
Recent Faculty Distinctions
Stefanie Siegmund, winner of the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize in European History for 2006 by the American Historical Association for her book, The Medici State and the Ghetto of Florence: The Construction of an Early Modern Jewish Community (Stanford University Press, 2006).
Ruth Tsoffar, recipient of the 2007 Elli Kongas Maranda Prize from the Women's Section of the American Folklore Society and finalist, National Jewish Book Award in the category of Women’s Studies both for her book The Stains of Culture: An Ethno-Reading of Karaite Jewish Women (Wayne State University Press, 2005).
Ruth Behar, recipient of Fulbright Scholar grant. She will teach at the University of Buenos Aires in the 2007 Winter term and do research within the city, include a preliminary study of the Jewish community.