Julia Phillips Cohen

Julia Phillips Cohen is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History at Vanderbilt. She is author of Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), which was awarded the 2015 Jordan Schnitzer Award in Modern Jewish History, the 2015 Barbara Jelavich Prize of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, a 2014 National Jewish Book Award in for Writing Based on Archival Material, and Honorable Mention for the 2014 Salo W. Baron Book Prize and the 2015 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize. She is also co-editor, with Sarah Abrevaya Stein, of Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History, 1700-1950 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014), which was awarded the National Jewish Book Award for Sephardic Culture.