Dr. Tatjana Lichtenstein Department of History the University of Texas at Austin 128 Inner Camus Drive B7000 Austin, TX 78712 512 517 4355 [email protected]
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Dr. Tatjana Lichtenstein Department of History The University of Texas at Austin 128 Inner Camus Drive B7000 Austin, TX 78712 512 517 4355 [email protected] ACADEMIC POSITIONS Department of History, The University of Texas at Austin 2009-Present Assistant Professor, Modern Eastern Europe Jewish Studies Program, American University 2008-2009 Schusterman Teaching Fellow in Jewish Studies EDUCATION PhD History, University of Toronto, Canada 2009 MA History, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 2000 MA Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University, USA 1999 BA History, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 1997 FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS Residential Fellowships • Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2012- 2013 • 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 • Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture, Leipzig University, Germany, 2002-2003 Lichtenstein 2 External Awards • International Fellowship in Jewish Studies, The Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, 2010-2011 • Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University, Research/Travel Grant, 2004 • The Danish Research Agency, 2000-2004 Internal Awards • College Research Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts, The University of Texas at Austin, fall 2011 • Summer Research Assignment for Faculty, The Graduate School, University of Texas at Austin, 2011 • Center for European Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 2010 • 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, 2009-2012 • Special Research Grant, Office of the Vice President for Research, The University of Texas at Austin, 2009-2011 • 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 • The Connaught Scholarship, 2000-2004 • Israel and Golda Koschitzky Fellowship in Jewish Studies, 2000-2004, 2008 PUBLICATIONS Book Making Jews at Home: Zionism in Czechoslovakia, 1918-1938 (book manuscript in preparation) Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles “Racializing Jewishness: Zionist Responses to National Indifference in Interwar Czechoslovakia,” in Austrian History Yearbook vol. 43 (Spring 2012): 75-97. “‘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. Contributions to Edited Volumes “Makabi ČSR: Sport, Citizenship, and the Nation in Interwar Czechoslovakia,” in Sport und Gesellschaft in den Böhmischen Ländern/der Tschechoslowakei, edited by Stefan Zwicker (forthcoming, 2013). Lichtenstein 3 “Heja, Heja Hagibor! Jewish Sports, Politics, and Nationalism in Czechoslovakia, 1923- 1930,” Leipziger Beiträge zur jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur 2 (2004): 191-208. Encyclopaedia Entries “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. “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. Other Publications Review of Mark Cornwall, The Devil’s Wall: The Nationalist Youth Mission of Heinz Rutha, in Central Europe (forthcoming). “Shop on Main Street,” on Not Even Past, 2011 (NEP – website with short articles, podcasts, and videos developed by the Department of History, UT Austin) “The Snows of Yesteryear,” on Not Even Past, 2011. 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). Conference report “Germans-Jews-Czechs: The Case of the Czech Lands, 1880-1938,” Bohemia 44, no. 2 (2003): 541-544. PRESENTATIONS Invited Lectures “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, organized by 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 Lichtenstein 4 Habsburg Central Europe, at the Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, May 9-10, 2008. Conference Papers “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. “Jewish Nationalists and the Census in Interwar Czechoslovakia” the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Boston, November 2009. “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,” at Jews of Czechoslovakia as Social Canaries? Questions of Memory and Identity – an International Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Toronto, January 2005. Other Presentations “Making Jews at Home: Zionism as a Strategy for Integration in Interwar Czechoslovakia,” Colloquium, Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 2012. “From Fortress to Ghetto: Terezín/Theresienstadt in History” a lecture presented as part of the symposium Terezín: Creativity in the Face of Death, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies and Texas Performing Arts, UT Austin, October 2012. “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. Lichtenstein 5 “Jewish Identities in Bohemia and Moravia, 1918-1938,” at the doctoral colloquium on Central European Jewish History at Jüdisches Museum in Berlin, Leo Baeck Institute, February 2003. TEACHING EXPERIENCE The University of Texas at Austin • “War and Memory in Eastern Europe” • “Eastern Europe in the 20th Century” • “World War II in Eastern Europe” • “East European Jews in the Modern World,” • “Nations and Nationalism in Eastern Europe” • “Jews of Eastern Europe” • “Introduction to the Holocaust” • “Uncovering Jewish Prague, Past and Present,” a UT Maymester Abroad American University • “Jews, Culture, Empire” (undergraduate/graduate seminar) • “The Holocaust” (undergraduate course) • “History of Israel” (undergraduate course) • “Modern Jewish Politics” (undergraduate seminar) University of Toronto • Teaching Assistant for lower- and upper-division courses in Modern European History TEACHING DISTINCTION Member, Society for Teaching Excellence, Academy of Distinguished Teachers, The University of Texas at Austin, 2011- PEDAGOGICAL DEVELOPMENT • Presenter, “Creative 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. Lichtenstein 6 SERVICE • Organizer, The 13th Annual Czech Studies Workshop 2012, The University of Texas at Austin • 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- PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Association for Jewish Studies Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Czechoslovak Studies Association Conference Group for Central European History LANGUAGES Czech (fluent) Hebrew (basic) Danish (fluent) Polish (basic) German (proficient) Yiddish (basic) REFEREES Dr. Robert Abzug, Department of History & Director, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, University of Texas, Austin 512-475-7240 [email protected] Dr. Doris Bergen, Department of History, University of Toronto [email protected] 416-978 8483 Dr. Hillel J. Kieval, Department of History, Washington University in St. Louis [email protected] 314-935 5461 Dr. Derek Penslar, Department of History, University of Toronto [email protected] 416-978 0339 Dr. Lynne Viola, Department of History, University of Toronto [email protected] 416-946 0976 .