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Joshua Teitelbaum, Ph.D Professor and Senior Research Associate Bar Ilan University Home: (09) 744-9892 Joshua.Teitelbaum@Biu.Ac.Il Joshua Teitelbaum, Ph.D Professor and Senior Research Associate Bar Ilan University Home: (09) 744-9892 [email protected] Curriculum Vitae (updated to November 2012) Date and Place of Birth: Feb 28, 1958, USA (date of aliya, October 1981) Military Service: IDF, Sept. 1987-Jan. 1988 (shortened service for new immigrants). Reserve rank: captain, still serving. Marital Status: Married with three girls EDUCATION 1976-1980 UCLA (Los Angeles) Near Eastern Studies B.A., 1980 1981-1988 Tel Aviv University Middle Eastern History M.A., 1988 1989-1996 Tel Aviv University Middle Eastern History Ph.D., 1996 Title of Master’s Thesis: “The Saudis and the Hajj, 1916-1933: A Religious Institution in Turbulent Times” Names of Supervisor: Prof. Joseph Kostiner Title of Doctoral Dissertation: “The Hashemite Kingdom of the Hijaz, 1916-1925: the Failure of State Formation in Modern Arabia” Names of Supervisor: Dr. Martin Kramer SCHOLARSHIPS AND ACADEMIC AWARDS Year Name of Institution (city, country), Award 1978, 1979, 1980 UCLA, Los Angeles Honors Student, Dean’s List 1983, 1984, 1985 School of History, Tel Aviv University, Zalman Aranne Scholarship 1984 B’nai B’rith, Tel Aviv Eli Cohen Prize 1984 Ben-Gurion Foundation, Tel Aviv Nahum Karni Prize 1986 Mif`al HaPayis, Tel Aviv, Israel Landau Prize for Superior MA thesis 1988, 1989 Dayan Center, Tel Aviv University Dayan Fellowship 1988 Wiener Library, Institute of German History, Tel Aviv University, Honors Seminar in Comparative European History 1 1988, 1990 Dayan Center, Tel Aviv University Harry and Jenny Lewis Studentship 1992 Dayan Center, Tel Aviv University Uriel Dann Scholarship 1996 Society of Gulf Arab Studies, Wash. DC, Best Dissertation 1997 Mif`al HaPayis, Tel Aviv, Israel Landau Prize for Superior Dissertation GRANTS AWARDED 1990 Avi Foundation Geneva, Switz. Dissertation Grant 1990 Anglo-Jewish Assoc. London, UK Dissertation Grant 1990 B’nai B’rith, London, UK Dissertation Grant 1996 Keren Avi HaYishuv, Jer., Israel Publication Grant 2000 Tel Aviv University Internal Research Grant 2007, 2008, 2009 Visiting Professorship Grant at Stanford University (American Israel Cooperative Enterprise; Jewish Community Endowment Fund, Jewish Federation of San Francisco) 2007, 2008, 2009 W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellowship Grant, Hoover Institution, Stanford University 2009, 2010, 2011 Visiting Fellowship Grant, Hoover Institution, Stanford University 2008 Israel Science Foundation Grant for three years (NIS 84,000 per year; extension approved for additional year) CONFERENCES ORGANIZED 2001 Conference on the New Media in the Middle East, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University 2004 Conference on Political Liberalization in the Persian Gulf, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University. ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD 10.83-9.01 Tel Aviv University, Overseas Students Program, Lecturer 10.83-6.85 Tel Aviv University, Middle Eastern History, Teaching Assistant 1.86-10.86 Tel Aviv University, Dayan Center, Research Assistant 10.86-10.88 Tel Aviv University, Dayan Center, Assistant Researcher 2 9.90-7.92 University of Wash. (USA), Jackson School of International Studies, Visiting Assistant Professor 10.92-9.93 Bar-Ilan University, History, Adjunct Lecturer 10.88-3.98 Tel Aviv University, Dayan Center, Research Associate 8.96-8.97 Cornell University (USA), Near Eastern Studies, Assistant Professor 5.97-7.97 Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Visiting Research Fellow 3.98-12.00 Tel Aviv University, Dayan Center, Research Fellow, Israeli rank- martzeh; US rank - Assistant Professor) 12.00-08.10 Tel Aviv University, Dayan Center, Senior Research Fellow, Israeli rank-martzeh bakhir; US rank - Associate Professor) 04.07-06.09 Stanford University, Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law 03.07-present Principal Research Associate, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs 06.09-present Stanford University, Visiting Scholar, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law 04.07-06.09 Stanford University, W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow, Hoover Institution 07.09-present Stanford University, Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution 08.06-present US Army War College, Proteus Center for Strategic Leadership, Associate 10.05-10.11 Bar Ilan University, Adjunct Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor level), Department of Middle Eastern History 04.09-1.12 Inter-disciplinary Center, Herzliya, Principal Research Associate, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy & Strategy, Global Research in International Affairs Center (GLORIA) 01.09-present Member, Hoover Institution (Stanford University), Working Group on Islamism and the New International Order 10.10-present Senior Research Associate, Begin-Sadat Center for Stragetic Studies, Bar Ilan University 10.11-present Bar Ilan University, Professor, Department of Middle Eastern History OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 9.80-8.81 US Congress Legislative Assistant to Congressman Paul N. McCloskey, Jr. 12th district, California 5.82-5.84 Tel Aviv University Dayan Center Abstracter, Mideast File 5.83-11.84 Tel Aviv University Dayan Center Assistant Editor, Mideast File 1998-2005 Member, Editorial Board, International Political Economy Yearbook 09.00-present Cambridge University Press Pre-publication reviewer of scholarly manuscripts 10.02-present Hurst & Company (London) Pre-publication reviewer of scholarly manuscripts (vetting manuscripts for co-publication with New York University Press and Columbia University Press) 07.08-present City University of London Israeli Adviser, Olive Tree Program, www.city.ac.uk/olivetree/ 01.10-present Board Member, American-Israel Cooperative Enterprise (Schusterman Program for visiting Israeli professors) 3 AREAS OF ACADEMIC SPECIALIZATION State formation, democracy and development, history of the modern Middle East, society and politics in the Arabian Peninsula, religion and state in the modern Middle East, Saudi Arabia, tribes and tribalism in the modern Middle East. Arab-Israeli confict. ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS Year Name of Meeting (city, country) 1995 With Joseph Kostiner, "State Formation and the Saudi Monarchy," International Conference on Islam, Monarchy and Modernity in the Middle East, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. 1996 "The Hashimite View of the Post-Ottoman Order," Annual Conference of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), Providence, Rhode Island, USA. 1997 “The Arab Revolt: From Mecca to Aqaba,” Conference on 80 Years to World War One in the Negev, Joe Alon Center for Bedouin Culture, Kibbutz Lotan, Israel. 1998 “The Gulf States and Dual Containment,” International Conference on the United States and the Middle East, BESA Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. 1998 "’Taking Back’ the Caliphate: Husayn bin `Ali, Mustafa Kemal, and the Ottoman Caliphate," Annual Conference of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), Chicago, Illinois, USA. ‏2000 “Relations between the Hashimites, the Kemalists, and the Ottomans in the Aftermath of World War One,” International Colloquy on the Middle East in World War One, Istanbul, Turkey. 2000 “Syria and Israel: The Peace Process and Mutual Perceptions of the Other,” ELIAMEP International Seminar, Halki, Greece, September 2000. 2000 “Saudi Arabia and Globalization,” Globalization and the MENA Region, International Conference, Institute of West Asian and African Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, November 2000. 2001 “Dueling for Da`wa: State vs. Society on the Saudi Internet,” Dayan Center Conference on the new media in the Middle East, May 2001. Conference organizer. 2001 “Al-Jazirah Satellite Channel and Its Influence on the Arab World,” Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Tel Aviv University, Conference on the Media as Strategy, Tel Aviv, July 2001. 2002 “After 9/11: The Debate over Islam and the West in Saudi Arabia,” International Conference on Islam, Globalization, and the West, Dayan Center, December 2002. 4 2003 “Civil-Military Relations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,” Fourth Mediterranean Social and Political Research (MSPR) Meeting of the Mediterranean Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence, March 2003. 2003 “The Arabian Peninsula in the Aftermath of Iraq and Afghanistan,” Geneva Center for Security Policy/RAND Workshop on the Middle East in the Shadow of Afghanistan and Iraq, Geneva, May 2003. 2004 “The Limits of Power: U.S. Democracy Promotion in the Middle East,” Central Intelligence Agency Conference on Reform in the Arab World, Wye Plantation, January 2004. 2004 “The Saudi Military and the Power Structure in Saudi Arabia,” Saudi Arabia between 9/11, the Iraq War and the Future: Key Trends in Politics, Economy and International Relations, ISIM, Leiden, February 2004. 2004 Convener, Conference on Political Liberalization in the Gulf, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University, May 2004. 2004 “From Terrorist Challenge to Insurgency Threat: Saudi Arabian Internal Security,” Geneva Center for Security Policy/RAND Workshop on the United States, Europe and the Middle East, June 2004. 2005 CIA simulation on the Persian Gulf, Washington, DC, (invitation declined due to prior engagement), August 2004. 2005 “The Young Generation of Saudi `Ulama: A New Source of Legitimacy for the Regime?, ”
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