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The Faculty of Humanities
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus
Jerusalem, 9190501

 

Department Head: Prof. Aldina Quintana, aldina.quintana@mail.huji.ac.il

Department Advisor for BA Students: Dr Or Hasson, or.hasson@mail.huji.ac.il

Director of Literature MA Studies: Prof. Ruth Fine, ruth.fine@mail.huji.ac.il

Director of Historical MA Studies: Dr Claudia Kedar, claudia.kedar@mail.huji.ac.il

Department Advisors for PhD Students: Prof. Ruth Fine (Literature), Prof. Aldina Quintana (Languages and Linguistics) and Dr Claudia Kedar (History)

Students Exchange Advisor: Dr Or Hasson, or.hasson@mail.huji.ac.il

 

 

For administrative matters, please contact

Dina Belostotsky
dinab@savion.huji.ac.il
Tel. 02-5883616
Room: 45404
Office hours: Sun., Mon., Wed., Thur., 10:00-13:00.

 

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Dr. Claudia Kedar

M.A. & PhD advisor (History)
Room: 6620 (Humanities), Office hours: By appointment (set via email)

Research Interests: The history of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank and their relations with Latin America and the U.S.; the Cold War in Latin America; the Washington Consensus and neoliberalism in Latin America; U.S.-Latin American relations; contemporary Argentina and Chile

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PhD in History (2009, Tel-Aviv University)Claudia Kedar was a visiting postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), and Leonard Davis and Lady Davis postdoctoral fellow at the Hebrew University. Her book, "The International Monetary Fund and Latin America. The Argentine Puzzle in Context" (Temple University Press, 2013), received an honorable mention from the 2014 Luciano Tomassini Latin American International Relations Book Award (LASA). She has published in leading journals like the Hispanic American Historical ReviewJournal of Latin American Studies, Journal of Contemporary History, Journal of Cold War History, Journal of International History and Journal of Financial History.

Among others, she is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Contemporary History and member of the Academic Committee of the Leonard Davis Institute of International Relations, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Her current research project examines the role played by the World Bank during the Cold War in the Americas (1945-1989). The project is supported by an Individual Research Grant of the Israeli Science Foundation.

 

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Prof. Ruth Fine

Director of Literature Studies
M.A./PhD advisor (Literature)
Room: 6606 (Humanities), Office hours: Wednesday 14.00-16.00

Ruth Fine is Salomon and Victoria Cohen Professor in Iberian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her fields of expertise are semiotics, literary theory and Iberian literatures and cultures, areas in which she has published books and articles.

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Ruth Fine acts as the Head of the Literary Trend of the Department of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies, President of the AIH (Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas), Honorary President of the Israeli Association of Hispanists and Vice-President of the AC (Asociación Internacional de Cervantistas). She was awarded the "Orden del Mérito Civil" by Spain for her contribution to Spanish culture.

In 2016 she was elected corresponding member of the Royal Spanish Academy (Real Academia Española).

In 2019 she received a Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Navarra.

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Or Hasson

Dr. Or Hasson

Advisor for BA Students
Students Exchange Advisor

Research Interests: Medieval and Golden Age Spanish Literature; Literature and Medicine; Cultural Representations of Madness; The Semitic Heritage of the Iberian Peninsula in Early Modernity; Converso and Morisco Literature

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Or Hasson is a senior lecturer in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies. He holds a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University (2015). Before joining the Department faculty, Or spent time as a Rothschild and a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University; a Mandel Fellow at the Mandel Scholion Center at the Hebrew University; and an Arnod Fellow at the Zvi Yavetz School of Historical Studies at Tel Aviv University. 

His research is dedicated, among other things, to the representation of madness in early modern Spanish literature; medical writing and its dialogue with contemporary literary fiction; converso and morisco Golden Age literature; and the Semitic—Arabic and Hebrew—heritage of the Iberian Peninsula and its place in early modern Hispanic thinking, memory, and imagination. 

 

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Prof. Aldina Quintana

Department Head
Room: 6505 (Humanities), Office hours: By appointment

Research Interests: Spanish linguistics, History of the Ibero-Romance languages, Spanish sociolinguistics and variation, Sephardic Studies and Ladino

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As a specialist in Spanish philology, Ibero-romance languages, and Judeo-Spanish (Ladino), her research and teaching focus on historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and language variation of Spanish and Judeo-Spanish. M.A. from the Freie Universität Berlin and PhD from the Hebrew University, she was a research fellow at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) before she has joined the Department of Romance and Latin American Studies in 2009, where she is an associate professor. Her publications include the book Geografía lingüística del judeoespañol: estudio sincrónico y diacrónico. Completed projects: "The Sephardim - Through Their Own Eyes and Their Relationship with the Spanish Language I" (Spanish Ministry of Science and Development, Grants SB2006-0005 and JCI-2008-2348), "From Old Spanish to Judeo-Spanish: Formation of New Linguistic Varieties Not Subjected to Standardizing Pressure in the Context of Migration (16th-17th Centuries)" (La Lettre Sepharade and Israel Sciences Foundation , Grant 473/11). Current researchs: "Traditional Judeo-Spanish (18th-19th centuries) according to the Meam Loez Series" (ISF, Grant 486/19), "CoDiAJe - The Annotate diachronic corpus of Judeo-Spanish (Ladino)" <http://corptedig-glif.upf.edu/teitok/codiaje/>, CoOrAJe - the Annotated Oral Corpus of Judeo-Spanish. <http://corptedig-glif.upf.edu/teitok/cooraje/>, "Civic responses after terror attacks in Europe: language, communication and society".

Dr. Aldina Quintana is a corresponding academician of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE).

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