Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History, Tel Aviv University, 2007-present

Ph.D., History, Summa cum laude, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2005

M.A., History, Summa cum laude, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2000

B.A., History and Philosophy, Summa cum laude, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1998

Academic Interests

European history, c. 1300-1650; religious history; gender history, with a focus on the Italian Renaissance, religious reform movements, Christian mysticism and sanctity, the Catholic Reformation, witch-hunting and demonology, the Roman Inquisition.

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Savonarola's Women: Visions and Reform in Renaissance Italy. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2008 (320 pp.).

"Le mistiche domenicane nella lotta antiereticale a cavallo del Quattro e Cinquecento." In Il velo, la penna e la parola. Le domenicane: storia, istituzioni e scritture, ed. Gabriella Zarri and Gianni Festa [Biblioteca di Memorie Domenicane 1]. Florence: Nerbini, 2009, pp. 133-149.

"Bridging North and South: Inquisitorial Networks and Witchcraft Theory on the Eve of the Reformation." Journal of Early Modern History 12:5 (December 2008), pp. 361-382.

"Women's Participation in the Savonarolan Reform in Ferrara." Rivista di Storia del Cristianesimo 4:2 (Fall 2007), pp. 331-354.

"Witches, Saints, and Heretics: Heinrich Kramer's Ties with Italian Women Mystics." Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft 1:1 (Summer 2006), pp. 24-55.

"The Rise and Fall of a Savonarolan Visionary: Lucia Brocadelli's Contribution to the Piagnone Movement." Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte/Archive for Reformation History 95 (2004), pp. 34-60.

"The Demons' Reaction to Sodomy: Witchcraft and Homosexuality in Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola's Strix." Sixteenth Century Journal 34:1 (April 2003), pp. 53-72.

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Fellowships, Grants, and Awards

2007-2010
Israeli Council for Higher Education, Yigal Alon Fellowship for Outstanding Junior Faculty.

2009-2010
Vice President's Internal Research Grant, Tel Aviv University.  

2008-2009
Mellon Long-Term Fellowship, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. 

2005-2007
Yad Hanadiv Postdoctoral Fellowship in European History (for postdoctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania [2005-2006] and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem [2006-2007]).

2005
Selected by the Lady Davis Foundation Committee as a Recipient of the Lady Davis Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2005/6 (declined).

2005
Selected as a Recipient of the Rothschild Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities for the academic year 2005/6 (declined).

2003
Research Travel Grant, Institute for European Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2002-2005
Rector's extended Tuition and Stipend Scholarship for Distinguished Ph.D. Students, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2002
Short-Term Fellowship, Newberry Library, Chicago.

2002
Short-Term Fellowship, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

2000-2002
George L. Mosse Tuition and Stipend Scholarship, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2000-2001) and Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2001-2002).

1998-2000
Rector's Tuition and Stipend Scholarship for Distinguished M.A. Students, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

1996-1998
Dean's Tuition Scholarship for B.A. Students, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Prizes, Awards, and Distinctions

2008, 2009
Member, Young Scholars Forum, Humanities Division, Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities

2007
Medieval Academy of America Publication Subvention Award for a First Book in Medieval Studies.

2006
Bernard M. Bloomfield Memorial Prize for an Outstanding Dissertation in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2001
Lafer Center for Women and Gender Studies Prize for Distinguished Ph.D. Students, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2000
Award of Academic Excellency from the Israeli Parliament.

2000
Rector's Prize, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

1999
Lafer Center for Women and Gender Studies Prize for Distinguished M.A. Students, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

1999
Valedictorian, Graduation Ceremony of the Faculty of Humanities, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

1998
Jacob Talmon Award of Academic Excellency for B.A. Students, Department of History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.