Ilan Eisenberg was awarded a Fulbright fellowship to pursue a master’s in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

He earned a BA in history from Yale University, where he examined the tensions between Zionism and imperial loyalty in the Ottoman Jewish press of the early 20th century. At Yale, he was awarded the Richard U. Light Fellowship, funding intensive Korean language studies in Seoul. He also received an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, with a thesis on the linguistics of Judeo-Spanish commercial letters from the Cairo Genizah, a case study of cross-cultural economic networks in the early modern Mediterranean.

With Fulbright, he will explore 20th century Ottoman Jerusalem through the archives, with a focus on nationalism, the politics of language, and legal pluralism.