Hadar Feldman Samet completed her doctorate in the Department of Jewish Thought and the Mandel School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities’ PhD program at the Hebrew University in 2018. Her main scholarly interest is histories of Jews in Muslim contexts, specializing in Sephardi and Ottoman Jewry between the 16th and 20th centuries. She was a postdoctoral fellow in research groups at the University of Pennsylvania’s Katz Center and at Harvard University. She dedicated much of her scholarship to the Sabbatian movement in the Ottoman Empire, while offering an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approach and focusing on communal life, ritual and musical practices, mystical traditions and poetry, and their affinities to popular culture and processes in the broader society. As a Mandel Scholion fellow she aims to delve into the understudied intersection between mysticism and modern revolutionism in the late Ottoman era, and its role in the formation of contemporary culture and society.