Dr. Naomi Landau

Dr.
Naomi
Landau
Research Fellow
nomilandau85@gmail.com

Dr. Nomi Landau is a research fellow at the Institute for Contemporary Judaism. She holds an honors master's degree in Jewish history where she wrote a thesis under the guidance of Prof. Amos Goldberg, exploring the experiences of religious women during the Holocaust and other genocides. Nomi pursued her doctorate under Prof. Daniel Blatman and Dr. Manar Hasan, focusing on the subject of sexual violence during mass violence and genocide. For Her doctorate, she received Shimon Wiesenthal Prize. Naomi's doctoral work is soon to be published as a book titled "We Prefer These Women Dead: Women, Sexual Violence, and Genocide" by Carmel Publishing, with support of the Dushkin Foundation. In 2024, she will take on the role of postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University, in the Gender and Human Rights program.