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.

Shira Gottlieb is a Lecturer and Course Coordinator in the Department of Literature, Language and Arts at the Open University of Israel. Her research examines the representation of older women in nineteenth-century French visual culture. As a recipient of the Chateaubriand Fellowship, she spent six months as a visiting researcher at the Centre de ressources et de recherche Daniel Marchesseau at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris. There, she conducted archival research in the museum’s library and worked extensively with primary sources from the museum’s collections for her forthcoming monograph. During her residency, she collaborated with the museum’s curators on the forthcoming exhibition Histoires de familles (March 2027), participated in a related seminar series at the École du Louvre, and delivered a lecture on her research. An interview about her work is available on the Musée d’Orsay and Musée de l’Orangerie blog, Le Carnet de recherche.