Trinity Faculty Member Receives Yearlong Frankel Institute Fellowship

Trinity College Associate Professor of History Jonathan Elukin has received a yearlong residential fellowship for the 2026-27 academic year at The Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan to support his research, “A New Intellectual History of Antisemitism and Racism.”

Elukin has been named a Frankel Institute Fellow and will participate in the seminar whose theme is “Rethinking Antisemitism.”

According to an announcement from the University of Michigan’s Jean & Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, “The 2026-27 Frankel Institute will examine how anti-Jewish policies and attitudes manifest themselves in varied regions and eras; how they shape the realities and social position of Jews and Jewish communities; and how Jewish communities are responding today and have responded historically.”

The fellows are pursuing scholarship that “deepens historical, cultural, and/or literary understandings of antisemitism; investigates how classic antisemitic tropes emerge in contemporary discourses; examines the effectiveness of anti-bias trainings and inclusivity efforts in relationship to antisemitism; collects and analyzes data on antisemitic incidents and sentiments around the globe; or places antisemitism within the context of other forms of bigotry, bias, and hatred.”

Elukin’s fellowship will allow him to extend the research from his first book, Living Together, Living Apart: Rethinking Jewish-Christian Relations, published by Princeton University Press, and to incorporate new work on the history of emotions in Jewish studies, particularly the relationship between Jews and love.

Elukin said, “I am grateful for the fellowship at The Frankel Center and to Trinity for approving my sabbatical. It comes at an ideal time for me to draw together different strands of my research and teaching on Antisemitism, Jewish history, and contemporary ideas about identity politics.”