Sarah Abrevaya Stein is Professor of History, Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies, and Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director of the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies. A 2015 Guggenheim Fellow and co-winner of the 2010 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, her award-winning books include Extraterritorial Dreams: European Citizenship, Sephardi Jews, and the Ottoman Twentieth Century (2016), Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria (2014), Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce(2008), and Making Jews Modern: the Yiddish and Ladino Press in the Russian and Ottoman Empires (2004).