Mia Spiro

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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.