Frances Malino

Frances Malino is the Sophia Moses Robison Professor of Jewish Studies and History at Wellesley College and chair of the Jewish Studies Program. A graduate of Skidmore College, Malino earned M.A. and Ph. D. degrees from Brandeis University.

Previously, since 1970, a professor of History at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, she also served there as Director of the Graduate Program in History from 1977 to 1985 and was Chairperson of the Committee for the establishment of a Middle Eastern Studies Concentration in 1976. Also during her tenure at the University of Massachusetts, she served as Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish History at Brandeis and Yale Universities and as Visiting Professor of Jewish Studies at Mount Holyoke College.

The recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, Malino has been a Fellow of Radcliffe College’s Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, Scholar in Residence at the Tauber Institute at Brandeis, and an Elected Guest Research Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford University. She has also been a scholar in residence and frequent lecturer at numerous synagogues.

Malino is a scholar of international stature and a frequent participant in panels and symposia both here and abroad. Author of The Sephardic Jews of Bordeaux: Assimilation and Emancipation in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France (1978), French edition (1985), and A Jew in the French Revolution: The Life of Zalkind Hourwitz (1996), French edition (2000), she is also co-editor of Essays in Modern Jewish History: A Tribute to Ben Halpern (1982), The Jews in Modern France (1985), and From East and West: Jews in a Changing Europe 1750–1870, republished as Profiles in Diversity: Jews in a Changing Europe (1998).

Malino’s research on Jewish society in eighteenth-century France has also been widely published in scholarly journals, textbooks, and reference works on Jewish History.

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Profile last updated: 8/04