Silvina Schammah Gesser 

 SILVINA SCHAMMAH GESSER

 Department of Romance and Latin American Studies & The Harry S. Truman                 Institute for the Advancement of Peace

 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem
             

 Tel.: (+ 972) 02-5882316 

 E-Mail: silvina.gesser@mail.huji.ac.il 

Silvina Schammah Gesser, M.A. (1996) Summa Cum Laude in sociology and anthropology and PhD (2006) in Spanish history, Tel Aviv University. She was twice awarded the Grants for Hispanistas, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Spain (Becas MAE- AEIC1999 and 2008), and the Fulbright doctoral fellowship (2001) at the University of Maryland, College Park. She completed three Posdoctoral Fellowships at the Department of Romance and Latin American Studies, (2007-2009) and at the S.H. Truman Institute For the Advancement of Peace. (2009-2010). Since 2010 she lectures at the Department of Romance and Latin American Studies and is a fellow researcher at the Truman Intitute.

Dr. Schammah Gesser specializes in the cultural and intellectual history of Spain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She has published numerous articles in academic journals in Spain, Argentina, the United States, UK and Israel. Her publications include Madrid's Forgotten Avant-garde, (Sussex Academic Press: Brighton, 2015); the edited volume, El Otro en la España Contemporáneas: Prácticas, Discursos, Representaciones, (Fundación TRES CULTURAS: Sevilla, 2011); guest editor, Lecturas Interdisciplinarias de la Guerra Civil Española, special issue Revista de Historia Contemporánea, Dossier nº 38 (2009-I), (Universidad del País Vasco, 2009), among others.

Her areas of interest include the role of archeology and ethnography in totalitarian societies; collective memory, the arts and the uses of the past in museums and exhibitions culture in post-dictatorial Spain and Argentina and, transnational models for the study of measurable financial costs and profits of memory in comparative perspective.  
At present, (August-September, 2016) she is Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung/Foundation visiting researcher at The European Studies Institute at the Chemnitz University of Technology and at The Ibero-Amerikanischen Institut in Berlin as part of the CONNECT Program: Frontiers of Research, in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Teresa Pinheiro on the research project, Passport to Sepharad: Spain's and Portugal's New Nationality Laws in Comparative Perspective.