Avery Weinman
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Biography
Avery Weinman is a PhD student in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. In general, she studies modern Jewish history, modern US history, and modern Indigenous history in the United States. More specifically, she researches socio-political relationships and rhetorical overlap between Jewish and Indigenous activists in the post-war United States.
Research
BA Thesis, “Reverberations from ‘The Earthquake’: Collective Memory and Why Mizrahi Israelis Vote for the Israeli Right”
Publications
“Mutual Empowerment in the ‘Power Era’: Jews and American Indians in the Post-Civil Rights Era United States,” American Jewish History 106:4 (October 2022), p. 339-366.
Awards & Grants
- Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship (Summer 2022, AY 2022-2023)
- Sigman Graduate Fellow, UCLA Younes & Soraya Center for Israel Studies (2020-2021; 2021-2022)
- Linda Peterson Award in Intellectual History, The University of California, Santa Cruz (2019)
- Hitchcock Award for Overall Best Essay, The University of California, Santa Cruz (2019)
- Dean’s Undergraduate Research Award, The University of California, Santa Cruz (2019)
- Undergraduate Research Fellowship, The Humanities Institute, The University of California, Santa Cruz (2018)
Conference Presentations
- 2022 Western Historical Association, “Mutual Empowerment in the ‘Power Era’: Jews and American Indians in the Post-Civil Rights Era United States.”
- 2019 UCLA Younes & Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies Undergraduate Scholars Conference in Israel Studies, “‘A Likud Stronghold and That Is How it Will Remain’: The Israeli Right and Mizrahi Israeli Identity”
- 2019 UCSC History Department Undergraduate Showcase, “Reverberations from ‘The Earthquake’: Collective Memory and Why Mizrahi Israelis Vote for the Israeli Right”
- 2019 The Humanities Institute Humanities Spring Awards “Reverberations from ‘The Earthquake’: Collective Memory and Why Mizrahi Israelis Vote for the Israeli Right”
