Dr. Jaclyn Granick

Scientific Director (Wissenschaftliche Leitung) "Menschenrechtsbildung"

Research Interests

I am an international political historian of Europe, North America, and the Mediterranean from the 19th century to the near present. 
My research interests include:

  • Modern Jewish History
  • History of Human Rights and Humanitarianism
  • First World War Studies and Holocaust Studies
  • Gender Studies and Women’s History
  • History of International Organisations and NGOs
  • Critical Heritages Studies and Community Engagement
  • History of Global Health and Social Medicine

APPOINTMENTS 
since 2026Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau
Senior Lecturer in Modern History and Academic Director of the Centre for Human Rights Education, Department of Cultural and Social Sciences
2021-2026Cardiff University - Wales, UK
Senior Lecturer in Modern Jewish History, Department of History, Archaeology and Heritage (maternity leave inclusive)
2019-2021Cardiff University - Wales, UK
Lecturer (maternity leave inclusive)
2018-2019University of Oxford - Oxford, UK
Junior Research Fellow in Jewish Studies, St Peter’s College
2015-2018University of Oxford - Oxford, UK
Newton International Fellow, Faculty of History (maternity leave inclusive)
EDUCATION 
2015Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies -   Geneva, CH
PhD, summa cum laude with felicitations, in International History.                                                                                   
2010Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies -   Geneva, CH
MA in International Studies
2008Harvard University - Cambridge, MA, USA
BA, cum laude, in Social Studies with a citation in French language

I am an international political historian of Europe, North America, and the Mediterranean from the 19th century to the near present. 
My research interests include:

  • Modern Jewish History
  • History of Human Rights and Humanitarianism
  • First World War Studies and Holocaust Studies
  • Gender Studies and Women’s History
  • History of International Organisations and NGOs
  • Critical Heritages Studies and Community Engagement
  • History of Global Health and Social Medicine

Monograph:

International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War. Cambridge University Press (Human Rights in History), 2021: xiv + 404. £29.99 hbk/£25.99 ppk (2023). ISBN 9781108495028. National Jewish Book Award winner.

 

Edited Collections:

Editor (with Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah and Rebecca Kobrin). Conceptualising Jewish Business Dynasties.Under contract at De Gruyter Brill, New Perspectives on Jewish Studies series for publication 2027.

Editor (with Abigail Green) and introduction author. Gendering Jewish Inter/Nationalism. A special issue of Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 21, no. 2 (2022).

 

Refereed Journal Articles:

“The Invisible Hand of Humanitarianism: Jewish Diaspora, Remittances, and Development between America and Poland in the Great War Era.” Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry 41 (2029). Forthcoming issue on First World War and aftermath.

“Gendering Jewish inter/nationalism.” Introduction for Gendering Jewish Inter/Nationalism special issue of Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 21, no. 2 (2022).

“La philanthropie de la communauté juive américaine pendant la Grande Guerre.” The Tocqueville Review/La Revue Tocqueville 38, no. 2 (2017): 227-238. Issue on American philanthropy during the Great War.

“Waging Relief: The Politics and Logistics of American Jewish War Relief in Europe and the Near East, 1914-1918.” First World War Studies 5, no. 1 (2014): 55-68. Issue on humanitarianism.

“Les associations juives à la Société des Nations, 1919-1929 : L’accès sans l’influence.” Relations Internationales 3, no. 151 (2012): 103-113. Issue on international organizations and NGOs since 1919.

 

Chapters:

(with Tom Stammers). “International Philanthropy and the Politics of the Anglo-Jewish Cousinhood c. 1850-1950.” In Conceptualizing Jewish Business Dynasties (under review).

Abigail Green, Juliet Carey, Tom Stammers, with Jaclyn Granick and Silvia Davoli, “A Jewish and a European Story.” Introduction of Jewish Country Houses. Edited by Juliet Carey and Abigail Green. Brandeis University Press, 2024.

“The First American Organization in Soviet Russia: JDC and Relief in Ukraine, 1920-1923.” In The JDC at 100: A Century of Humanitarianism. Edited by Atina Grossmann, Linda Levi, Maud Mandel, and Avinoam Patt, 61-93. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2019.

 

Public Writing:

“Solomon & Gaenor & #MeToo” JewThink, 21 Feb. 2022.

(with Abigail Green). “Bevis Marks: Britain’s oldest synagogue is central to London’s history—here’s why it needs protecting” The Conversation, UK edition, 1 Dec. 2021.

“1919.” Jewish Quarterly, no. 243 (winter 2019): 28-31.

(with Rebecca Kobrin). “Pittsburgh showed the difference between US and UK antisemitism.” The Guardian, 1 Nov. 2018.

(with Britt Tevis). “A History of Anti-HIAS Hate.” Slate, 1 Nov. 2018.

(with Britt Tevis). “Why the Pittsburgh shooter raged about immigration before attacking synagogue.” The Washington Post (Made By History), 28 Oct. 2018. Syndicated by SFGate, Laredo Morning Times, Houston Chronicle, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Reprinted in Rothenberg, Paula S., ed. Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated History (MacMillan 2019, 11th ed and 2024, 12th ed).

 

Review Essays:

Laura Hobson Faure. A “Jewish Marshall Plan.” Indiana University Press, 2022. In AJS Review 47, no. 2 (2023): 472-4.

Glenda Sluga and Patricia Clavin, eds. Internationalisms: a Twentieth-Century History. Cambridge University Press, 2016. In Journal of Contemporary History 54, no. 2 (2019): 467-9.

Abigail Green. “The Limits of Intervention.” International History Review 36:3 (2014). On H-Diplo and International Security Studies Forum (2015).

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (Co-Mentor). Dmitry Asinovskiy, “The Soviet Union and Israel in the Global Cold War: Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, and the Ideology of Soviet Foreign Policy (1967-1991),” 2026-2028. [€260,350

Oxford University John Fell Fund (Co-I), “Beyond Jewish Country Houses.” 2024-2026. [£94,727.84]

South, West and Wales Doctoral Training Partnership Collaborative Doctoral Award (lead supervisor) for a doctoral studentship. 2021. [£75,736]

Claims Conference: Educator Training Grant (Co-I), “Teaching the Holocaust through the Jewish Country House.” 2022-2023. [£40,935]

UK Arts and Humanities Research Council Standard Grant (Co-I), “‘Jewish’ Country Houses – Objects, Networks, People.” Ranked 1st in its round. 2019-2024. [£816,319]

Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe Post-doctoral Fellowship, 2018-2020. [£70,000]

Newton International Fellowship of the British Academy (PI), 2015-2018. [£98,929]

Dr. Sophie Bookhalter Graduate Research Fellowship at the Center for Jewish History. Year-long, in-residence fellowship in New York. 2014-2015. [$17,500]

Shelby Cullom Davis and Kathryn Davis Scholarship                                                               
Stipend awarded by the Geneva Graduate Institute for doctoral studies. 2010-2014. [72,000 CHF + PhD tuition fees]

Marcus Center Fellowship (Bernard and Audre Rapoport Fellowship)                                  
For research at the American Jewish Archives in Cincinnati, Ohio. 2012-2013. [$1500]

Fulbright Scholarship (US Student Program)                                                                              
In Switzerland for history, politics, and law in international relations. 2008-2009. [c. 23,000 CHF]

Swiss Government Scholarship for Foreign Students                                                               
For graduate study by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation. 2008-2010. [c. 24,000 CHF + 2 years MA tuition fees]

British and Irish Association for Jewish for Jewish Studies “special mention” for 2023 Annual Book Prize (early modern to modern period).

National Jewish Book Award 2021 winner for Writing Based on Archival Material (Herbert Katzki Award). Jewish Book Council (US).

Swiss Network for International Studies “special mention” for the 2016 Award for the Best PhD Thesis in International Studies.

Pierre du Bois Prize 2015. For the best annual history PhD thesis, awarded annually at the Geneva Graduate Institute.

Doctoral Supervision

Emelye Clifford, Cardiff University History PhD candidate (began Oct 2026), “Migration, Roles and Identities: Jewish Women in South Wales (circa 1840s-1980s),” as co-supervisor (with Marion Löffler).

Julia Schulte-Werning, University of Vienna History PhD (completed 2026), A Remedy for the Mellah: International Jewish Aid and Public Health in (Post)Colonial Morocco, 1943–1967, as co-supervisor (with Elisabeth Röhrlich).

Cynthia Cheloff, Oxford History DPhil (completed 2025), The Politics of Jewish Migration in Britain and America, 1891-1914, as co-supervisor (with Abigail Green).

 

Cardiff University Teaching

“Jews, Europe and the World.” My module for 40 BA finalists, autumn 2025.

“Heritage, Community Action and Public Engagement.” My MA module, spring 2026.

“History in Practice,” seminar leader, 2025-2026.

“Global Histories,” seminar leader, spring 2026.

Undergraduate dissertation supervisor in history & religion, 6-8/year.

Undergraduate independent essay supervisor in religion &. history, 3-8/year.

Personal tutor for history or religion students, 18-30/year.

Co-designed “History of Human Rights” module, 2021.

Co-authored new Research Masterclasses in Historical Research module handbook for all History finalists during Covid emergency, 2020-2021.

“The War Against the Jews: Antisemitism, Holocaust, and Jewish Experience, 1881-1948.” My module for 30 BA finalists, 2019-2020.

“The Origins and Legacies of Religion in the Modern World.” Contributor 2019-2020.

 

Oxford University Teaching

“Modern Jewish History.” Tutorial teaching for visiting student. 2019.

Supervisor for 2 undergraduate history dissertations, 2018-2019.

“Approaches to History: Gender and History.” Class teaching, 2017, 2018.

“Europe Divided, 1914-89: Crises, Conflicts, Identities.” Tutorial teaching, 2017.

“1919: Remaking the World.” Class and tutorial teaching, 2016.

 

Qualification

SEDA-PDF Learning, Teaching and Assessing Qualification (equivalent to Fellowship of the UK Higher Education Academy). Participant in ETP training at the Oxford Learning Institute and submitted a teaching portfolio (~10,000 words). As of Dec. 2017.

Co-Investigator, with Abigail Green (PI) and Tom Stammers (Co-I), “Beyond Jewish Country Houses.” University of Oxford grant, 2024-2026 to focus on heritage, legacy, and seed new projects.

Co-Investigator, with Abigail Green (PI) and Tom Stammers (Co-I), “‘Jewish’ Country Houses: Objects, Networks, People.” UK Arts and Humanities Research Council Research Grant, 2019-2024. Leader of philanthropy and politics strand. Convenor of international conferences with academic and curatorial participants. Editor and contributor to books, special issues, and exhibitions. Robust program of public outreach and deep heritage engagement.

Historical and heritage advisor for Kriszta Eszter Szendroi’s “J-EUROPE: Facilitating European cross-cultural understanding and integration through Yiddish language and cultural adult education,” Erasmus+ Small Partnerships 2025-2027.

Partner, with Nathan Abrams (lead), “Attitudes towards Jews in Wales,” Wales Studies Research Workshop, Grant of the Learned Society of Wales, 2021.

Research consultant for Kriszta Eszter Szendroi’s, “Grammar of Yiddish of the Stamford Hill Haredi Community.” UK Arts and Humanities Research Council Research Grant 2019-2023.

Research consultant for Adrian Gregory’s, “The First World War and Global Religions.” Arts and Humanities Research Council project, 2016-2019.

Non-stipendiary fellow in Oxford Seminar for Advanced Jewish Studies, “Jews, Liberalism, Anti-semitism.” 2016-2017.

Conference Convener

“Jewish Philanthropy: Solidarity, Antisemitism and Cultural Heritage,” Jewish Country House conference convened with Abigail Green and Tom Stammers. Oxford, Upton House, Waddesdon Manor, UK. June 2024.

“Teaching the Holocaust through Jewish Country Houses: A Training Day,” Jewish Country House UK-wide training day for the National Trust. With the support of the Claims Conference. Wiener Holocaust Library, London, Nov 2023.

“Jewish Country Houses and the Holocaust in History and Memory,” Jewish Country House conference convened with Abigail Green and Cyril Grange. With the support of the Claims Conference and Czech National Heritage Institute. Villa Stiassni, Brno, Czech Republic. May 2023.

“Jewish Business Dynasties: Family, Power, Vulnerability,” Jewish Country House conference convened with Abigail Green, Chris McKenna, and Rebecca Kobrin. Chateau de Seneffe, Belgium. Sept 2022.

“Gendering Internationalism — Gendering Jewish Internationalism,” University of Oxford, convened with Abigail Green. With the support of the AHRC, the British Academy, Oxford Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Oxford Women in the Humanities Programme, and the Oxford Centre for Global History. March 2018.

 

Invited Presentations

“Jewish Women’s International Activism in War and Peace,” Jewish History Colloquium, University of Köln, Nov. 2026.

“From the Salon to the NGO? Jews, Europe, World,” History Department, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Sept. 2025; University of Illinois Chicago, Sept. 2026.

“Jewish Humanitarianism and East Central Europe in the Age of the Great War,” School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, May 2024 (cancelled due to Covid).

“Humanitarianism: a Jewish Response to Conflict.” Jom Ijun on theme of Conflict, Zurich, Jan. 2024.

“The Great War and the Inception of Jewish Medical Humanitarianism.” Howard Rein Lecture of the Parkes Institute, Southampton University, Dec. 2023.

“Jewish Country Houses and the Holocaust.” Research in progress seminar, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute, May 2023.

“Philanthropy, Jewishness, and Cultural Heritage, 1850-1950,” with Tom Stammers. Jewish Renaissance and the Lyons Learning Project, May 2023; Modern Jewish history seminar of the Masaryk Institute and Czech Academy of Sciences, Feb. 2023.

“Internationalisme juif: aspects discursifs et philanthropiques" with Noemie Duhaut. Judaïsmes contemporains research group, Oct. 2022.

“A 30 Years’ War against the Jews? The Great War and the onset of the Holocaust.” Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway University of London’s Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilisation. July 2022.

“The Forgotten Violence of the 20th Century: A Conversation about Trauma, History, and Forgetting” with Elissa Bemporad, Jeffrey Veidlinger, Magda Teter. Fordham University Jewish Studies department, Apr. 2022.

“Between America and Europe: Philanthropic activism and international Jewish politics.” Launch seminar of the Jewish Philanthropy Research Initiative workshop, Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at University of Pennsylvania, Oct. 2021.

Book Talk: “International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War.” Harmonie Club, Nov. 2022; Oxford Jewish Congregation, July 2022; American University Jewish Studies Program, Feb. 2022; Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Center, Jan. 2022; Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute and Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Manchester, Nov. 2021; Sheffield University History department research seminar, Nov. 2021; University of Connecticut History of Human Rights and Humanitarianism Colloquium, Oct. 2021; Moses Mendelssohn Center at Potsdam University lecture, June 2021; Cambridge University Modern European History research seminar, May 2021; Central European University Jewish Studies Program, May 2021; Johns Hopkins University Judaic Studies and History, April 2021; University of Virginia Jewish Studies Program, April 2021; University of St Andrews School of International Relations, April 2021; University College Dublin Global History and Centre for War Studies seminar series, March 2021.

“Book Discussion: Jewish Internationalism and Human Rights from the First World War to the Aftermath of the Holocaust” with Nathan Kurz. Yale University Fortunoff Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, April 2021.

“International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War.” Weidenfeld Lecture of the Institute of Historical Research at the Wiener Library, Nov. 2019.

“Jewish Humanitarian Relief in the Great War Era: Between Internationalism and Particularism.” Jewish History seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, Oct. 2017.

“Writing International Jewish History.” Roundtable at Rethinking Modern Europe seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, May 2017.

“Jewish Humanitarian Relief in the Great War Era.” Centre for the Study of Modern Conflict and Jewish Studies Network seminar at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, Nov. 2016.

“International Jewish Relief and Philanthropy During and After the Great War: Why it Matters for Jewish History.” Center for Jewish History, New York, May 2015.

“Jewish Solidarity as Rights Advocacy and Humanitarianism: American Jewish Philanthropy Abroad in the Great War Era.” Department of history seminar at Carleton University, Ottawa, April 2015.

“Organized, Transnational Jewish Efforts on behalf of Jewish Refugees in the wake of World War I and the Russian Revolution.” Seminar at University of Pittsburgh Center for Russian and East European Studies, Pittsburgh, April 2014.

 

Conference Papers

“Jewish Women’s International Activism in War and Peace.” Association for Jewish Studies, Philadelphia, Dec 2026 (upcoming).

“Jewish Women’s Activism and the Impact of War.” Jewish Experiences of World War I in Central and Eastern Europe, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Nov 2026 (upcoming).

“Jewish Women, Pacifism, and the World Wars: The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and the Place of Women.” British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies, Birkbeck University, July 2026.

“Women and Patterns of Jewish Philanthropy.” British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies, Bristol University, July 2024.

“Philanthropy and the Anglo-Jewish Cousinhood: A Holistic View” with Tom Stammers, Jewish Philanthropy, Jewish Country House conference, Oxford, June 2024.

“Language Insights from the Jewish Country Houses Project,” National Trust’s Jewish Country Houses Away Day, Feb 2024.

“Jewish women’s feminist pacifist activism.” Association for Jewish Studies, San Francisco, Dec 2023.

“European Holocaust Memory and Jewish Country Houses.” Teaching the Holocaust in Jewish Country Houses: A National Trust Training Day, Nov 2023.

“Jewish women and human rights: building horizontal alliances in the Cold War international system.” British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies, Edgehill University, July 2023.

Civic Activism across Political Lines roundtable. Jews and Citizenship Symposium, Katz Centre for Advanced Judaic Studies at University of Pennsylvania, March 2023.

“Jewish Business Dynasties or a Jewish Aristocracy?” with Abigail Green, Jewish Business Dynasties, Jewish Country House conference, Belgium, Sept. 2022.

“Local and Transnational Activism of Elite Jewish Women in the 20th century.” British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies, London, July 2022.

“Jewish Women and Human Rights: Working within the UN System.” Jewish Questions and the Global South: Between Sovereignty and Human Rights Conference, Jacob Robinson Institute, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, May 2022.

“Gendered Practices in Jewish Transnational Politics in the Age of the Great War.” Gendered Practices in Transnational Political Networks Conference, German Historical Institute, London, Dec. 2019.

“American Jews and Development in Interwar Eastern Europe.” British Association for Jewish Studies, Oxford, July 2019.

“A velt mit veltlekh: Illuminating Yiddish and greater Jewish worlds through Yiddish” on “Yiddish Three Generations after the Khurbn.” British Association for Jewish Studies, Oxford, July 2019.

“Handicraft as Answer to the Jewish Question: Jewish Youth Productivization after the Great War.”Humanitarian Handicrafts, University of Huddersfield, June 2019.

“The Jewish International Aristocracy: Family Ties, Politics and Philanthropy.” With Abigail Green, Jewish Country House Conference II, Villa Kerylos, May 2019.

“Health, Gender, and the Jewish Nation in International Humanitarian Practice after the First World War.” Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, Dec 2018.

“Philanthropy” on “Transnational potentials in (American) Jewish studies and its various subfields.” Association for Jewish Studies, Dec 2018.

“Gender and Jewish International Politics.” European Association for Jewish Studies, Krakow, July 2018.

“Internationalism, Gendered and Jewish.” American Jewish Historical Society, Philadelphia, June 2018.

“Health, Gender, and the Jewish Nation in Humanitarian Practice after the Great War.” Gendering Humanitarian Knowledge, Geneva, April 2018.

“Internationalism, Gendered and Jewish.” Gendering Internationalism — Gendering Jewish Internationalism, Oxford, March 2018.

“Jewish Humanitarianism and International Health Projects in the Great War Era.” War, Health and Humanitarianism, Oxford, June 2017.

“La philanthropie de la communauté juive américaine pendant la Grande Guerre.” Philanthropie, Dons et Solidarité Durant la Grande Guerre, Musée de la Grande Guerre, Meaux, France, April 2017.

"Jews under Nansen, or the Incompatibility of the Interwar Minority and Refugee Regimes." Minorities in/at War: between violence and legal protection, 1912-1923, Jewish Museum of Belgium and CegeSoma (Study Centre for War and Society), Brussels, March 2017.

“International Social Reform between Jewish Particularism and Universalism in the Progressive Era.” American Jewish Historical Society, New York, June 2016. 

“Jewish Solidarity as Rights Advocacy and Humanitarianism.” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Arlington, VA, June 2015.

“Organized American Jewish Responses to Child Sufferers of World War I.” World War I and the Jews, Center for Jewish History, New York, Nov. 2014.

“The First American Organization in Soviet Russia: The JDC and Relief in Ukraine, 1920-1923.” JDC at 100, New York, September 2014.

“ ‘Shifting as the Sands:’ Jewish Refugee Relief after WWI.” The “Jewish Question” as an International Question, Dubnow Institute, Leipzig, Germany, June 2014.

“The Warfare of Relief: How the JDC and HIAS reached Jewish War Sufferers during World War I.” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Arlington, VA, June 2013.

“Les Organisations Juives à la SdN.” Organisations internationales et ONG : Coopération, rivalité, complémentarité de 1919 à nos jours, Geneva, May 2012.

“Enabling a Unified Voice: the European Disability Forum, civil society activists, and the European Union.” Pan-European Conference on EU Politics, Portugal, June 2010.

 

Home University Presentations

“An Introduction to Jewish Business Dynasties.” Work-in-Progress seminar, Cardiff University History Department, Dec. 2025. 

Book launch event in conversation with Lisa Leff. Cardiff University History Department, Jan. 2022.

“Jewish Humanitarianism and its Imagery in the Great War Era.” David Patterson Lecture, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Apr. 2018.

“The Great War and the Origins of Twentieth Century American Jewish Liberal Humanitarianism.” Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies, Feb. 2017.

“Jewish Humanitarianism in the Great War Era at the Interface of Jewish History and International History.” Oxford Lunchtime Seminars in Jewish Studies, Nov. 2016.

“Jewish Humanitarian Relief in the Great War Era.” Oxford Modern European History Seminar, Nov. 2015.

“American Jewish International Humanitarianism in the Progressive Era.” Oxford American History Research Seminar, Oct. 2015.

 

Chair, Respondent, Discussant

Respondent. “Relief” Panel, East Central Europe at the Crossroads: Transnational Jewish Networks and Identities, POLIN Museum, Warsaw, June 2023.

Chair/Discussant. “Jews and Progressive Activism from Liberal into Illiberal Times” Panel, British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies, London, July 2022.

Chair. “Jewish Collectors and Patterns of Taste,” Jewish Country House conference, Paris, June 2022.

Discussant. “Jews, Gender, and Economies in History,” Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and Jewish Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania, Oct. 2021.

Respondent. “Gender and Judaism,” Oxford Summer Institute in Modern and Contemporary Judaism, Oxford, July 2018.

Chair. American Philanthropy During the Great War, Musée de la Grande Guerre, Meaux, France, April 2017.

Discussant. “From Liberalism to Human Rights” Panel, Jews, Liberalism, Anti-Semitism: The Dialectics of Inclusion, Oxford, March 2017.

Respondent. Global and Comparative Feminisms in the Long Nineteenth Century, Marilyn Booth and Kathryn Gleadle, co-organizers, Oxford, Jan. 2017.

 

Media Appearances

BBC Radio Wales “Breakfast Show” live on UK anti-Jewish violence, 1 May 2026.

BBC Radio Wales “All Things Considered” interview for episode on stars, Dec. 2025.

LBC Radio interview for news story on antisemitism on campus, Oct. 2023.

Fizzy Sherbet Plays Podcast interview on Amy Ng’s Special Occasions, Sep. 2020.

BBC Radio Wales “Breakfast Show” live for Holocaust Memorial Day, Jan 2020.

 

Postgraduate Summer Schools

Global Humanitarianism Research Academy, Leibniz Institute of European History Mainz and the Archives of the Red Cross, Geneva, July 2015.

Graduate Student Workshop in American Jewish History, University of Michigan’s Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, the American Jewish Historical Society, and the American Jewish Archives, in Ann Arbor, MI, May 2013.

American Academy for Jewish Research Graduate Seminar, NY, June 2012.

 

Conference Panels Organized

“Jewish Women in International Spaces.” British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies, Birkbeck University, July 2026.

“Elite Transnational Jewish Business Networks before the Holocaust: Class, Market Niches, and Legacy.” The Business History Conference, Imperial College London, March 2026.

“Gendering the Jewish Elite.” British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies, Bristol University, July 2024.

“Jewish Activists and Conceptions of Race across the 20th Century.” British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies, Edgehill University, July 2023.

“Jews and Progressive Activism from Liberal into Illiberal Times, c. 1893-1939.” British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies, London, July 2022.

“Gender and Jewish Inter/Nationalism across the Twentieth Century.” Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, Dec 2018.

"Gender and American Jewish Internationalism." American Jewish Historical Society, Philadelphia, June 2018.

"The American Jewish International between the Universal and Particular." American Jewish Historical Society, New York, June 2016.

“From America to Poland in the Interwar Years: Philanthropic Transfers and Perceptions of Power” Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies, Philadelphia, Nov. 2015.

“Humanitarian Diplomacy in the World War I Era.” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Arlington, VA, June 2013. (co-organizer)

Employability and Enterprise Lead for School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University, 2025-2026

Executive committee member, American Jewish Historical Society Academic Council, 2023-2026

Search committee member for lectureship in International Relations, School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University, 2022

External Examiner, University College London Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, 2021-2022

Advisor, Foundation for Jewish Heritage, Welsh Jewish Heritage Centre/Merthyr Tydfil Synagogue project, 2021-present

Committee member and member of antisemitism, EDI, Ukraine, and Jewish History Month working groups, British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies, 2020-2026

Feedback and Assessment Lead for School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University, 2019-2020

Member, Central and East Europe Research Centre, Cardiff University, 2020-present

Anonymous reviewer: Stanford University Press (monograph in Jewish Studies), Rutgers University Press, Manchester University Press, Journal of Baltic Studies, Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History, American Academy in Berlin Fellowships, Journal of Women’s History, Jewish Social Studies, Wolfson Family Charitable Trust project applications

Co-convener for Oxford Modern Jewish History Seminar series 2019, 2020, 2022

Steering committee, Oxford Centre for Gender, Identity, and Subjectivity 2017-2019

Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University of Oxford. Senior Associate, 2020-present.

St. Peter’s College, University of Oxford. Associate Member of the Senior Common Room, 2019-2022.

Harriman Institute at Columbia University for Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies. Visiting Scholar. New York, 2014-2015.

Center for International Studies and Center for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Center Associate. Pittsburgh, PA, 2012-2015.

The Hebrew University Faculty of Humanities. Visiting Researcher. Jerusalem, Dec. 2012-Jan. 2013. 

Fluency in Yiddish and French, lower intermediate Modern Hebrew and German.

Kaiserslautern

Erwin-Schrödinger-Straße 57
Gebäude: 48, Raum: 480
67663 Kaiserslautern

j.granick(at)rptu.de

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Landau

Bürgerstraße 23
Raum: 0.45 (Erdgeschoss)
76829 Landau in der Pfalz

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