Julia P. Cohen

Julia Phillips Cohen is an Associate Professor in the Program in Jewish Studies and the Department of History at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of two award-winning books, Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), and—together with Sarah Abrevaya Stein—Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History, 1700-1950 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014). Her articles have appeared in various venues, including American Historical Review, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Jewish Social Studies, Jewish Quarterly Review, and AJS Perspectives, and, most recently, in the volume Jews, Liberalism, Antisemitism: A Global History. Her current projects include a study of modern Ottoman Jewish women’s history and another on North African and Middle Eastern Jewish immigrants in Belle Époque Paris.