Academic Interests: Protest movements in Nazi Germany; religious opposition to Nazism; Christian-Protestant theological arguments; historical perceptions of Nazism as neo-paganism; the development of religious resistance; theology of Protest.  

Cecile is an MA student in the Department of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), writing her thesis on "Religious Motivations Behind Christian-Protestant Protest Movements Against Nazism" under the supervision of Dr. Karma Ben Johanan. Her research - which is also supported by a fellowship of the Koebner Minerva Center - examines protest actions against the Nazis from 1933 to 1945, focusing on the Christian-Protestant religious ideas that motivated opposition - from a historical and intellectual perspective. It explores theological arguments against Nazism, the perception of Nazism as "neo-paganism" during the Nazi era and in the post-war period and shows how these views shaped the protestors' activism and Christian identity.

In 2023, she received The Sir Sigmund and Lady Hazel Sternberg Prize for Interfaith Understanding.   

Cecile is also a research assistant at the Koebner Center for the research project "Between Aliyah and Escape. Jewish Youth Movement and Zionist Education under the Nazi Regime and in pre-State Israel 1933-1945" funded by the DFG.