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LIORA R. HALPERIN University of Colorado Boulder 234 UCB, Dept 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/Palestine 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: Jews, 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). 1 “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 Zionism, 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 2 Liora R. Halperin 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 Mandatory Palestine: 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 3 Liora R. Halperin “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. 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