About me
Mimi Wooten is a PhD candidate in the department of History at the University of Michigan anda Todd M. Endelman Fellow at the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. Her dissertation is amicrohistory of the Ottoman Sephardi migrants who settled in Atlanta, Georgia andMontgomery, Alabama in the early twentieth century with a focus on diaspora, kinship, race,and gender. The Jewish south has long been a central part of Mimi’s life and work—she grewup and currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, and was a History and Heritage Intern at theISJL in 2019.
