Tsiona Lida

Tsiona works on twentieth-century European intellectual history, Jewish social thought, and the history of Zionism. She works with interdisciplinary theory on affect and studies how emotions structure historical experiences of belonging, property, and morality. Her dissertation deals with the period from the turn of the century to the early 1950s, and examines the politics of feelings within what was known as the 'Jewish Question' and Zionist settler colonialism in Palestine.

Before starting the PhD, she completed her undergraduate and masters degrees at the University of Edinburgh, studied at Harvard as a Kennedy Scholar, and worked as a researcher at Northeastern University's Interdisciplinary Affective Neuroscience Laboratory. In 2022-2023, Tsiona was a visiting scholar at the Center for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute Berlin. Her article titled "The Ascent of Fallen Jews: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi's Politics of Hope in Light of Walter Benjamin" was recently published in Jewish Quarterly Review.