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Current Employment
University of Texas in Austin | 2019–Present |
Lecturer and Israel Institute Teaching Fellow, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies |
Past Employment
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. | 2018–2019 |
Harry Starr Fellow in Judaica, Center for Jewish Studies |
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University of California, Los Angeles | 2017–2018 |
Lecturer, Department of History – Jewish History |
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Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles | Fall 2017 |
Teaching Fellow |
Education
Ph.D., History, University of California, Los Angeles | June 2017 |
Dissertation: “‘A Time to Gather’: A History of Jewish Archives in the Twentieth Century” |
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M.A., History, University of California, Los Angeles | December 2012 |
M.A., Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University | May 2009 |
M.A. Thesis: Resigning to Change: The Foundation and Transformation of the American Council for Judaism |
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B.A., Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Computer Science, Brandeis University | May 2008 |
Awarded cum laude with highest honors |
Scholarly Publications
Book Manuscript Under Preparation
- A Time To Gather: Archives and the Control of Jewish Culture
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- “Introduction: Jewish History Matters.” Shofar 37, no. 2 (July 2019): 122–165.
- “Epistemologies of the Archive: Towards a Critique of Archival Reason.” Archival Science. Published online first, May 2019.
- “‘Mere Chips From His Workshop’: Gotthard Deutsch’s Monumental Card Index of Jewish History.” History of the Human Sciences 32, no. 3 (July 2019): 49–75.
- “Building a Home for the Past: Archives and the Geography of American Jewish History.” American Jewish History 102, no. 3 (July 2018): 375–399.
- “Who Are to Be the Successors of European Jewry? The Restitution of German Jewish Communal and Cultural Property.” Journal of Contemporary History 52, no. 3 (2017): 519–545.
Book Reviews
- Lisa Leff, The Archive Thief: The Man Who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), reviewed in American Jewish Archives Journal 68, no. 1 (2016): 126–131.
- Ira Robinson, Naftali S. Cohn, and Lorenzo DiTommaso, eds. History, Memory, and Jewish Identity (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2016). Canadian Jewish Studies 25 (2017): 207—209.
Honors, Awards, and Fellowships
2019 | American Jewish Historical Society, Wasserman Prize for Best Article Published in American Jewish History, “Building a Home for the Past: Archives and the Geography of American Jewish History” |
2018–2019 | Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies, Harry Starr Fellowship |
2018–2019 | Leo Baeck Institute, Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellowship |
2016–2017 | Association for Jewish Studies, Dissertation Completion Fellowship |
2016–2017 | UCLA Graduate Division, Dissertation Year Fellowship |
2014–2015 | UCLA Office of Instructional Development, Collegium of University Teaching Fellows |
2014–2015 | UCLA Center for Jewish Studies, Stephen O. Lesser Fellowship |
2013–2014 | UCLA Department of History, Ralph and Sarah Monkarsh Graduate Fellowship Award |
2011 | UCLA Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, Fellowship |
2010–2016 | UCLA Department of History, History Department Fellowship |
2008–2009 | Brandeis University, Graduate Scholarship |
2008 | Brandeis Univesrity, Ezra Shapiro Family Prize in Near Eastern & Judaic Studies |
Research Grants
2018 | UCLA Office of Instructional Development Teaching Grant |
2018 | UCLA Center for Jewish Studies, Start-Up Grant for “Jewish History Matters” Podcast |
2017–2018 | UCLA Non-Senate Faculty Professional Development Award |
2016 | UCLA Department of History, Research Travel Grant |
2013–2014 | Leo Baeck Institute, Fritz Halbers Fellowship |
2013–2014 | YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Research Fellowship in East European Jewish Studies |
2013–2014 | Elka Klein Memorial Grant |
2012–2013 | American Jewish Archives, Jacob Rader Marcus Fellow |
2012 | University of California, Berkeley, Institute of European Studies, Predissertation Fellow |
2011, 2012 | UCLA Center for Jewish Studies, Roter Travel Fellowship |
2011 | UCLA Graduate Division, Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Fellowship |
2011 | UCLA Department of History, Research Travel Grant |
2009 | Brandeis University, Dept. of Near Eastern & Judaic Studies, Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry Research Grants |
Conference Papers
- “Jewish History With and Without Archives,” Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, Mass., Dec. 2018
- “Out of the Ashes: Jewish Community Records and Archives after Kristallnacht,” New Perspectives on Kristallnacht, Shoah Foundation, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, November 2018
- “Epistemologies of the Archive,” Historical Epistemology, UCLA Department of History, Los Angeles, California, May 2018
- “Making Jewish History Jewish: Archives and the Paradigms of Jewish History,” Association for Jewish Studies, Washington D.C., December 2017
- “Collecting at the ‘Jerusalem on the Ohio’: Jacob Rader Marcus’ Archival Vision of America’s Jews,” Southern Jewish Historical Society, Cincinnati, Ohio, November 2017
- “Bernhard Brilling and the Reconstruction of Jewish Archives in Postwar Germany,” Association for Jewish Studies, San Diego, California, December 2016 (Session Organizer)
- “The Past is a Foreign Country? Archival Gazes of Jewish Studies Across the Atlantic,” Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, Mass., December, 2015
- “Must Every People Have an Archive? Jewish Archives and the Problem of Self-Definition and State Power,” American Historical Association, New York, New York, January 2015
- “Between Jerusalem and the ‘Little Jerusalem’: Archives and Identity Politics in Postwar Germany,” Association for Jewish Studies, Baltimore, Maryland, December 2014
- “Who are to be the Successors of European Jewry? The Restitution of German Jewish Communal Archives,” Looted Art and Restitution in the Twentieth Century: Europe in Transnational and Global Perspective, Newnham College, Cambridge, September 2014
- “Can One Own Jewish History? Physicality and Exclusivity in the Archive,” The Materials of Jewish Studies, Columbia University and New York University, May 2014
- “Representing the State, Reconstituting the Nation: Israeli Archivists and the Performance of Sovereignty in the 1950s,” Association for Jewish Studies, Chicago, Illinois, December 2012
- “‘Salvaging the Remnants of the Jewish Past in Europe&lrsquo;: The Jewish Historical General Archives and the Construction of an Israeli Archival Project, 1947–1957,” International Conference on the History of Records and Archives 6, University of Texas, Austin, August 2012
Invited Lectures
- “Between Sites of Memory and Sources of History: Archival Consciousness in Jewish History and Culture,” Yale, April 2019
- “Who Will be the Successors to European Jewry? Israeli Archives and the European Jewish Cultural Legacy,” Brandeis University, January 2019
- “Objects of Memory: Looted Art and Jewish Communal Property After the Holocaust,” California State University, Long Beach, September 2018
- Keynote address for conference “Les «archives juives», miroirs du rapport des Juifs à l’État et à la Nation,” Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcité, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris, France, June 2018
- “‘Ordinary Men’ or ‘Willing Executioners’? Debating Perpetrators’ Motivations in the Holocaust.” Guest lecture for “The Third Reich and the Jews,” UCLA, May 2017
- Lecture Series at Nanjing University (Nanjing, China), Henan University (Kaifeng, China), Sept. 2014: “Zakhor: Jewish Memorial Practices Through the Ages,” “Memory and Impact of the Holocaust,” “Who Are To Be The Successors of European Jewry?”
- “The Future of the Sources of Jewish History: Perspectives on Pessimism and the Proliferation of Jewish Archives in the Twentieth Century,&rquo; YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York, New York, May 2014
- “Making History: The Proliferation and Impact of Modern Jewish Archives,” Max Weinreich Fellowship Lecture, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York, New York, Sept. 2013
- “The Making of American Jewish History: Jacob Rader Marcus and the American Jewish Archives,” American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio, August 2012
Teaching Experience
University of California, Los Angeles | |
Lecturer, Department of History | 2017–2018 |
Jewish Thought, Politics, and Ethics: From Theory to Practice (Undergraduate Upper Division Seminar) | |
Jewish Thought, Politics, and Ethics: From Theory to Practice (Undergraduate Upper Division Seminar) | |
Medieval Jewish History (Undergraduate Upper Division Lecture) | |
Teaching Fellow (Instructor of Record) | 2014–2015 |
The Jewish Nation, Imagined or Invented? History and the Politics of Peoplehood (Undergraduate Upper Division Seminar) | |
Hoarders, Buried Alive in the Archive: History, Memory, and Archiving in Modern Times (Undergraduate Upper Division Seminar) | |
Guest Lecturer | |
The Third Reich and the Jews, Spring 2017 (Undergraduate Upper Division Lecture) | |
Teaching Assistant | 2011–2013 |
Western Civilization, 1750 to the Present Holocaust: History and Memory World History, 500–1750 C.E. World History to 600 C.E. |
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Reader/Grader | 2011, 2017 |
The Spirit of Secularism: Jewish Cultures in a Secular Age The Third Reich and the Jews |
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Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion | Fall 2017 |
Teaching Fellow (Assigned to Courses for University of Southern California Undergraduates) | |
Jewish History The Holocaust |
Service to Profession
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Languages
- Speaking, Reading, Writing: Hebrew, German
- Reading: Yiddish, Russian, French
Professional Memberships
- American Historical Association
- American Jewish Historical Society (Academic Council)
- Association for Israel Studies
- Association for Jewish Studies
- German Studies Association