Mia Spiro

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Mia (Miriam) Spiro

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Mia Spiro, from her University of Glasgow staff page
Occupation Professor of Modern Jewish Literature and Culture, University of Glasgow
Known for Chair, Jewish Student Chaplaincy Scotland
Education PhD, York University, Toronto

Mia Spiro is chair of Jewish Student Chaplaincy Scotland (JSCS). The chaplaincy's website names its chair as Dr Mia Spiro,[1] the Glasgow Jewish Representative Council's directory lists her as chair,[2] and she signed the chaplaincy's accounts for the year to 30 June 2025 as chair.[3] The Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) register lists her as "Miriam Spiro" among the chaplaincy's trustees.[4]

The University of Glasgow lists Mia Spiro as Professor of Modern Jewish Literature and Culture. It says she took her PhD at York University, Toronto, is the author of Anti-Nazi Modernism (2013), was Glasgow principal investigator on the AHRC project Jewish Lives, Scottish Spaces with Hannah Holtschneider and the Scottish Jewish Archives Centre, and worked as a freelance writer in Jerusalem from 1994 to 1999. Her listed research interests include "Modern Zionism and Jewish identity".[5]

Notes

  1. ↑ Jewish Student Chaplaincy Scotland, "About us" jscs.scot, accessed 29 October 2026.
  2. ↑ Glasgow Jewish Representative Council, "Jewish Student Chaplaincy Scotland" jewishglasgow.org, accessed 29 October 2026.
  3. ↑ Jewish Student Chaplaincy Scotland, Report and Financial Statements for the year to 30 June 2025 (scanned), via Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, accessed 20 October 2026.
  4. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Jewish Student Chaplaincy Scotland (SC005999) Scottish Charity Register, accessed 29 October 2026.
  5. ↑ University of Glasgow, Professor Mia Spiro, staff page, accessed 29 October 2026.