CURRICULUM VITAE Zvi Gitelman Department of Political Science Haven Hall University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109 [email protected] 734- 763-4393 April 2015 Present Position: Professor of Political Science and Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies, The University of Michigan Education: B. Heb. Lit., Jewish Theological Seminary, 1962; A.B. (summa cum laude), Columbia College,1962; M.A., Russian Institute Certificate, Columbia, 1965; Ph.D., Columbia University, 1968. Academic Honors: New York State Regents Teaching Fellowship; National Defense Foreign Language Fellowship; Farband Prize in Yiddish Studies (Columbia College); Felix Warburg and Nehemiah Gitelson Prizes (Jewish Theological Seminary); Foreign Area Foundation Fellowship; Columbia University President's Fellowship; John W. Burgess Honorary Fellowship. Member, Phi Beta Kappa. Nominated by Inter-University Committee on Travel Grants to be exchange student at Moscow State University, 1966. Junior Fellow, Research Institute on Communist Affairs, Columbia University, 1966-67 and 1967-68. Amoco Outstanding Teaching Award, 1983-84. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 1983-84. Fulbright Lectureship Award, The Hebrew University (Jerusalem) 1985. Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University, 1991-92. Skirball Fellow, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, 1998 Fellow, American Academy for Jewish Research, 2000- Fellow, Rabin Center for Israel Studies, 2001. Fellow, Collegium Budapest, May-June 2002 Fellow, Center for Advanced Jewish Studies, University of Pennsylvania, winter 2003 Tronstein Award for Creative Teaching, Department of Political Science, 2004 American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Katzki Award for Outstanding Historical Writing 2004 Shapiro Senior Fellow, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2005-2006 Senior Fellow, Yad Vashem Institute, Israel, fall 2008 Fellow, Kennan Institute for Russian Studies, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Affairs, Washington, 2008 Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, spring 2009 Senior Fellow, Davis Center for Russian Studies, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, 2010 Head Fellow, Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, 2011-12 Honorable Mention, Jordan Schnitzer Book Awards, Association for Jewish Studies, 2013 Research Grants: ACLS Grant for study of East European Languages (Czech), Summer, 1969 Horace Rackham Faculty Grants, The University of Michigan, 1969, 1971, 1975, 1984-85. Faculty of Social Sciences Grant, Tel Aviv University, 1972 Center for Russian and East European Studies, The University of Michigan, Research Grants Ford Foundation Grant, administered by Center for Russian and East European Studies, Fall, 1974 American Council of Learned Societies, Soviet Union Program Grant, 1975 Rockefeller Foundation Grant, Program on Conflict in International Relations (with Professors Morris Bornstein and William Zimmerman), 1976-79 Ford Foundation, grant for study of "Bureaucratic Encounters in the USSR" (Israel and Germany), 1980 National Council for Soviet and East European Research, grant for study of "Bureaucratic Encounters in the USSR" (United States), 1980-82 National Council for Soviet and East European Research, grant for study of "History, Memory and Politics: The Holocaust in the USSR," 1991-92 Wilstein Institute and Lucius Littauer Foundation, grant for study of "The Transformation of Ethnic and Political Identity of Soviet Immigrants in the United States," 1991-92 Lucius Littauer Foundation and National Council for Soviet and East European Research, grant for study of “The Reconstruction of Jewish Identity in Russia and Ukraine,” 1996-97 Principal Investigator and Project Coordinator, “The Meanings of Jewishness in History and Contemporary Societies: Ethnicity, Religion and Culture,” Posen Foundation (Lausanne, Switzerland), 2002-05 J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Fellowship for 2005-06, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, grant for study of “Dimensions of the Holocaust in the USSR: Policies, Perceptions, Paradoxes,” 2009-11 Conference on Material Claims Against Germany. Two grants (with Anna Shternshis, University of Toronto): "Recovering Jewish Daily Life in the Soviet Union before the Holocaust" (completed 2008) and “The Soviet Government and Soviet Jewry during World War Two: Soviet Policy, Combat and Evacuation,” ongoing. Academic Experience: Associate in Government, Columbia College, 1966-68 Visiting Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor in Political Science, and Research Associate, Russian and East European Research Centre, Tel Aviv University, 1971-72, 1975, 1976-77, 1979-80, 1992, 1999 Faculty, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (New York), 1971, 1973 Assistant Professor to Professor of Political Science, The University of Michigan, 1968- Visiting Professor, Central European University (Budapest), winter 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2015 2 Languages: Read: Hebrew, Russian, Yiddish, French, Polish, Czech, German Speak: Hebrew, Russian, Yiddish, French Service Activities: Editor, Newsletter on Comparative Studies of Communism, 1968-70 Contributing Editor, American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies, 1973-75 Advisory Board, Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies Advisory Board, Jewish Historical Society of Michigan Editorial Board, Series in Soviet History, Politics and Society, Indiana University Press Editorial Board, Eastern European Politics and Societies, 1986-1991 International Advisory Board, Soviet Jewish Affairs, 1986-2001 Co-Editor, East European Jewish Affairs, 2001-2010 Editorial Board, YIVO Annual, 1989- Editorial Board, Jewish Political Studies Review Editorial Board, East European Jewish Affairs, 1990s-2009, 2013- Editorial Board, Contemporary Jewry, 2008- Editorial Advisory Board, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 2010- National Commissioner, B'nai Brith Hillel Foundations, 1973-77 Research Advisory Committee, Institute for Jewish Policy Planning and Research, Synagogue Council of America Academic Advisory Committee, Bund Archives of the Jewish Labor Movement Academic Consultant, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Academic Consultant, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Project Co-Editor, 'Oral Histories of Recent Soviet Emigres in America,' Wiener Oral History Library, American Jewish Committee (NEH Grant) Nominations Committee, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 1981 Board of Directors, Association for Jewish Studies, 2000-2003 Board of Overseers, Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry, Brandeis University, 1984- Board of Trustees, Current Digest of the Soviet Press, 1983-1986 Chairman, Board of Directors, Akiva Hebrew Day School, 1986-87 Michigan Regional Advisory Board, Anti-Defamation League, 1984-91 Board of Directors, Midrasha College of Jewish Studies, 1983-1989. International Advisory Board, Studies in Contemporary Jewry, 1985- Member, Joint Committee on Eastern Europe, American Council of Learned Societies, 1986-1990. Academic Committee, Annenberg Institute for Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, 1987-1991 President, Ann Arbor Orthodox Minyan, 1996-98 Member, United States Holocaust Memorial Council, 2007-2013; Academic Committee of Council, 2010 ff. 3 Instructor, Hess Seminar for Faculty, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, January 2010 Chairman, Academy Advisory Committee, Project on the Movement for Soviet Jewry, American Jewish Historical Society, 2010- Academic Council, Rothschild Foundation for European Jewish Studies, 2009-12 Chief judge, essay contest on Soviet Jewish Immigration, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, 2011. Co-convenor and keynote speaker, International Conference on the Russian-Speaking Jewish Diaspora, Harvard University, November 2011. Board of Directors, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 2013- University Service: Junior-Senior Counselor; Associate Chairman, Political Science, 1975-76; 1987-8 Undergraduate Affairs Committee, Political Science 1970-71; chair, 1992-93; 2011. Departmental Executive Committee, Political Science 1972-73; 1990-91, 1997-98; Placement Director, 1985-87, 2003. Co-Chairman, Judaic Studies Program, 1970-74, 1975-76 Program on Studies in Religion, Committee, 1972-73 Chairman, Governing Board of B'nai Brith Hillel Foundation, 1970-71 Executive Committee, Center for Russian and East European Studies, 1973-74, 1975-76, 1977-78, 1985-86, 1989- 90, 1992-94, 2004-05 Social Science Divisional Board, Horace Rackham Graduate School, 1973-74 Director, Center for Russian and East European Studies, 1980-83 Social Sciences Divisional Sub-Committee, Executive Committee of the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, 1986-87. Acting Director, Judaic Studies Program, 1992-93 Director, Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, 1995-2002 Executive Committee, Department of Political Science, 1997-98 Placement director, Department of Political Science, 1980s, 2003-5 Advisor, MA students, Judaic Studies, 2003-05 Fulbright Awards Screening Committee, 2004 Steering Committee, Copernicus Polish Studies Endowment, 1990-2004 Graduate Admissions Committee, Political Science Department, 2008—09 Chair, promotion committee, Political Science Department, 2009 Co-chair, promotion and tenure committee, Judaic and Slavic Studies, 2009 Fellowships and Admissions Committee, Center for Russian and East European Studies, 2009-10 Head Fellow, Frankel Institute for Advanced