Jordan Molot

Thesis supervisor: Naftali Cohn

Thesis/Working Title: Atlantic Intimacies: Jewish Life, Love, and Labour in Early Canada, 1749-1832

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.

In addition to presenting at academic conferences and invited lectures in Canada, the United States, and Germany, Molot has taught undergraduate courses on religion and sexuality and serving as a research assistant to Professor Miranda Crowdus. In 2024, he was awarded the Theodor S. Levy Fellowship at the American Jewish Archives in Cinncinnati, and was a Fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research's annual graduate seminar in 2025. His work is supported by SSHRC, FRQSC, and the Concordia Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies.

Works:

• Molot, Jordan. "Review of The Threshold of Dissent: A History of American Jewish Critics of Zionism." Journal of Religion and Culture 30 (2025): 114-120.
• Molot, Jordan & Lucie Robathan. "Introduction: Decolonization and the Study of Religion." Arc: The Journal of the School of Religious Studies 51 (2023): vii-xii.
• Molot, Jordan. "Decolonizing Judeans: 'Jewish-Indigeneity' and the (Re)Articulation of Decolonial Language." Arc: The Journal of the School of Religious Studies 51 (2023): 153-179.

Social Media:

• X (Twitter): @jordanmolot