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Aiala Levy is an Assistant Professor of History at The University of Scranton, currently on leave during the 2018-2019 academic year while holding a Princeton-Mellon Fellowship at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.
Her educational background includes a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, completed in 2016.
Levy's research centers on urban history, examining how built environments like theaters shaped social formations in turn-of-the-twentieth-century São Paulo, Brazil. She investigates how mass migration and immigration forged urban publics through shared cultural spaces, bridging architectural analysis, social history, and Latin American studies. Her work reveals how spatial design enabled diverse residents to negotiate social belonging amid rapid urbanization.
Levy has received several prestigious awards, including:
- 2017 Dissertation Award from the Latin American Studies Association’s Brazil Section
- Judith Ewell Prize from the journal The Americas
Her research has been supported by major grants from the Mellon Foundation, Institute of International Education, Coordinating Council for Women in History, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, and a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship. She is co-editing the multidisciplinary volume Superlative City on São Paulo's urban development and taught Princeton's Fall 2018 Interdisciplinary Design Studio with Mario Gandelsonas.
