James Carrigy, is a third year PhD student in Religious Studies at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on post-war cinematic representations of Holocaust child victims and survivors.
Hope Doherty-Harrison is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in History of Art, working on her book project, The Living Judas in Medieval Text and Image, which is under contract with Cornell University Press. Hope’s first book, Love and Anti-Judaism in Medieval English Romance: Typologies of Violence and Desire, was published by Manchester University Press in 2025.
Nick Kolobov is a PhD student in the Theology and Religious Studies Department at the University of Glasgow. His research concerns the experience of Jewish, female artists in Britain from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century.
Naomi Koltun-Fromm is a visiting scholar to the Divinity School for the academic year 25-26. She regularly teaches in the Department of Religion at Haverford College, outside Philadelphia, where she is the Burton Pike ’52 Professor in the Humanities. Prof. Koltun-Fromm is in Edinburgh to finish a book on the history of the idea that Jerusalem is the ‘navel of the earth’. She has published several articles concerning the mythologies of Jerusalem across Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Her earlier work, culminating in her book, Hermeneutics of Holiness, focuses on early Jewish and Christian conceptializations of holy community.
Moshe Arye Milevsky is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, where he earned his MSc in 2022. He is currently researching the Jewish anno mundi calculation (5786 in September 2025), and specifically how scholars & humanists in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries confronted the ‘missing years’ in Jewish chronology.
Suzanna Millar is a lecturer in Hebrew Bible in the School of Divinity. She is especially interested in the roles and representations of nonhuman animals in the Hebrew Bible. Amongst other publications, she is the author of Animals, Power, and Intersectionality in the Books of Samuel (OUP, 2026) and editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and Animals (OUP, 2026).
Anna Vaninskaya is Professor of Literary and Cultural History in the Department of English and Scottish Literature. Her research touches on the history of Jewish immigration to the UK in the 1880-1914 period, most recently in the translated anthology London through Russian Eyes, and Jewish themes in twentieth-century left-wing literature.
Edinburgh Jewish Studies 