Amalya Feldman

Amalya is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Art History and the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. Her research is focused on Jewish architecture, urban thresholds, and cultural networks in late medieval and early modern Iberia. Specifically, she is exploring the ways that spaces of urban networks, which were performed by hegemonic and minority cultures in different ways, solidified the formation of the Sephardic Jews' cultural identity pre- and post-expulsion in 1492. Other areas of interest include the production of a global matrix of Sephardic/converso cultural space and Ottoman and Latin American architecture and urbanism.

Recent Honours, Awards, and Grants

• 2021–22 OGS Award
• 2020–21 Peter H. Breiger Fellowship
• 2020–21 Shiff Family Graduate Scholarship in Jewish Studies
• 2019–20 Earl and Renee Lyons Scholarship in Jewish Studies