Valeria Navarro-Rosenblatt

Dr. Navarro-Rosenblatt holds a Ph.D. in Latin American History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a professor of History and Secretary of Studies in Political Science at Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile. Dr. Navarro-Rosenblatt collaborates with the Chilean Jewish Archive. Her research focuses on the political experience of the Jewish Left in Chile and Argentina during the 20th Century. Her dissertation follows the life of a Communist Family during the 20th Century, as they became “Jewish-Chilean,” and integrated through harshness, pain, and struggle into Chilean. Dr. Navarro-Rosenblatt has published several articles regarding Chilean history, Jews, Politics, and Memory. Her current research observes Chilean Jewish women’s political and cultural activities during the 20th Century.

Available to give talks or class visits online for a fee. Languages: English and Spanish.

Academic Website: https://wisc.academia.edu/ValeriaNavarroRosenblatt

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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.

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