Liora R. Halperin Associate Professor, International Studies, History, and Jewish Studies Jack and Rebecca Benaroya Endowed Chair in Israel Studies University of Washington [email protected] / www.liorahalperin.com cell: (617) 694-4950 EMPLOYMENT HISTORY 2017- University of Washington, Assoc. Prof. of Int’l Studies, History, and Jewish Studies Jack and Rebecca Benaroya Endowed Chair of Israel Studies Director, Program in Israel Studies, Stroum Center for Jewish Studies Middle East Center, Affiliated Faculty Near and Middle Eastern Studies Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program, Faculty 2013-2017 University of Colorado Boulder, Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies Endowed Professor of Israel/Palestine Studies 2012-2013 Princeton University, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Judaic Studies 2011-2012 Yale University, Blaustein Postdoctoral Fellow in Judaic Studies; Lecturer in History EDUCATION 2011 University of California, Los Angeles Ph.D., History 2007 University of California, Los Angeles M.A., History 2005 Harvard University B.A., History and Near Eastern Lang. & Civ. RESEARCH Publications Peer-Reviewed Book Babel in Zion: Jews, Nationalism, and Language Diversity in Palestine, 1920-1948 (Yale, 2015) * Winner of the 2015 Shapiro Prize for Best Book in Israel Studies Manuscript in Progress “The Oldest Guard: Narratives of Zionist Beginnings in Palestine and Israel,” in conversations with Stanford University Press, Jewish History and Culture Series about the manuscript Peer-Reviewed Academic Articles and Book Chapters 2020 “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 (Forthcoming with Studia Judaica Series at Walter de Gruyter Press) 2019 “Past Perfect: Jewish Memories of Language and the Politics of Arabic in Mandate Palestine,” in Arabic and its Alternatives: Religious minorities and their languages in the emerging nation states of the Middle East (1920-1950) (Forthcoming, Brill) Halperin, 1 2019 “Trading Secrets: Constructions and Contexts of Two Middle Eastern Jewish Guards in the Early Petah Tikva Colony,” International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 51:1 (January 2019) 2017 “Petach Tikva, 1886: Gender, Anonymity, and the Making of Zionist Memory,” Jewish Social Studies 23:1 (Fall 2017): 1-28 2016 “Majority and Minority Languages in the Middle East: The Case of Hebrew in Mandate Palestine,” in Minorities and the Modern Arab World, ed. Laura Robson (Syracuse University Press, 2016), 174-190 2015 “A Murder in the Grove: Conceptions of Justice in an Early Zionist Colony,” Journal of Social History 49:2 (Winter 2015): 427–451 2015 “Hebrew Under English Rule: Language Politics in Mandate Palestine,” in The Routledge Handbook of the History of the Middle East Mandates, eds. Cyrus Schayegh and Andrew Arsan (New York: Routledge, 2015), 336-348 2014 “Jewish Students in the Christian Missionary Schools of Mandate Palestine: Linguistic and National Deviance,” Middle Eastern Studies 50:5 (September 2014): 737-754 2013 “Modern Hebrew, Esperanto, and the Quest for a Universal Language,” Jewish Social Studies 19:1 (Fall 2012): 1-33 [Note: publication was backdated as Fall 2012, but issue was published in Fall 2013] 2010 “Other Tongues: The Place of Foreign Language in Hebrew Culture” in Bruno De Nicola, Yonatan Mendel, and Husain Qutbuddin (Cambridge) (eds,), Reflections on Knowledge and Language in Middle Eastern Societies (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010) Research Notes 2018 1917: Reflections on the Centenary of the Balfour Declaration, Jewish Quarterly Review 108:4 (Fall 2018): 526-530 2018 "The Local Construction of Zionist Memory," Frankel Institute Annual, "Israeli Histories, Societies, and Cultures," 2017 2015 “The Multilingual Backdrop of the Fight for Hebrew,” AJS [Association for Jewish Studies] Perspectives, Fall 2015, 50-51 2006 “Orienting Language: Reflections on the Study of Arabic in the Yishuv,” Jewish Quarterly Review 96:4 (Fall 2006): 481-489 Book Reviews 2018 Review of Orit Bashkin, Impossible Exodus: Iraqi Jews in Israel for Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Autumn 2018, Vol. 49, No. 2, pp. 362–363 2017 Review of Abigail Jacobson and Moshe Naor (2016), Oriental Neighbors: Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine (U.P. of New England), for Journal of Jewish Identities 2015 Review of Jonathan Gribetz (2014), Defining Neighbors: Religion, Race, and the Early Zionist-Arab Encounter (Princeton U.P.), in Jewish History, 29:3 (Dec. 2015): 397-402 2015 Review of Rachel Harris (2014), An Ideological Death: Suicide in Israeli Literature (Northwestern U.P.) in H-Net Reviews (July 2015) Halperin, 2 2014 Review of Noah Haiduc-Dale (2013), Arab Christians in British Mandate Palestine: Communalism and Nationalism, 1917-1948 (Edinburgh U.P.), in International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (Nov. 2014) 2013 Review of Jess Olson (2013), Nathan Birnbaum and Jewish Modernity: Architect of Zionism, Yiddishism, and Orthodoxy (Stanford U.P.), in The Association for Jewish Studies Review 37:2 (Nov. 2013) 2010 Review of Yael Chaver (2004), What Must be Forgotten: the Survival of Yiddish in Zionist Palestine (Syracuse U.P.), in Studies in Contemporary Jewry, vol. 24 (2010), 283-285 Pedagogical Publications 2019 “Teaching Israel/Palestine Studies” in Rachel S. Harris (ed.), Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict in the College Classroom (Wayne State University Press, 2019), 311-317 2018 “History of Modern Hebrew,” educational video for Bimbam Productions, Fall 2018 Encyclopedia Entries 2013 “The Central Zionist Archive,” Hazine: A Guide to Researching the Middle East and Beyond, Dec. 3, 2013, http://hazine.info/central-zionist-archive/ Awards/Fellowships/Grants Awards 2015 Shapiro Prize for Best Book in Israel Studies, Association for Israel Studies Yearlong & Multi-Year Fellowships 2016-2017 Yearlong Institute Fellow in seminar on “Israeli Histories, Cultures, and Societies in Comparative Perspective,” University of Michigan, Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies 2016-2017 Residential Faculty Fellowship, Telluride Association Scholarship House, University of Michigan 2010-2011 Foundation for Jewish Culture, Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Dissertation Fellowship 2006-2010 Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, U.S. Dept. of Education 2006-2010 Schusterman Israel Studies Fellowship 2005-2011 Chancellor’s Fellowship, UCLA Visiting Appointments 2016-2017 University of Michigan, Visiting Professor, Frankel Inst. for Advanced Judaic Studies 2016 (Jan-Aug) Harvard University, Visiting Fellow, Center for Jewish Studies 2009-2011 Harvard University, Teaching Fellow, History Department and Gen. Ed. Program 2008-2009 Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Visiting Researcher, Cherrick Center for the Study of Zionism, the Yishuv, and the State of Israel Halperin, 3 2007-2008 University of California Berkeley, Visiting Graduate Student, Department of History Research Fellowships 2015 Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Research Grant ($2,000) 2014 Israel Institute Research Grant ($10,000) 2013 Kayden Research Grant, Colorado ($750) Language-Study Fellowships 2009 Kathryn Davis Fellowship for Peace (Middlebury Arabic School) 2006 FLAS Title VI Summer Fellowship for Arabic 2006 Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) Fellowship Invited Lectures 2019 "The First Aliyah Colonies," Brandeis University Summer Institute in Israel Studies, Waltham, MA, June 18, 2019 2019 “Coexistence and Destruction: Representations of the First Zionist Agricultural Colonies,” University of Minnesota, March 13-14, 2019 2019 College of Idaho (Caldwell, ID), “Between Hebrew and Arabic: Language as a Window into the History of Israel,” February 21, 2019 2017 Weinstein-Minkoff Lecture (biennial invited lecture on the History of Israel), University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 6, 2017 2016 Colloquium and Public Lecture, “Israel Beyond the Binary” series, University of Washington, Seattle, Jan. 27, 2016 2015-2017 Invited talks following the publication of Babel in Zion: Jews, Nationalism, and Language Diversity in Palestine, 1920-1948: University of Kentucky, January 26, 2017; University of Oxford (UK), May 17, 2016; Middlebury College, March 14, 2016; University of California Los Angeles, Feb. 18, 2016; University of California Santa Barbara, Feb. 17, 2016; University of Southern California, Nov. 1, 2015; University of California San Diego, Oct. 29, 2015; Yale University, Feb. 19, 2015; Bard College, Feb. 18, 2015; Indiana University Bloomington, Jan. 30, 2015; University of Chicago, Jan. 29, 2015 2014 “A New Look at Language Diversity in the Jewish Community of Mandate Palestine,” Berkeley Institute for Law and Israel Studies, April 24, 2014 2014 “Negotiating Language Diversity in Mandate Palestine,” University of California Irvine, Jewish Studies Program, Feb. 24, 2014 2013 “Hebrew not only in Hebrew: English and Arabic instruction in the Zionist schools of Mandate Palestine,” Johns Hopkins University, May 1, 2013 Conference and Workshop Presentations Invited Presentations in Small Conferences or Workshops ”,Gevurah: Heroism, Masculinity, and The Politics of Violence in the Yishuv and Israel״ 2019 Conference on “Rethinking Violence in Jewish History,” Standford University, June 30, 2019 Halperin, 4 2018 "Narrating and Commemorating Zionist “Firsts”: Insights from the Study of American Settler Colonialism," Conference on "Unacknowledged Kinships: Postcolonial Studies and the Historiography of Zionism," Goethe-Universität