This website traces the creation, movement, and mergerof Chicago's earliest synagogues through an interactive map. The mapincludes each of the synagogues present at the moment of Chicago's Great Fire of 1871, and continues their stories until 1920.

This digital essay project examines the life of Barney Ross, the son of a murdered rabbi who became lightweight and welterweight boxing champion of the world in the 1930s. His study of Ross’s life explores the complex relation between Chicago, Jewishness, violence, and the faculty Fellow's family history.