Anabella Esperanza
I am a social and cultural historian of the late Ottoman Empire and Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) Jewry.
My research interests lie at the intersection of Jewish and Ottoman studies, history of science and health, and gender studies. I am particularly interested in integrating history from an embodied perspective, women’s health, sexuality, religiosity and shared ritual and medical cultures.
Currently, I am a post-doctoral fellow at the Dan David Society of Fellows at Tel Aviv University. My current research project, “Seeds of Choice: Gender, Ethnobotany, and Cross-Cultural Continuities in the Late Ottoman Empire,” explores the diversity, evolution, and cultural meanings of gynecological practices among Jews in the late Ottoman Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the empire’s dissolution in 1922.
Before coming to Tel Aviv University, I completed my PhD dissertation in the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem under the supervision of Prof. Liat Kozma (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Dr. Katja Smid (ILC-CSIC). My dissertation “Embodying Ritual: Jewish Women’s Religious Practices and Health Care in the Late Ottoman Empire and its Successor States (1839-1922),” charted a corporeal history of Jewish women in late Ottoman and post-Ottoman spaces. I examined Jewish women’s ritual life and daily practices and their encounters with the emerging Ottoman public health system and biomedical care. I studied how women confronted the age of Ottoman reforms, through the most intimate aspects of women’s lives.
Supervisors: PhD Supervisors: Liat Kozma, Hebrew University, Katja Smid, and CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Spanish National Research Council)
Address: Tel Aviv, Israel
My research interests lie at the intersection of Jewish and Ottoman studies, history of science and health, and gender studies. I am particularly interested in integrating history from an embodied perspective, women’s health, sexuality, religiosity and shared ritual and medical cultures.
Currently, I am a post-doctoral fellow at the Dan David Society of Fellows at Tel Aviv University. My current research project, “Seeds of Choice: Gender, Ethnobotany, and Cross-Cultural Continuities in the Late Ottoman Empire,” explores the diversity, evolution, and cultural meanings of gynecological practices among Jews in the late Ottoman Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the empire’s dissolution in 1922.
Before coming to Tel Aviv University, I completed my PhD dissertation in the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem under the supervision of Prof. Liat Kozma (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Dr. Katja Smid (ILC-CSIC). My dissertation “Embodying Ritual: Jewish Women’s Religious Practices and Health Care in the Late Ottoman Empire and its Successor States (1839-1922),” charted a corporeal history of Jewish women in late Ottoman and post-Ottoman spaces. I examined Jewish women’s ritual life and daily practices and their encounters with the emerging Ottoman public health system and biomedical care. I studied how women confronted the age of Ottoman reforms, through the most intimate aspects of women’s lives.
Supervisors: PhD Supervisors: Liat Kozma, Hebrew University, Katja Smid, and CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Spanish National Research Council)
Address: Tel Aviv, Israel
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