Successful Grant Applications
Research grants from both public and private sources, travel grants for research purposes, and resource enhancement projects.
Project title: Dutch and French missions in search of corpses, in comparison, 1946-1960
Source of funding: The Netherlands Institute for Advance Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Amsterdam
Amount awarded: €19,000
Project dates: 2020-20
Project title: Corpses of the Holocaust
Source of funding: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Mandel Centre for Advanced Holocaust Studies, Shapiro Senior Fellowship
Amount awarded: $43000
Project dates: 2019-20
Project title: Post-Holocaust exhumations
Source of funding: USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research
Amount awarded: $30,000
Project dates: 2018-20
Project title: Corpses of the Holocaust: The Treatment of Corpses as Described in the Video Testimonies of the USC Shoah Foundation
Source of funding: USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research
Amount awarded: €30,000
Project dates: 2017-18
Project title: Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah, Paris, research mission in Lithuania
Source of funding: Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah
Amount awarded: €16,000
Project dates: 2017-18
Project title: Disclosing Post-Holocaust and Deportation Exhumations: The Example of the French National Search Mission for Corpses, 1945-1958
Source of funding: British Academy
Amount awarded: £45760
Project dates: 2016-17
Project title: Corpses of genocide and mass violence
Source of funding: European Research Council
Amount awarded: €1.2m, 40% to Manchester (co-recipient: Elisabeth Anstett, École des Hautes études en Sciences Sociales - IRIS)
Project dates: 2011-2015
Project title: Diplomats in the aftermath of deportation and the Holocaust
Source of funding: British Academy Small Travel Grant
Amount awarded: £5K
Project dates: September 2010-August 2012
Project title: Research Seminar Series on Israel Studies
Source of funding: School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
Amount awarded: £1100 (2012) £805 (2013)
Project dates: 2012, 2013
Project title: Student support for exchange visits
Source of funding: British Friends of the Hebrew University
Amount awarded: 10k
Project dates: 2013-14
Project title: Student support for exchange visits
Source of funding: British Friends of the Hebrew University
Amount awarded: 10k
Project dates: 2011-12
Project title: Cosmopolitanism and the Jews
Source of funding: AHRC Fellowship scheme (open call)
Amount awarded: £96,161
Project dates: September 2013-May 2014
Project title: Moses Gaster’s Contribution to Jewish Studies: A Case Study of his Work on Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Folklore, Magic and Mysticism
Source of funding: European Jewish foundation
Amount awarded: £25K
Project dates: September 2011-August 2012
Project title: Moses Gaster: Ecclectic Scholar
Source of funding: The British Academy
Amount awarded: £211,133
Project dates: 2013-2016
Project title: Moses Gaster's scholarship and collection in a European Context
Source of funding: The Jean Monnet Centre
Amount awarded: £1000
Project dates: 2014
Katharina Keim
Project title: The Samaritan Correspondence of Dr. Moses Gaster
Source of funding: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship
Amount awarded: £229,111
Project dates: 2015-18
Project title: Cataloguing Moses Gaster’s correspondence with the Samaritan community in Nablus
Source of funding: John Rylands Research Institute
Amount awarded: £2500
Project dates: 2014
Project title: The Manchester Agunah Research Project: Collecting evidence of impact
Source of funding: SALC Impact Support Fund
Amount awarded: £1500.
Project dates: Oct 2018 – July 2019
With Alex Samely:
Project title: European Regional Hub in Jewish Studies core funding.
Source of funding: European Jewish foundation
Amount awarded: £410,000
Project dates: 2018-2022
Project title: The Manchester Agunah Research Project: Collecting evidence of impact
Source of funding: SALC Impact Support Fund
Amount awarded: £1500.
Project dates: Oct 2017 – July 2018
Project title: Nature between Science and Religion: Darwin's Jews
Source of funding: Katz Center Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania
Amount awarded: $30,000
Project dates: Sept - Dec 2017
Project title: The Doubting Jew: Atheism, Jewish Thought and Interfaith Relations
Source of funding: AHRC Leadership Fellow
Amount awarded: £139,964
Project dates: 2016-17
With Alex Samely:
Project title: European Regional Hub in Jewish Studies core funding.
Source of funding: European Jewish foundation
Amount awarded: £269,000
Project dates: 2015-2018
Project title: Representations of Jews and Judaism in the Works of the Methodist theologian Adam Clarke (1762-1832). Researcher: Simon Mayers
Source of funding: John Rylands Research Institute
Amount awarded: £5000
Project dates: May-July 2015
Project title: Conference Colloquia scheme for the annual BAJS conference (BAJS).
Source of funding: European Jewish foundation
Amount awarded: £3000
Project dates: 2015
Project title: Core Funding for the European Association for Jewish Studies (EAJS).
Source of funding: European Jewish foundation
Amount awarded: £182k
Project dates: 2014-2018
Project title: Darwin's Jews: Evolutionary Theory, Jewish Thought and Interfaith Relations
Source of funding: Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship
Amount awarded: £95,122
Project dates: 2013-15
Project title: Melilah funding
Source of funding: European Jewish foundation
Amount awarded: £1500
Project dates: 2012-15
Project title: Political Nonconformity in Minority Communities: Representations of the Anglo-Jewish Experience in the Oral Testimony Archive of the Manchester Jewish Museum (with Bill Williams). Ros Livshin was appointed.
Source of funding: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award
Amount awarded: £51k
Project dates: 2010-2013
Project title: Nathan Laski internet resource centre
Source of funding: Nathan Laski Trust
Amount awarded: 2000
Project dates: 2011-13
Project title: Research Seminar Series on Israel Studies
Source of funding: School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
Amount awarded: £1100 (2012) £805 (2013)
Project dates: 2012, 2013
Jan Lorenz
Project title: Research fellowship 'Becoming oneself, becoming another. Conversion to Judaism in contemporary Poland'
Source of funding: European Jewish Foundation
Amount awarded: £30,000
Project dates: Sept 2014-Aug 2015
Project title: Rescue, Indifference and Everything Else In-between: the Catholic Church and the Holocaust in Romania, 1938-1948 EXTENSION
Source of Funding: Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, New York
Amount awarded: $20,000
Project dates: 1 Sept 2017 - 31 Aug 2018.
Project title: Rescue, Indifference and Everything Else In-between: the Catholic Church and the Holocaust in Romania, 1938-1948
Source of Funding: Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, New York
Amount awarded: $20,000
Project dates: 1 Sept 2016 - 31 Aug 2017.
With Daniel Langton:
Project title: European Regional Hub in Jewish Studies core funding.
Source of funding: European Jewish foundation
Amount awarded: £410,000
Project dates: 2018-2022
With Daniel Langton:
Project title: European Regional Hub in Jewish Studies core funding.
Source of funding: European Jewish foundation
Amount awarded: £269,000
Project dates: 2015-2018
Project title: Modern Reading Habits and the Hebrew Bible: Developing a Multi-disciplinary Methodology
Source of Funding: School of Arts, Languages and Cultures
Amount awarded: £2660
Project dates: 2013-14
Project title: Catalogue of Gaster's Correspondence with Samaritans
Source of Funding: John Rylands Research Institute
Amount awarded: £2500
Project dates: 2014
Project title: Typology of Pseudepigraphic and Anonymous Jewish Literature, c. 200 BCE to c. 700 CE
Source of funding: AHRC Large Project
Amount awarded: £578k
Project dates: 2007-2012
Project title: Revealing the John Rylands Library's Persian and Hebrew Collections
Source of funding: A European Jewish Foundation
Amount awarded: £90k
Project dates: 1 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2020
Project title: Abulafia's Secrets of the Torah in the Kabbalistic Library of Pico della Mirandola (1463-94)
Source of funding: British Academy Small Grant
Amount awarded: £10k
Project dates: 2017-2018
Project title: Abulafia's Secrets of the Torah in the Kabbalistic Library of Pico della Mirandola (1463-94)
Source of funding: British Academy Small Grant
Amount awarded: £10k
Project dates: 2014-2015
Project title: Rylands Hebraica Catalogue project
Source of funding: European Jewish Foundation
Amount awarded: £120k
Project dates: 2015-2018
DOCTORAL AWARDS
1. Hedva Abel
Project title: Aspects of the Lemmatic and Thematic Coherence of the Mekhilta de-Rabbi Ishmael
Source of funding: AHRC Doctoral Award (Project Samely)
Amount awarded: £51k
Project dates 2008–11
2. Francesca Frazer
Project title: Samuel Sandmel: Post-Holocaust US Communal Leader, New Testament Scholar, and Pioneer in Jewish-Christian Relations
Source of funding: AHRC Doctoral
Award Amount awarded: £51k
Project dates: 2010-2013
3. Katharina Keim
Project title: The Aggadot of the Pirke de Rabbi Eliezer and their relation to Second Temple Judaism
Source of funding: European Jewish foundation Doctoral Fellowship
Amount awarded: £12k
Project dates: September 2011-August 2012
4. Simon Mayers
Project title: From “the Pharisee” to “the Zionist Menace”: Myths, Stereotypes and Constructions of the Jew in English Catholic Discourse (1896-1929)
Source of funding: AHRC Doctoral Award
Amount awarded: £51k
Project dates: 2009-2012
5. Ion Popa
Project title: A History of Denial: The Romanian Orthodox Church and the Holocaust, 1938-present
Source of funding: Saul Kagan Claims Conference Advanced Shoah Studies Fellowship, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture in New York
Amount awarded: $25k
Project dates: 2012–2013
6. Aron Sterk
Project title: The Epistola Anne ad Senecam: Text and Historical Setting
Source of funding: AHRC Doctoral Award (Project Samely)
Amount awarded: £51k
Project dates: 2009–2012
7. Ros Livshin
Project title: Political Non-Conformity in Minority Communities: Representations of the Anglo-Jewish Experience in the Oral Testimony Archives of the Manchester Jewish Museum Amount awarded: £51k
Source of funding: AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award
Project dates: 2011–2014
8. Marton Ribary
Project title: The beginnings of legal abstraction in the Rabbinic "study house" and the Roman "law school"
Source of funding: ESRC Doctoral Award (tuition fees), SALC Graduate Scholarship, PhD fellowship of the Gerda Henkel Stiftung
Project dates: 2013-2016
9. Tereza Ward
Project title: Social and Religious Jewish Non-conformity: Representations of the Anglo-Jewish Experience in the Oral Testimony Archive of the Manchester Jewish Museum: £42k
Source of funding: European Jewish foundation Archival Doctoral Fellowship
Project dates: 2014–2017
10. Katherine Halls
Project title: Marriage and Gender in the Egyptian Jewish Community, 1919-1960:
Source of funding: AHRC (£4k fees + £14,500 maintenance p.a.) and UoM Presidential Award (£1k)
Project dates: 2018–2021
11. Lawrence Rabone
Project title: The Triumph of Philo-Semitism over Anti-Semitism and the Jewish-Christian Encounter in England, 1620-1656
Source of funding: AHRC (£4k fees + £14,500 maintenance p.a.) and UoM Presidential Award (£1k)
Project dates: 2018–2021
