Faculty

Julia Phillips Cohen
Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish History
Assistant Professor of History

PhD Stanford University, 2008

Jewish History, History of the Ottoman Empire, Urban History, Inter-Communal Relations in the Modern Mediterranean, Judeo-Spanish (Sephardi) History, Jews in Islamic Lands

Telephone: 615-322-6202
Email: julia.p.cohen@vanderbilt.edu
Office Hours: R 4:00-6:00 pm, by appointment
Office: 215 Benson Hall

Julia Phillips Cohen is an Assistant Professor in the Program in Jewish Studies and the Department of History at Vanderbilt University. Her current project focuses on the imperial loyalties and local identities of Ottoman Jews in different urban centers of the eastern Mediterranean. She has received several grants in support of her work, including fellowships from the Stanford Humanities Center, the National Foundation for Jewish Culture, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, the Institute for Turkish Studies and the American Research Institute in Turkey.

Her publications include “‘Zeal and Noise’: Jewish Imperial Allegiance and the Greco-Ottoman War of 1897,” in Michael Laskier and Yaacov Lev, eds. Judaism and Islam in Medieval and Modern Times (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, forthcoming) , “Conceptions rivales du patriotism ottoman : les célébrations juives de 1892" in Esther Benbassa, ed. Itinéraires Sépharades (Paris: Presses de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne, forthcoming) as well as several entries on late Ottoman Judeo-Spanish print culture in Norman Stillman, ed. The Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming).

Cohen received her BA in Spanish and History from the University of California, Davis, and pursued her MA and PhD in Modern Jewish History at Stanford University. Her teaching interests include a variety of topics in modern Jewish history, the comparative urban histories of Europe and the Middle East, Jewish-Muslim relations and the modern Ottoman Empire.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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