Mica Maltzman '25 received a grant for the coming year from Fulbright Germany to research the role of housing cooperatives in integrating Syrian and Iraqi refugees. Mica's project focuses on a mixed collective-housing project in Göttingen, Germany, and the experiences of its non-German residents. While scrutinizing the integration framework and its complications, the research will probe whether housing cooperatives, whose structures are intended to support democracy and equality, can serve as models of integration. She will work with faculty in Religious Studies at the University of Göttingen focusing on immigration, religious pluralization and interreligious encounters in the country.

About the Student

Mica Maltzman ’25 is a double concentrator in History and Middle East Studies. At Brown, she served as the co-editor-in-chief and an editor of the Brown Undergraduate Journal of Middle East Studies, as well as worked with Palestinian activist groups. She is interested in the history of Palestinian resistance and its intersections with diaspora. She has spent the past year writing a thesis on a Jewish Communist housing cooperative that once existed in the Bronx, exploring interests closer to home. After graduating, she hopes to pursue a career in public interest law.