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Liora R. Halperin Associate Professor, International Studies, History, and Jack and Rebecca Benaroya Endowed Chair in Studies University of [email protected] / www.liorahalperin.com cell: (617) 694-4950

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY 2017- , Assoc. Prof. of Int’l Studies, History, and Jewish Studies Jack and Rebecca Benaroya Endowed Chair of Israel Studies Director, Program in Israel Studies, Stroum Center for Jewish Studies Center, Affiliated Faculty Near and Middle Eastern Studies Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program, Faculty

2013-2017 University of Colorado Boulder, Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies Endowed Professor of Israel/Palestine Studies 2012-2013 Princeton University, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Judaic Studies 2011-2012 Yale University, Blaustein Postdoctoral Fellow in Judaic Studies; Lecturer in History

EDUCATION 2011 University of California, Los Angeles Ph.D., History 2007 University of California, Los Angeles M.A., History 2005 B.A., History and Near Eastern Lang. & Civ.

RESEARCH Publications Peer-Reviewed Book Babel in Zion: , Nationalism, and Language Diversity in Palestine, 1920-1948 (Yale, 2015) * Winner of the 2015 Shapiro Prize for Best Book in Israel Studies Manuscript in Progress “The Oldest Guard: Narratives of Zionist Beginnings in Palestine and Israel,” in conversations with Stanford University Press, Jewish History and Culture Series about the manuscript

Peer-Reviewed Academic Articles and Book Chapters 2020 “Metaphors of Sacredness and Profaneness in Zionist Discourses about Hebrew and its Linguistic Others in Pre-state Palestine” in Hebrew Between Jews and Christians, ed. Daniel Stein Kokin (Forthcoming with Studia Judaica Series at Walter de Gruyter Press) 2019 “Past Perfect: Jewish Memories of Language and the Politics of in Mandate Palestine,” in Arabic and its Alternatives: Religious minorities and their languages in the emerging nation states of the Middle East (1920-1950) (Forthcoming, Brill)

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2019 “Trading Secrets: Constructions and Contexts of Two Middle Eastern Jewish Guards in the Early Petah Tikva Colony,” International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 51:1 (January 2019) 2017 “Petach Tikva, 1886: Gender, Anonymity, and the Making of Zionist Memory,” Jewish Social Studies 23:1 (Fall 2017): 1-28 2016 “Majority and Minority Languages in the Middle East: The Case of Hebrew in Mandate Palestine,” in Minorities and the Modern Arab World, ed. Laura Robson (Syracuse University Press, 2016), 174-190 2015 “A Murder in the Grove: Conceptions of Justice in an Early Zionist Colony,” Journal of Social History 49:2 (Winter 2015): 427–451 2015 “Hebrew Under English Rule: Language Politics in Mandate Palestine,” in The Routledge Handbook of the History of the Middle East Mandates, eds. Cyrus Schayegh and Andrew Arsan (New York: Routledge, 2015), 336-348 2014 “Jewish Students in the Christian Missionary Schools of Mandate Palestine: Linguistic and National Deviance,” Middle Eastern Studies 50:5 (September 2014): 737-754 2013 “Modern Hebrew, Esperanto, and the Quest for a Universal Language,” Jewish Social Studies 19:1 (Fall 2012): 1-33 [Note: publication was backdated as Fall 2012, but issue was published in Fall 2013] 2010 “Other Tongues: The Place of Foreign Language in Hebrew Culture” in Bruno De Nicola, Yonatan Mendel, and Husain Qutbuddin (Cambridge) (eds,), Reflections on Knowledge and Language in Middle Eastern Societies (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010) Research Notes 2018 1917: Reflections on the Centenary of the Balfour Declaration, Jewish Quarterly Review 108:4 (Fall 2018): 526-530 2018 "The Local Construction of Zionist Memory," Frankel Institute Annual, "Israeli Histories, Societies, and Cultures," 2017 2015 “The Multilingual Backdrop of the Fight for Hebrew,” AJS [Association for Jewish Studies] Perspectives, Fall 2015, 50-51 2006 “Orienting Language: Reflections on the Study of Arabic in the Yishuv,” Jewish Quarterly Review 96:4 (Fall 2006): 481-489

Book Reviews 2018 Review of Orit Bashkin, Impossible Exodus: Iraqi Jews in Israel for Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Autumn 2018, Vol. 49, No. 2, pp. 362–363 2017 Review of Abigail Jacobson and Moshe Naor (2016), Oriental Neighbors: Middle Eastern Jews and in Mandatory Palestine (U.P. of New England), for Journal of Jewish Identities 2015 Review of Jonathan Gribetz (2014), Defining Neighbors: Religion, Race, and the Early Zionist-Arab Encounter (Princeton U.P.), in Jewish History, 29:3 (Dec. 2015): 397-402 2015 Review of Rachel Harris (2014), An Ideological Death: Suicide in Israeli Literature (Northwestern U.P.) in H-Net Reviews (July 2015)

Halperin, 2 2014 Review of Noah Haiduc-Dale (2013), Arab Christians in British Mandate Palestine: Communalism and Nationalism, 1917-1948 (Edinburgh U.P.), in International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (Nov. 2014) 2013 Review of Jess Olson (2013), Nathan Birnbaum and Jewish Modernity: Architect of Zionism, Yiddishism, and Orthodoxy (Stanford U.P.), in The Association for Jewish Studies Review 37:2 (Nov. 2013) 2010 Review of Yael Chaver (2004), What Must be Forgotten: the Survival of in Zionist Palestine (Syracuse U.P.), in Studies in Contemporary Jewry, vol. 24 (2010), 283-285

Pedagogical Publications 2019 “Teaching Israel/Palestine Studies” in Rachel S. Harris (ed.), Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict in the College Classroom (Wayne State University Press, 2019), 311-317 2018 “History of Modern Hebrew,” educational video for Bimbam Productions, Fall 2018 Encyclopedia Entries 2013 “The Central Zionist Archive,” Hazine: A Guide to Researching the Middle East and Beyond, Dec. 3, 2013, http://hazine.info/central-zionist-archive/

Awards/Fellowships/Grants Awards 2015 Shapiro Prize for Best Book in Israel Studies, Association for Israel Studies Yearlong & Multi-Year Fellowships 2016-2017 Yearlong Institute Fellow in seminar on “Israeli Histories, Cultures, and Societies in Comparative Perspective,” , Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies 2016-2017 Residential Faculty Fellowship, Telluride Association Scholarship House, University of Michigan 2010-2011 Foundation for Jewish Culture, Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Dissertation Fellowship 2006-2010 Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, U.S. Dept. of Education 2006-2010 Schusterman Israel Studies Fellowship 2005-2011 Chancellor’s Fellowship, UCLA

Visiting Appointments

2016-2017 University of Michigan, Visiting Professor, Frankel Inst. for Advanced Judaic Studies

2016 (Jan-Aug) Harvard University, Visiting Fellow, Center for Jewish Studies 2009-2011 Harvard University, Teaching Fellow, History Department and Gen. Ed. Program 2008-2009 Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Visiting Researcher, Cherrick Center for the Study of Zionism, the Yishuv, and the State of Israel

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Research Fellowships 2015 Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Research Grant ($2,000) 2014 Israel Institute Research Grant ($10,000) 2013 Kayden Research Grant, Colorado ($750)

Language-Study Fellowships 2009 Kathryn Davis Fellowship for Peace (Middlebury Arabic School) 2006 FLAS Title VI Summer Fellowship for Arabic 2006 Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) Fellowship

Invited Lectures 2019 "The First Aliyah Colonies," Brandeis University Summer Institute in Israel Studies, Waltham, MA, June 18, 2019 2019 “Coexistence and Destruction: Representations of the First Zionist Agricultural Colonies,” University of Minnesota, March 13-14, 2019 2019 College of Idaho (Caldwell, ID), “Between Hebrew and Arabic: Language as a Window into the History of Israel,” February 21, 2019 2017 Weinstein-Minkoff Lecture (biennial invited lecture on the History of Israel), University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 6, 2017 2016 Colloquium and Public Lecture, “Israel Beyond the Binary” series, University of Washington, , Jan. 27, 2016 2015-2017 Invited talks following the publication of Babel in Zion: Jews, Nationalism, and Language Diversity in Palestine, 1920-1948: University of Kentucky, January 26, 2017; University of Oxford (UK), May 17, 2016; Middlebury College, March 14, 2016; University of California Los Angeles, Feb. 18, 2016; University of California Santa Barbara, Feb. 17, 2016; University of Southern California, Nov. 1, 2015; University of California San Diego, Oct. 29, 2015; Yale University, Feb. 19, 2015; Bard College, Feb. 18, 2015; Indiana University Bloomington, Jan. 30, 2015; University of , Jan. 29, 2015 2014 “A New Look at Language Diversity in the Jewish Community of Mandate Palestine,” Berkeley Institute for Law and Israel Studies, April 24, 2014 2014 “Negotiating Language Diversity in Mandate Palestine,” University of California Irvine, Jewish Studies Program, Feb. 24, 2014 2013 “Hebrew not only in Hebrew: English and Arabic instruction in the Zionist schools of Mandate Palestine,” Johns Hopkins University, May 1, 2013

Conference and Workshop Presentations Invited Presentations in Small Conferences or Workshops ”,Gevurah: Heroism, Masculinity, and The Politics of Violence in the Yishuv and Israel״ 2019 Conference on “Rethinking Violence in Jewish History,” Standford University, June 30, 2019

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2018 "Narrating and Commemorating Zionist “Firsts”: Insights from the Study of American Settler Colonialism," Conference on "Unacknowledged Kinships: Postcolonial Studies and the Historiography of Zionism," Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt, Germany, June 16-19, 2018, invited participant 2018 Symposium on American Jews and Israel on the 70th Anniversary of Israeli statehood, Jewish Studies Department, UC Irvine, April 16, 2018, invited speaker as part of panel 2017 Participant in conference, “The Balfour Declaration in Jewish History,” Harvard University, Nov. 5-6, 2017 2017 Participant in symposium, “Whither Zionism,” Jewish Theological Seminary, Sept. 10, 2017 2017 Participant in symposium, “Ambivalent Legacies: Memory and Amnesia and Post-Habsburg and Post-Ottoman Cities,” University of Göttingen, April 26-28, 2017 2016 Participant in symposium: “Arabic and its Alternatives: Religious minorities and their languages in the emerging nation states of the Middle East (1920-1950),” Leiden (Netherlands), June 15-17, 2016 2016 “Gender, Anonymity, and Heroism in Zionist Narratives of Violence in Late-Ottoman Palestine,” Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, Works-in-progress Workshop, April 18, 2016 2015 “Zionism, Anti-Zionism, and National Indifference,” Workshop on “Zionism and the Varieties of Jewish Nationalism,” The Ohio State University, Nov. 8-9, 2015 2015 “The University, the School, the Kibbutz, and the Street: Contending Sites of Ashkenazi Jewish Arabic Learning in Mandate Palestine,” Symposium on “German and the Jewish ‘Arab Question,’ Minerva Institute, Hebrew University, June 10-11, 2015 2014 Presentation at the UCLA History Department Graduate History Colloquium, “Jews, Nationalism, and Language Diversity in Palestine,” Feb. 24, 2014 2013 “New Perspectives on Jewish Cultural History,” Association for Jewish Studies Works in Progress Workshop, Boston, Dec. 17, 2013 2013 “Hebrew under English rule: The Language Politics of Mandate Palestine,” Princeton University Symposium on “The Mashriq in the Age of Late ,” Sept. 21, 2013 2013 “On Language, Nationalism, and Culture,” University of Michigan Jewish Studies Symposium, March 28, 2013 2013 “Mapping Language Diversity in a Hebrew Society: a spatial approach to the cultural history of the Yishuv,” Symposium on the Spatial Turn in Jewish Studies, Jewish Theological Seminary (NY), March 10, 2013 2012 “Archives in Israel and Palestine as Sites of Memory,” Working Group on Geographies of Memory, Scholion Research Institute, Hebrew University, June 20, 2012 2012 “Multilingualism in Mandate Palestine: A Historical Perspective,” Presentation at the Language Policy Working Group, Tel Aviv University, June 4, 2012 2011 “The Search for a Universal Language: Hebrew, English, and Esperanto in the Zionist Imagination,” Early Modern/Modern Jewish History Colloquium, Yale, Dec. 6, 2011

Halperin, 5 2010 “Between East and West: Arabic and English Instruction in Jewish Palestine,” The Barnet Seminar in Jewish Studies Works in Progress Seminar, Dartmouth, Aug. 8, 2010 2010 “Spaces and Places of Linguistic Deviance: Home, Coffee House, Cinema,” Posen Foundation Summer Seminar in Secular Jewish Culture, Berkeley, June 20-30, 2010 2010 “Babel in Zion,” American Association for Jewish Research Graduate Seminar: The Languages and Cultures of the Jews, Ann Arbor, MI, May 23-27, 2010 2010 “Between Sacred and Profane: Multilingual Culture in the Yishuv,” Harvard, Modern Jewish Worlds Workshop, April 28, 2010 2010 “Hebrew Labor, Multilingual Leisure: Thinking about Language Diversity in Jewish Palestine,” Brandeis, Schusterman Graduate Forum, March 17, 2010 2009 “Language and the Jewish Commercial Sphere of Mandatory Palestine,” Harvard Center for History and Economics, Nov. 17, 2009 2009 “On the Study of Arabic in the Yishuv,” Presentation at the Language Policy Working Group, Tel Aviv University, March 9, 2009 (delivered in Hebrew) 2009 “Babel in Zion?: Language and Ideology in the Yishuv,” Cherrick Center for the Study of Zionism, the Yishuv, and the State of Israel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Feb. 3, 2009 2008 “Buying Babel: Language and Commerce in Jewish Palestine,” Cambridge Symposium on Middle Eastern Studies, Cambridge, UK, Oct. 19, 2008 2008 “Arabic-Speaking Jews: Orientalists, Zionists, and ‘Natives’ in the Yishuv,” Symposium on the Idea of the Arab-Jew, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, Feb. 4, 2008 2005 “The Arabic Question: Zionism and the Politics of Language in Palestine,” Jewish History Workshop, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Oct. 30, 2005

Presentations at Association Meetings 2018 Participant in Roundtable of Chairs and Directors of Israel and Israel/Palestine Studies Programs, Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, December 2018 2018 Participant in Roundtable on Research Methods in Israel/Palestine Studies, Association for Jewish Studies Conference, Boston, December 2018 2018 "When Petach Tikva Turned 70 (1948): Commemorating the First Aliyah before and after Israeli statehood," Conference presentation at the Association for Israel Studies Conference, Berekeley, CA, June 2018 2018 Participant in Roundtable on "Palestine-Israel/Israel-Palestine Studies" at the Association for Israel Studies Conference, Berkeley, CA, June 2018 2017 Navigating Jewish Campus and Community Debates on Israel/Palestine in the Age of Trump, Roundtable participant, Middle Eastern Studies Association annual conference, November 20, 2017 2016 “The Children of Death Never Die: Awlad al-Mawt and the Specters of Early Zionist Weakness,” Association for Jewish Studies, San Diego, Dec. 18., 2016 2016 Seminar participant: “Critical Jewish Studies in Theory and in Practice,” Association for Jewish Studies, San Diego, Dec. 18, 2016

Halperin, 6 2016 “Reflections on the Reading and Writing of Biography,” Middle Eastern Studies Association, Boston, Nov. 19, 2016 2016 Roundtable participant: “Religious Violence, Secular Violence, and the Meaning of Real Politics,” Middle Eastern Studies Association, Boston, Nov. 18, 2016 2016 “Avraham Shapira and the Zionist Construction of First Aliyah-era Heroism,” Association for Israel Studies, Jerusalem, June 20-22, 2016 2015 Roundtable participant: “Pedagogy and Politics of Teaching Israel and Palestine on American College Campuses,” Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, Dec. 14 2015 “The Absent Center: The “Woman from Petach Tikva” and Zionist Narratives of Violence In Late 19th Century Colonies,” Association for Israel Studies, Montreal, June 2, 2015 2014 “A Microhistory of Jewish-Arab Conflict in Late-Ottoman Palestine,” Middle Eastern Studies Association, Washington, DC, Nov. 24, 2014 2014 “A Murder in the Grove: Conceptions of Justice in an Early Zionist Colony,” Association for Israel Studies, Sde Boker, Israel, June 24, 2014 2013 “Colonialism and Language Study: The Yishuv Between Arabic and English,” Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, Dec. 17, 2013 2012 “Collection Memory: Archival Geographies in Israel and Palestine,” Association for Jewish Studies, Chicago, Dec. 20, 2012 2012 “The Yishuv in its Arabic Speaking Context.” Panel: “Jews, and Christians in Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine: New Perspectives for Research,” Middle Eastern Studies Association, Denver, Nov. 20, 2012 2011 “Language Diversity in the First Hebrew City,” Association for Jewish Studies, Washington, DC, Dec. 19, 2011 2010 “Zionism and the Quest for a Universal Language: Hebrew, Esperanto, and English in Pre- State Palestine,” Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, Dec. 22, 2010 2010 “Zionist Discourses on English Instruction in Mandatory Palestine,” Middle Eastern Stuies Association, San Diego, Nov. 20, 2010 2010 “Multilingual Culture in the Yishuv,” Association for Israel Studies, Toronto, May 10, 2010 2009 “Babel in Zion: Foreign Languages and the Making of Hebrew Culture,” Association for Jewish Studies, Los Angeles, Dec. 22, 2009 2009 “Hebrew Man, Speak Arabic!: The Symbolisms of Arabic in the Zionist Movement before 1948,” Middle Eastern Studies Association, Nov. 24, 2009 2009 “The Hebrew Revival in the Shadow of Global English: Zionist Linguistic Discourse under the British Mandate,” Association for Israel Studies Beer Sheva, Israel, June 3

2007 “Cross-Cultural Orientalism: The Palestine Oriental Society in Jerusalem, 1920-1948,” Middle Eastern Studies Association, Montreal, Nov. 18

Halperin, 7 TEACHING Teaching Awards 2010 Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard

Pedagogy Presentations 2017 Roundtable participant: “Navigating Jewish Campus and Community Debates on Israel/Palestine in the Age of Trump,” Middle Eastern Studies Association Conference, Washington, DC, Nov. 2017 2016 Roundtable participant: “Integrating Israel Studies and Middle East Studies in the Classroom,” Association for Israel Studies Conference, Jerusalem, June 22, 2016 2015 Roundtable participant: “Teaching Israel and Palestine on University Campuses,” Association for Jewish Studies Conference, Boston, Dec. 16, 2015 2015 “Israel/Palestine Studies: Crafting a New Vision for Studying and Teaching About a Difficult Place," Invited Lecture at Colorado College, Dec. 4, 2015 2012 “Writing Across Disciplines,” Writing History Workshop, Yale, Feb. 9, 2012

Courses Taught, Syllabi Available Upon Request Undergraduate Introductory & Lecture JEW ST/HSTCMP 250 Jewish Cultural History (UW, Winter 2018) Intro to Jewish History, 1492-Present (Honors) (CU, Fall 2015) Intro to Jewish History, 1492-Present (CU, Spring 2015; Spring 2014, Fall 2013) Intro to Jewish History, Origins-1492 (CU, Fall 2014) Hebrew Bible and Old Testament (TA for Shaye Cohen) (Harvard, 2009) Contemporary World History (TA for Arch Getty) (UCLA, Winter 2007) Jewish Civilizations (TA for David N. Myers) (UCLA Spring 2007)

Undergraduate Upper-Level & Seminars JSIS 498 E: “History, Memory, and Nationalism,” UW Spring 2018 “History of Modern Israel/Palestine” (UW JSIS A 314 A, Spring 2019, Fall 2017; CU, Fall 2014; Fall 2013; Princeton, Fall 2012) “Tel Aviv: Urban History and Culture” (CU, Spring 2014; Princeton Fall 2012; Yale Fall 2011) “History of Modern Jewish-Muslim Relations” (CU Fall 2015) “Diasporas and Homelands in Comparative Perspective” (Princeton, Spring 2013) “Jews between History and Memory” (Princeton, Spring 2013) “Modern Jews, Language, and Nationalism” (Yale, Spring 2012) “Methods of Historical Writing” (Harvard, Spring 2011, Spring 2010)

Halperin, 8 Graduate 2019 “Readings in Israel/Palestine Studies” (UW, Winter 2019)

2017 Independent study with Vincent Calvetti-Wolf, Pablo Tutillo, and Sara Molaie, graduate students, in conjunction with JSIS A 314 A (History of Modern Israel/Palestine) 2015 “Microhistory” (CU, Spring 2015)

2015 Independent study with Joshua Siary, M.A. student in Religious Studies, and Alexis Aaeng, Undergraduate senior in History and Jewish Studies, in conjunction with HIST/JWST 4378 (Jewish-Muslim Relations) 2014 Independent study with Meghan Zibby, M.A, student in Religious Studies, in conjunction with HIST/JWST 4348 (Tel Aviv: Urban History and Culture)

Advising Experience Vincent Calvetti-Wolf (UW) Ph.D. in Near and Middle Eastern Studies, on the Yemenite Babies Affair (2018-) Hayim Katsman (UW), Ph.D. in International Studies, on Religious Zionism (2017-) Pablo Tutillo (UW), M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies, on the Jews of modern (2017-8) Alexis Aaeng (CU), B.A in History and Jewish Studies, on Yiddish radio in the (2016) Kimberley Smith (CU), M.A. in Medieval History, on 13th century female devotional practices (field examiner and committee member) (2016) Amanda Nerbovig (CU), M.A. in Medieval History, subfield in microhistory (field examiner) (2016) Lily Schaffer (CU), M.A. in Linguistics, on Sephardi Jewish speech patterns in Mexico City (committee member) (2015) Meghan Zibby (CU), M.A. in Religious Studies, on human rights discourse in the BDS movement (committee member) (2015) Elizabeth Imber, Ph.D. in History, Johns Hopkins University outside field examiner, on the history of the Yishuv and Israel (2013) Margaret Fox (Princeton), B.A. in History on history of Messianic Jews (2013) Kendra Nealon (Princeton), B.A. in Near Eastern Studies on microcredit in the M.E. (2013) Miranda Kalvaria, (Princeton), Junior Paper on Ethiopian Jews & domestic violence in Israel (2013) Eleanor Wright (Princeton), Junior Paper on the Israeli organization Breaking the Silence (2013) Maria Nelson, (Princeton), Junior Paper on Islam and feminism in Egypt (2013)

Halperin, 9 SERVICE Service to Profession Service to Associations and Granting Agencies 2018-21 Association for Jewish Studies, Division Chair for Israel Studies Division 2017 Member of Kimmerling Prize Committee for Best Graduate Student Paper, Association for Israel Studies 2015 Program Committee Member, Middle Eastern Studies Association, Assessed panel and paper submissions and attended multiday meeting to plan program 2012 Application Reviewer and Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities, Bridging Cultures Through Film program, Middle East and Africa division

Conference Service as Panel Organizer or Discussant 2017 Discussant for Panel on “Arabs, Jews, and Arab Jews,” Middle Eastern Studies Association, Washington, DC, Nov. 2017 2015 Discussant for panel on “Domesticity in British Mandate-era Palestine,” Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, Dec. 2015 2015 Discussant for panel, “Life in Pre-State Palestine,” Association for Israel Studies, June 3, 2015 2014 Panel Co-Organizer (with Mark Sanagan), “Palestine Microhistories,” Middle Eastern Studies Association, Washington, DC, Nov. 2014 2013 Discussant for panel “Bureaucracy and Administration in Mandate Palestine: A Locally Focused Approach,” Middle Eastern Studies Association, New Orleans, Oct. 10, 2013 2012 Roundtable Co-Organizer (with Na‘ama Rokem) “Modern Hebrew: Primary Sources for a Reconsideration of its Revival, Politics and Poetics,” Association for Jewish Studies, Chicago, Dec. 2012 2012 Panel Co-Organizer (with Claire Gilbert),“Language as an Object of Historical Analysis,” American Historical Association, New Orleans, Nov. 2012

2010 Panel Co-Organizer (with Hilary Falb), “Approaches to the Cultural History of Education in Mandatory Palestine,” Middle Eastern Studies Association, San Diego, Nov. 2010 2009 Panel Organizer, “Hebrew Culture and its Formative Others,” Association for Jewish Studies, Los Angeles, Dec. 22, 2009

2009 Panel Organizer, “Perspectives on Arabic in Palestine/Arabic in Israel,” Middle Eastern Studies Association, Boston, Nov. 24, 2009

Article and Manuscript Referee 2018 Stanford University Press, review of book manuscript, July 2018 2017 Stanford University Press, Endorsement for Suzanne Schneider, Mandatory Separation: Religion, Education, and Mass Politics in Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2018) 2017 Jewish Social Studies, review of article manuscript, August 2017

Halperin, 10 2017 Association for Jewish Studies Review, review of article manuscript, May 2017 2016 University of California Press, review of book manuscript, June 2016 2016 Stanford University Press, review of book manuscript, May 2016 2015 Routledge Press, review of book manuscript, Feb. 2015 2015 Oxford University Press, review of book proposal and sample chapters, Feb. 2015 2015 Journal of Israeli History, review of article manuscript, March 2015 2015 Journal of Religious History, review of article manuscript, Feb. 2015 2014 Routledge Press, review of book manuscript, March 2014 2014 Jewish History, review of article manuscript, July 2014 2014 Journal of Jewish Identities, review of article manuscript, March 2014 2014 Journal of Israeli History, review of article manuscript, Feb. 2014 2014 Journal of Religious History, review of article manuscript, Feb. 2014

Service to UW 2017-present JSIS Israel/Palestine Studies Research Colloquium, faculty advisor. Initiated a monthly research colloquium for UW graduate students, to start Spring 2018. Work with graduate student organizers to provide guidance Second-Year Review Committee member for James Lin, Spring 2019 Second-Year Review Committee member for Vanessa Freije, Spring 2018 Speaker in Trump in the World Series Spring 2018

Stroum Center Israel Studies Program, director (2017-pres) Faculty Advisory Committee 2019- Moderator for Panel of the 2019 Israeli Elections, April 3, 2019 Member of strategic planning team, 5+ planning sessions over the course of 2017-2018 Bylaws committee, Stroum Center for Jewish Studies, 2018-19 (draft bylaws for the program) Jewish Studies Graduate Fellowship, presented to fellows group, October 2017; moderate panel of student research presentations, April 2018; May 2019

Near and Middle Eastern Studies Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program Near and Middle Eastern Studies Admissions Committee 2019 Near and Middle Eastern Studies Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program, faculty, attend faculty meetings, review applications

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History Department History Department faculty member (0%), attend faculty meetings, support graduate admissions, attend mock job talks and mock interviews History Recent Faculty reading group--quarterly meetings of newer historians in HIST and JSIS to share and get feedback on written work Middle East Center Middle East Center, Affiliate Member, attend quarterly faculty meetings Admissions Committee Member for MA Program in Middle Eastern Studies, JSIS, 2018

Community Outreach 2019 Faculty for Wexner Heritage Program on History of Zionism and Israel (four 4-hour sessions), , May-June 2019 2019 Speaker at Temple Bnai Torah, Bellevue, WA, for Israel Independence Day 2019, “Beyond Hebrew: Language as a Window into the Cultures and Politics of Israel,” April 23, 2019 2019 Panel Participant at Seattle on the 2019 Israeli Elections, April 3, 2019 2019 Mt. Zion Temple, Minneapolis, “Orange Trees in Blue and White: The Beginnings and Politics of Zionist Private Enterprise,” March 13, 2019 2018 Discussion on “Language Diversity in Israel” for Moishe House, Seattle, Nov. 7, 2018 2017 “Which Land is Your Land, Which Land is Our Land,” Limmud Michigan, Mar. 19, 2017 2017 “Language as a Portal into Israeli History” JCC of Metro Detroit, Feb. 8, 2017 (MI) 2016 Organized lecture and colloquium with Prof. Sheila Katz, on the history Israeli-Palestinian Joint Non-Violent organizing 2016 National Havurah Institute course (four 1.5-hr. sessions) on "Beyond Ashkenazim: Jews, Race, and Ethnicity, Past and Present,” Aug. 2016 (NH) 2016 Lecture to students at Jefferson High School, Denver, on history of Israel/Palestine 2015 Organized Lecture, Colloquium, and Film screening with Israeli/Palestinian writer Sayed Kashua. Raised over $4,400 in grants and co-sponsorships 2015 Guest Lecturer at CU Political Science Club on “History of Israel/Palestine,” Nov. 16, 2015 2015 Talk on “Inspirational Women in Jewish History” for the Women of the J group at the Boulder Jewish Community Center, Oct. 25, 2015 2015 Talk to Wexner Program Alumni in Denver, on “Thinking about Jewish Diversity: Ashkenazim, Sephardim, Mizrahim” June 9, 2015 2015 Faculty for Wexner Heritage Program in “Modern Jewish-History (five 4-hour sessions), Denver, April-May 2015 (CO)

Halperin, 12 2015 National Havurah Institute course (four 1.5-hr. sessions) on “Which Land is Your Land, Which Land is My Land?: Jewish Discussions about Israel and Palestine,” with Sarah D. Beller, Aug. 2015 (NH) 2015 “Babel in Zion,” San Francisco Jewish Community Library, Oct. 18, 2015 (CA) 2015 “Babel in Zion,” Temple Emunah, Lexington, Feb. 22, 2015 (MA) 2014-5 Lecturer in the Boulder Jewish Community Center’s Scholars Series, Dec. 4, 2014, and April 26, 2015 2014 Congregation Bonai Shalom, Boulder, “First Friday” Speaker, “The Complexity of Language in Israel,” April 4, 2014 2014 Panelist for Boulder community discussion on “The Many Sided Story: Holding a Conversation about Israel/Palestine with Love and Respect,” May 29, 2014 2014 Faculty for Wexner Heritage Program in “Modern Jewish-History (five 4-hour sessions), Dallas, April-May 2014 (TX) 2013 “After the 2013 Israeli Elections: A Recap,” guest lecture at Sarah Lawrence College, April 15, 2013 (NY) 2013 Film talkback for “Matchmaker,” Highland Park Temple, Feb. 16, 2013 (NJ). 2013 “American Jewish Responses to the 1967 Six-Day War in Israel,” guest lecture in undergraduate World History course at Lafayette College (PA), Dec. 3, 2012 2012 “Hebrew Language and the Politics of Aliyah,” Yale Hillel, Feb. 24, 2012 (CT) 2011 “The Creation of Modern Hebrew,” Westville Synagogue, New Haven, Nov. 2, 2011 (CT) 2010 “Language Politics in Tel Aviv,” guest lecturer in an undergraduate course at Brandeis: “Mythic Tel Aviv,” March 3, 2010 (MA) 2008 Series of four workshops on Israeli history, Lehrhaus Judaica, Berkeley (CA)

Public scholarship 2014 “Letters from Multilingual Tel Aviv Show the Early Limits of Hebrew,” Tablet Magazine, Nov. 20, 2014 2014 “The Irony of Erasing Arabic,” The Jewish Daily Forward, Oct. 6, 2014 2013 “Hebrew U. Embraces English,” Tablet Magazine, Jan. 18, 2013 2011 “Israel Misses Point with Ad Campaign,” The Jewish Daily Forward, Dec. 14, 2011

Radio Interviews / Podcasts 2016 Ottoman History Podcast, March 10, 2016, http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2016/04/language-palestine.html 2015 New Books in History podcast, Oct. 20, 2015, http://newbooksnetwork.com/liora-r- halperin-babel-in-zion-jews-nationalism-and-language-diversity-in-palestine-1920-1948-yale-up-2014/ 2015 TLV1 English Language Radio, June 14, 2015, http://tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv- review/2015/06/26/babel-in-zion-the-inculcation-of-hebrew-in-pre-state-israel-2/

Halperin, 13 Other Past Service 2011 Graduate Organizer, UCLA Symposium, “Rethinking the History of Jewish Nationalism,” Los Angeles, Jan. 30-31, 2011 2008 Graduate Co-Organizer (with Naomi Baldinger), UCLA Symposium, “The Idea of the Arab Jew,” Los Angeles, Feb. 3-4, 2008

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