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Dr. Geraldine Gudefin is a French-born modern historian specialising in Jewish migration, family life, and legal pluralism. She holds an MA from Yale University and a PhD in History from Brandeis University. Her work has been published in American Jewish History and Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women’s Studies & Gender Issues. She has received multiple fellowships, including from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, the Posen Foundation, and the Center for Jewish History. Dr. Gudefin’s earlier research examined Jewish marriage and family law in France and the United States. Her current project probes the relationship between Jewish matrimonial law and the common law in colonial Singapore.