Jews Across the Americas, 1492-present

Learning and Teaching Jewish American History

Jews Across the Americas, 1492-present

Blanca de Lima

Blanca Isabel De Lima Urdaneta is a Historian and Social Anthropologist and worked at the Francisco de Miranda University (Coro, Venezuela) until her retirement. She is a member of the Venezuelan National Academy of History and has published more than 50 books, chapters, journal articles and museum catalogs. 

Antropóloga Social por la Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (México, DF). Maestría en Arquitectura Investigación y Docencia (UNAM, México). Doctora en historia por la UCV (2001). Docente titular jubilada de la Universidad Francisco de Miranda (UNEFM. Coro, estado Falcón, Venezuela). Miembro de número del Capítulo Falcón-Academia Nacional de la Historia (Caracas, Venezuela). Jefa del Centro de Investigaciones Históricas Pedro Manuel Arcaya-UNEFM (2005-2008). Veintidós años de docencia y veinticinco años de investigación universitaria. Cursos en el área de historia del arte, paleografía, patrimonio y conservación. Experiencia en investigación social e histórica, con énfasis en los sefarditas del Caribe. Experiencia docente en temas sociales, históricos, museológicos y metodología de la investigación. Experiencia en gerencia de la investigación. Asistencia como ponente a eventos científicos en Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, España, Estados Unidos, México y Venezuela. Publicaciones arbitradas en Argentina, Colombia, Cuba, España, México, Perú y Venezuela. Más de 50 publicaciones entre libros, capítulos de libros, artículos para revistas arbitradas y catálogos para museos. Premios regionales y nacionales en Venezuela por producción docente e investigación.

Available to give talks or class visits online for a fee. Languages: Spanish, Dutch.

CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Fq8-03X_shF2uXOMtUNeJNSvGBKbS6KP/view?usp=sharing

Academic Website: https://independent.academia.edu/BlancaDeLima

Recent Publications:

Laura Leibman

Laura Arnold Leibman is Professor of English and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Her work focuses on religion and the daily lives of women and children in early America, and uses everyday objects to help bring their stories back to life. She is the author of "The Art of the Jewish Family: A History of Women in Early New York in Five Objects" (BGC 2020), "Indian Converts" (UMass Press, 2008) and "Messianism, Secrecy and Mysticism: A New Interpretation of Early American Jewish Life" (Vallentine Mitchell, 2012), which won a National Jewish Book Award, a Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association for Jewish Studies, and was selected as one of Choice’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013. Laura has been a visiting scholar at Oxford University, Utrecht University, the University of Panama, and the Leon Levy Foundation Professor of Jewish Material Culture at Bard Graduate Center. Laura, who earned her PhD from UCLA, is currently at work on a book that uses material culture to trace the history of members of a multiracial family who began their lives enslaved in the Caribbean but became some of the wealthiest Jews in New York.