Jaclyn Granick

Dr Jaclyn Granick is a Senior Lecturer in Modern Jewish History at Cardiff University's School of History, Archaeology and Religion. She specializes in the intersection of modern Jewish history and international history, with a focus on politics, philanthropy/humanitarianism, and gender across the Jewish Diaspora (America, Europe, and the Mediterranean). Her teaching portfolio includes modules on antisemitism, Holocaust studies, Judaic religious movements, migration, and Jewish thought.

• Oxford University: Newton International Fellow and Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe Post-doctoral Fellow
• Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies: PhD and MA in International History
• Harvard University: BA in Social Studies and French

Her research explores American Jewish war relief logistics (1914-1918), Jewish organizations' influence at the League of Nations, and gender dynamics in Jewish inter/nationalism. She has published extensively on these topics, including her award-winning monograph International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War (Cambridge University Press, 2021).

Dr Granick's publications demonstrate interdisciplinary approaches to humanitarianism history, with particular attention to non-state actors during wartime. Her article Gendering Jewish inter/nationalism (2022) highlights gendered perspectives in nationalist movements.

• National Jewish Book Award (2021)
• JDC-Herbert Katzki Award for Archival Research (2021)

Currently available for postgraduate supervision in modern Jewish history, international history focused on non-state actors, humanitarianism and human rights history, and First World War studies. Contact: GranickJ@cardiff.ac.uk