Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Ethan Katz 360 McMicken Hall

University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH 45220 katzen@ucmail.uc.edu

EMPLOYMENT

2009-present Assistant Professor of History, University of Cincinnati

Affiliated professor in the departments of Judaic Studies, Romance Languages & Literatures, and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, University of Cincinnati

EDUCATION

2002-2009 University of Wisconsin (Madison) PhD., History, May 2009 M.A., History, May 2005

Dissertation: “Jews and Muslims in the Shadow of Marianne: Conflicting Identities and Republican Culture in France (1914-1975)”

MA Thesis: “Fateful Émigrés: Four Refugee Historians Examine Jewish Life in Pre-World War II Germany”

2006-2007 Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, Israel)

Research at Israeli libraries and archives. Intensive course of Hebrew language study and Jewish text study.

2005-2006 Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Sorbonne) (Paris, France)

Year of independent dissertation research. Jewish history doctoral seminar at EPHE.

1998-2002 Amherst College (Amherst, Massachusetts) B.A., French and History, Summa Cum Laude

BA Thesis: “Memory at the Front: The Fight Over the French Revolution in Occupied France, 1940-1944.” Thesis awarded High Distinction.

PUBLICATIONS Peer-reviewed Articles: “La Mosquée de Paris a-t-elle sauvé des juifs?: Une énigme, sa mémoire, son

2 histoire” Diasporas, Histoire et Sociétés 21, Jardins (2012): 128-55, translated from the English version, with new material added.

“Between Emancipation and Persecution: Algerian Jewish Memory in the Longue Durée,” Journal of North African Studies 17, 5 (November 2012): 793-820.

“Did the Paris Mosque Save Jews? A Mystery and Its Memory,” Jewish Quarterly Review, Vol. 102, No. 2 (2012): 256-287.

“Tracing the Shadow of Palestine: The Zionist-Arab Conflict and Jewish-Muslim Relations in France, 1914-1945,” in Nathalie Debrauwere-Miller, ed., The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the Francophone World (New York: Routledge, 2010). “Displaced Historians, Dialectical Histories: George L. Mosse, Peter Gay, and Germany’s Multiple Paths in the Twentieth Century,”Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Vol. 7, No. 2 (2008), pp. 135-55. “Memory at the Front: The Struggle Over Revolutionary Commemoration in Occupied France, 1940-1944,” Journal of European Studies, Vol. 35, No. 2 (2005), pp. 153-168.

Book Projects

The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims, from North Africa to France, book manuscript currently being revised for review (expected submission date: December 2013). Co-editor (with Ari Joskovicz), Secularism in Question: Jews and Judaism in Modern Times, expected to be published, pending review, in the Jewish Culture and Context series of the University of Pennsylvania Press (submitted for review in August 2013). Co-editor (with Lisa Leff and Maud Mandel), Jewish History After the Imperial Turn: French and Comparative Perspectives, currently being prepared for review (expected submission date: March 2014).

Articles in Progress (for peer-review)

Co-author (with Maud Mandel), “‘The French Jewish Community Speaks to you with One Voice’: Dissent and the Shaping of French Jewish Politics since World War II,” invited article for a book in its early stages on the Jews of Modern France, to be coedited by Zvi Kaplan and Nadia Malinovich (expected submission date: July 2014).

3 “Crémieux’s Children: Imperial Jews and Reform in French Algeria, 1917-1945,” in Ethan Katz, Lisa Leff, and Maud Mandel, eds., Jewish History After the Imperial Turn: French and Comparative Perspectives, currently being prepared for review (expected submission date: March 2014).

Co-author (with Ari Joskovicz), “Secularism and the Jews: Rethinking the Question,” in Katz and Joskovicz, eds., Secularism in Question: Jews and Judaism in Modern Times, expected to be published, pending review, in the Jewish Culture and Context series of the University of Pennsylvania Press (submitted for review in August 2013).

“Secular French Nationhood and Its Discontents: Jews as Muslim and Religion as Race in Occupied France (1940-1944),” in Ethan Katz and Ari Joskovicz, eds., Secularism in Question: Jews and Judaism in Modern Times, expected to be published, pending review, in the Jewish Culture and Context series of the University of Pennsylvania Press (submitted for review in August 2013).

Invited Articles:

“In the Shadow of the Republic: A Century of Coexistence and Conflict,” in Benjamin Stora and Abdelwahab Meddeb, eds., A History of Jewish-Muslim Relations: From the Origins to the Present Day (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2013, forthcoming). This is the English version of the same book and article originally written for French publication. “Dans l’ombre de la République française: un siècle de coexistence et de conflit,” in Benjamin Stora and Abdelwahab Meddeb, eds., Histoire des relations entre juifs et musulmans, du Qur’an a nos jours (Paris: Albin Michel, 2013, forthcoming).

“Common Culture, Survival Strategy or Useful Foil? Jews and Muslimness in Modern France,” AJS Perspectives, Spring 2012. Translations:

“A Jewish Shopkeeper from Turkey in Interwar and Occupied France,” translated and annotated with an introduction, in Julia Phillips Cohen and Sarah Abrevaya Stein, eds., Sephardi Jewry: A Documentary History, 1730-1950 (Stanford University Press, forthcoming). “A Jewish Memorial Service for Ataturk in Paris” translated and annotated with an introduction, in Sephardi Jewry: A Documentary History, 1730-1950.

4 Encyclopedia Entries:

“Constantine Riots (1934)”; “Constantine Riots (May 1956 and May 1957)”; and “Aboulker, José,” contributions to Norman Stillman, ed., Encyclopedia of the Jews in the Islamic World (Boston: Brill, 2010).

Book and Film Reviews:

Review of Eric H. Cohen, The Jews of France Today: Identity and Values (Leiden: Brill, 2011), H-France, October 2013 (forthcoming).

Review of Nicolas Mariot and Claire Zalc, Face à la persecution: 991 juifs dans

la guerre (Paris: Odile Jacob, 2010), Journal of Modern History, forthcoming. Review of Les Hommes Libres (French film, dir. Ismaël Ferroukhi, 2011), Fiction

and Film for French Historians: A Cultural Bulletin, Fall 2012, 3, 1 (October 2012). Review of Joshua Schreier, Arabs of the Jewish Faith: The Civilizing Mission in

Colonial Algeria (New Brunswick, N.J./London: Rutgers University Press, 2010), H-France, January 2012.

“A Jewish Awakening in a French Key: Reassessing Public Jewishness in Post-

Dreyfus France,” Review of Nadia Malinovich, French and Jewish Culture and the Politics of Identity in Early-Twentieth Century France (Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2008), H-Judaic, October 2009.

Newspaper Articles:

“How Will Israel Be Affected?” Cincinnati Enquirer, March 27, 2011.

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS 2012-13 Frankel Center for Advanced Judaic Studies year-long research and writing

fellowship, University of Michigan (declined). 2012-13 Charles Phelps Taft Center year-long writing fellowship, University of Cincinnati 2011-12 Maurice Amado Foundation Conference Travel Grant, Association for Jewish

Studies 2010-11 Charles Phelps Taft Research Center Summer Grant, University of Cincinnati

5 2009-10 Center for Advanced Judaic Studies year-long research and writing fellowship,

University of Pennsylvania

Hazel D. Cole Fellowship in Jewish Studies, University of Washington (declined).

Posen Foundation Travel Fellowship, Association for Jewish Studies 2008-09 John B. and Theta H. Wolf Prize, Society for French Historical Studies.

Doctoral Fellowship, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. 2007-08 Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Doctoral Dissertation Grant, Foundation for Jewish

Culture.

Doctoral Fellowship, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture.

Vilas International Research Grant, Graduate School of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Dorot Graduate Fellowship, Association for Jewish Studies. 2006-07 George L. Mosse Visiting Research Fellowship, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Research and Study Fellowship for 2006-2007 academic year, MASA: Israel Journey.

2005-06 Bourse Chateaubriand for dissertation research in France, French Foreign

Ministry.

Alternate, Fulbright Fellowship to France. 2003-04 Paul Schrag Prize for best paper in German Jewish history, University of

Wisconsin-Madison History Department. 2002-03 Alternate, Jacob K. Javits Fellowship.

Summer German Language Study Grant, George L. Mosse Fund, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

2001-02 George L. Mosse Distinguished Graduate Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-

Madison (four years of funding for graduate studies).

Alfred F. Havighurst Senior History Prize for “excellence and humane scholarship in the study of history,” Amherst College.

George A. Plimpton Fellowship for “outstanding scholastic ability and promise,” Amherst College.

2000-01 “All-American Honor” journalistic rating, Associated College Press, for issues of Capitol Pages: Amherst’s Political Journal, produced under my tenure as

6 editor-in-chief.

2000 Bridge of Understanding Fellowship for summer travel and study program in

Germany, The German Foreign Office in cooperation with Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life.

INVITED TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS

“Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and Colonialism,” Brown University, 5 March 2014 (upcoming). “When Exodus and Exile Became One: How Decolonization Fused the Two Strands of the North African Jewish Historical Imagination,” Conference on “Exodus or Exile? The Departure of Jews from Muslim Countries: 1948-1978,” Yale University, 4 October, 2013 (upcoming).

Presenter, Les Hommes Libres, Rutgers Jewish Film Festival, North Brunswick, NJ, 8 November 2012. “Between Emancipation and Persecution,” in-class guest lecture, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 8 November 2012.

“Middle East Spillover or Inter-French Feud? Histories of Muslim-Jewish Altercations in France: 1944, 1968, and 2012,” Boston College, Boston, 1 November 2012.

Discussant, Roundtable on the Aftermath of the Shooting in Toulouse, Synagogue

of Nantes, Nantes, France, 21 June, 2012 (French). “The Grand Mosque of Paris as a Refuge from the Holocaust: History or Myth?”

University of Kentucky Jewish Studies Lecture Series, Lexington, KY, 27 March, 2012. “Modeling Remembrance to Remodel the Self: Algerian Jewish

Commemorations, 1930-2000” Judaic Studies Winter 2012 Faculty Luncheon, University of Cincinnati, 28 February 2012.

“Jewish, Muslim, and (Possibly) French: Jews and Muslims of France in the First

World War and Its Archives,” Symposium on “New Approaches to Algerian Jewish Studies,” University of California, Los Angeles, 23-24 October, 2011.

“David Sorkin as Myth-Breaker and Complexity-Maker,” Farewell dinner for

Professor David Sorkin, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 5 May 2011.

“Jewish,” “Muslim,” and (Almost) “French”: Establishing the Terms of Jewish-

7 Muslim Interaction in France, 1914-1918,” Miami University Jewish Studies Posen Seminar, Oxford, OH, 31 March 2011.

“Where Secular Meets Religious and Public Meets Private: Jews and Muslims in

Paris Cafes, c. 1930-1960,” Miami University, Oxford, OH, 31 March 2011. “Jewish and Muslim Politics During the Algerian War: Between Secular

Nationalism and Religious Revival,” Open History Seminar, Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, OH, 24 January 2011.

“Jewish and Muslim Identity Politics in France Since 1967: The Impact of

Israel/Palestine, Multiculturalism, and Public Religion,” Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 9 November 2010.

“Jews and Muslims in Modern France: A Century of Coexistence and Conflict,”

Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 13 October 2010. “Jews and Muslims in Contemporary France: Historical Paths, Future Directions,”

International Faculty Development Seminar on Religious Diversity in France: Muslims and Jews, Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, Council on International Educational Exchange, Paris, 8 June 2010.

“The Grand Mosque of Paris and Jews During the Shoah: A Mystery and its

Memory,” Symposium on European Muslim Perceptions of the Holocaust, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, 4 June 2010.

“Making the Archives Speak, in Dissonant Tones: In Search of Jews and Muslims in Colonial France” Brownbag lecture series, Program in Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University, 19 April 2010.

“Jews and Muslims at the Margins of French Nationhood: Two Liminal Groups and Their Relations,” International Conference on Jews and Muslims in France: The Challenge of Multiculturalism in Contemporary Europe, Georgetown University, 18 March 2010.

“Past and Present Jewish-Muslim Relations in France: How Transnational? How French?,” Teachers Workshop, Program in Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University, 6 February 2010. “Contesting the Republic: New Terms of Jewish-Muslim Interaction During the Algerian War and May-June 1968,” Jewish Studies workshop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, 11 November 2008.

“Children of the Divorce: Points of Jewish-Muslim Connection and Conflict in the Shadow of the French Colonial Struggle,” International Workshop on Intercivilizational

8 Conflict at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel, 12 June 2007.

CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS: “French Jewry’s Algerian Lens for Zionism as Colonialism,” Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, 15-17 December 2013 (upcoming).

“Jews as Muslim, and Religion as Race in Occupied France (1940-1944),” Middle East Studies Association, New Orleans, 13 October 2013 (upcoming). “The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims, from North Africa to France,” Taft Annual Symposium, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 3 April 2013.

“Religious Awakenings in Postwar France: Young Jews Debate Decolonization,” Association for Jewish Studies, Chicago, 15 December 2012. “Les fous de l’empire? French ‘State Jews’ and Colonial Reform in Algeria,” Conference on Jewish History After the Imperial Turn: French and Comparative Perspectives, Brown University, Providence, R.I., 5 November 2012.

Comment, panel on “Jewish Immigrants in the Third Republic,” Western Society for French History, Banff, Canada, 12 October 2012.

“A Jewish-Muslim Riot in Interwar France: Gender, Identity, and Secular Space,” Western Society for French History, Banff, Canada, 12 October 2012.

“Reform in Algeria as a Jewish Solution,” conference on “Algeria Revisited: Contested Identities in the Colonial and Postcolonial Periods,” University of Leicester, United Kingdom, 11 April 2012. Discussant, “Sephardi/Mizrahi Pedagogy Roundtable,” Association for Jewish Studies, 19 December 2011. “Listening for Colonialism, Migration, and Ethno-Religious Identities: Oral Histories as a Source for Jewish and Muslim Mutual Perceptions in France,” Association for Jewish Studies, 19 December 2011.

“The North African Café as a Liminal Space: Early Jewish-Muslim Neighborhood

Interactions in Paris,” Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, 19 December 2010.

“The North African Café in the Jewish Marais: Secular, Masculine, Religious, or National Space?” Conference on Rethinking the Religious-Secular Divide: The View from Jewish Studies, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, 3 May

9 2010. “Jewish-Muslim Cohabitation During the Algerian War, as Told by the Paris Police Archives,” Society for French Historical Studies, Tempe, Arizona, 9 April 2010.

“Secular French Nationhood and its Discontents: Jews, Muslims and Public Religion & Ethnicity in Occupied France,” Conference on Fragmented Encounters: Religion, Race, and the Secular in Jewish-Muslim Relations, Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, 17 March 2010.

“Common Culture, Survival Strategy, or Useful Foil? Jews and Muslimness in Twentieth-Century France,” Association for Jewish Studies, Los Angeles, 20 December 2009.

“Malleable Memories, Re-imagined Identities: Concepts of Algeria Among Jews

and Muslims in France After Decolonization,” Middle East Studies Association, Boston, 23 November 2009.

“Jewish, Algerian, French, and Republican: Changing Conceptions of Jewish

Identity and Politics During the Algerian War,” Association for Jewish Studies, Washington, D.C., 23 December 2008.

“Shuffling the Deck: The 1968 Jewish-Muslim Riots of Belleville as Both

Parenthèse and Turning Point,” Western Society for French History, Québec City, Canada, 6 November 2008.

“Antecedents and Entry Points: Setting the Terms of Jewish-Muslim Interaction

in France (1914-1934),” Wisconsin French History Group workshop, Madison, 12 April 2008.

“Exploding the Republican Vision: Shifting Terms of Jewish-Muslim Interaction

During the Algerian War,” Society for French Historical Studies, Rutgers, New Jersey, 5 April 2008.

“Identities on Trial: Jews and Muslims in France During the Second World War,”

Association for Jewish Studies, Toronto, 16 December 2007. Comment, panel on “La presse comme source pour faire de l’histoire,”

Colloquium on History and the Press organized by the Equipe d’accueil d’Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine and the Centre Alberto Benveniste, Paris, 29 May 2006.

“Displaced Historians, Dialectical Histories: George L. Mosse, Peter Gay, and

Germany’s Multiple Paths in the Twentieth Century,” Midwest Jewish Studies Association, Madison, WI, 19 September 2005.

10 “Emigrating Into History: The Influence of the Refugee Experience in the

Work of George L. Mosse and Peter Gay,” American Historical Association, Seattle, WA, 8 January 2005.

“Sexualizing the Jewish Question: Michel Foucault and Laura Engelstein Enrich

Our Understanding of the Formative Years of Modern French Anti-Semitism,” 16th Annual Graduate Student Symposium, French and Italian Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 27 March 2004.

“Memory at the Front: The Struggle Over Revolutionary Commemoration in

Occupied France, 1940-1944,” International Conference on Cultural Memory in France: Margins and Centers, Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies at Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 1 November, 2003.

“Deconstructing True France: The Unpacking of ‘French’ Objects in Roland

Barthes’ Mythologies and Pierre Nora’s Les Lieux de Mémoire,”15th Annual Graduate Student Symposium, French and Italian Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 29 March 2003.

CONFERENCES AND LECTURE SERIES ORGANIZED 2012-2013 Co-organizer, international conference on “Jewish History After the

Imperial Turn: French and Comparative Perspectives,” Brown University, 4-5 November, 2012.

2011-2012 Creator and organizer, Von Rosenstiel Lecture and Author’s Seminar

Series on “Rethinking the History of Our ‘Secular’ Modern World,” featuring Matthew Goldish, David Sorkin, and Lisa Leff, University of Cincinnati, November 2011-May 2012.

2009-2010 Co-organizer, conference on “Fragmented Encounters: Religion, Race,

and the Secular in Jewish-Muslim Relations,” Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 17 March 2010.

UNIVERSITY TEACHING EXPERIENCE Fall 2013 Instructor, History 2007: France, 1789-Present Instructor, History 3067: Jews and Muslims in the Modern Mediterranean

(also cross-listed with the same title and number in Judaic Studies) Spring 2012 Instructor, History 463: Undergraduate History capstone course on

11 Modern Europe from the Margins, part 2 (responsibilities include advising 14 undergraduate senior essays of original research). For the 2011-2012 academic year, to serve the needs of the European Studies program, I also arranged for this to count as part two of European Studies 711 for interested students.

Instructor, History 607: The French Revolution: History and Myth. For the 2011-2012 academic year, in order to serve the needs of the European Studies program, this was also cross-listed as the capstone course for undergraduate European Studies majors.

Winter 2012 Instructor, History 462: Undergraduate History capstone course on

Modern Europe from the Margins, part 1 (responsibilities include advising 14 undergraduate senior essays of original research)

Instructor, European Studies 711, Graduate course on Rethinking Religion and the Secular in Modern Europe and the World (cross-listed in history)

Spring 2011 Instructor, History 120: Twentieth Century Europe II, 1945-present,

University of Cincinnati. Winter 2011 Instructor, History 463: Undergraduate History capstone course on

Modern Europe from the Margins, part 2 (responsibilities include advising 12 undergraduate senior essays of original research)

Instructor, History 631: France and Algeria, University of Cincinnati. Fall 2010 Instructor, History 462: Undergraduate History capstone course on

Modern Europe from the Margins, part 1 (responsibilities include advising 12 undergraduate senior essays of original research)

Instructor, History 791: Graduate seminar on The Mediterranean World: Christians, Muslims, and Jews from Medieval to Modern Times, University of Cincinnati.

Spring 2009 Instructor, History 231: History of Jewish-Muslim Relations in the

Mediterranean, 1800-present, University of Wisconsin Madison. Spring 2005 Teaching Assistant, History 120: History of Modern Europe, 1815-Present

(taught by Professor Alison Frank), UW-Madison. Responsibilities included leading weekly discussions, grading all assignments, and delivering a guest lecture.

Fall 2004 Teaching Assistant, History 119: History of Early Modern Europe, 1500-

1815 (taught by Professor Lee Wandel), UW-Madison. Led weekly discussions and graded all assignments.

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COMMUNITY TEACHING AND OUTREACH Summer 2013 Teacher, Melton Mini-school, Adult Education, Mayerson JCC,

Cincinnati, six-week course, Can a Life of Torah Be Fully Modern?, Cincinnati JCC, July-August 2013.

Spring 2013 “Were There Apes Before Adam? Creation and Evolution in Torah

Judaism,” Shavuot holiday evening program, Congregation Sha’arei Torah, Cincinnati, OH, 14 May 2013.

“Where is God in the Face of Evil? Historical Responses to Jewish Suffering,” ‘Let My People Known’ Day of Jewish Learning in Cincinnati, Cincinnati JCC, 5 May 2013.

Fall 2012 “Jews and Muslims in Modern Historical Context,” two events as guest

scholar at Temple Israel, Natick, Massachusetts, 1-2 November 2012. Spring 2012 Invited Lecture, “Survival or Transformation? How Jewish History Can

Guide Our Jewish Future,” Silver Circle Society Celebration, Jewish Federation of Cincinnati, 22 May 2012.

Invited Lecture, “Jews and Muslims in France: A Century of Coexistence

and Conflict,” HaZak Program, Northern Hills Synagogue, 21 March 2012.

Fall 2011 Teacher, Melton Mini-school, Adult Education, Mayerson JCC,

Cincinnati, ten-week course, Jews and Muslims in the Mediterranean.

Public Lecture, “Tolerance and Intolerance in Jewish History,” Northern Hills Synagogue, 6 November 2011.

Spring 2011 “Brothers, Strangers, or Enemies?: How American Jews Approach

Muslims in Our Midst,” lesson given as the invited scholar for annual learning gathering, Greater Cincinnati Board of Rabbis, 19 May 2011.

Speaker, public forum on “Revolution and Human Rights in the Middle East: Intervention or Not?” National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, OH, 27 April 2011.

Teacher, Melton Mini-school (Adult Education), Mayerson JCC, ten-week course, Beyond Borders: The Arab-Israeli Conflict, April-June 2011.

2009-2010 Public Lecture, “Transgressive Tradition and Ritual Reversal: Jews and

Muslims in the Mimouna in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century North

13 Africa,” Hillel of Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, 6 April 2010.

Two-lecture course, “Jews and Muslims in France: Is Conflict Inevitable?” Main Line School Night, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 13 and 20 April 2010.

Public Lecture, “Religious Relations in a Secular State: Jewish-Muslim Interactions in Contemporary France,” Main Line Synagogue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 22 February 2010.

2008-2009 Member, forum of the Lubar Institute for the Study of Abrahamic

Religions (LISAR), UW-Madison. Christian, Jewish, and Muslim students gathered each month to discuss religious and political readings and responses to current events.

Fall 2004 Teacher, Madison Jewish Community Council Midrashah (religion

school). Designed curriculum and taught weekly course, “Legacies of the Holocaust,” for high school students.

2002 Main organizer and chair, faculty forum on “Contemporary Anti-Semitism

in Historical Perspective,” Holocaust Remembrance Coalition of UW-Madison, 21 November 2002.

ADDITIONAL DEPARTMENTAL AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE 2010-2012 Creator and organizer, initiative to create joint seminar between the

University of Cincinnati and the Hebrew Union College/Jewish Institute of Religion-Cincinnati. Each year, this seminar would bring scholars and students from local, national, and international colleges and universities to discuss a given theme in Jewish texts and Jewish studies. It involves applying for a series of internal institutional and eventually larger major grants. For the fall 2011 quarter, I was awarded a Departmental Development Quarter teaching release to pursue this initiative full-time.

2011-2012 Member, search committee, history of Islamic World pre-1800, History

Department, University of Cincinnati.

Member, Von Rosenstiel committee, History Department, University of Cincinnati.

Chair, publicity/events committee, History Department, University of Cincinnati.

2010-2011 Speaker, public faculty forum on “Revolution and Human Rights in Libya:

14 Intervention or Not?” University of Cincinnati, 2 March 2011.

Organizer and speaker, public faculty forum on “Arab Uprisings: Revolution in Egypt, Tunisia and Beyond,” University of Cincinnati, 7 February 2011.

“Colonialism in North Africa until World War I,” guest lecture in History 570: War and Peace in the Middle East, University of Cincinnati, October 9, 2010.

Web page manager, History Department, University of Cincinnati.

Member, Publicity/Events committee, History Department, University of Cincinnati

Member, Van Rosenstiel Fund Committee, History Department University of Cincinnati.

2007-2008 Graduate student member, Funding Committee, UW-Madison History

Department. Six-person committee examined state of graduate funding in the department and authored several recommendations for improvement.

ADDITIONAL SERVICE AND WORK EXPERIENCE IN THE PROFESSION 2013 Organizer, panel on “Zionism and Colonialism: Rethinking a Troubled

Relationship,” Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, 15-17 December 2013.

2012-present Co-chair, annual Works-in-Progress session at the Association for Jewish

Studies. Involves soliciting papers and organizing annual workshop session for junior scholars at the AJS.

2010-2011 Co-organizer, panel on “Urban Encounters: Jews and Muslims in the

French City,” Association for Jewish Studies, 19 December 2010.

Founder, Cincinnati French History Group. This is a group of professors and graduate students in the greater Cincinnati area who gather a few times a year to discuss a colleague’s work-in-progress.

2009-2010 Organizer, panel on “Minorities, Archives, and the State in Twentieth-

Century France,” Society for French Historical Studies, 8-10 April 2010.

Co-organizer, panel on “Jews as Muslims/Muslims as Jews,” Association for Jewish Studies, 20 December 2009.

2008 Co-organizer, panel on “Decolonization and the Challenge to the

Republican Order,” Western Society for French History, Quebec City, 8

15 November 2008.

Co-organizer, panel on “Ethnicized Identities in Republican Spaces,”

Society for French Historical Studies, New Brunswick, NJ, 5 April 2008. 2007 Co-organizer, panel on “Jewish-Muslim Relations in France and North

Africa,” Association for Jewish Studies, Toronto, 16 December 2007. 2005 Co-organizer, panel on “Migration and Memory in a Transnational

Context,” American Historical Association, Seattle, WA, 8 January 2005. 2000 Editorial Assistant (edited manuscript, page-proofs, and endnotes), The

Memory of Judgment: Making Law and History in the Trials of the Holocaust (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001), by Lawrence Douglas.

ANONYMOUS REVIEWS Foundation for Jewish Culture, 2013 Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook, 2012 FOREIGN LANGUAGES French (fluent) Modern Hebrew (highly proficient) German (moderately proficient) Biblical Hebrew (moderately proficient) PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Member, American Historical Association Member, Association for Jewish Studies Member, Society for French Historical Studies Member, Western Society for French History