Naamah Akavia

Naamah Akavia graduated summa cum laude in 2003 with a master's degree from The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel-Aviv University, where she was awarded the Amos Funkenstein Prize for her study of Binswanger's "Case of Ellen West." She then enrolled in the History Department of UCLA, where she submitted her doctoral dissertation shortly before dying in February 2010. To support her writing and her research at the Rorschach Archives in Bern, Switzerland she...See more

Naamah Akavia graduated summa cum laude in 2003 with a master's degree from The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel-Aviv University, where she was awarded the Amos Funkenstein Prize for her study of Binswanger's "Case of Ellen West." She then enrolled in the History Department of UCLA, where she submitted her doctoral dissertation shortly before dying in February 2010. To support her writing and her research at the Rorschach Archives in Bern, Switzerland she was awarded a doctoral research grant from Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) and a pre-doctoral fellowship from the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. See less