Curriculum Vitae Philip Zhakevich [email protected] / [email protected]

EDUCATION 2015 Ph.D., University of Texas–Austin, TX (UT Austin) Major: Hebrew Bible Minor: Comparative Semitic Languages

Dissertation Title: "The Tools of an Israelite Scribe––A Semantic Study of the Terms Signifying the Tools and Materials of Writing in Biblical Hebrew" Dissertation Supervisor: John Huehnergard Dissertation Co-supervisor: Jo Ann Hackett Committee Members: Christopher Rollston, Na'ama Pat-El, Jonathan Kaplan

2009 M.A., Hebrew University of Jerusalem–Israel (HebU) Summa cum Laude Major: Bible and the Ancient Near East

2006 B.A., University of California–Los Angeles, CA (UCLA) Summa cum Laude Major: History Minor: Hebrew Language and Jewish Studies

NON-DEGREE EDUCATION 2003 General Education, Pasadena City College–Pasadena, CA

2002 Semester Abroad, Trinity Language School– Seville, Spain

2002 General Education, Azusa Pacific University–Azusa, CA (APU)

PROFESSIONAL TEACHING APPOINTMENTS 2016– Lecturer of Modern Hebrew, Princeton University–Princeton, NJ

2015–2016 Lecturer of Modern Hebrew, Columbia University–New York, NY

2011–2014 Lecturer of Modern Hebrew, UCLA (Summer Sessions)

ADDITIONAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2014 Teaching Assistant of Undergraduate Course, UT Austin ("Gateway to the Middle East")

2012–2013 Teaching Assistant of Undergraduate Courses, UT Austin ("Women in the Bible" and "Writing Systems of the World") Philip Zhakevich 2

2011–2012 Instructor of Modern Hebrew, UT Austin

2010–2011 Teaching Assistant of Modern Hebrew, UT Austin

2005–2010 Instructor of English, ACI SAT Center, Los Angeles

2002 Tutor of Accounting and Spanish, APU

HONORS & AWARDS 2015 Graduate School Continuing Fellowship, UT Austin

2010 Biblical Archeological Society Scholarship

Dan C. Danciger Hebrew Scholarship, UT Austin

Jan Adolf Gorecki Scholarship, Gorecki Foundation

2009 Graduate School Recruitment Fellowship, UT Austin

2006–2009 M.A. Merit Scholarship, HebU

2003–2006 Dean’s Honors List, UCLA

Waldo Neikirk Merit Scholarship, UCLA

2001–2002 Multi-Ethnic Leadership Scholarship, APU

Dean's Honors List, APU

PUBLICATIONS 2018 Review of Meira Rom and Dalia-Roth Gavison, The Alpha of the Aleph-Bet (Jerusalem: Academon Press, 2017). Hebrew of Higher Education 20 (2018).

2019 With Benjamin Kantor: "Modern Hebrew" in Huehnergard and Pat-El (eds.), The Semitic Languages, New York, Routledge. (peer-reviewed book chapter)

Forthcoming The Tools of an Israelite Scribe––A Semantic Study of the Terms Signifying the Tools and Materials of Writing in Biblical Hebrew (book manuscript; Eisenbrauns-Penn State University Press)

In Preparation Biblical Hebrew Terms Designating Various Types of Writing (peer- reviewed-book chapter; Maarav) Philip Zhakevich 3

PRESENTATIONS 2019 "Biblical Hebrew Verbs of Writing" Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA

2016 "Ancient Hebrew Terms Designating Skins, Scrolls, Tablets, Ostraca, and Uncommon Writing Surfaces" Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX

2016 "Ancient Hebrew Terms Designating Mud and Plaster" American Oriental Society 226th Meeting, Boston, MA

2015 "Ancient Hebrew Terms Designating Reeds and Their Habitats" American Oriental Society 225th Meeting, New Orleans, LA

2011 "Compensatory Lengthening vs. Vowel Lengthening in Akkadian" North American Conference of Afro-Asiatic Linguistics 38, Austin, TX

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE & FIELDWORK 2019 Visiting Research Fellow, Rothberg International School, HebU (Research on Hebrew verbs of writing)

2017 Summer Institute for Israel Studies Fellowship, Brandeis University (Studies in modern Israeli politics)

2016 Visiting Research Fellow, Rothberg International School, HebU (Preparing dissertation for publication)

2011, 2013–2014 Research Assistant, Dept of Middle Eastern Studies, UT Austin (Revising the Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon)

2010 Research Assistant, Dept of Middle Eastern Studies, UT Austin (Arranging bibliography for Ph.D. qualifying exams)

2010 Volunteer at City of David Archeological Dig, Jerusalem, Israel

2003–2006 Research Assistant, Medical Center, UCLA Philip Zhakevich 4

LANGUAGES Modern Languages: Russian, Hebrew, Spanish, German, French Ancient Languages: Classical Hebrew, Aramaic, Akkadian, Ethiopic, Ugaritic

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS National Association of Professors of Hebrew

Society of Biblical Literature

American Oriental Society