LIORA R. HALPERIN University of Colorado Boulder 234 UCB, Dept. of History, Boulder, CO 80309-0234 [email protected] / cell: (617) 694-4950

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT University of Colorado Boulder Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies fall 2013-present Endowed Professor of Israel/ Studies fall 2015-present

PAST EMPLOYMENT Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Judaic Studies 2012-2013 Yale University, New Haven, CT Blaustein Postdoctoral Fellow in Judaic Studies, Lecturer in History 2011-2012 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Teaching Fellow, History Department and General Education Program 2009-2011 University of California, Los Angeles Teaching Assistant, History 2006-2007

EDUCATION University of California, Los Angeles Ph.D., History, 2011 University of California, Los Angeles M.A., History, 2007 Harvard University B.A., History summa cum laude, 2005 BOOK Babel in Zion: , Nationalism, and Language Diversity in Palestine, 1920-1948 (Yale University Press, 2015)

SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS Peer Reviewed “A Murder in the Grove: Conceptions of Justice in an Early Zionist Colony,” Journal of Social History (forthcoming, Fall 2015). “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 (Article accepted; volume under review with Studia Judaica Series at Walter de Gruyter Press). “Majority and Minority Languages in the Middle East: The Case of Hebrew in Mandate Palestine,” in Minorities in the Arab World, ed. Laura C. Robson and Yasmeen Hanoosh (Portland State University) (Forthcoming from Syracuse University Press). “Hebrew Under English Rule: Language Politics in Mandate Palestine,” in The Routledge Handbook of the History of the Middle East Mandates, eds. Cyrus Schayegh (Princeton) and Andrew Arsan (Cambridge) (New York: Routledge, 2015).

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“Jewish Students in the Christian Missionary Schools of Mandate Palestine: Linguistic and National Deviance,” Middle Eastern Studies 50:5 (September 2014). “Modern Hebrew, Esperanto, and the Quest for a Universal Language,” Jewish Social Studies 19:1 (Fall 2013). “Other Tongues: The Place of Foreign Language in Hebrew Culture” in Bruno De Nicola, Yonatan Mendel, and Husain Qutbuddin (eds., Cambridge), Reflections on Knowledge and Language in Middle Eastern Societies (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010). “Orienting Language: Reflections on the Study of Arabic in the Yishuv,” Jewish Quarterly Review 96:4 (Fall 2006): 481-489. Reference materials/Encyclopedia Articles “The Central Zionist Archive,” Hazine: A Guide to Researching the Middle East and Beyond, December 3, 2013, http://hazine.info/2013/12/03/central-zionist-archive/. “Roth, Joel,” Encyclopedia Judaica (Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2007). Book Reviews Review of Jonathan Gribetz, Defining Neighbors: Religion, Race, and the Early Zionist-Arab Encounter, in Jewish History, Forthcoming, 2015. Review of Rachel Harris, An Ideological Death: Suicide in Israeli Literature in H-Net Reviews (July 2015) Review of Noah Haiduc-Dale, Arab Christians in British Mandate Palestine: Communalism and Nationalism, 1917- 1948, in International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (November 2014). Review of Jess Olson, Nathan Birnbaum and Jewish Modernity: Architect of , Yiddishism, and Orthodoxy, in The Association for Jewish Studies Review 37:2 (November 2013). Review of Yael Chaver, What Must be Forgotten: the Survival of Yiddish in Zionist Palestine, in Studies in Contemporary Jewry, vol. 24 (2010), 283-285.

HONORS, AWARDS, AND FELLOWSHIPS Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Research Grant 2015 Israel Institute Research Grant 2014 Kayden Research Grant, University of Colorado Boulder 2013 Foundation for Jewish Culture, Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Dissertation Fellowship 2010-2011 Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, U.S. Dept. of Education 2006-2010 Schusterman Israel Studies Award 2006-2010 Chancellor’s Fellowship, UCLA 2005-2006 and 2010-2011 Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard 2010 Kathryn Davis Fellowship for Peace (Middlebury Arabic School) 2009 FLAS Title VI Summer Fellowship for Arabic 2006 Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) Fellowship 2006 Jonathan Fay Prize for the best senior thesis in any field at Harvard 2005 Hoopes Prize for Excellence in the Preparation of a Senior Thesis at Harvard 2005 Weinstein Prize, Harvard, for the best undergraduate essay in Jewish studies 2004

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CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS “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. “A Microhistory of Jewish-Arab Conflict in Late-Ottoman Palestine,” Middle Eastern Studies Association, Washington, DC, November 24, 2014 “A Murder in the Grove: Conceptions of Justice in an Early Zionist Colony,” Association for Israel Studies, Sde Boqer, Israel, June 24, 2014. Presentation at the UCLA History Department Graduate History Colloquium, "Jews, Nationalism, and Language Diversity in Palestine," February 24, 2014 “New Perspectives on Jewish Cultural History,” Association for Jewish Studies Works in Progress Workshop, Boston, MA, December 17, 2013. “Colonialism and Language Study: The Yishuv Between Arabic and English,” Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, MA, December 17, 2013. “Hebrew under English rule: The Language Politics of Mandate Palestine,” Princeton University Symposium on “The Mashriq in the Age of Late Imperialism,” September 21, 2013 “On Language, Nationalism, and Culture,” U. Michigan Jewish Studies Symposium, March 28, 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, March 10, 2013 “Collection Memory: Archival Geographies in Israel and Palestine,” Association for Jewish Studies, Chicago, IL, December 2012. “The Yishuv in its Arabic Speaking Context,” Middle Eastern Studies Association, Denver, CO, November 2012, Panel: “Jews, Muslims and Christians in Ottoman and : New Perspectives for Research.” “Archives in Israel and Palestine as Sites of Memory,” Working Group on Geographies of Memory, Scholion Research Institute, Hebrew University, June 20, 2012. “Multilingualism in Mandate Palestine: A Historical Perspective,” Presentation at the Language Policy Working Group, Tel Aviv University, June 4, 2012. “Writing Across Disciplines,” Writing History Workshop, Yale University, February 9, 2012. “Language Diversity in the First Hebrew City,” Association for Jewish Studies, Washington, DC, December 19, 2011. “The Search for a Universal Language: Hebrew, English, and Esperanto in the Zionist Imagination,” Early Modern/Modern Jewish History Colloquium, Yale University, December 6, 2011. “Zionism and the Quest for a Universal Language: Hebrew, Esperanto, and English in Pre-State Palestine,” Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, MA, December 22, 2010. “Zionist Discourses on English Language Instruction in Mandatory Palestine,” Middle Eastern Studies Association, San Diego, CA, November 20, 2010. “Between East and West: Arabic and English Instruction in Jewish Palestine,” Dartmouth, August 8, 2010. “Spaces and Places of Linguistic Deviance: Home, Coffee House, Cinema,” Posen Foundation Summer Seminar in Secular Jewish Culture, Berkeley, CA, June 20-30, 2010

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“Babel in Zion,” American Association for Jewish Research Graduate Seminar: The Languages and Cultures of the Jews, Ann Arbor, MI, May 23-27, 2010 “Multilingual Culture in the Yishuv,” Association for Israel Studies, Toronto, May 10, 2010. “Between Sacred and Profane: Multilingual Culture in the Yishuv,” Harvard University, Modern Jewish Worlds Workshop, April 28, 2010 “Hebrew Labor, Multilingual Leisure: Thinking about Language Diversity in Jewish Palestine,” Brandeis University, Schusterman Graduate Forum, March 17, 2010 “Language Politics in Tel Aviv,” guest lecturer in a course at Brandeis University, March 3, 2010. “Babel in Zion: Foreign Languages and the Making of Hebrew Culture,” Association for Jewish Studies, Los Angeles, CA, December 22, 2009. “Hebrew Man, Speak Arabic!: The Symbolisms of Arabic in the Zionist Movement before 1948, ” Middle Eastern Studies Association, Boston, MA, November 24, 2009. “Language and the Jewish Commercial Sphere of Mandatory Palestine,” Harvard University Center for History and Economics, November 17, 2009. “The Hebrew Revival in the Shadow of Global English: Zionist Linguistic Discourse under the British Mandate,” Association for Israel Studies, Be’er Sheva, Israel, June 3, 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). “Buying Babel: Language and Commerce in Jewish Palestine,” Cambridge Symposium on Middle Eastern Studies, Cambridge, UK, October 19, 2008. “Arabic-Speaking Jews: Orientalists, Zionists, and ‘Natives’ in the Yishuv,” Symposium on the Idea of the Arab-Jew, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, February 4, 2008. “Cross-Cultural Orientalism: The Palestine Oriental Society in Jerusalem, 1920-1948,” Middle Eastern Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, November 18, 2007. “The Arabic Question: Zionism and the Politics of Language in Palestine,” Jewish History Workshop, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, October 30, 2005.

INVITED LECTURES / GUEST TEACHING Scholar in Residence (series of two talks: colloquium and public lecture), University of Washington, Seattle, January 27, 2016 Invited book talks about Babel in Zion: Jews, Nationalism, and Language Diversity in Palestine, 1920-1948 • University of Oxford, May 17, 2016 • San Francisco Jewish Community Library, October 18, 2015 • Yale University, February 19, 2015. • Bard College, February 18, 2015. • Indiana University Bloomington, January 30, 2015. • University of Chicago, January 29, 2015.

“A New Look at Language Diversity in the Jewish Community of Mandate Palestine,” Berkeley Institute for Law and Israel Studies, April 24, 2014.

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“Babel in Zion: Negotiating Language Diversity in Mandate Palestine,” University of California Irvine, Jewish Studies Program, February 24, 2014. “Hebrew not only in Hebrew: English and Arabic instruction in the Zionist schools of Mandate Palestine,” guest lecture at Johns Hopkins University, May 1, 2013. “After the 2013 Israeli Elections: A Recap,” guest lecture at Sarah Lawrence College, April 15, 2013. “American Jewish Responses to the 1967 Six-Day War in Israel,” guest lecture in an undergraduate course at Lafayette College, “World History,” December 3, 2012. “Language Politics in Tel Aviv,” guest lecturer in an undergraduate course at Brandeis University: “Mythic Tel Aviv,” March 3, 2010. “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, February 3, 2009 (delivered in Hebrew). ADDITIONAL PAST AFFILIATIONS Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Visiting Fellow, Center for Jewish Studies 2009-2011 Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel Visiting Researcher, Cherrick Center for the Study of Zionism and the State of Israel 2008-2009 University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA Visiting Graduate Student 2007-2008 Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel Semester Abroad 2003-2004 SERVICE TO PROFESSION University of Colorado Boulder History Department Executive Committee (2014-2015) Advisory Board Member, CU Boulder Archive of Post-Holocaust American Judaism (2013-present) Jewish Studies Program Executive Committee (2013-present) Jewish Studies Program Graduate Studies Committee (2013-present) Association for Jewish Studies Roundtable Co-Organizer (with Na’ama Rokem, U Chicago) “Modern Hebrew: Primary Sources for a Reconsideration of its Revival, Politics and Poetics,” Chicago, December 2012. Panel Organizer, “Hebrew Culture and its Formative Others,” Los Angeles, December 22, 2009. Association for Middle Eastern Studies Program Committee Member, 2015 MESA conference in Denver, CO Panel Co-Organizer (with Mark Sanagan, McGill), “Palestine Microhistories,” Washington, DC, November 2014. Discussant, Panel: “Bureaucracy and Administration in Mandate Palestine: A Locally Focused Approach,” New Orleans, October 10, 2013. Panel Co-Organizer (with Hilary Falb, Berkeley), “Approaches to the Cultural History of Education in Mandatory Palestine,” San Diego, November 2010.

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Panel Organizer, “Perspectives on Arabic in Palestine/Arabic in Israel,” Boston, November 24, 2009. American Historical Association Panel Co-Organizer (with Claire Gilbert),“Language as an Object of Historical Analysis,” New Orleans, November 2012. UCLA Center for Jewish Studies Graduate Organizer, UCLA Symposium, “Rethinking the History of Jewish Nationalism,” Los Angeles, January 2011. Graduate Co-Organizer (with Naomi Baldinger), UCLA Symposium, “The Idea of the Arab Jew,” Los Angeles, February 2008.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE History of Modern Jewish-Muslim Relations (Fall 2015, CU) Graduate Seminar: Microhistory (Spring 2015, CU) Introduction to Jewish History, 1492-Present (Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Spring 2014 and Fall 2013, CU) History of Modern Israel/Palestine (Fall 2014 and Fall 2013, CU; Fall 2012, Princeton) Introduction to Jewish History, Origins-1492 (Fall 2014, CU) Tel Aviv: Urban History and Culture (Spring 2014, CU; Fall 2012, Princeton; Fall 2011, Yale) Introduction to Jewish History: Between History and Memory (Spring 2013, Princeton) Diaspora and Homeland (Spring 2013, Princeton) Modern Jews, Language, and Nationalism (Spring 2012, Yale) Introduction to Methods of Historical Writing (Spring 2011, Spring 2010, Harvard)

Teaching Assistant History 97 (Sophomore Tutorial) Spring 2010+2011, Harvard From the Hebrew Bible to Judaism (Prof. Shaye Cohen) Fall 2009, Harvard World History: 1760-Present (Prof. J. Arch Getty) Spring 2007, UCLA Jewish Civilization (Prof. David N. Myers) Fall 2007, UCLA

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE Head Teaching Fellow, History Sophomore Tutoral (Spring 2011, Harvard)

ADVISING AND INFORMAL TEACHING Graduate Advising Ph.D. committee member for Sarah Gavison, Ph.D. in History, CU Thesis committee member for Lily Schaffer, M.A. in Linguistics, CU 2015 On the language patterns of the Jewish community of Mexico City Thesis committee member for Meghan Zibby, M.A. in Religious Studies, CU, 2014-2015 On the Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions movement and its use of human rights rhetoric 6 Liora R. Halperin

External examiner for Elizabeth Imber’s Ph.D. exams, Johns Hopkins University, May 2013.

Senior Thesis and Junior Paper Advising Alexis Aaeng (Colorado, ’16) Eleanor Wright (Princeton, ’14), on the Israeli organization Breaking the Silence Maria Nelson, (Princeton, ’14), on attempts to reconcile Islam and feminism in Egypt. Miranda Kalvaria, (Princeton, ’14), on domestic violence among Ethiopian immigrants to Israel Margaret Fox (Princeton ’13), on Messianic Jews and their relationship to Jewish practice. Kendra Nealon (Princeton ’13), on the use of microcredit to promote economic development in Jordan

General Academic Advising Sophomore Advisor, Lowell House, Harvard 2010-2011 History Advisor, Lowell House, Harvard 2009-2011

Community Lectures and Teaching National Havurah Institute Course (4 sessions) on “Which Land is Your Land, Which Land is My Land?: Jewish Discussions about Israel and Palestine,” with Sarah D. Beller Aug., 2015 Faculty (Modern Jewish History) for the Wexner Heritage Program, Dallas and Denver 2014-2015 Lecturer in the Boulder Jewish Community Center’s Scholar’s Series 2014-2015 Teaching and community lectures at Yale Hillel 2011-2012 Series of adult education workshops on Israeli history, Lehrhaus Judaica, Berkeley Spr., 2008 Regular lectures, teaching at synagogues around the United States 2011-present

OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE Intern, Citizens’ Accord Forum, Jerusalem, Israel 2003 (Fall) Program Assistant, University of the Middle East Project, Cambridge, MA 2003 (Sum.) Intern, Center for Middle East Peace & Economic Cooperation, Washington, DC 2002 (Sum.) Library Intern, National Yiddish Book Center, Amherst, MA 2001 (Sum.)

LANGUAGES English (native); Hebrew (fluent); Modern Standard Arabic (advanced); Egyptian Colloquial Arabic (intermediate); German (reading); Yiddish (reading); Spanish (intermediate); Russian (basic)

MEMBERSHIPS

Middle Eastern Studies Association Association for Israel Studies American Historical Association Association for Jewish Studies

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