Noam Bizan
Noam Bizan is a PhD student researching the transnational movement for Soviet Jewish emigration from 1953-1989, focusing on the Soviet Union, Israel, the US, and Britain. She is supervised by Professor Catriona Kelly.
Prior to coming to Cambridge in October 2023, Noam received a BA (with honors) in History from Brown University and an MA (magna cum laude) in International Relations from Tel Aviv University.
Noam's research interests include Soviet diplomacy (including cultural diplomacy); Cold War ideology and transnationalism; the Cold War in the Middle East; and Russian geopolitics.
Noam has worked at several foreign policy think tanks, has edited for multiple academic history journals, and speaks English, Hebrew, Spanish, and Russian.
Soviet diplomacy (including cultural diplomacy); Cold War ideology and transnationalism; the Cold War in the Middle East; and Russian geopolitics.
Noam Bizan, "Back to the Future? Assessing Andrei Sakharov’s Predictions for the World Order in 2024," Doing History in Public (blog) (February 2025), https://doinghistoryinpublic.org/2025/02/27/back-to-the-future-assessing-andrei-sakharovs-predictions-for-the-world-order-in-2024/.
Noam Bizan, "Adding Nuance to Tucker Carlson's Interview with Vladimir Putin," Doing History in Public (blog) (February 2024), https://doinghistoryinpublic.org/2024/02/27/fact-checking-tucker-carlsons-interview-with-vladimir-putin/.
Noam Bizan, "Negotiating Cold War Boundaries: American Depictions of US-Soviet Ballet Exchanges," Central and Eastern European Affairs Review (February 2024), https://www.ceeaffairsreview.com/items/issue-02%3A-borders-and-boundaries.
Aspects of Life in the Soviet Union (Lent 2025)
Europe's Modern Age of Violence, 1914-1949 (Lent 2025)
Introduction to Historical Thinking—History and Social Activism (Lent 2024, Lent 2025)