Neta Peretz is an art historian and researcher who holds a PhD in Art History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research focuses on representations of Jewish women in nineteenth-century French visual culture, particularly the ways in which gender, religion, ethnicity, and social identity intersected in portraiture, caricature, and popular imagery. Her work examines subjects including the belle juive stereotype, Orientalism, and gendered antisemitism. Thanks to the Chateaubriand Fellowship, Neta conducted research at the Centre Roland Mousnier (CNRS) in Paris, where she benefited from access to French archives, libraries, museum collections, and academic expertise. This research contributed directly to her current monograph, Beyond the Belle Juive: Jewish Female Representation in Nineteenth-Century French Visual Culture. Her time in France enabled her to expand the project’s visual and archival sources and deepen its engagement with French cultural and social history. By bringing together art history, Jewish studies, and gender history, her work seeks to provide a more nuanced understanding of the representation and lived experiences of Jewish women in nineteenth-century France.

Omri Amiraz received his PhD in Linguistics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University, specializing in formal semantics, linguistic typology, and historical linguistics. As a Chateaubriand Fellow, he spent three months at the Institut Jean Nicod in Paris, working with Prof. Benjamin Spector on the semantics of quantification and part–whole structure. Their collaboration resulted in a journal publication and also opened new research directions on semantic universals, which remain a central focus of his research. The fellowship provided an invaluable opportunity to exchange ideas with researchers at the Institut Jean Nicod and to establish long-term international collaborations.

Ezra is a lecturer at Afeka College of Engineering in Tel Aviv.  His field of research is analytic number theory, and his main research interest concerns the statistical distribution of prime numbers as well as their analogues over function fields.  Although his work is rooted in pure mathematics, his research interests also naturally intersect with several areas of application, including quantum cryptography and linear feedback shift registers.  As part of a Chateaubriand Fellowship, he spent six months in Calais, France, working with Dr. Lucile Devin on a project related to the low-lying zeros across families of L-functions.  He also gave several academic talks at conferences and seminars throughout France and across Europe.

Ezra is a lecturer at Afeka College of Engineering in Tel Aviv.  His field of research is analytic number theory, and his main research interest concerns the statistical distribution of prime numbers as well as their analogues over function fields.  Although his work is rooted in pure mathematics, his research interests also naturally intersect with several areas of application, including quantum cryptography and linear feedback shift registers.  As part of a Chateaubriand Fellowship, he spent six months in Calais, France, working with Dr. Lucile Devin on a project related to the low-lying zeros across families of L-functions.  He also gave several academic talks at conferences and seminars throughout France and across Europe.