Frances Malino is the Sophia Moses Robison Professor Emerita of Jewish Studies and History at Wellesley College. She is author of The Sephardic Jews of Bordeaux: Assimilation and Emancipation in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France (1978) and A Jew in the French Revolution: The Life of Zalkind Hourwitz (1996) and co-editor of Essays in Modern Jewish History: A Tribute to Ben Halpern (1982), The Jews in Modern France (1985), Profiles in Diversity: Jews in a Changing Europe (1998), and Voices of the Diaspora: Jewish Women Writing in the New Europe (2005). Her translation with Yaelle Azagury of the novel Mazaltob appeared in the spring of 2024. Recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, she was named Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes académiques by the French Ministry of Education in 2012. She is also a co-founder and current President of Digital Heritage Mapping, whose flagship initiative is the Diarna Geo-Museum of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Life.