Alon Confino E-mail: [email protected] Curriculum Vitae I. PROFESSIONAL TRAJECTORY Education: Ph.D. History, University of California, Berkeley, 1992 M.A. History, University of California, Berkeley, 1986 B.A. History, Tel Aviv University, 1985 Professional Positions: Full Professor of History, Ben Gurion University, Israel, 2013-- Full Professor of History, University of Virginia, 2006-- Associate Professor of History, University of Virginia, 1998-2006 Assistant Professor of History, University of Virginia, 1992-1998 Visiting and Professional Appointments: Directeur d’etudes, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France, 2017, postponed. Associate Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia, 2013—present. Associate Fellow, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia, 2011-2012, for the digital history project “Palestine, 1948.” Visiting Fellow, Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, 2009-10 Co-director of project “Forced Migration and Ethnic Cleansing in the Modern World,” University of Virginia, 2009-2012 Visiting Professor, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2006-2007 Visiting Professor, Tel Aviv University, 2006 Visiting Professor, NYU/UVa in London, 2003 Directeur d’etudes, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France, 1999 Literary Representation: Will Lippincott, LMQ: Lippincott Massie McQuilkin, New York II. PUBLICATIONS: Just Published: A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide (Yale University Press, 2014). The project won a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship. Check out this video trailer on YouTube: http://youtu.be/C1BwavNXK-k Nominated by Yale UP for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award Foreign translations: Brazil (2016); Israel (2016); Italy (2017) Recently published: 2 Foundational Pasts: The Holocaust As Historical Understanding (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012). Finalist, Yad Vashem 2013 International Book Prize for Holocaust Research Books (authored and edited volumes): Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany. Co-edited with Paul Betts and Dirk Schumann (New York: Berghahn Press, 2008). Germany As a Culture of Remembrance: Promises and Limits of Writing History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006). http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/T-7341.html The Work of Memory: New Directions in the Study of German Society and Culture. Co-edited with Peter Fritzsche (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002). The Nation As a Local Metaphor: Württemberg, Imperial Germany, and National Memory, 1871-1918 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997). (Reprinted, 2004). Winner of the Charles Smith Book Prize of the European section of the Southern Historical Association, 1998. Edited Special-Issue of Journals: “Histories and Memories of Twentieth Century Germany.” A special double-issue of History and Memory 17/1-2 (2005). “Viewed from the Locality: the Local, National, and Global.” Co-edited with Ajay Skaria. A special issue of National Identities 4/1 (March 2002). “Regimes of Consumer Culture.” Co-edited with Rudy Koshar. A special issue of German History 19/2 (2001). Chapters in Books: “The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide: A World Without Jews,” in Lauren Falkner and Wendy Lower, eds., Lesson and Legacies of the Holocaust (Northwestern University Press, 2016, forthcoming). “The Holocaust as a Symbolic Manual: The French Revolution, the Holocaust, and Global Memories,” in Haim Hazan and Amos Goldberg, eds., Marking Evil: The Dialectic of Globalizing the Holocaust (New York: Berghahn Press, 2015), pp. 56-69. “Entretien: Alon Hilu dialogue avec Alon Confino,” in Marie Panter, Pascale Mounier, Monica Martinat, et Matthieu Devigne, eds., Imagination et histoire: enjoux contemporains (Rennes, 2014), pp. 297-307. “A World Without Jews: Interpreting the Holocaust,” in Dan Stone, ed., The Holocaust and Historical Methodology (New York: Berghahn Press, 2012), pp. 23-43, orig. pub. in German History 27/4 (October 2009). “History and Memory,” in Axel Schneider and Daniel Woolf, eds., The Oxford History of Historical Writing. Vol. 5 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 36-51. In Chinese: “记忆研究的方法问题,”Historiography Quarterly, 3, 2012, (《史学理论研究》2012年第3期)and in "History and Memory" (lishi yu jiyi), Tianjin Social Siences (Tianjin shehui kexue), Issue 6, 2014, pp. 126-132. 3 “The Virtue and Tyranny of the Past,” in Dan Diner, Gideon Reuveni, and Yfaat Weiss, eds., Der Historiker als Vermittler. Festschrift für Moshe Zimmermann (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2012), pp. 313-323. “Collective Memory and Cultural History: Problems of Method,” in Jeffrey Olick, Vered Vinitsky-Seroussi, and Daniel Levy, eds., The Collective Memory Reader (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), orig. pub. in American Historical Review 105/2 (December 1997). “Narrative Form and Historical Sensation: On Saul Friedländer’s The Years of Extermination,” in Christian Wiese and Paul Betts, eds., Years of Persecution, Years of Extermination: Saul Friedländer and the Future of Holocaust Studies (London: Continuum, 2010), pp. 33-54, orig. pub in History and Theory 48/3 (October 2009), pp. 199-219. “Enzo e Emilio Sereni fra sionismo e comunismo: il cammino della storia,” in Abdon Alinovi et al, eds., Emilio Sereni: ritrovare la memoria (Naples, Italy, 2010), pp. 167-182. “Memory and the History of Mentalities,” in Astrid Erll and Ansgar Nünning, eds., Cultural Memory Studies: An International and Interdisciplinary Handbook (Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008), pp. 77-84. “The Past as Memory and Oblivion,” in Jessica Feldman and Robert Stilling, eds., What Should I Read Next? 70 University of Virginia Professors Recommend Readings in History, Politics, Literature, Math, Science, Technology, the Arts, and More (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008), pp. 1-5. “Death, Spiritual Solace, and Afterlife: Between Nazism and Religion,” in Confino, Paul Betts, and Dirk Schumann, eds., Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany (New York: Berghahn Press, 2008), pp. 219-231. “Introduction: Death in Twentieth-Century Germany,” co-written with Paul Betts and Dirk Schumann. In Confino, Betts, Schumann, eds., Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany (New York: Berghahn Press, 2008), pp. 1-22. “The Travels of Bettina Humpel: One Stasi File and Narratives of State and Self in East Germany,” in Paul Betts and Katherine Pence, eds., Socialist Modern: East German Politics, Society, and Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008), pp. 133-154. “Freud, Moses, and Modern Nationhood,” in Ruth Ginsburg and Ilana Pardes, eds., New Perspectives on Freud’s Moses and Monotheism, (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2006), pp. 165-175. Published in Hebrew in Mikarov 15 (Spring 2005): 76-88. “Collective Memory and Cultural History: Problems of Method,” in Robert Burns, ed., Historiography: Critical Concepts in Historical Studies (London: Routledge, 2005), orig. pub. in American Historical Review 105/2 (December 1997). “Dissonance, Normality and the Historical Method: Why did some Germans Think of Tourism after May 8, 1945?” in Life after Death: Approaches to a Cultural and Social History of Europe during the 1940s and 1950s, eds. Richard Bessel and Dirk Schumann (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 323-347. 4 “Noises of the Past.” Co-written with Peter Fritzsche. In: The Work of Memory: New Directions in the Study of German Society and Culture. Co-edited with Peter Fritzsche (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002), pp. 1-21. “Federalism and the Heimat Idea in Imperial Germany,” in German Federalism: Past, Present, and Future, ed. Maiken Umbach (London: Macmillan, 2002), pp. 70-90. “‘This lovely country you will never forget.’ Kriegserinnerungen und Heimatkonzepte in der westdeutschen Nachkriegszeit,” in Das Erbe der Provinz. Heimatkultur und Geschichtspolitik in Deutschland nach 1945, ed. Habbo Knoch (Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2001), pp. 235-251. “Konzepte von Heimat, Region, Nation und Staat in Württemberg von der Reichsgründungszeit bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg,” in Föderative Nation: Deutschlandkonzepte von der Reformation bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg, ed. Dieter Langewiesche and Georg Schmidt (Munich: Oldenbourg, 2000), pp. 345-359. “Consumer Culture is in Need of Attention: German Cultural Studies and the Commercialization of the Past,” in A User’s Guide to German Cultural Studies, ed. Scott Denham, et al (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997), pp. 181-188. Refereed Journal Articles: “Between the Holocaust and the Nakba,” a review essay on Shoah and Nakba: Memory, National Identity and Jewish-Arab Partnership, edited by Bashir Bashir and Amos Goldberg (Jerusalem, 2015, in Hebrew) in “Haokets. Critical platform on socioeconomic, political, media, cultural and other issues in Israel and beyond” and in H/Soz/Kult, April 2016. <http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2016-2-054> “A Nazi Tale of Germans, Jews, and Time: Interpreting the Holocaust.” Response to a Forum on Foundational Pasts and A World Without Jews with Helmut Smith, Simone Gigliotti, Marc Buggeln, and Amos Goldberg, Journal of Genocide Research, 18, 1 (2016): 101-131. “The Warm Sand of the Coast of Tantura: History and Memory in Israel after 1948,”
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