The Parkes Institute

Visiting fellowship scheme

The Parkes Institute offers visiting fellowships to academics in the field of Jewish/non-Jewish relations

Applications are now closed for the Parkes Institute 2024 to 2025 visiting fellowship. Please check back in Spring 2025 for application details for our 2025 to 2026 fellowship opportunities.

Past fellows

2023 to 2024

Dr Maria Cieśla, 'The influence of Jewish economic activity in creating Jewish-Christian spaces in the pre-modern Polish -Lithuania Commonwealth.'

2021 to 2022

Dr Isabelle Hesse, 'Jewish Speculative Fiction, Nationalism, and Nation-Building'.

Dr Arie Dubnov, 'Between Manchester and Jerusalem (and back?) Leon (H.Y.) Roth, Richard Koebner and the circulation of knowledge between Britain and Mandatory Palestine.'

2019 to 2020

Dr Susanne Korbel, 'Intimacy in a Splendid Metropolis: Versatile Encounters between Jews and non-Jews in Vienna around 1900.'

Dr Reuven Kiperwasser, 'A Jew and a Gentile in the mirror of a Rabbinic Conversion story: From Aquila the Proselyte to Abba Goolias.'

2017 to 2018

Dr Nir Cohen, 'The changes in Israeli state discourse and policy towards children of Israeli emigrants since the establishment of the state (1948)’

Dr Sebastian Musch, ‘A biographical exploration of Rabbi Hermann Helfgott-Zvi Asaria (1913–2002)’

2016 to 2017

Vladimir Levin, 'The Place and Function of the Synagogue in the East European Jewish Society from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries.'