Dalia Wassner

Dalia Wassner is an Associate Research Scientist at the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University. As a historian, she specializes in interdisciplinary approaches to Jewish Diaspora studies, Latin American Studies, and Diaspora Studies, with a focus on democratization processes and public intellectuals. She serves on the boards of the Latin American Jewish Studies Association, Jewish Women's Archive Encyclopedia Editorial Board, and the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry.

• Education: PhD in History from Northeastern University, MA from Stanford University, BA from the University of Pennsylvania.

Her research examines the intersection of Jewish identity and socio-political change, particularly in post-dictatorship Argentina, and aims to expand the academic framework of Jewish Studies through diaspora-focused methodologies. She has published in journals such as Latin American Research Review and Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, and guest-edited the inaugural issue of Latin American Jewish Studies (Spring 2022). Her book Harbinger of Modernity (2014) explores the role of Jewish intellectuals in Argentina's democratic transition. Her work bridges historical analysis with contemporary diaspora theory.