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.”
For one Trinity College alumnus, the work of conducting research with faculty-scholars didn’t stop at graduation. Jacob Loor ’25—now a second-year law student at Yale Law School—recently had an article that he co-wrote with two Trinity faculty members published in a peer-reviewed journal.
Trinity College’s Austin Arts Center and its resident theater company, HartBeat Ensemble, will present Athol Fugard’s South African drama “A Lesson from Aloes” from October 8 through October 17, 2026.
Katsuya Izumi, senior lecturer in language and culture studies, has received a grant award from the Northeast Asian Council of the Association for Asian Studies to support research for an upcoming book.
Trinity College Assistant Professor of International Studies Natassja B. Gunasena was awarded a Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty by the Institute for Citizens & Scholars to support research that she plans to publish as a book.
