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Angy Cohen, PhD

Investigadora Ramón y Cajal

Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Department of Anthropology and Archaeology

University of Calgary

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About me

I am a researcher on contemporary Sephardic culture. Through a combination of ethnographic research and text analysis, I have studied Sephardi Modernity with a focus on the Jewish communities of the Maghreb. I have also studied Sephardi culture in Israel and Sephardi women's movements. I have a multidisciplinary academic background in Psychology, Philosophy, Anthropology and Jewish Studies. My research is focused on personal narratives and identity construction.

I received my PhD in 2017 from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Autonomous University of Madrid, in a Joint PhD program. My doctoral dissertation was a comparative ethnographic study of life stories among Spanish-Moroccan Jews that emigrated to Israel and Argentina. In the last two years, I have been working on personal narratives of Sephardi/Mizrahi women and the development of the so-called "traditionist feminism" in Israel. 

I have held postdoctoral positions at the School of Cultural Studies of Tel Aviv University, the Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies at Concordia University (Montreal), the University of Calgary and the Universidad Complutense of Madrid. At the moment, I am working on the manuscript of my book about personal narratives of Spanish-Moroccan Jews in Israel and Argentina, from a comparative approach.

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