About me
Mimi Wooten is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of History at the University of Michigan and a Todd M. Endelman Fellow at the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. Her dissertation is a microhistory of the Ottoman Sephardi migrants who settled in Atlanta, Georgia and Montgomery, 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 grew up and currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, and was a History and Heritage Intern at the ISJL in 2019.
