A decade of fellows — and the careers, collaborations and lives the program helped shape.
In September 2013 I arrived in France, accepted to PhD studies at SUPÉLEC. I was lucky enough to be a recipient of the Chateaubriand fellowship, which allowed me to cover the costs of moving to Paris and integrating into a new country.
The fellowship allowed me a continuous transit from my Ph.D. to a postdoc position at LPTMS — in fact, it set the course of my postgraduate research, and possibly of my entire professional life.
I stayed in Paris for research purposes, generously supported by a short-term postdoctoral research grant provided by the Embassy of France in Israel. I am now a cultural historian and a Minerva Postdoctoral Fellow.
I followed my heart and dreams to Sciences Po Paris. The experience was “life changing” — personally, academically and professionally. I feel more Israeli and closer to Europe and France at the same time.
As a Ph.D. candidate in Jewish History at Bar-Ilan University, the fellowship gave me the means to pursue my research in France under leading specialists in my field.
