Alona Bach is a PhD candidate in MIT’s Doctoral Program in HASTS (History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society), where she works on the intersection of the history of technology and Yiddish studies. Her dissertation project focuses on representations of electric light in the interwar Yiddish-language press.

Alona holds an MPhil in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge and a BA in History of Science from Harvard University. As a Yiddish-language instructor, she has taught at Brandeis University, Oberlin College and Conservatory, and various community organizations.