CURRICULUM VITAE Prof. Aviva Halamish February 2016 Personal Tel. +972-3-544-2229 (h) +972-9-778-1383 (w) +972-54-492-5572 (m) Fax: +972-9-778-1416 Email: [email protected] Born in Haifa, Israel Professional Education 1973: B.A., History of the Muslim Countries, History and History of the Jewish People; The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel (summa cum laude) 1976: M.A., Jewish History and Middle East Studies; Columbia University, New York, USA 1982: High School Teaching Certificate, Department of Education; The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 1996: Ph.D., Jewish History; Tel Aviv University, Israel Academic Appointments 2000 Senior Lecturer, Netanya Academic College 2004 Senior Lecturer, The Open University of Israel 6002 Associate Professor, The Open University of Israel 2012 Professor, The Open University of Israel Professional Experience (since 2004) 1982-2004: The Open University of Israel, junior-staff member 2000-2006: Netanya Academic College, Senior Lecturer 2004-2006: The Open University of Israel, Senior Lecturer 2006-2012: The Open University of Israel, Associate Professor 2012-2014: The Open University of Israel, Full Professor Administrative and Other Academic Activities (partial list; since 2000) 1998-2001: Member of the Academic Board of the Institute for the Study of Zionism, Tel Aviv University 2000-2006: member of the Academic Board, Illegal Immigration Museum, Athlit 2003-on: Member of the Board of Overseers, Hebrew Union College, Jerusalem 2004-2009: Member of the Executive Board, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv; and of its Academic Committee 2005-2008: Head of the Center for the Research of Eretz-Israel and Its Yishuv of the Open University of Israel and Yad Ben-Zvi 6002-on: Member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Israel Studies 2006-2008: Chair, The Ministry of Education Committee for re-writing and updating 2 History curricula for grades 6-9 in the General School System. 2007-2014: Member of the Senate, The Open University 2007-2011: Member of the Board of Directors, The Historical Society of Israel 2007-2009: Vice-President of the Association for Israel Studies 2007-2008: Head, Academic Development, The Open University 2007-on: Member of Yad Yaari's Academic Committee 2008-2014: Head, Modern History Studies, Dep. of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies, The Open University 2008-2010: Member of the Ministry of Education Committee of History 2008-2011: Member of the Open University Council 2008-on: Member of the Academic Committee of the Lavon Institute 2009-2011: President, The Association for Israel Studies 2009-on: Chair of Yad Yaari's Academic Committee 2009-on: Member of Machon Avshalom's Board of Directors 2009-on: Member of the Executive Committee, The World Union of Jewish Studies 2010-2011: Member of the Higher Education Council's committee for the approval of B.Ed in History at the Sha'anan Religious Academic College for Education 2010-on: Member of Machon Avshalom's Academic Committee 2011-2014: Chair, Academic Committee of the Kibbutz Researchers' Forum 2011-on: Member of the Academic Committee of The School for Jerusalem Studies, Yad Ben Zvi, Jerusalem 2012-2014: Chair, Accreditation Committee, The Open University of Israel 2012-2014: Member of the Open University appointment committee for lecturer and senior lecturer 2013-2014 Member of the Open University appointment committee for associate professor and full professor 2013-2014: Member of the Open University selection committee of potential senior faculty members with exceptional research record 2013-on: Head and Editor-in-Chief, The Open University of Israel Press Fields of Research Jewish immigration in the twentieth century Illegal Jewish immigration to Mandatory Palestine The Jewish community in Mandatory Palestine (The Yishuv) History of the State of Israel History of the Kibbutz movement Zionist Youth Movements Historical biography Scholarships 1987: The Luba Datlow and Emma Rosenberg Ph.D. Fund, Tel Aviv University 1988: The Joseph and Ceil Mazer Post Doctoral Fellowship Fund, Tel Aviv University 1989: The Faculty of the Humanities, Tel Aviv University 1990: The Hannah and Zvi Brander Fund, The Institute for the Research of Zionism, Tel Aviv University C-V Aviva Halamish, February 2016, p. 2 3 1991: The Rashi Fund for Distinguished Ph.D. Candidates, The Open University 1991: The David Ben-Gurion Fund for Research Promotion, General Federation of Labor 1991 and 1992: Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York, USA 1994: The Rothschild Yad Avi ha-Yishuv Fund 1999: Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York, USA 1999 and 2000: Rivlin Institute, Bar Ilan University 2000: The Eisenstadt Scholarship, Lavon Institute, Tel Aviv Prizes 2007 The Association for Israel Studies Annual Shapiro Award for Best Book in Israel Studies during the year 2006, for the book: Be'merutz Kaful Neged Hazman [A Dual Race Against Time: Zionist Immigration Policy in the 1930s] (Yad Ben Zvi Press) 2008 Hecht Prize of the Herzl Institute for the Research and Study of Zionism, University of Haifa, for a research book in History of Zionism, the Yishuv and the State of Israel, for the book: Be'merutz Kaful Neged Hazman [A Dual Race Against Time: Zionist Immigration Policy in the 1930s] (Yad Ben Zvi Press) 2010 Yitzhak Ben Zvi Award for research book in the History of Eretz Yisrael, for the book Meir Yaari: Biographya Kibbutzit [Meir Ya'ari: Collective Biography, the First Fifty Years, 1897-1947] (Am Oved Publishers) Sponsored Research and Grants 1984-1987: The Inter-University Project for the Research of Illegal Immigration in Honor of Shaul Avigur; Illegal Immigration Ship "Exodus 1947" 2001-2004: Yad Ya'ari, The Center for Research and Documentation of HaShomer HaTzair Movement and of the Kibbutz Artzi Federation: Biography of Me'ir Ya'ari 2009-2011: Grant from Yad Chaim Weizmann at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot and The Chaim Weizmann Institute for Research of Zionism and Israel at Tel Aviv University for a research titled: "Chaim Weizmann and Jewish Immigration to Palestine: Ideology and Political Activity" Three years grant from the Israel Science Foundation (240,000 NIS): "1934 - Profile of a Year: Toward an Integrative History of the Yishuv" [Application No. 36/12] Membership in Editorial Boards 1998-2001: member of the Editorial Board, Ha-Tziyonut 1998-2001: member of the Editorial Board, The Journal of Israeli History 2002-on: member of the Editorial Board, Aley Zayit ve-Herev 2003-2012: co-editor, Cathedra for the History of Eretz Israel and its Yishuv 2003-2012: member of the editorial board of Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi Press [Acting Chair September 2011-May 2012] 2005-2016: member of the editorial board of Iyunim bi-Tkumat Israel 2009-on: member of the editorial board of The Ben-Gurion Research Institute Press (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) 2012-on: member of the editorial board of Moreshet: Journal for the Study of the Holocaust and Antisemitism [English and Hebrew issues] C-V Aviva Halamish, February 2016, p. 3 4 2013-on: Head and Editor-in-Chief, The Open University of Israel Press Membership in Professional Societies The Historical Society of Israel World Union of Jewish Studies Association for Jewish Studies Association for Israel Studies Visiting Scholar Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University, August 2005-February 2006 The Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA., January-July 2010 The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, October 2014-September 2015 Scientific Consulting Mordechai Naor, Birkat ha-Hashmal [The History of Israel Electric Corporation], Jerusalem 2003. Dosh: Karikaturist 1921-2000 [Dosh: A Caricaturist], Tel Aviv 2007. Beno Rothenberg: Tzulam ve-nirsham 1947-1957 [Beno Rothenberg: Photographed and Reported 1947-1957], Tel Aviv 2007. Yemima Rosenthal (Series Editor), Louise Fischer (Editing and historical notes), Moshe Sharett: The Second Prime Minister – Selected Documents (1894-1965), Jerusalem 2007 [State of Israel – Israel Archives / Commemorative Series: The Presidents and prime Ministers of Israel], scientific consultation to ch. 1-7, pp. 1- 340 [Hebrew]. Zvi Zameret and Hannah Yablonka (eds.), The Third Decade: 1968-1978 [Idan Series of Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi], Jerusalem 2008. Ruvik Rosenthal, Dictionary of Hebrew Idioms and Phrases [Hebrew], Jerusalem 2009: "Zionism". Asaf Zeltzer, The Story of Mekorot: Israel National Water Company: The First 75 Years, Jerusalem: Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi, 2011 [Hebrew]. Scientific Consulting to Junior-High and High School History Textbooks Ketzia Tabibian, The Twenties Century – In the Cause of Freedom, Tel Aviv: Center for Educational Technology 1999. Ketzia Avieli-Tabibian, 1870-1970: The Age of Horror and Hope, Tel Aviv: Center for Educational Technology 2001. Ketzia Avieli-Tabibian, A Modern World is Born: The 19th Century, Tel Aviv: Center for Educational Technology 2003. Ketzia Avieli-Tabibian, Building a State in the Middle East, Tel Aviv: Center for Educational Technology 2009. Yuval Kovarsky, Nationalism in Israel and Other Nations, Tel Aviv: Kinneret- Zemora-Dvir Publishers 2014 C-V Aviva Halamish, February 2016, p. 4 5 Academic Advising to Open University Books Between Zion and Zionism, Units 1 (1995) and 8 (1998) Trends in Israeli Society, Unit 4 (2001) Israel’s First Decade, Units 2, 3, 4, 5, 10 (2001 and 2002) Introduction of Local Government, Unit 3 (2004) Yemeni Jews: History, Society and Culture, Unit