Aynat Rubinstein writes from her present post at Georgetown University:
I have recently accepted a 3-year fellowship at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, as a Mandel Scholar at the Scholion Interdisciplinary Research Center in the Humanities and Jewish Studies.
Mandel Scholars are chosen each year amongst applicants whose research may enrich academic and cultural discourse across different disciplines in the humanities. Finalists are brought to Jerusalem to give a talk about their work, in what has come to be known (quite aptly, I may add) as the “marathon of lectures”. Apart from conducting their own research, Mandel Scholars participate in the many activities of the Scholion Center, including a colloquium series and field trips (!).
I am joining the Scholion Center at a great time for linguistics. In the next three years, a new research group on the emergence of Modern Hebrew will be hard at work there. The group, which is led by Edit Doron, Malka Rappaport-Hovav, Yael Reshef, and Moshe Taube, will be a research hub for several PhD students, and open to the participation of local and visiting scholars.
Congratulations Aynat!
