Lelia Stadler is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Columbia University. Her dissertation is a social and legal history of Jewish immigrants’ encounters with the modern Catholic Argentine state, asking how the legal prohibition on divorce shaped the Jewish family, the Jewish community, and the Jewish citizen in Argentina between c. 1880 and 1960. Her work has appeared in Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Latin America, edited by Raanan Rein, Stefan Rinke, and David Sheinin (Brill, 2020), and her article “Ethical and Legal Bigamy: Transatlantic Jewish Families Caught between Conflicting Legalities, Argentina, 1930–1939” was published in Jewish Social Studies 30, no. 2 (2025): 99–137.

Her research has been supported by the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, NYU’s Center for the Study of Antisemitism, the Center for Jewish History (Sid and Ruth Lapidus Graduate Research Fellow), the American Academy for Jewish Research, the Association for Jewish Studies, the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry, and the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University. At Columbia, her work has been supported by the Harriman Institute, the Institute of Latin American Studies, the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, and the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life.