2024–2025 Faculty Research Grants
The Melton Center initiated a Faculty Research Grants program this year to support research in Jewish studies associated with any part of a scholarly or artistic project.
Recipients of the 2024–2025 Faculty Research Grants were:
Galey Modan
Professor, Department of English
The Semiotic Landscape of Amsterdam’s Old Jewish Quarter
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James D. Moore
Assistant Professor, Department of Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures
Aspects of Judean Life: Elephantine in Its Persian Imperial and Administrative Context
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Adena Tanenbaum
Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures
Beguiling Guidance: Zechariah Aldāhirī’s “Book of Moral Instruction” (Sefer Hamusar), a Hebrew Maqāma from 16th-century Yemen