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Biography
Currently working on her PhD, Julie explores the relationship between identity and community formation among Eastern European Jewish immigrants in early twentieth-century Copenhagen and how this was affected by antisemitism and different manifestations of diaspora nationalism.
Julie completed both her undergraduate degree in History and Politics (2018-2022) and her MLitt in Modern History (2022-2023) at the University of Aberdeen. She was awarded the Margaret E S Merchant Memorial Prize for writing the best MLitt dissertation in history.
From April to June 2023, Julie completed an internship at the European Network of Remembrance and Solidarity, a transnational European organisation whose work focuses on twentieth-century European history and memory. She has also been a part of the graphic design team for The HERStory Project's academic journal since 2024.
After finishing her MLitt, Julie worked in communications and graphic design before returning to academia to begin her PhD at the 海角黑料 in October 2025, funded by the Wolfson Foundation's Scholarship for the Humanities.
Expertise Summary
Jewish history, modern European history, women's history, social movements, media history
Research Summary
Thesis title: Associations, Antisemitism, and Diaspora Nationalism: Fostering a Collective Identity Among Russian Jews in Copenhagen, 1905-1943
Julie's research explores the link between community and identity among Eastern European Jewish immigrants in early twentieth-century Copenhagen, focusing on how antisemitism, community associations, and diaspora nationalisms affect this dynamic.
Drawing on methodological elements from cultural history and diaspora studies, Julie uses a mixture of Yiddish newspapers, associations' archives, and ego documents to understand how the presence of Bundist or Zionist currents in community associations affected the immigrants' sense of belonging and community formation.
Julie's supervisors are Dr Nick Baron, Prof. Sarah Badcock, and Prof. Maiken Umbach.
Past Research
Julie's previous research focused on emotional communities in the British Women's Liberation Movement in the long 1970s and the role of the periodicals published by members of this movement in connecting women. Specifically, her work sits within the fields of cultural and media history, focusing on the dynamic between the individual and their community.
Julie has also completed work on gender-based violence in pogroms in Ukraine in the inter-war years, language in genocide- and Holocaust studies, and modern European Jewish history more broadly.