Noam Bizan

Noam Bizan is a PhD student researching the transnational movement for Soviet Jewish emigration from the 1960s to the 1990s, 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 culture, dissent, and nationality policies, the Cold War (particularly ideology and human rights), the history of Zionism and East European Jewry, and historical memory in contemporary geopolitics.


Noam has worked at several foreign policy think tanks, has edited for multiple academic history journals, and speaks English, Hebrew, Spanish, and Russian.