Eitan Wilf Assistant Professor of Anthropology Department of Sociology and Anthropology the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Eitan Wilf

EITAN Y. WILF

Assistant Professor of Anthropology Department of Sociology and Anthropology The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Mt. Scopus Jerusalem, 91905 Israel [email protected]

EDUCATION University of Chicago Ph.D., Department of Anthropology, December 2010 Dissertation: “Swinging within the Iron Cage: The Institutionalization of Creative Practice in American Postsecondary Jazz Education”

Dissertation committee members: Michael Silverstein (chair); Jean Comaroff; Karin Knorr Cetina; Ingrid Monson (Harvard University)

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel M.A. Summa Cum Laude, Individual Program in Cultural Studies, June 2005 Thesis: “When the Muse Goes to Work: Ethnography of the Professionalization of Poetry Writing in Creative Writing Workshops in Israel.”

B.A. Summa Cum Laude , Sociology, Anthropology, and The Interdisciplinary Honors Program For Outstanding Students, June 2002

FELLOWSHIPS , GRANTS , AND ACADEMIC HONORS 2013 Prize for Excellence in Research, Faculty of the Social Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2012-15 Alon Fellowship, The Planning and Budgeting Committee, The Council for Higher Education, State of Israel (given to 20 incoming faculty in an annual competition between all Israeli research universities and across all disciplines) 2012 Research Grant, Innovation and Creativity in Organizations Research Group, The Shane Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2011-15 Marie Curie Career Integration Grant, European Research Council. Fruitful Instability: The Cultural Logic of Creative Practice in Israeli High Technology Start- Ups 2011 Faculty Research Matching Grant, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2011 The Golda Meir Fellowship Lectureship Award, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2010 The Lady Davis Postdoctoral Fellowship, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Declined; Tenure Track at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem) 2009 The Josephine De Kármán Fellowship 2009 Andrew Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, University of Chicago 2008 Century Fellowship, University of Chicago 2007 Century Fellowship, University of Chicago 2006 Dan David Prize, Tel Aviv University, Israel; Dimension – Past: Preserving Cultural Heritage 2006 Leiffer Fellowship Pre-Field Research Award, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago 2005 Century Fellowship, University of Chicago 2005 Doolittle-Harrison Fellowship, Office of Graduate Affairs, University of Chicago 2004 Century Fellowship, University of Chicago

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2003 Certificate of Merit for Excellence in Academic Studies, The Education and Culture Committee of Israel’s Parliament, and The Committee of Heads of Israeli Universities, Jerusalem, Israel 2003 Rector’s Prize for Excellence in a Master’s Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2002 Excellence Award, The Faculty of Social Sciences and the Faculty of Humanities, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 2001 Dean’s List of Outstanding Students, The Faculty of Social Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 1999 Dean’s List of Outstanding Students, The Faculty of Social Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 1998-2001Admission to ‘Amirim’ - The Interdisciplinary Honors Program for Outstanding Students (tuition fees and a living stipend for entire B.A. studies), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

RESEARCH INTERESTS The anthropology of creativity and innovation; Embodied practice; Modernity; Expressive culture, aesthetics, and art; Improvisation; Music and Sound; Science and Technology Studies; Socialization and education; Performance; Orality and literacy; Linguistic anthropology; Professionalization; Organizational Theory; Ethnomusicology; Cultural hierarchy and the politics of race and class; Urban anthropology; African-American and American studies; Collaborative research methods; Jazz Music.

PUBLICATIONS Book

2014 School for Cool: The Academic Jazz Program and the Paradox of Institutionalized Creativity . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. In Press.

Journal Articles

2014 Modernity, Cultural Anesthesia, and Sensory Agency: Technologies of the Listening Self in a U.S. Collegiate Jazz Music Program . Ethnos. In Press.

2013 Toward an Anthropology of Computer-Mediated, Algorithmic Forms of Sociality. Current Anthropology 54(6):716-739 [with commentaries].

2013 From Media Technologies that Reproduce Seconds to Media Technologies that Reproduce Thirds: A Peircean Perspective on Stylistic Fidelity and Style- Reproducing Computerized Algorithms . Signs and Society 2(1):185-211.

2013 Sociable Robots, Jazz Music, and Divination: Contingency as a Cultural Resource for Negotiating Problems of Intentionality. American Ethnologist 40(4):605-618.

2013 Streamlining the Muse: Creative Agency and the Reconfiguration of Charismatic Education as Professional Training in Israeli Poetry-Writing Workshops . Ethos 41(2):127-149.

2012 Rituals of Creativity: Tradition, Modernity, and the ‘Acoustic Unconscious’ in an American Collegiate Jazz Music Program. American Anthropologist 114(1):32-44.

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2011 Sincerity versus Self-Expression: Modern Creative Agency and the Materiality of Semiotic Forms . Cultural Anthropology 26(3):462-484.

2010 Listening to Modernity: Creativity and Cultural Reproduction in American Postsecondary Jazz Education . Anthropology News 51(9):7.

2010 Swinging within the Iron Cage: Modernity, Creativity, and Embodied Practice in American Postsecondary Jazz Education . American Ethnologist 37(3):563-582.

2008 Dynamic Branding: The Case of Oprah Winfrey . Women and Performance 18(1):71-84. (with Eva Illouz)

2004 Hearts or Wombs? A Cultural Critique of Radical Feminist Critiques of Love . Theory and Criticism 25(1):205-234. (with Eva Illouz; in Hebrew)

- 2009 Translated into English and reprinted in Hopkins, D., J. Kleres, H. Flam, and H. Kuzmics (Eds.) Theorizing Emotions: Sociological Explorations and Applications. Frankfurt and New York: Campus Verlag (distributed by University of Chicago Press).

- 2009 Translated into German and reprinted in Hammer, H. and D. Guth (Eds.) ‘Love me or Leave Me’: Liebeskonstrukte in der Populärkultur. Wien: Campus Verlag.

Edited Volumes

2008 Oprah Winfrey and Civil Society (Special Issue Guest Editor with Eva Illouz). Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 18(1).

- 2008 Introduction: Oprah Winfrey and the Co-production of Market and Morality . Women and Performance 18(1):1-7. (with Eva Illouz)

Book Reviews

2013 Literature and Agency in English Fiction Reading: A Study of the Henry Williamson Society, by Reed, Adam. Social Anthropology 21(2):270-272.

PRESENTATIONS IN CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS 2013 Two Forms of Innovation and Their Contemporary Forms of Reconciliation . The Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association , Chicago, IL, November.

2012 ‘Play it again, Sam’: The Semiotic Mediation of Creativity in a U.S. Collegiate Jazz Music Program . The Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association , San Francisco, CA, November.

2012 The Rationalization of Creativity and the Creativity of Rationalization: Some Ethnographic Examples and Theoretical Elaborations . 4th German-Israeli Frontiers of Humanities Symposium organized by the Humboldt Foundation , Potsdam, Germany, September.

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2012 Professionalizing the Muse: The Cultural Production of Poetic Imagination in Creative Writing Workshops . The Annual Meeting of the European Association of Social Anthropologists , Nanterre University, France, July.

2012 Re-Localizing Creativity against the Backdrop of its Globalization. The Annual Meeting of the American Ethnological Association , New York, NY, April.

2012 Creativity, Rationalization, and All That Jazz: Anthropological Reflections on a Presumed Antinomy . The Golda Meir Fellowship Fund Annual Award Assembly . Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, March

2012 Rituals of Creativity: Anthropological Reflections on the Relation between Tradition and Modernity in the Context of Advanced Media Technologies. Department of Comparative Religion Colloquium , Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, March

2011 The Semiotics of Temporality of Recorded Improvisations: Learning Canonical Jazz Styles in a U.S. Collegiate Jazz Music Program. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association . Montreal, Canada, November.

2011 ‘Taking It Back Home’: On the Shifting Meaning of an Improvisational Home in American Collegiate Jazz Music Education. 39 th Annual Meeting of the Israeli Anthropological Association . Haifa University, Haifa, Israel, May.

2011 The Co-Production of Mimetically Capacious Machines and Individuals in American Collegiate Jazz Music Education . Cultural Motion Seminar , Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA, May.

2011 Institutional Myths of Creativity . The Departmental Seminar , Program in Cultural Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, March.

2010 The Persistence of Racial Ideologies in Postsecondary Jazz Education . Second Biennial Interdisciplinary Conference on Race , Monmouth University, Long Beach, NJ, November.

2010 Tropes of the South as a Locus of Creativity in the Negotiation of Cultural Standardization in Postsecondary Jazz Education . Program in American Studies Annual Graduate Conference , Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, April.

2009 Swinging within the Iron Cage: Some Theoretical Implications of Bureaucratized Art Education (with a Focus on Jazz Music) . The Departmental Seminar , Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, December.

2009 ‘It’s just like speaking!’: Language/Music Ideologies and the Avoidance of Institutional Accountability in Postsecondary Jazz Programs . Semiotics – Culture in Context Workshop , University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, November.

2009 Unexamined Forms of Cultural Dissemination and the Limits of Cultural Policy . Improvisation, the Arts, and Social Policy – 2009 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium (Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada), University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada, September.

2009 Intentional Play and the Play of Intentionality: Constructing the Responsible Jazz Improvising Self through Play . Michicagoan - University of Michigan and

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University of Chicago Linguistic Anthropology Graduate Conference , University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI, May.

2008 The Quest for Cultural Legitimacy and its Discontents: The Compliance of Jazz Education with the Institutional Norms of the University . Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association , San Francisco, CA, November.

2008 Improvisational Techniques of the Body: Marcel Mauss in the Postsecondary Jazz Program . Medicine, Body, and Practice Workshop , University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, October.

2008 ‘It’s Like Reading the Mind of a Genius!’: The Jazz Transcription as the Hybrid of Jazz Education. Semiotics – Culture in Context Workshop , University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, October.

2008 The Co-Production of New Aesthetic and Critical Practices in the Collegiate Jazz Program. Society for Cultural Anthropology Meeting , Long Beach, CA, May.

2008 Negotiating the Historical Social Context of Jazz Music in the Collegiate Jazz Program . Sixth Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association , New York University, New York, NY, May.

2008 Some Implications of the Introduction of Art Socialization into the College: The Case of Jazz Music. 29th Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, February.

2006 The Growing Importance of Craft in the Competition over Status in the Art World. Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities , Honolulu, HI, January.

2001 The Novel’s Hero as a Shaman in Georg Lukacs’s ‘The Theory of the Novel’ . Annual meeting of the Interdisciplinary Honors Program , Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, March.

CONFERENCES AND PANELS ORGANIZED 2012 (with Keith Murphy) Creativity Across Semiotic Borders . The Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association , San Francisco, CA, November.

2011 (with Urmila Nair) Tracing Styles, Styling Traces: On the Processuality of Style. The Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association , Montreal, Canada. November. Assigned “Invited Status” by the Society for Linguistic Anthropology and the Society for Cultural Anthropology.

INVITED RESPONSE PRESENTATIONS 2010 Harkness, Nicholas. University of Chicago. Softer Soju in South Korea: Qualic Transitivity from Substance to State ; Gal, Susan. University of Chicago. The Taste of Talk: Cross-Modal Qualia in Interaction ; Farquhar, Judith. University of Chicago. Pulse-touching, Medical Action, and the Therapeutic Good . Qualia: Anthropological Explorations in the Experience of Quality . University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, May.

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2009 Harkness, Nicholas. University of Chicago. Homecoming Recitals and the Inauguration of Public Personhood (Seoul, South Korea) . Semiotics – Culture in Context Workshop , University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, May.

2008 Jackson, John L. University of Pennsylvania. Toward an Ethnographic Lingua Franca: Communication and Anthropology. The US Locations Workshop , University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, December.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2011- Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem: The Semiotic Mediation of Agency , Graduate Seminar Singularity: Human-Machine Reconfigurations , Graduate Seminar Contemporary Anthropology of Organizations , Graduate Seminar Anthropology of Creativity , Undergraduate Course

2010 Prize Lectureship, The Center for Gender Studies, Humanities Collegiate Division, University of Chicago – selected to teach an undergraduate course of my own design: Gender, Sexuality, and 20 th Century American Music: From Blues to Hip- Hop

2008 Frederick K. Starr Prize Lectureship, Department of Anthropology, Division of the Social Sciences, University of Chicago – selected to teach an undergraduate course of my own design: Anthropological Perspectives on Jazz Music

2008 Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago The Development of Social and Cultural Theory – I, a double-course for first-year graduate students in anthropology, taught by Prof. John Kelly. Organized and taught three seminars on “Alternative Histories of Capitalism,” “Orientalism,” and “American Pragmatism.” Graded papers and held office hours.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2011 The intersection of art, subjectivity, and computerized technologies—ethnographic work in two U.S. Institutes of Technology. 2011 Organizational innovation—ethnographic work in the Israeli and U.S. high- technology sectors. 2006-10 Institutionalization of creative practice—ethnographic work in two U.S. collegiate jazz programs and the jazz scene in New York City. 2001-03 Institutionalization of creative practice—ethnographic work in Israeli creative writing workshops.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND MEMBERSHIPS Member: American Anthropological Association (Sections: American Ethnological Society; Society for Cultural Anthropology; Society for Linguistic Anthropology; Society for Psychological Anthropology); European Association of Social Anthropologists

LANGUAGES English (read, spoken, written), French (read, spoken), German (read), Hebrew (native first language - read, spoken, written)