Biography
I am a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology funded by the Economic and Social Research Council of the UK. I was initially trained in the University of Cambridge, where I completed an undergraduate degree in Human, Social and Political Sciences and a master's degree in Social Anthropological Research. Through academic studies, pastoral work and experiences living in diverse settings and institutions, my interest in Judaism as a source of identity and meaning and as a catalyst for living with oneself and others continues to hold my interest.
Research
I seek to understand how care manifests itself in, through and beyond Jewish lifeworlds via the study of Jewish mental and social healthcare provision in New York City. By studying sites of and responses to crisis, I hope to explore how crisis, in its demands for an immediate caring response, mediates differences between caregiver and receiver and shifts, even if momentarily, the manner in which diverse values are held as desirable and the scales by which intersubjectivity is generated and experienced.
Research interests: Judaism, religion, care, crisis, rootedness, alterity and sameness, scale, intersubjectivity, identity.
