• Royce Fellowship
Benjamin
Moser

Concentration 

History; Portuguese

Award Year 

1996

Ben's research focuses on examining immigration to Brazil in the first half of the century, with a focus on understanding the experiences of the Jewish people who settled there. He is particularly interested in preparing a thesis studying the community's process of self-definition in the period of 1930-1945. Moser's research will involve both archival research and primary research this fall when he studies in Brazil.

After graduating from Brown, Ben earned his M.A. and Ph.D. from Utrecht University. He is the New Books Columnist for Harper's Magazine and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and the author of a biography of the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector, "Why This World." His book was nominated for the National Books Critics Circle Award. Ben currently lives in Utrecht, Netherlands.