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Jordan Molot
Jordan Molot is a PhD student specializing in pre-Confederation Jewish history in Canada. His dissertation (expected completion in 2026) investigates the overlap of religion, kinship, and commerce in 18th-century Jewish settler life in Quebec. Employing archival research, material culture analysis, and methodologies of transnational history, his research particularly aims to examine the role of women (both Jewish and non-Jewish) in this history and to illuminate the community's participation in slave networks.
His broader interests include decolonial approaches to the study of religion as well as queer-Jewish cultural theory. His forthcoming contribution to the volume Queering Jewish Cultural Heritage in Europe: Iridescently Yours (eds. Miranda Crowdus & Sacha Kagan) combines research-creation, autoethnography, and historical research to theorise the resonances between Jewish tourism and queer desire.
