Director, Jewish Studies
Harold and Jean Grossman Chair of Jewish Studies
Associate Professor of History, School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies
Stanley Mirvis became director of Jewish Studies in July of 2025. His research focuses on the social history of Jews in the early modern Atlantic—the “Western Sephardic Diaspora”—dealing largely with issues of Diasporic and creole identity. His 2020 monograph, The Jews of Eighteenth-Century Jamaica: A Testamentary History of a Diaspora in Transition (Yale University Press, 2020), is a social-historical study of hundreds of last will and testaments, exploring the relationship between colonial and metropolitan Jews and the nature of Jewish creolization in the British West Indies. He contributed the historical essays to photographer Wyatt Gallery’s Jewish Treasures of the Caribbean (Schiffer Press, 2016) and is the co-editor of From Catalonia to the Caribbean: The Sephardic Orbit from Medieval to Modern Times (Brill, 2018), a collection of essays in honor of his doctoral advisor, Jane. S. Gerber.