Ula is a PhD Candidate in history. She holds two master’s degrees, one from Jagiellonian University, Krakow Poland, and the other from UC Berkeley. Ula is a recipient of multiple fellowships, including those awarded by POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, and German Historical Institute. Her dissertation, currently in its final stages, is entitled “Mapping Jewish Poland: Leisure Travel and Identity in the Interwar Period.”  It explores the domestic vacation practices of Polish Jews in the 1920s and 30s, placed in the context of larger processes pertaining to identity formation, such as acculturation, belonging, and nationalism.