Geraldine Gudefin

Geraldine Gudefin is a French-born modern Jewish historian specializing in Jewish migration, family life, and legal pluralism. She holds an MA in history from Yale University and a PhD in history from Brandeis University. She has conducted extensive comparative and transnational research at the intersection of Jewish citizenship, gender, and family law in migratory contexts, with a particular focus on France and the United States. She is currently working on a book project about connections between family life and the state among Russian immigrants to France and another about Baghdadi Jews in late-colonial Singapore.