Research Students
M.A. Students
Tzvi Tal -Dissertation submitted in 1997
"History, Politics and Aesthetics in the Films of Fernando Solanas: Cinematic Representation of Changes in Argentina's National Left Discourse, 1968-1992"
Inbal Ofer - Dissertation submitted in 2002
"A "New Woman" for a "New Spain" -The Feminine Section of the Spanish Falange and the Construction of a New Feminine Identity"
Tamar Groves - Dissertation submitted in 2002
"The Teacher as an Agent of Alternative Culture: The "Teachers' Movement" during the Transition to Democracy in Spain (Salamanca, 1970-1979)"
Federico Gomez - Dissertation submitted in 2005
"Music, Noise, Protest, Silence: Rock and Politics in Argentina, 1976-1983"
Atalia Shragai -Dissertation submitted in 2006
"The Banana Men: the Creation of a Colonial Culture, The United Fruit Company in Central America, 1900-1960"
Daniel Kressel - Dissertation submitted in 2009
"We Were All Guilty, Nobody is to Blame": Strategies for re-coding of the Spanish Civil War Memory during the Transition to Democracy in Spain"
Pinchas Lam -
"Conflicting Identities: Germans in Brazil During the Third Reich"
Ph.D. Students
Idit Gil -Dissertation submitted in 1998
"Nationalism and Social Justice in the Argentinian Intellectual Left: Sources for Peronist Ideology (1894-1947)?"
Tzvi Tal -Dissertation submitted in 2002
"Cinema, Cultural Dependence and Political Protest: The Struggle for National Identity Formation in Argentina and Brazil"
Efraim Davidi -Dissertation submitted in 2006
"Peronists and Revolutionaries: The Struggle for Hegemony and Generational
Shifts in the Argentinian Labour Movement, 1966-1976"
Inbal Ofer -Dissertation submitted in 2007
"The Making of a Female Political Elite in Franco's Spain: The National Leadership of the Sección Femenina de la FET (1936-1977) "
Silvina Gesser -Dissertation submitted in 2007
"Between Essentialism and Modernity: Aesthetics, Identities and Politics in Madrid's Cultural Scene, 1923-1936"
David Horowitz -Dissertation submitted in 2006
"The Jewish Community and Aliyah From Argentina 1962-1973"
Claudia Kedar -Dissertation approved in 2008
"The Routinization of Dependency: Argentina and the International Monetary Fund, 1944-1977"
Tamar Groves -Dissertation approved in 2010
"The Successes of Failure: The Teachers' Movement during the Spanish Transition to Democracy"
Aviv Cohen -Dissertation submitted in 2011
"Fire in the Backyard: The US and the American Press Facing the Revolutionary
Ferment in the Caribbean Basin during the Cold War Years"
Gaby Yunes -Dissertation submitted in 2011
"Hibridization, Identity and Historic Narrative in Argentinean Telenovelas from the 1990s to 2006"
Martina Libertad -Research proposal approved in 2008
“'Reunion' Five Hundred Years After: Jews, Muslims and Latin Americans in
Today’s Spain"
Guy Setton - Research proposal approved in 2010
"Ghosts of the Past and the Contemporary Challenges of the Middle East: Spanish -Israeli Relations, 1956 -1992"
Cecilia Shenferber -
"Jewish immigration to Chile" (tentative title)
"Between Gringos and Ticos: U.S. Settlers in Costa Rica 1945-1980"
Yonit Rucki-Menashe-
"Football and local identities in Spain" (tentative title)
Enrique Martínez Ruiz-
"Jewish immigrants and urban development in Bogotá" (tentative title)
Ariel Noyjovich-
"Arab-Argentines Neo-Peronism in Argentina" (tentative title)
Post-Doctoral students
Dr. Hillel Eyal, UCLA (2006)
Dr. Amalia Ran, University of Maryland (2007)