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Education

University of Oxford 2009-2013 Ph.D. in Modern American History University 2006-2009 MA in Modern American History (Magna cum Laude) Tel Aviv University 2003-2006 BA in History and Philosophy (Magna cum Laude)

Publications

Books The American Civil War in British Culture: Representations and Responses, 1870 to the Present, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Edited Books Cultures of War in Graphic Novels, Rutgers University Press, 2018. * First runner-up for the 2018 Ray and Pat Browne Award for the Best Edited Collection in Popular and American Culture

נמרוד טל ואייל נווה )עורכים(, חינוך היסטורי: זירות וזיקות, תל אביב: מכון מופ״ת והקיבוץ המאוחד, 2021 ]בדפוס[. Articles in Peer Reviewed Academic Journals Within the National Confines: Israeli History Education and the Multicultural Challenge, Pedagogy, Culture and Society (forthcoming). With Roy Weintraub https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2021.1934892 .

Beyond the Curriculum: Teaching History in Israeli Classrooms, 1970s-1980s, History of Education (forthcoming). With Amos Hofman. https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760X.2021.1906456 .

"'This picture is not a work of merely local interest’: The Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind in the Anglo-American World," Film Journal, Issue 7-8 [forthcoming] Trump in the American Century: Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy in Historical Perspective, Politika – The Israeli Journal of Political Science and International Relations 29 (Winter 2021), pp. 15-33 [in Hebrew] Putting out the “embers of this resentment”: Anglo-American Relations and the Rewriting of the British Response to the Civil War, 1914-1925, The Journal of the Civil War Era Vol. 8, No. 1 (Mar. 2018), pp. 87-110.

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The Civil War Heritage as American Diplomacy, 1957-1965, The International Journal of Heritage Studies Vol. 23, No. 1, (Jan. 2017), pp. 1-13. The American Civil War in British Military Thought from the 1870s to the 1930s, Civil War History Vol. 60 No. 4 (Dec. 2014), pp. 409-435. Neo-Conservatives and the Teaching of History in the United States, Zmanim - A Historical Quarterly, (Summer 2011), pp. 68-75. [in Hebrew]

Articles and Chapters in Peer Reviewed Books

History Teaching According in the Biton Committee Report: Divide and Rule in the Melting Pot, in: Nissim Avisar and Mimi Haskin (eds.), Mizrahiut and Education (forthcoming). [in Hebrew]

Introduction, in: Nimrod Tal and Tatiana Prorokova (eds.), Cultures of War in Graphic Novels, Rutgers University Press, 2018.

Other Peer Reviewed Academic Publications

The Six Day War, in Paul Joseph (ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of War: Social Science Perspectives, SAGE Reference (SAGE Publications, Inc., 2016), pp. 1563-1564.

Teaching Experience

Seminar Ha’Kibbutzim 2013- Teaching Fellow (American History; Modern European History) Selected Courses: The American Civil War; War and the American Society; Reform Movements in the United States; The American Century in Europe; Introduction to the History of Twentieth Century; The Atlantic Slave Trade; What is History; History and Cinema; A Global History of Women.

The Open University of Israel 2013-2019 BA Thesis Supervisor (American History)

Tel Aviv University 2014-2015 Teaching Fellow (American History; Modern European History) Courses: Introduction to the history of the United States; Introduction to the History of the Twentieth Century

University of Oxford 2010-2012 Teacher\Tutor (American and British History) Courses: The Rise and Decline of the British Empire (summer school); Abraham Lincoln and the Slavery Question (undergraduate tutorials and supervision)

Tel Aviv University 2006-2009 Teaching Assistant

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Courses: American History: From the Colonial Period to the Civil War; American History: From the Civil War to the Second World War; American History: From the Second World War to Present; Historiographical Dilemmas in a Comparative Analysis )MA Seminar)

Professional Affiliations

Seminar Ha’Kibbutzim 2018- Head of Academics’ Training for Teaching Programme Co-founder and Manager of the Israeli Institute for History Education 2018- MOFET Institute 2018-2020 Postdoctoral Fellow HaChinuch VeSvivo 2019 Article reviewer The International Journal of Heritage Studies 2018 Articles reviewer The Samuel Neaman Institute for National Policy Research, The Technion, 2014-2016 Researcher, The Israeli Grand Strategy Project University of 2013-2014 Postdoctoral Fellow, The History Department and The Division of International Relations Tel Aviv University 2006-2009 Research Assistant, History Department

Awards and Scholarships

St Anne’s College Graduate Research Scholarship 2009-2013 Royal Historical Society’s Research Support Award 2011 AVI Fellowships 2011 Tel Aviv University, History Department, Excellence Scholarship 2008 for Academic Achievement for M.A. Students

Academic Activities and Initiatives

Organizer of “Rabin Day” 2020 Coordinator or the training course and learning day

Member of Supervision Group for Implementing Big Hsitory Curriculum 2019-2020 Co-leading (with Dr. Shamir Yeger and Prof. Yoram Harpaz) the implementation of a Big History Curriculum in Ramot Yam junior high-school

Developer and Supervisor: Big History Course 2020 Develop and Supervise an innovative pilot course on Big History

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A Workshop on the Politics of the Archives in Israel Dec. 2019 Co-lecturer (with Noam Hofshdateter from Akevot Instatute)

Opening Event, The History Department, Kibbutzim College Dec. 2019 Co-organizer (with Dr. Atalia Shragai and Dr. Maayan Mazor)

Organizer of conference on History Education in Israel in the 21st Century Dec. 2019 National conference for key figures in history education in Israel

Mentor June 2019 ‘Mini Hackathon’ for the Administrative Staff

Organizer of International Meeting with Dr. Paul Zanzanian, McGill University June 2019

Co-Heading the College’s Student Delegation to Karlsruhee University, May 2019

Member in Action Group for the Opening of the Israeli National Archives 2018-

Member of a Stirring Committee, Seminar Ha’Kibbutzim 2018- International Conference with the International Association for Intercultural Education

Member of Research Group on Excellence in Teaching and Meta-Cognition 2018-

Organizer of a Panel on “The Archive and the Political Sphere in Israel” Dec. 2018 Part of the Political Week in Seminar Ha’Kibbutzim

Organizer of the Annual Conference of the Faculty of Humanities May 2018 (with Dr. Hadas Shabat-Nadir)

Organizer of a Symposium on the Trump Administration Jan. 2018 Seminar Ha’Kibbutzim (with Dr. Atalia Shragai)

Member of Stirring Committee, MOFET institution 2018 ERASMUS+ Proposal for a programme of Learning in English Together: Bridging cultural differences through Education / Let it Be

Head of Stirring Committee , MOFET institution and Lautman Foundation 2017-2018 Addressing political conflicts in the education system in Israel

Member of working group, Seminar Ha’Kibbutzim 2017-2018 Addressing politically controversial issues in class and campus

Member of a Stirring Committee, Faculty of Humanities, Seminar Ha’Kibbutzim 2017-Presnt Implementing the Biton Committee Recommendation in the curriculum

Head of Stirring Committee (with Prof. Eyal Naveh), Seminar Ha’Kibbutzim 2016-2018 The Institute for Historical Education Initiative

Head of Research Group (with Prof. Eyal Naveh), Seminar Ha’Kibbutzim 2016-Present Historical Education in Israel

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Initiator of a public lectures series in history (with Dr. Atalia Shragai) 2016-Present

Member of Stirring Committee, History Department, Seminar Ha’Kibbutzim 2016-Present The initiative of an innovative academic course in history in the public sphere

Member of Stirring Committee, Seminar Ha’Kibbutzim 2016-Present Annual mid-year Conference for Faculty and thinking group on enhancing teaching skills amongst faculty members

Organizer of the Annual Conference of the Faculty of Humanities Dec. 2016 (with Dr. Atalia Shragai)

Academic Programmes

Author of MOFET’s “Educating with Conflict” academic series 2017-2018

Membership in Professional Associations

The Israel Comparative Education Society (member) 2018-

The Association of Critical Heritage Studies (member) 2018-

Historians of the Twentieth Century United States (member) 2012- British-based organization that promotes scholarship in the field of twentieth-century American history;

Book Reviews

The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War by Don Doyle. Basic Books, 2014. The Civil War Monitor (December 2015).

The Civil War as Global Conflict: Transnational Meanings of the American Civil War edited by David T. Gleeson and Simon Lewis. University of South Carolina Press, 2014. The Civil War Monitor (October 2014)

Selected Conference Papers

Challenges and Solutions in Education, Teaching and Learning Oct. 2019 University of London, London, UK Paper: History Teaching and Ethnic Discrimination in Israel

(Chair)Annual Research Conference Oct. 2019 Seminar Ha’Kibbutzim, Israel Session title: History Education: Arenas and Links

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The 7th International Conference on Teacher Education June 2019 Mofet Institute, Tel Aviv, Israel Paper: The Untold History in the Biton Report

The Third Annual Conference of the Israel Comparative Education Society, Jan. 2019 Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Paper: Where There is No History: History Education in a Post-truth Era”

(Chair) Media, War and Conflict Journal 10th Anniversary Conference, May 2018 Accademia Europea Di Firenze, Florence, Italy Paper: The Graphic Novel as a Space of Small-Scale Wars

Constructing America, Defining Europe, Nov. 2017 Utrecht University, The Netherlands Paper: Understanding the United States by Enlisting to its Civil War: The British Fascination with of the American Civil War between the End of Empire and the American Century, 1915-1968

Annual Research Conference, Oct. 2017 Seminar Ha’Kibbutzim, Israel Paper: Historical Education Between History and Education

Professional and Cultural Identity in a Changing Socio-political Reality, Apr. 2017 Al-Qasemi College of Education, Israel Paper: The Changing World of History Teaching: What is it that is Changing?

Annual Research Conference, Nov. 2016 Seminar Ha’Kibbutzim, Israel Paper: Navigating Between Empires: The Irish Struggle for Independence, 1916-1921

Commemoration, Re-enactment, and Writings of War in the English-speaking World, June 2016 Paris 7 Diderot University — Paris, France Paper: American Civil War Re-enactment in Britain, 1951-1977

Knowledge Transfer and Cultural Exchanges, July 2015 Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal Paper: Anglo-American Rapprochement and the Memory of the American Civil War

Reimagining American History in Film and Media, June 2015 Tel Aviv University, Israel. Paper: Civil War Cinema and the Understanding of America Abroad

Popular Culture and International Conflicts, Mar. 2015 The Hebrew University of , Israel Paper: Anglo-American Rapprochement and the Memory of the American Civil War

The Israeli Association of International Studies 10th Annual Conference, June 2013 Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Paper: Towards an Expansion of the Soft Power Theory

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Historians of Twentieth Century United States, Annual Conference, June 2012 Roosevelt Study Center in Middelburg, the Netherlands Paper: American Civil War Re-enactment in Britain, 1951-1977

British Association of American Studies, 57th Annual Conference, Apr. 2012 University of Manchester, United Kingdom Paper: American Civil War Re-enactment in Britain, 1951-1977

The Legacy of the American Civil War, Nov. 2011 Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Paper: Anglo-Irish Legacies of the American Civil War, 1870-1922

The Global Civil War, Sep. 2011 The German Historical Institute, Friedrich-Schiller-University at Jena, Germany Paper: British and Irish Projections of the American Civil War to America, 1870-1922

The Civil War – A Global Conflict, Mar. 2011 The College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, USA, Paper: The American Civil War in British Military Thought, 1870-1914

The British Commission for Military History, Nov. 2010 The University of Sussex, Sussex, UK, Paper: Britain, America and the Civil War in the Writings of Basil Liddell Hart and J. F. C. Fuller

Public Talks, Invited Lectures, Symposia, and Presentations

Conflicting Narratives June 2019 Guest Lecture (for Dafna Izhaki’s summer course – in English)

The Institute of History Education and Academics to Teacher in Kibbutzim College June 2019 Professional opportunities after graduation, Tel Aviv University

Historical Consciousness a Workshop with Dr. Paul Zanzanian June 2019

Activist Pedagogy for Shared Life and World Betterment: Mar. 2019 International Seminar in Tel Aviv Moderator, Seminar Ha’Kibbutzim, Israel Technion Conference Jan. 2019 “Women in War” Dec. 2018 History on the Bar Series Between the Academia and the Field Dec. 2018 Moderator, Tel Aviv University Annual Research Conference, Oct. 2018 Seminar Ha’Kibbutzim, Israel 7

“Alexander Penn: A Twentieth Century Poet In Between Worlds” May 2018 Presentation in honour of Prof. Hagit Halperin’s Recent Book, Kibbutzim College “The African-American Struggle for Liberty and Civil Rights Apr. 2018 and the Changing of the Character of American Multi-Culturalism” History on the Bar Series “On the Shoulders of Giants: Apr. 2018 Black Resistance in the United States, from the Civil War to Martin Luther King, Jr.” The History in the Neighborhood initiative, Dora Public Centre, “Read Their Lips: The Protocols of 1967” Mar. 2018 Chairing a Panel in an event for putting on Sinai Peter’s paly Educating with Conflict: On the Positive Role of Conflict in Educational Process Mar. 2018 Presentation in MOFET TEC Center’s Online International Day “The Cold War and the Historian” Feb. 2018 Presentation Tichon Hadash, Tel Aviv “The World of Yesterday: Trump and the World Order” Jan. 2018 Symposium on the Trump administration “In the Service of History: Military Intellectuals and the Historiography of the Dec. 2017 American Civil War, 1918-1939” Departmental Research Seminar, Ben Gurion University of the Negev “A Troubled Past” Apr. 2017 Presentation in honour of Prof. Eyal Naveh’s Recent Book, Kibbutzim College “Transatlantic Reconciliation: The United States and Britain in the Post-Civil War Era” Apr. 2017 Doctoral students research seminar, History Department, Tel Aviv University “Trump vs. America” (with Dr. Atalia Shragai) Apr. 2017 The History in the Neighborhood initiative, The Box Pub, Tel Aviv “Political Education and the Humanities” Mar. 2017 Mossinson High School, Hod Hasharon, Israel “The Institute for Historical Education, A Presentation” Mar. 2017 The Humanities, the Academy, and the Schools Symposium, The Young Academy “Methods in Humanities Education”, Lea Goldberg School, Netanya, Israel Jan. 2017 “Three Disciplinary Perspective on the Theatre play ‘HaOdah’ by Motti Lerner”, Dec. 2016 a panel hosted by the Arab-Hebrew Theatre of Jaffa “The Rabin Assassination on the Timeline”, Rabin Day, Kibbutzim College Nov. 2016 “Towards an Expansion of the Soft Power Theory”, Research Seminar, Mar. 2014 International Relations Division, University of Haifa “The British and the American Civil War”, Research Seminar, Feb. 2014 History Department, University of Haifa

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“Birth and Re-birth: the American Revolution and the American Civil War”, May 2013 The Humanities and Social Science Faculty, Annual Conference

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