I live in Los Angeles, where I am a Research Fellow in Persian Jewish Art, Culture, and History at the Skirball Cultural Center. Previously, while living in New York City, I worked at Ayin Press, Turn Gallery, and remotely for the Center for the Art of Translation. I was the founder and co-editor of ZAMAN Collective, an online platform that published art and writing dedicated to Middle-Eastern Jewish cultural and historical affairs from 2019 to 2022.

In 2021, I graduated with a BA in Art History / Visual Arts and Jewish Studies from Barnard College, where I researched public and ritual baths in Qajar and early Pahlavi Iran, modern Iraqi Jewish literature, post-Soviet Georgian cinema, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s archaeological excavations in Nishapur, and the integrated architecture of mosques and bazaars in Isfahan during the Safavid period.

I’ve gained extensive experience as a literary and academic editor and in fact checking, archival research, database management, copywriting for arts organizations, and nonprofit communications. I have reading skills in Persian, Hebrew, Russian, French, and Spanish. I can be reached at slevy@skirball.org.