Tatjana Lichtenstein Department of History The University of Texas at Austin 1 University Station B7000 Austin, TX 78712-0220 [email protected]
CURRICULUM VITAE
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Department of History, The University of Texas at Austin, USA 2009- Assistant Professor, Modern Eastern Europe
Jewish Studies Program, American University, USA 2008-2009 Schusterman Teaching Fellow in Jewish Studies
EDUCATION
Department of History, University of Toronto, Canada 2009 PhD
Department of History, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 2000 MA
Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University, USA 1999 MA
Department of History, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 1997 BA
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
• College Research Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts, The University of Texas at Austin, 2011. • International Fellowship in Jewish Studies, The Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, 2010- 2011. • Summer Research Assignment for Faculty, The Graduate School, University of Texas at Austin, 2011. • Center for European Studies, University of Texas a Austin, International Travel Award. • New Faculty Colloquium, Center for Women and Gender Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 2010-2011. • Scholarly Activities Grant, Department of History, The University of Texas at Austin, 2009-2010, 2010-2011. • Special Research Grant, Office of the Vice President for Research, The University of Texas at Austin, 2009-2010, 2010-2011. Lichtenstein CV
• 3rd International Forum of Young Scholars on East European Jewry, London, UK; organized by The Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East European Jewry, Hebrew University, 2007 Fellow. • Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture, Leipzig University, Germany, 2002- 2003, Visiting Fellow. • Massey College in the University of Toronto, Junior Fellow, 2003-2008. • Naim S. Mahlab Graduate Scholarship in Jewish-Canadian History, 2007. • Arthur Vaile Memorial Graduate Prize in Jewish Studies, 2005. • Liebe Sharon Wilensky Lesk Graduate Scholarship in Jewish Studies, 2005. • University of Toronto Fellowship, 2004. • Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University, Research/Travel Grant, 2004. • The Connaught Scholarship, 2000-2004. • Israel and Golda Koschitzky Fellowship in Jewish Studies, 2000-2004, 2008. • The Danish Research Agency, 2000-2004. • The Centre for Russian and East European Studies Language Training and Travel Grant, University of Toronto, 2002-2004.
PUBLICATIONS
“Racializing Jewishness: Zionist Responses to National Indifference in Interwar Czechoslovakia,” in Austrian History Yearbook vol. 43 (forthcoming, 2012).
“Czechoslovakia.” In The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture, edited by Judith Baskin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
“Českožidovské listy.” In Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, Leipzig/Stuttgart: Simon- Dubnow-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur/ Verlag J.B. Metzler, 2011.
“‘Making’ Jews at Home: Zionism and the Construction of Jewish Nationality in Inter-war Czechoslovakia,” East European Jewish Affairs 36, no. 1 (June 2006): 49-71.
“Heja, Heja Hagibor! Jewish Sports, Politics, and Nationalism in Czechoslovakia, 1923-1930,” Leipziger Beiträge zur jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur 2 (2004): 191-208.
“Jews in Denmark.” In Encyclopedia of Diasporas: Immigrant and Refugee Cultures Around the World, edited by C. Ember, M. Ember, & I. Skoggard, 934–943. New York: Springer Science & Business Media 2004.
“Germans-Jews-Czechs: The Case of the Czech Lands, 1880-1938,” Bohemia 44, no. 2 (2003): 541-544.
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
Making Jews at Home: Zionism in Czechoslovakia (book manuscript)
Shared Lives: Intimate Relationships between Jews and non-Jews in the Bohemian Lands, 1900-1960 (research in progress for book manuscript)
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BOOK REVIEWS
Review of Alison Rose, Jewish Women in Fin de Siècle Vienna, in Austrian History Yearbook vol. 41 (2010): 283-284.
Review of Isabel Vincent, Bodies and Souls: the tragic plight of three Jewish women forced into prostitution in the Americas, in idea&s – the arts & science review, 3, no. 2 (Autumn 2006).
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Department of History, The University of Texas at Austin, 2009- Assistant Professor • “War and Memory in Eastern Europe” (graduate seminar) • “Eastern Europe in the 20th Century” (upper-division undergraduate survey) • “World War II in Eastern Europe” (undergraduate seminar) • “East European Jews in the Modern World,” (undergraduate seminar) • “Nations and Nationalism in Eastern Europe” (undergraduate seminar) • “Jews of Eastern Europe” (upper-division undergraduate survey) • “Introduction to the Holocaust” (upper-division undergraduate survey) • “Uncovering Jewish Prague, Past and Present,” a UT Maymester Abroad (2012-) • Directing undergraduate theses and preparing doctoral students for comprehensive exams.
Jewish Studies Program, American University, 2008-2009 Teaching Fellow • “Jews, Culture, Empire” (undergraduate/graduate seminar) • “The Holocaust” (undergraduate course) • “History of Israel” (undergraduate course) • “Modern Jewish Politics” (undergraduate seminar)
Department of History, University of Toronto, 2001-2008 Teaching Assistant • Lower- and upper-division courses in Modern European History
TEACHING HONORS
Member, Society for Teaching Excellence, Academy of Distinguished Teachers, The University of Texas at Austin, 2011-
CONFERENCES
“Jewish Power and Powerlessness: Prague Zionists and the Paris Peace Conference,” the Association for Jewish Studies, Washington DC, December 2011.
“From the Soccer Pitch to the Barricades: Zionist Tactics in Interwar Czechoslovakia,” the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Los Angeles, November 2010.
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“A Battle for the Nation’s Youth: Zionist views on Communism in Interwar Czechoslovakia,” the 11th Annual Czech Studies Workshop, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, April 2010.
“Jewish Nationalists and the Census in Interwar Czechoslovakia” the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Boston, November 2009.
“Makabi in Czechoslovakia – Sport as a Rite of Citizenship,” paper presented at the conference “Sport and Society in the Bohemian Lands/Czechoslovakia – Part I: Sport in a Multiethnic Society, 1800s to 1938/39” the annual meeting of the Historische Kommission für die böhmischen Länder, Brücke-Most stiftung, Dresden, April 24-26, 2009.
“Racializing Jewishness: Zionist Reponses to National Indifference in Interwar Czechoslovakia,” paper presented at the symposium “Sites of Indifference to Nation in Habsburg Central Europe,” at the Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, May 9-10, 2008.
“Space and Jewish Identity: František Friedmann and the Construction of Czechoslovak Jewry,” the Association for Jewish Studies, Toronto, December 2007.
“Lessons of Empire: Jewish Identity and the Politics of ‘Neutral Loyalty’ in Interwar Czechoslovakia,” the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies National Convention, New Orleans, November 2007.
“Divided Loyalties: Czechoslovak Zionists and the Boycott of the 1936 Olympics,” the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies National Convention, Washington DC, November 2006.
“Clipping the wings of the Jewish Canary: Zionism as a way of ‘making’ Jews at home in Czechoslovakia,” paper presented at “Jews of Czechoslovakia as social canaries? Questions of memory and identity – an international interdisciplinary conference,” University of Toronto, January 2005.
“Jewish Identities in Bohemia and Moravia, 1918-1938,” paper presented at doctoral colloquium on Central European Jewish History at Jüdisches Museum in Berlin under the auspices of the Leo Baeck Institute, February 2003.
Commentator “Between Public and Private: Negotiating History, Space, and Identity in Communist Hungary, 1948- 1989,” at the American Historical Association’s Annual Meeting, Atlanta, January 2007.
PUBLIC HISTORY
“Shop on Main Street,” on Not Even Past, Spring 2011. “The Snows of Yesteryear,” on Not Even Past, Summer 2011.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Member, College of the Reviewers for the Canada Research Chairs Program, 2011- Peer Reviewer, Austrian History Yearbook, 2011- Peer Reviewer, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 2011-
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WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION
The 13th Annual Czech Studies Workshop 2012, UT Austin.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Presenter, “Creativity and Emotional Engagement as Paths to Learning: New Approaches to Student Assignments in Courses on the Holocaust,” Lessons & Legacies XI, Boca Raton, November 2010.
Participant, Jack and Anita Hess Faculty Seminar on “The Holocaust and Other Genocides: Historical Contexts, Legal Issues, and Ethical Dilemmas,” Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2009.
Participant, The Holocaust Educational Foundation’s Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization, Northwestern University, 2006 Fellow.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Member, Association for Jewish Studies Member, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Member, Czechoslovak Studies Association Member, Conference Group for Central European History
LANGUAGES
Danish (read, write, speak) Czech (read, write, speak) German (read, write) Hebrew (basic reading) Yiddish (basic reading)
REFEREES
Dr. Derek Penslar, Department of History, University of Toronto [email protected] 416-978 0339
Dr. Doris Bergen, Department of History, University of Toronto [email protected] 416-978 8483
Dr. Lynne Viola, Department of History, University of Toronto [email protected] 416-946 0976
Dr. Hillel J. Kieval, Department of History, Washington University in St. Louis [email protected] 314-935 5461
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