Postgraduate students undertaking a Higher Degree by Research (HDR) can find supervision through the ACJC, History, Philosophy, Religion and Theology, or any other discipline. Students work in a variety of fields and disciplines that reflect on the main areas of teaching and research covered by the ACJC.
| Student name | Program | Thesis topic | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annabelle Baldwin | PhD | Sexual Violence against Jewish women during the Holocaust in the Shoah Foundation Institute’s Visual History Archive | Leah Garrett, Alistair Thomson |
| Miriam Benedikt | PhD | Rabbinic encounter with patristic literature in the anthology of Midrash Psalms: polemic or cultural poetics? | Dr Michael Fagenblat and Dr Peter Howard |
| Enid Hinde Burstin | PhD | “Taking a Stanza: Gender, Power, Equality and Justice in Inter-war Yiddish Poetry by Women” | Dr Irena Klepfisz (Columbia University) |
| Michael Cohen | PhD | Anatomy of South African Antisemitism: Afrikaner nationalism and South African Jewry Between the World Wars-with particular focus on the 1930s | Professor Andrew Markus |
| Miriam Feldheim | PhD | Reform Judaism in Israel: a study in religion and democracy | Professor Andrew Markus and Assoc Professor Mark Baker |
| Anita Frayman | PhD | Cultural approaches towards ageing: Jewish community trends | |
| Caryn Granek | Masters | The impact of feminism on Melbourne jewish religious life | |
| Jonathan Landes | PhD | The Palestine Commission of Disturbances of August 1929 | Professor Andrew Markus |
| Larissa | Masters | Jewish American Subtexts in Saul Bellow’s Novel Henderson the Rain King” | Professor Leah Garrett & Dr Katherine Ellinghaus |
| Kieran Mitchell | Masters | ||
| Catherine Pearce | PhD | The Politics of Kashrutin Melbourne – post second world war | Andrew Markus Michael Fagenblat |
| Ran Porat | PhD | The Israeli Community in Australia | Andrew Markus Fania, Oz-Salzberger |
| Sibella Stern | PhD | Support and protection measures in Australia and israel for victims of human trafficking | |
| Fred Zartz | MA | Mordechai Ben Hillel Hakohen (1856-1936) : the role of a nationalist maskil in the emergence of the Zionist movement, 1877-1891, as depicted in the Hebrew writings of this literary intellectual |
Recently completed research students
| Student name | Program | Thesis topic | Supervisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kay Dreyfus | PhD | “Silences and Secrets: The Australian Experience of the Weintraub Syncopators” | Professor Andrew Markus (ACJC) and Professor Alistair Thomson (School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies) |
| Melanie Landau | PhD | The idea of acquisition in traditional Jewish marriage | |
| Keren Rubinstein | PhD | Concrete Dreaming; National Subjects and Narrative Disruption in Contemporary Israeli Autobiography | Professor Leah Garrett, Professor Barbara Caine, & Professor Fania Oz Salzberger |
| David Slucki | PhD | The Jewish Labor Bund after 1945: a comparative history | Professor Andrew Markus & Professor Leah Garrett |
| Margie Taft | PhD | From victim to survivor: the emergence and development of the Holocaust witness 1941-1949 |
