Ilse Lazaroms has an MA in Gender Studies from Utrecht University and a PhD in Jewish Studies from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. She has taught and has held fellowships at Harvard University, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Central European University, the Institute of Advanced Study in Budapest, Utrecht University, and the Center for Jewish History in New York. She is also a writer of fiction, essays, and literary criticism.
As commissioning editor at AUP, she is interested in receiving proposals in heritage and memory studies, disaster and care studies, gender and queer/trans studies, Jewish and Palestine studies, slavery and decolonial studies, war and genocide studies, and any project that thinks critically as well as creatively about our world from an historically informed perspective.
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