About me
Alona Bach is a PhD candidate in MIT's Doctoral Program in HASTS (History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society), where she conducts research on electricity in the interwar Yiddish press. As a Yiddish-language instructor, she has taught at institutions including Brandeis University and Oberlin College and Conservatory. She moonlights as an illustrator and theater-maker, and has performed in the US, UK, and in Ukraine. Currently, she is the Sophie Bookhalter Graduate Public History Fellow at the Center for Jewish History.