Dr. Klapper's current research project, “At Home in the World: American Jewish Women Abroad, 1865-1940” explores the complex ways Jewish identity figured into the travel experiences of American Jewish women between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of World War II. They went to school overseas; visited relatives and sometimes found husbands; attended international meetings of various activist groups; and took sightseeing trips alone, with family members or friends, or with organized tour groups. Most went to Europe, but some visited Latin America, and a few even traveled to Asia. Particularly interesting are questions of how Jewish identity animated and shaped the experiences of those who visited Mandate Palestine. This project analyzes a wide range of American Jewish women travelers over several decades and investigates the role that Jewish identity played in their choices of where to go, what to do, whom to see, and how to behave. They typically recorded their experiences in diaries, journals, correspondence, scrapbooks, and photographs. These previously overlooked sources comprise a special case of the wider genre of travel narratives, as they include such recurring themes in American women’s travel writing as mobility, new knowledges/identities, sexualities in transit, and the imperial gaze. They are also witness to and commentary on the connections between and among diasporic Jewish communities during the last decades of the nineteenth century and first decades of the twentieth century. “At Home in the World” takes seriously the idea that travel could both destabilize and reaffirm American Jewish women’s religious, cultural, ethnic, national, and gender identities in ways that bear further exploration.