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Postgraduate Study

Our postgraduate research students are an integral part of the life of our Centre. Research degrees are awarded by the Faculty of Arts. Most research students are enrolled in a PhD or Masters program.

A range of Research Scholarships are available. More information can be found on the Arts Postgraduate Research Scholarships, Monash Research Graduate School and ACJC scholarships pages.

The ACJC has expertise in a range of study areas for thesis supervision. Our research clusters are focused around the following themes.

Go to the ACJC Research Supervision to further explore these areas of concentration.

Research pathways

The following degrees provide the pathways for further postgraduate research. Eligibility requirements vary depending on prior degrees. For further information about your eligibility and status, contact SOPHIS

Honours offered within ACJC
Postgraduate Diploma of Arts
Masters in Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Masters of Arts by Research and Coursework
Masters of Arts by Research

Postgraduate Units

ATS4302/APG5302 Interpreting the Bible: Jewish and Christian perspectives*
ATS4289/APG5289 Medieval dialogues: reason, mysticism and society
ATS4293/APG5293 Genocidal thought*
ATS4319/APG5319 Zionism: the argument
ATS4321/APG5321 Jewish literature of subversion*
APG4290/APG5290 Holocaust Memories — Landscape, Mourning, Identity
APG5320/ATS4320 Jewish History, Jewish Memory
APG4648/APG5648 Rethinking Jewish community in Australia
ATS4080/APG5800 Placement for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
APG4318 Jewish Literature of Destruction
ATS4314 Seeking Justice: South Africa and Rwanda
ATS4286/APG4286 Final Journey: Life and Death of European Jews 1900-1945*
ATS4287/APG4287 Israelis and Palestinians Between War and Peace

* Not available in 2011

Research Supervision

http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/jewish-civilisation/research/research-supervision.php

Jewish Studies

Holocaust and Genocide

Israel and the Middle East

Interreligious Studies

Research Supervisors

Professor Andrew Markus

Western frameworks for understanding of the Middle East; the structure of racial thought – and the nature of variations within racial thought; demographic and attitudinal change within Melbourne's Jewish community; the utilisation and impact of electronic resources on teaching practices and outcomes in the humanities and social sciences.

Professor Leah Garrett

Jewish literature, 19th and 20th century Jewish Culture, American Jewish History, Yiddish literature and history literature, 20th century American literature.

Associate Professor Mark Baker

Holocaust, genocide, Rwanda, Arab-Israel conflict, modern Jewish history, East European Jewish history, Polish-Jewish relations.

Dr Michael Fagenblat

Jewish philosophy; Midrash and Jewish hermeneutics; comparative theology and exegetical interaction (Jewish-Christian and Jewish-Muslim); Emmanuel Levinas; Moses Maimonides; political theology; secularisation.

Scholarships and prizes

Each year, the ACJC awards a number of scholarship and prizes to students enrolled in its courses and units.

Before inquiring about these scholarships, you should inquire about available government and Monash scholarships. Go to http://www.monash.edu.au/scholarships/ and MRGS.

Our current research students

Student name Program Thesis topic Supervisor(s)
Annabelle Baldwin PhD Sexual Violence against Jewish women during the Holocaust in the Shoah Foundation Institute's Visual History Archive Leah Garrett, Alistair Thomson
Miriam Benedikt PhD Rabbinic encounter with patristic literature in the anthology of Midrash Psalms: polemic or cultural poetics? Dr Michael Fagenblat and
Dr Peter Howard
Enid Hinde Burstin PhD "Taking a Stanza: Gender, Power, Equality and Justice in Inter-war Yiddish Poetry by Women" Dr Irena Klepfisz (Columbia University)
Michael Cohen PhD Anatomy of South African Antisemitism: Afrikaner nationalism and South African Jewry Between the World Wars-with particular focus on the 1930s Professor Andrew Markus
Miriam Feldheim PhD Reform Judaism in Israel: a study in religion and democracy Professor Andrew Markus and
Assoc Professor Mark Baker
Anita Frayman PhD Cultural approaches towards ageing: Jewish community trends  
Caryn Granek Masters The impact of feminism on Melbourne jewish religious life  
Jonathan Landes PhD The Palestine Commission of Disturbances of August 1929 Professor Andrew Markus
Larissa Masters Jewish American Subtexts in Saul Bellow's Novel Henderson the Rain King" Professor Leah Garrett & Dr Katherine Ellinghaus
Kieran Mitchell Masters    
Catherine Pearce PhD The Politics of Kashrutin Melbourne - post second world war Andrew Markus Michael Fagenblat
Ran Porat PhD The Israeli Community in Australia Andrew Markus Fania, Oz-Salzberger
Sibella Stern PhD Support and protection measures in Australia and israel for victims of human trafficking  
Fred Zartz MA Mordechai Ben Hillel Hakohen (1856-1936) : the role of a nationalist maskil in the emergence of the Zionist movement, 1877-1891, as depicted in the Hebrew writings of this literary intellectual  

Recently completed research students

Student name Program Thesis topic Supervisor(s)
Kay Dreyfus PhD “Silences and Secrets: The Australian Experience of the Weintraub Syncopators” Professor Andrew Markus (ACJC) and
Professor Alistair Thomson (School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies)
Melanie Landau PhD The idea of acquisition in traditional Jewish marriage  
Keren Rubinstein PhD Concrete Dreaming; National Subjects and Narrative Disruption in Contemporary Israeli Autobiography Professor Leah Garrett, Professor Barbara Caine, & Professor Fania Oz Salzberger
David Slucki PhD The Jewish Labor Bund after 1945: a comparative history Professor Andrew Markus & Professor Leah Garrett
Margie Taft PhD From victim to survivor: the emergence and development of the Holocaust witness 1941-1949  

 

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