Ayelet Brinn received an Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) Dissertation Completion Fellowship for 2018-2019! Ayelet’s dissertation is entitled “Miss Amerike: The Yiddish Press’s Encounter with the United States.” (She presented a chapter of it at the Graduate Colloquium just today, in fact!)
Her committee is: Prof. Beth Wenger (advisor); Prof. Kathy Peiss; Prof. Kathryn Hellerstein (Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures); and Prof. Tony Michels (University of Wisconsin-Madison)