Clemence Boulouque

Carl and Bernice Witten Associate Professor of Jewish and Israel Studies

Associate Director, Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies

212-854-7916
ccb2002@columbia.edu

Clémence Boulouque received her Ph.D. in Jewish Studies and History from New York University in 2014 and took postdoctoral training at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania. Her interests include Jewish thought and mysticism, interreligious encounters, intellectual history and networks with a focus on the modern Mediterranean and Sefardi worlds, as well as the intersection between religion and the arts, and the study of the unconscious.

A graduate of the Institute of Political Sciences in Paris, she holds a B.A. in art history and a post M.A. degree in comparative literature, and she was a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University in the master’s program of the School of International Affairs with a concentration on the Middle East. Prior to resuming her studies at NYU, Dr. Boulouque was a literary and movie critic in Paris. She is a published novelist and essayist in her native France. She recently published Another Modernity: Elia Benamozegh's Jewish Universalism (Stanford University Press) and is the series editor of Stanford University Press’ New Studies in Jewish Mysticism.