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ELIZABETH E. IMBER Clark University (508) 793-7254 Department Of ELIZABETH E. IMBER Clark University (508) 793-7254 Department of History [email protected] 950 Main Street Worcester, MA 01610 PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS Clark University, Worcester, MA August 2019- Assistant Professor of History, Michael and Lisa Leffell Chair in Modern Jewish History The College of Idaho, Caldwell, ID 2018-2019 Assistant Professor of History, Howard Berger-Ray Neilsen Endowed Chair of Judaic Studies EDUCATION Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 2018 Ph.D., History Dissertation: “Jewish Political Lives in the British Empire: Zionism, Nationalism, and Imperialism in Palestine, India, and South Africa, 1917-1939” Advisors: Kenneth B. Moss and Judith R. Walkowitz 2013 M.A., History Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 2010 M.A., Near Eastern & Judaic Studies Advisor: Antony Polonsky 2009 B.A., Near Eastern & Judaic Studies and Sociology Magna cum laude with Highest Honors in Near Eastern & Judaic Studies Advisor: Jonathan Sarna University of Edinburgh, Scotland Spring 2008 Visiting Student BOOK Empire of Uncertainty: Jews, Zionism, and British Imperialism in the Age of Nationalism, 1917-1948 (book manuscript in progress) PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES Elizabeth E. Imber, Curriculum Vitae 2 “Thinking through Empire: Interwar Zionism, British Imperialism, and the Future of the Jewish National Home,” Israel 27-28 (2021): 51-70. [Hebrew] “A Late Imperial Elite Jewish Politics: Baghdadi Jews in British India and the Political Horizons of Empire and Nation,” Jewish Social Studies 23, no. 2 (February 2018): 48-85 BOOK REVIEWS 2020 Partitions: A Transnational History of Twentieth-Century Territorial Separatism, Arie M. Dubnov and Laura Robson, eds. Journal of Israeli History (forthcoming) 2018 Christian and Jewish Women in Britain, 1880-1940: Living with Difference, Anne Summers. Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues, no. 34 (Spring 2019): 202-206 GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2020-2021 American Academy for Jewish Research Cross-Institutional Cooperative Grant for “The New York State Working Group on Jewish Women and Gender in Global Perspective” 2017-2018 Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2017-2018 Butler Write Up Fellowship, Johns Hopkins 2017 Stulman Jewish Studies Research Grant, Johns Hopkins 2017 Prize Teaching Fellowship, Johns Hopkins 2016 Frederick Jackson Turner Travel Grant, Johns Hopkins 2016 Knapp Family Foundation Graduate Student Travel Grant, Association for Jewish Studies 2015 Stern Grant, North American Conference on British Studies 2015 Graduate Student Research Travel Grant, American Academy of Jewish Research 2013-2015 Posen Society of Fellows, Inaugural Class, Posen Foundation 2013-2014 Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF), Social Science Research Council 2013 Stulman Jewish Studies Research Grant, Johns Hopkins 2013 Islamic Studies Language Training Grant, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins 2011-2016 Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Jewish Studies Graduate Student Fellowship, Johns Hopkins 2011-2017 Graduate Fellowship, Department of History, Johns Hopkins 2011 Stulman Jewish Studies Research Grant, Johns Hopkins 2010-2011 Post-Graduate Fellowship, Jewish Women’s Archive, Brookline, MA AWARDS AND HONORS 2019 Ben Halpern Award for Best Dissertation in Israel Studies, Association for Israel Studies 2009 Elsie Witt Award in Jewish Studies, Brandeis University CONFERENCES AND INVITED TALKS 2020 “Israeli History as Global History: Crossing Borders, Extending Narratives,” Roundtable, Association for Jewish Studies (AJS), December 13-17, 2020 2020 “Wanderers Between Two Worlds: Helen and Norman Bentwich in Interwar Palestine,” The New York State Working Group on Jewish Women and Gender in Global Perspective, June 5, 2020 Elizabeth E. Imber, Curriculum Vitae 3 2020 “Empire of Uncertainty: Interwar Jewish Politics and British Imperialism in the Age of Nationalism,” Jews in Modern Europe Seminar, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, April 23, 2020 (postponed) 2019 “Between Empire, State, and Non-State: Imagining Jewish Futures in Interwar Palestine,” Nation and Empire in Mandate Palestine: Jews, Arabs, and the Imperial Question, Association for Jewish Studies (AJS), San Diego, December 15-17, 2019 2019 “Navigating Empire: Zionists, Diaspora Jews, and the Future of the Jewish National Home,” Negation of the Diaspora: A Reckoning, Association for Israel Studies (AIS), Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee, Israel, June 24-26, 2019 2019 “Empire of Uncertainty: Zionists, British Imperialism, and the Future of Palestine,” Scholars Seminar, Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, Brandeis University, April 16, 2019 2018 “Thinking Through Empire: Zionists, British Imperial Networks, and the Future of the Jewish National Home,” Diaspora Jewry and Israel/Palestine in Transnational Perspective, Association for Jewish Studies (AJS), Boston, MA, December 16-18 2018 “Zionists and the British Question,” Taub Center for Israel Studies, New York University, February 16, 2018 2018 “Jewish Political Lives in the British Empire,” Greater Washington Jewish History Colloquium, The George Washington University, January 26, 2018 2016 “Wanderers Between Two Worlds: Norman and Helen Bentwich in Interwar Palestine,” Marginal Mainstreams in the Yishuv: Anglo-Jews and Bourgeois Leisure, Association for Jewish Studies (AJS), San Diego, CA, December 18-20 2015 “Jewish Elites and the “British Question” in Mandate Palestine,” The Yishuv in Empire: New Work on Jews and the British Empire in Mandate Palestine, Association for Jewish Studies (AJS), Boston, MA, December 13-15 (also panel organizer) 2015 “Political Lives between Nation and Empire: Jewish Elites in Mandatory Palestine and the ‘British Question,’” Jews, Jewishness, and the Formation of National Identity in the British Empire, North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS), Little Rock, AR, November 13-15 (also panel organizer) 2015 “‘A Baghdadi Jewish ‘Family Fortune’: Jewish Politics between Public and Private in British India,” Memorial Roundtable Panel Honoring Leonore Davidoff, Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies (MACBS), Johns Hopkins, March 27-28 2015 “Jewish Political Lives in the British Empire: Zionism, Nationalism, Imperialism, and the ‘British Question,’ 1917-1948,” International Dissertation Research Fellowship Conference, Social Science Research Council (SSRC), Savannah, GA, March 5-8 DIGITAL HUMANITIES AND PUBLIC HISTORY Contributor to This Week in History and Jewish Women, Amplified blog, Jewish Women’s Archive, jwa.org (2010-2011) Elizabeth E. Imber, Curriculum Vitae 4 UNIVERSITY TEACHING EXPERIENCE Clark University “Jewish History in the Ancient and Medieval World” (Fall 2020) “Jewish History after 1492” (Spring 2020, Spring 2021) “The British Empire” (Spring 2020) “History of Modern Israel” (Fall 2019, Fall 2020) “Jewish Masculinities (Seminar)” (Spring 2021) The College of Idaho “Jews and the British Empire” (Spring 2019) “Judaism” (Spring 2019) “Modern Israel” (Fall 2018) “Jewish History” (Fall 2018) Johns Hopkins University “Jews and the British Empire” (Spring 2016) “Modern Jewish History,” Teaching Assistant, Professor Kenneth Moss (Spring 2015) “Occidental Civilization: Modern Europe,” Teaching Assistant, Professor Kenneth Moss (Spring 2013) “Why Putin? The Rise and Fall of Democracy in Russia,” Teaching Assistant, Professor Nikolay Koposov (Fall 2012) OTHER TEACHING 2016-2018 English as a Second Language Volunteer Tutor, Esperanza Center, Baltimore, MD 2014-2015 Tutor, The Writing Center, Johns Hopkins DEPARTMENT & UNIVERSITY SERVICE 2020-present Faculty Library Committee 2020 Honors Thesis Committee, Department of History, Clark University 2020 Graduate Admissions Committee, Strassler Center, Clark University 2018-2019 Chair of Judaic Studies, The College of Idaho: Direct the Judaic Studies minor; administer the endowed Craig H. Neilsen Foundation Lectureship in Judaic Studies 2019 Frank Specht Scholarship Committee, The College of Idaho PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 2021-present Co-chair (with Geoffrey Levin), Israel Studies Division, Association for Jewish Studies 2020 Peer Reviewer, AJS Review 2020 Peer Reviewer, Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 2019, 2020 Peer Reviewer, Jewish Quarterly Review 2019 Peer Reviewer, Jewish Social Studies 2019- Academic Advisory Council, Jewish Women’s Archive GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE ADVISING AND FIELD WORK Elizabeth E. Imber, Curriculum Vitae 5 2020-2021 Ellen Johnson, PhD Comprehensive Field Exam (Modern European Jewish History) 2020-2021 Brianna Lavelle, Honors Thesis Advisor, Department of History, Clark University 2019-2020 Sabri Bilsel, Honors Thesis Advisor, Department of History, Clark University COMMUNITY AND ACADEMIC SERVICE PRESENTATIONS Panelist, “What do Pittsburgh and Christchurch Tell us about the Current State of Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and White Nationalism,” Deans’ Forum, The College of Idaho, March 28, 2019 “The Historical Hanukkah and the Idea of Assimilation in Jewish History,” Feast of Torah, Congregation Ahavath Beth Israel, Boise, ID, December 2, 2018 Panelist, Discussion of Trevor Noah, Born A Crime (First Year Book), The College of Idaho, August 25, 2018 LANGUAGES Hebrew, French (reading), Arabic (basic reading) PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) American Historical Association (AHA) Association for Israel Studies (AIS) .
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