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Marcella Simoni
Jean Monnet Fellow
Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies
Biography
Marcella Simoni is Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the EUI and Associate Professor of “History and Institutions of Asia” at Ca’ Foscari University, Venice. She holds a PhD from the University of London (2004) and has been a Research Fellow at Brown University (1995; 1997), at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles (2001), at the Centre de Recherche Francais à Jerusalem (2009), and at INALCO, Paris (2010).
She also received the Alessandro Vaciago Prize for Social and Political Science from the Accademia dei Lincei. Marcella Simoni has published two monographs on health and welfare in Palestine during the British Mandate (A Healthy Nation and At the margins of conflict, 2010), and has edited and co-edited various volumes on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and on the history of racism in Italy, as well as numerous articles and essays on peer-reviewed Italian and international journals. She is currently preparing a monograph on the transnational history of the Jews in Asia (1750-1950). Marcella is also a founder and a board member of the journal Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History and of the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies. Her research interests include Jews in Asia, civil society in Israel and Palestine, the history of medicine, and the intersections of history, memory and trauma, and cinema in the Middle East.