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Pottery Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods in the southern Levant Archaeological theory Archaeology of the present Classification and typology
Current Projects:
Cultural Crystallization, Disintegration and Redefinition: Articulations and transformations of archaeological assemblages between the Neolithic and Urban revolutions in the southern Levant
Hanaton: a Neolithic-Chalcolithic site in the Lower Galilee, Israel
Archaeological survey of E-Dlemm, a Bedouin cemetery in the Negev highlands
Archaeology of modern landfills in Israel
Curriculum Vitae:
Undergraduate and graduate studies
1996-1999 BA in Archaeology and Cultures of the Ancient Near East, Tel Aviv University
2001-2005 MA in Archaeology and Cultures of the Ancient Near East, Tel Aviv University (Magna cum laude)
2006-2010 Ph.D. in Archaeology, Tel Aviv University
Post-doctoral studies
2012 Bedouin cemeteries in the Negev, Department of Geography, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Host: Prof. R. Kark.
2013-14 Hanaton (south): Neolithic-Chalcolithic transition in the Lower Galilee, Israel, Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa. Host: Dr. D. Rosenberg.
Conferences
2006 “Neolithic pottery production: A view from Nahal Zehora II.” Techniques and People: anthropological perspectives on technology in the archaeology of the proto-historic and early historic periods in the Southern Levant; Centre de Recherche Français de Jérusalem, French-Israeli workshop.
2009 “Structuring identity upon Death: Chalcolithic Burial Caves in the Southern Levant.” DDD9 - The Social Context of Death, Dying and Disposal, 9th International Conference; Centre for Death and Dying Studies, Durham University
2009 “Social and ideological aspects of interregional variability during the Chalcolithic Period: the case study of the burial caves of the Mediterranean climatic zone.” 35th Archaeological Congress; Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
2012 “Ard el-Samra (Yavor): Chalcolithic and Bronze Age remains in the Akko Valley (with Mark Iserlis).” Joint Symposium of the Archaeological Department of Tel Aviv University and the Israel Antiquities Authority; Tel Aviv University.
Conference organization
What is archaeology? trends and currents in contemporary archaeological discourse in Israel (with M. Iserlis); Tel Aviv University.
Colloquium talks
2011 Between past and present: Cemeteries as symbols during the Chalcolithic Period and today; Archaeology Departmental Seminar, Tel Aviv University.
2011 Sequences and durations: Time and archaeological interpretation; Archaeology Departmental Seminar, The University of Haifa.
2013 What one sees from here: contemporary and Chalcolithic cemeteries in Israel; MA Seminar, Ben Gurion University
2013 What is a cemetery? MA Seminar, Tel Aviv University
Publications:
Ph.D. dissertation
Nativ, A. 2010. Prying into Cultural Gaps: An Analysis of Chalcolithic (6500-5700 BP) and Contemporary Cemeteries in the Southern Levant. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv. (English with Hebrew summary, 381 p.). Supervised by Prof. Avi Gopher.
Book
Nativ A. 2014. Prioritising Death and Society: The Archaeology of Chalcolithic and Contemporary Cemeteries in the Southern Levant. Approaches to Anthropological Archaeology Series, Durham: Acumen.
Refereed journals
Nativ A. 2008. A note on Chalcolithic ossuary Jars: Metaphors of metamorphosis. Tel-Aviv 35: 209-214.
Rosenberg, D., Shimelmitz, R. and Nativ, A. 2008. Basalt bifacials production in the Southern Levant: A glance at the quarry and workshop site of Givat Kipod, Israel. Antiquity 82:367-376.
Nativ, A. and Gopher, A. 2011. The cemetery as a symbol: A reconsideration of Chalcolithic burial caves in the southern Levant. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 21(2): 229-245.
Nativ, A., Iserlis, M. and Paz. Y. 2012. Transformations of Lodian pottery assemblages as recorded at the site of Yesodot, Israel. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric Society 42: 115-135.
Paz, Y. and Nativ, A. 2013. Yesodot: A case for a post Ghassulian Chalcolithic. Paléorient 39: 83-93.
Nativ, A., Rosenberg, D. and Nadel, D. 2014. The southern tip of the northern Levant? The pottery assemblage of Tel Ro`im West. Paléorient 40.1: 99-115.
Nativ, A., Shimelmitz, R., Agha, N., Ktalav, I. and Rosenberg, D. in press. Hanaton: Interim report on a Neolithic-Chalcolithic settlement in the Lower Galilee. Israel Prehistoric Society.
Nativ, A. in press. Anthropocentricity and the archaeological record: towards a sociology of things. Norwegian Archaeological Review.
Other publications
Nativ, A. and Paz, Y. 2005. El-Midiah. Pp. 104-113. Salvage Excavation Reports 2. Publications of the Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv.
Paz, Y., Rosenberg, D. and Nativ, A. 2005. Excavations at Lod: Neolithic and Chalcolithic Remains and an Egyptian Presence in the Early Bronze Age. Pp. 114-158. Salvage Excavation Reports 2. Publications of the Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv.
Shimelmitz, R., Rosenberg, D. and Nativ, A. 2005. Giv‛at Kipod: A basalt quarry and a workshop for the production of bifacial tools in the Manasseh Hills, Israel. Neo-Lithics 1/05: 9-12.
Rosenberg, D. and Nativ, A. 2006. A Pottery Neolithic clay surface from Lod – characteristics and possible meanings. Neo-Lithics 1/06: 20-23.
Nativ, A. 2012. Petrography of the MB pottery: A preliminary report. In: Y. Gadot and A. Yasur-Landau (eds.) Fort and Village in the Hula Valley: Excavations at Qiriat Shemona (South). Pp. 76-82. Salvage Excavations Reports 7. Tel Aviv: Emery and Claire Yass Publications in Archaeology.
Nativ, A. 2012. Middle Bronze Age ovens: Construction, use and spatial distribution. In: Y. Gadot and A. Yasur-Landau (eds.) Fort and Village in the Hula Valley: Excavations at Qiriat Shemona (South). Pp. 83-87. Salvage Excavations Reports 7. Tel Aviv: Emery and Claire Yass Publications in Archaeology.
Nativ, A. 2012. Small finds. In: Y. Gadot and A. Yasur-Landau (eds.) Fort and Village in the Hula Valley: Excavations at Qiriat Shemona (South). Pp. 184-188. Salvage Excavations Reports 7. Tel Aviv: Emery and Claire Yass Publications in Archaeology.
Nativ, A., Gopher, A. and Goren, Y. 2013. Pottery production at Nahal Zehora II. In: A. Gopher, Village Communities of the Pottery Neolithic Period in the Menasheh Hills, Israel: Archaeological Investigations at the Sites of Nahal Zehora. Pp. 657-696. Tel Aviv Institute of Archaeology Monograph Series 29. Tel Aviv: Emery and Claire Yass Publications in Archaeology.
Arie, E. and Nativ, A. 2013. Level K-6. In: I. Finkelstein, D. Ussishkin, and E. Cline (eds.) Megiddo V: The 2004-2008 Seasons. Pp. 165-177. Tel Aviv Institute of Archaeology Monograph Series. Tel Aviv: Emery and Claire Yass Publications in Archaeology.
Nativ, A., Iserlis, M., Shimelmitz, R., Sapir-Hen, L. and Ktalav, I. in press. Ard el-Samra: A Chalcolithic, Early Bronze and Intermediate Bronze Age site at the Akko plain. Salvage Excavation Reports. Publications of the Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv.
Since September 2014 Assistant Professor (without tenure track) at the Professorship for Epistemology and Theory of Science, University College Freiburg/Department of Philosophy, Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg.
Rage and revenge in culture and society Generations in German literature after the II World War Trauma, testimony and the Holocaust Literature and cultural memory
Anthropology Ethnography Post-Structuralism Parkour Popular Culture in Palestine/Israel
Curriculum Vitae:
Education
2016 PhD, Anthropology, SOAS, University of London.
Thesis title: “Neither Heroes nor Victims: Politics of Pleasure, Ethics of Resistance and Defiant Subjectivities at the Palestinian Alternative Music Scene in Israel and the West Bank”
2008 MA, Social Anthropology, University of Haifa
2005 BA, Sociology and Anthropology, University of Haifa
Publications:
2013b Staging Particular Difference: Politics of Space in the Palestinian Alternative Music Scene. Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 6(3): 308-328.
2013a Lifestyle Migration in South Sinai Egypt: Nationalization, Privileged Citizenship and Indigenous Rights. International Review of Social Research, 3(1): 49-66.
2011 Couples in the Global Margins: sexuality and marriage between Egyptian men and Western women in Dahab, a touristic coastal city in South Sinai. Anthropology of the Middle East, 6(1): 79-97.
After the fall of the Soviet empire and the triumph of global capitalism, modernity appeared to keep its dual promise of liberty and equality. The spreading of human rights and democratic forms of government were intrinsically linked to free flows of global capital and free markets. Supported by technological developments and an ever-increasing digitalization of daily life, the future contained the promise of abundance and recognition for all.
Only a few decades later, however, we witness an oppositional trend: A revival of nationalism paired with xenophobia, an increasing tribalization of politics, a public sphere oscillating between cruelty and sentimentality, and a Left caught up in wounded attachments. Social media, once the promise to give voice to the disempowered, link cognitive capitalism with a culture of trolling and hyper moralization. Algorithms programmed to monetarize outrage feed isolated information bubbles and produce what many call the era of post-truth politics.
How did we enter this toxic climate? Are these developments a response to the ubiquity of neoliberal market structures eroding the basic solidarities in our society? Has the spread of social media limited our ability to soberly deal with conflicting life-worlds? And have both the left and the right given in to a form of politics where moralization and cynical mockery outdo collective visions of the future?
This film features interviews by Wendy Brown, Grayson Hunt, Rahel Jaeggi, Jan-Werner Müller, Alexander Nehamas, Robert Pfaller, Gyan Prakash, Peter Sloterdijk, and Sjoerd van Tuinen who speak about the history and current culture of resentment
Current Research Project:
POPULISM OF THE PRECARIOUS, MARGINALIZATION, MOBILIZATION, AND MEDIATIZATION OF SOUTH ASIA’S RELIGIOUS MINORITIES.
How do religiously discriminated communities in India and Pakistan become political actors in the 21st century? How does the role of the digital in everyday life change the establishment and sustainability of religious minorities' social movements in transnational and local publics and, in fact, their attempts to emerge as ‘the people'? And what can case-studies of politically active religious minorities in South Asia contribute to recent discussions on the global rise of populism—whose analysis, so far, has been dominated by European and American examples? On the basis of these and other key questions, this project aims to extend studies on the current life-worlds of religious minorities in India and Pakistan, social media's influence on today's South Asian political landscapes, and, crucially, the nexus of populism and religion in its effort to produce concepts of citizenship and ‘the people.'
Curriculum Vitae
2012-present University of Heidelberg, Assistant Professor, Department of Modern South Asian Languages and Literatures, South Asia Institute
Previous Academic Positions
2017-2018 Princeton University, Fung Global Fellow at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies working on The Culture and Politics of Ressentiment
2012-2015 University of Heidelberg, (Postdoc) Research Associate, Cluster Asia and Europe in a Global Context with the project MC 3.4 Negotiating Religious Identities among Hindu Communities in Pakistan (part of the mini-cluster Nr. 3 Negotiating Religions)
2011 (spring term) Harvard University, Visiting Research Scholar, Department for the Study of Religion
2009-2012 University of Heidelberg, Research Associate, Collaborative Research Center 619 Ritualdynamik member of the project A8 Grenzen, Rituale, Reflexivität (Borders, Rituals, Reflexivity)
Fellowships and Grants
Fung fellowship for researching the “Politics of Resentment” at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (2017-2018)
Education
PhD from the Department of Modern South Asian Languages and Literatures and the Department of Anthropology
Publications
Book
2018 Hinglaj Devi: Identity, Change, and Solidification at a Hindu Temple in Pakistan. New York: Oxford University Press.
2019 Pakistan. Parallel Narratives of the Nation-State, eds. Christina Oesterheld & Jürgen Schaflechner. Karachi: Oxford University Press.
2019 Ritual Journeys, eds. Christoph Bergmann & Jürgen Schaflechner. London et al.: Routledge.
Chapters in books
2019 “Blasphemy and the appropriation of vigilante justice in ‘hagiohistoric’ writing in Pakistan” in Blasphemy and Transgression in South Asia, eds. Kathinka Frøystad, Paul Rollier, & Arild Engelsen Ruud. New York: Routledge.
Articles
2019 “Between documentary and dastavezi” (with Max Kramer) In Dastavezi The Audio-Visual South Asia. (1). 1–12.
Peer-reviewed articles (selection)
forthcoming “’Self-Conscious’ Hindu Performances in Pakistan” In Journal of South Asian Studies (43).
forthcoming “Hinglaj Devi ‘solidifying’ Hindu identity at a Hindu temple in Pakistan.” In American Anthropologist
2019 “Hinduism in Pakistan” in Oxford Bibliographies in Hinduism. Ed. Tracy Coleman. New York: Oxford University Press.
2017 “Forced conversion and (Hindu) women’s agency in Sindh” in South Asia Chronicle. (7). Berlin. (peer reviewed). 275–317.
2016 “‘The Hindu’ in recent Urdu horror stories from Pakistan” in Zeitschrift für Indologie und Südasienstudien. (32). Bremen: Hempen Verlag. (peer reviewed). 323–35.
My project works towards a poetics of Hannah Arendt’s writing. To that end, it aims to identify the constitutive textual elements and practices of Arendt’s art of writing as well as to chart their dynamic interplay and integration into ever more complex discursive scenarios. Such a comprehensive philological description in turn becomes the reflexive medium for exploring in depth the various modes in which the concepts that emerge from Arendt’s singular space of writing are shaped by its tightly interwoven processes, temporalities, and rhythms of narrativization, figuration, citation, and (inter-)linguation.
Scholarships:
2010-2013 Doctoral scholarship, Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School for Literary Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
2005-2007 Scholarship, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
2003-2004 One-year scholarship, DAAD, English Studies Programme
Academic work experience
2014-2017 Research assistant, edition project: Hannah Arendt: Complete Works. Critical Edition. Print and Digital. Editors: Anne Eusterschulte, Eva Geulen, Barbara Hahn, Hermann Kappelhoff, Patchen Markell, Anne Vowinckel, and Thomas Wild. Wallstein: Göttingen 2018ff. Philological work on Volume 6: Hannah Arendt: The Modern Challenge to Tradition: Fragmente eines Buchs. Edited by Barbara Hahn and James McFarland. With the support of Ingeborg Nordmann and Ingo Kieslich. Wallstein: Göttingen 2018.
Education
2019 - PhD Dissertation, German Literature, Freie Universität Berlin: Early Romantic Paradox: Friedrich Schlegel, Novalis, Hölderlin (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Peter-André Alt)
2012 - Visiting Researcher, Department of Comparative Literature,Stanford University, Stanford
2010-2013 - Doctoral candidate, Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School for Literary Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
2009 - Magister Artium (MA), Freie Universität Berlin
2001-2009 - Master Studies in German Literature and English Philology, Freie Universität Berlin and University of Aberdeen, UK
Publications:
"Nach der Kernschmelze der Erinnerung: Valzyhna Morts neue Gedichte 'Musik für die Toten und Auferstandenen'," in: "Die Welt/Literarische Welt," 19.06.2021, p. 29.
"Mugged Cup of Black Tea," in: "Recipes under Confinement," edited by Sharon Kivland. London: Ma Bibliothèque 2021, p. 214.
“Die Nächte der Catherine Pozzi,“ in: Die Wiederholung. Zeitschrift für Literaturkritik, Volume 10 (Heidelberg, June 2020), Edited by Leonard Keidel, Jost Eickmeyer and Alexander Knopf, pp. 5-47.
“Einsteinrosarauschen,“ in: The Graveside Orations of Carl Einstein. Edited by Dale Holmes and Sharon Kivland. London: Ma Bibliothèque 2019, pp. 147f.
“Wenige Liebesnächte, wenige Gedichte, ein All aus Nichts. Über Milo de Angelis' Non é più dato,“ in: Die Wiederholung. Zeitschrift für Literaturkritik, Volume 6 (Heidelberg, May 2018), edited by Jost Eickmeyer and Leonard Keidel, pp. 15-25.
“Afterword. The Task of the Sonneteer: Walter Benjamin's Poetry as a Manifold Tradition,” in: Walter Benjamin: Sonnets. Translation, Introduction, and Commentary by Carl Skoggard. Foreword by Megan Ewing. Albany, NY: Fence Books 2017, pp. 293-318.
“[Benjamin's Stars],” in: The Lost Diagrams of Walter Benjamin. Edited by Helen Clarke and Sharon Kivland. Essays by Helen Clarke, Sam Dolbear, and Christian A. Wollin. London: Ma Bibliothèque 2017, pp. 25-29.
"daß je näher man sich mit mir einläßt je mehr wahrheit man von mir hört‘: Rahel Levin Varnhagens epistolare parrhesia mit Karl Gustav von Brinckmann,“ in: Begegnungen mit Rahel Levin Varnhagen. Edited by Barbara Hahn. Göttingen: Wallstein 2015, pp. 45-70.
Presentations:
"Sedis animi est in memoria: Hannah Arendt liest," “Mittwochsseminar,“ Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, 06/12/2017.
"Quotation as Hermeneutical Metaphrasis in Hannah Arendt around 1953," Presentation, Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Houston, TX, 16/09/2022.
Islamic law and political thought (focus on fiqh literature and siyar law) Zaydiyya and Zaydi Studies Dhimma law and Muslim-Jewish encounters Islamic (intellectual) history and (early) historiography Manuscripts Yemen (Jews and Muslims, Zaydi imamate) Conceptual approaches Imaginations of “the other”
My current project investigates conceptualizations of Self and Other in Islamic law and political thought with a special emphasis on the Yemeni Zaydiyya.
2016: Dr. Phil. (Islamic studies), Freie Universität Berlin
2009: Magistra Artium in Islamic and Jewish Studies at Freie Universität Berlin
2002-2003: Visiting student, Rothberg International School, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Fellowships, Grants, and Academic Positions
2019-2023: Martin Buber Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Fellowship, Hebrew University Jerusalem
2018-2019: Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania
2017-2018: Part-time substitute for Prof. Gudrun Krämer and adjunct faculkty, Department of Islamic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
2017: Postdoctoral Fellow, State Islamic University Sunnan Kalijaga (UIN), Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2009-2017: Teaching positions at the departments of Islamic and Jewish Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Potsdam
2010-2013: Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, doctoral student with stipend
2011-2012: Yemen Center for Studies and Research (Markaz al-Dirāsāt wa’l-Buḥūth al-Yamanī), Sanaa, Yemen, visiting researcher
2009-2010: Department of Jewish Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, project: "Lexicon of Jewish Names, Research Assistant
2006-2009: Department of Jewish Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, student assistant
PUBLICATIONS
Monographs
July 2023:Dhimma im Kontext des zaiditischen Jemen: Imam Yaḥyā Ḥamīd al-Dīn (1869-1948), die Juden:Jüdinnen von Sanaa und die Aushandlung islamrechtlicher Regierungsführung. Berlin: De Gruyter, forthcoming. (380 pages) https://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9783110563603/html?lang=de
2011 with
Tal Ilan: Lexicon of Jewish Names in Late Antiquity, Part IV: The Eastern Diaspora 330 BCE-650 CE, Text and Studies in Ancient Judaism, Vol. 141, ed. by P. Schäfer, A.Y. Reed, S. Schwartz et al. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. (465 pages) DOI 10.1628/978-3-16-151474-6
2010: Imam Yaḥyā Ḥamīd ad-Dīn und die Juden in Ṣanʿāʾ (1904-1948): Die Dimension von Schutz (Dhimma) in den Dokumenten der Sammlung des Rabbi Sālim b. Saʿīd al-Ǧamal, Berlin: Klaus Schwarz. (170 pages) https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112402450 [reviewed in: Die Welt des Islams 55,1 (2015), Judaica: Beiträge zum Verstehen des Judentums 68, 1 (2012), Afiqim 136/137 (2011), Bulletin of the Society for Arabian Studies 16 (2011), Chronique du manuscript au Yémen 11 (2011) Jemen-Report 42 (2011) and Sehepunkte 11:6 (2011)]
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Academic Journals
Under review: “Drei pseudoepigraphische Prophetenschutzbriefe aus dem zaiditischen Jemen: von der Prophetenbiographie, über die zaiditischen Imamatsbedingungen bis zur praktischen Anwendung im tribalen Kontext.” Die Welt des Islams (27 pages)
2013: “Niẓām al-Yahūd (“The Statute of the Jews”): Imām Yaḥyā’s writing to the Jews of Ṣanʿāʾ from 1323/1905.” Chronique du Manuscrit au Yémen 16 (2013): 26-74. (51 pages) https://doi.org/10.4000/cmy.2012
Articles in Edited Volumes
2011: “The Imām Is Responsible for Me Before God! – The Dimension of Protection (Dhimma) Granted by Imām Yaḥyā to the Jews of Yemen.” In Mittuv Yosef: Yosef Tobi Jubilee Volume, Vol. 2: The Jews of Yemen: History and Culture, lxxxii-cii, hgg. v. A. Oettinger and D. Bar-Maoz. Haifa: University of Haifa. (21 pages)
2015 with
Menashe Anzi: “Ṣanʿāʾ, Jerusalem, New York: Imām Yaḥyā Ḥamīd al-Dīn (1869-1948) and Yemeni-Jewish Migration from Palestine to the United States.” In The Yemeni Manuscript Tradition, Brill Series Islamic Manuscripts and Books, Vol. 7, 252-280, hgg. v. S. Schmitdke, C. Rauch and D. Hollenberg. Leiden: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004289765_011 (28 pages) [reviewed in: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 108 (2018)]
2023 “State-building, Political Thought and the Other in Muslim ImperialPeripheries,” Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā (conference report, submitted) with Ekaterina Pukhovaia
2022 “Niẓām al-Yahūd (“The Statute of the Jews”).” In Encyclopedia of Jews inthe Islamic World, ed. by Norman A. Stillman, Brill Online (encyclopedia article)
2021 “Yūd, Nini al-ʿayin,” Tehuda 40 [Article collection in memory of Prof. Yehuda Nini], 329-333 (obituary in Hebrew) ״יוד, ניני אל-עין,״ תהודה 40 (תשפ״א) 329-333 [אסופת מאמרים לכבוד פרופ׳ יהודה ניני ז״ל]
WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCES
Workshop Organization
6/2022 “State-building, Political Thought, and the Other in Muslim Imperial Peripheries,” hybrid (Zoom/in-Person) workshop at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 27-28 June 2022, in cooperation with Ekaterina Pukhovaia. cfp and program.
10/2018 „Order, Reorder, and Disorder: Jews and Muslims Encountering the Modern Era,“ Oktober 2018, Gruss Colloquium am Herbert D. Katz Center, University of Pennsylvania (co-organizer)
Invited Talks and Participations (selection)
5/2023 “The Sharḥ al-Azhār: A Zaydī fiqh compendium and its political relevance,” Department of Middle Eastern and African History, University of Tel Aviv
3/2023 “Resolving ambivalent notions of Imam Yahya’s Dhimma politics by interlinking and contextualizing different kinds of sources,” Workshop: “Yemen under the rule of Imam Yaḥyā, 1904 through 1948: A critical assessment of the sources,“ organized by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, and the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas in Madrid, 23-24 March 2023, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
11/2022 “Zaydi fiqh and its political context: the forced conversion of Jewish Orphans to Islam and differences between Sunni and Shiite estimations of the principles of jurisprudence and the legitimacy of Qāsimid rule in Yemen,” Department-Seminar, 16 November 2022, Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (in Hebrew)
4/2022 Writing-Workshop (handbook) “Reimagining Jewish Life in the Modern Middle East, 1800 – Present: Culture, Society, and History.” Organized by Penn State University and the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, 25-29 April 2022, Penn State University
12/2021 Mini-Workshop, organized by CanCode-Projekt: Canonization and Codification of Islamic Legal Texts, University of Bergen, 9-10 December 2021, via Zoom
11/2021 Opening event of Qadmata – Young Scholars Forum, 11 November 2021, Ben-Zvi Institute Jerusalem, (respondent, in Hebrew)
10/2021 “Exploring Gendered Perspectives on Indonesia and the Middle East,“ 24.-25. Oktober 2021, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, (Panel-Chair)
12/2020 ”Selves and Others in Early-Modern Islamic Law and Political Thought.“ The Buber Society of Fellows Seminar, 14 December 2020, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities an der Hebrew University of Jerusalem
11/2020 “Jemenitische(s) Juden(tum) und Migration: klassische und andere Narrative,“ Vortragsreihe „Basiswissen Islam,“ Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 10 November 2020, via Zoom
3/2019 “Dhimma as Action Space: Conceptualizing the Protection Relationship Between Imam Yahya Hamid al-Din (r. 1904-1948) and the Jews of Sanaa,“ Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia, 12 März 2019, Princeton University
10/2018 “Zaydī Arguments Against Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Shawkānī’s Fatwa on the Worldly Judgement of Jewish Orphans and the Legitimacy of the Late Qāsimī Imamate,“ Yemeni Manuscript Collections and Zaydi Studies: an international conference, Institute for Advanced Study, 6.-7. December 2018, Princeton
9/2016 “Ambivalent Aspects of Imam Yaḥyā Ḥamīd al-Dīn’s Dhimma Policy: Forced Conversion of Jewish Orphans, Its Islamic Legal Background and Inner-Yemeni Political Dimension,“ first international conference on “The Jews of Yemen: Social and Cultural Changes,” 4.-5. September 2016, Center for the Study of Yemeni Jewry, Ben-Zvi Institute, Jerusalem (in Hebrew)
Conferences and Workshops (selection)
4/2023 “Sharḥ al-Azhār (sefer ha-praḥim): korpus hilkhati zaydi be-heqshero ha-maḥshavati we-politi“ [„The Sharḥ al-Azhār: A Zaydi fiqh corpus and its intellectual and political context“], annual meeting of the Middle East & Islamic Studies Association of Israel (MEISAI), 27 April 2023, University of Haifa (in Hebrew)
2/2023 “Meqorot temaniyim-muslemim ʿal yehude Teman: mabaṭ ʿal we-raʿyonot le-shituf peʿula,“ [„Muslim Sources on the Jews of Yemen“] 13-15 February 2023, The Eighth International Conference for the Study of Yemenite Jewry, Ben-Zvi Institut Jerusalem (in Hebrew)
9/2023 “Zaydī Jurisprudence (fiqh) and the Other: Initial Findings,“ Deutscher Orientalistentag, 13 September 2022, Berlin
2/2021 “From a Shariacate Context to a Dhimma-Space Concept: The Challenges of Researching the Jews of Twentieth-century Zaydī-Yemen,“ Workshop: “Reimagining Jewish Life in the Modern Middle East, 1800 – Present: Culture, Society, and History,” organisiert von der Penn State University und der Ben Gurion University of the Negev, 10. February 2021, via Zoom
11/2018 revised version: “Dhimma Space: The Protection Relationship Between Imam Yaḥyā Ḥamīd al-Dīn (1869-1948) and the Jews of Sanaa as a Socio-political ‘Field’,” annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), 15-18 November 2018, San Antonio, Texas
7/2018 “Dhimma Space: The Protection Relationship Between Imam Yaḥyā Ḥamīd al-Dīn (1869-1948) and the Jews of Sanaa as a Socio-political ‘Field’,” The Yemenite Conference, organisiert von E’elah Be Tamar, der American Sephardi Federation und dem Institute of Semitic Studies, Center for Jewish History, 3.-5. Juli 2018, New York City/USA
10/2017 “Juggling Sharia Law: An Analytical Insight into the Pseudo-Epigraphic Letters of Protection from Yemen and their Jewish Authors’ Strategies of Empowerment,“ international conference: „Jews in Muslim Majority Countries: History and Prospects“, Jewish-Islamic forum at the Academy of the Jewish Museum in Berlin
Teaching
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Arabic Language and Literature
An Introduction to Dhimma, scheduled for summer 2022 (in English)
Conceptualizing Dhimma law as part of the Islamic law of Nations (siyar): The Yemeni-Zaydi Example (in Hebrew)
Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Islamic Studies (taught in German)
Theory and method in Islamic studies
The concept of ‘sainthood’ (wilaya) in Sufism
Job prospects and expectations for Islamic studies graduates
Introduction to the Islamic law of nations (siyar) and the treatment of non-Muslims under Islamic jurisdiction
The prophet Muḥammad and the development of a specific Islamic self-perception
Introduction to methodology in Islamic Studies
State Islamic University Sunnan Kalijaga (UIN), Faculty of Theology, Yogyakarta/Indonesia
Modern Hebrew for beginners
Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Jewish Studies (in German)
The Jews of the Islamic world in modern and recent times
Jews as ‘protected people’ (Dhimmis) under Islamic rule
University of Potsdam, Institute of Jewish and Religious Studies (in German)
The Jews of the Islamic world from its beginning until modern times: History, Status, Relation
Other Courses and Initiatives
since 2021 „Unit 2 Lesson 3: Imam Yahya and his Contract of Protection,” for The Yemenite Experience, American Sephardi Federation, New York City (in English and Hebrew) Courses.InstituteofJewishExperience.org
2015 Yemenite Queen Salon, a cultural initiative to promote Jewish and Muslim Yemeni art, music, and culture, with Ibi Ibrahim (visual artist and singer) Media coverage by DW عربية
Medieval history Social networks Urban morphology Historical geography and sociology Environmental history
Current Projects:
My current project addresses the formation of social cohesion and its reciprocal connection with the urban fabric in the cities of the medieval Mediterranean during the high middle ages. I am especially interested in examining socially heterogeneous urban environments, such as those that were transformed by the migratory movements of medieval settlers’ societies as were the Crusades, or the Norman settlement in Southern Italy and Sicily. The study will draw on a wide variety of sources from different case studies, including property transactions, chronicles, and archaeological evidence in order to reconstruct the intricate correlation between social structures and their spatial manifestations, as well as phenomena of urban growth and decline due to geo-political and climatic circumstances. Drawing on the different approaches to the concept of social cohesion in such fields as economic history, sociology and anthropology, etc., the study will also attempt to produce a new historically sensitive theoretical framework for the use of this concept in the study of medieval urban communities.
Curriculum Vitae
Fellowships and Grants
2018-2019 Post-doctoral fellow at the Haifa Center for the Study of the History of the Mediterranean.
2017-2018 Thomas Arthur Arnold post-doctoral fellow at the Zvi Yavetz School of Historical Studies in Tel-Aviv University.
2013-2016 Rotenstreich Scholarship for PhD candidates granted by the Council for Higher Education.
2011-2013 Polonsky Scholarship for PhD students (Hebrew University).
2008-2010 George L. Mosse fellowship (Department of History, Hebrew University).
Prizes
2018 Hans Wiener Prize for an outstanding dissertation (Hebrew University).
2013 Jacob Talmon Prize for outstanding students (Department of History, Hebrew University).
2012 Ginter prize for scholars of Jerusalem (Hebrew University).
Education
2011-2017 PhD in the Department of History in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Dissertation title: Jerusalem in the 12th century: Systematic Analysis of a Developing Urban Landscape.
2006-2010 M.A. magna cum laude, Department of History, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2008-2009 University of Wisconsin, Madison: Exchange student as George L. Mosse Fellow.
2003-2006 B.A. magna cum laude, Department of History, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Publications
“The Earthly Landscape of the Heavenly City – A New Framework for the Examination of the Urban Development of Frankish Jerusalem”, Al-Masāq 28, no. 3 (2016): 265-81.
Publications for wider audiences:
“Pilgrimage and Urban Development in Frankish Jerusalem”, Et-Mol, 259 (2018): 18-20 [In Hebrew].
Selected Presentations
6/2018 - "Municipal mechanisms in a newly formed medieval immigrant urban society: the case of Frankish Jerusalem”. Multi Ethnic Cities in the Mediterranean World. Polytechnic School of Architecture, Genoa.
2/2018 - “Patterns of Land and Property Distribution and the (Re)formulation of Social Cohesion in the Latin Kingdom at the Turn of the 13th Century”. The Latin East in the 13th Century. Haifa University, Israel.
12/2017 - “Jonathan Riley-Smith's Digital Legacy: The Regesta Online, Challenges and Future Directions”. Jonathan Riley-Smith: His Career and Academic Legacy. Institute of Historical Research, University of London.
12/2017 - “Did Rome Decline During the 11th Century?”. The Societal Consequences of Climatic Changes – The Medieval Climate Anomaly. Workshop at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
5/2017 - "A Transforming Civic Landscape: Social networks, municipal authority, and urban change in Frankish Jerusalem”. 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo MI.
6/2016 - "De Situ Urbis Ierusalem - Urban development and the formation of Frankish Jerusalem’s hinterland”. Diversity of Crusading.Ninth Quadrennial conference of the SSCLE. University of Southern Denmark, Odense.
7/2014 - "Digital Paleography: New Machines and Old Texts". Seminar held at the Schloss Dagstuhl Leibnitz-Zentrum für Informatik, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany.
7/2013 - “Urban Landscape in 12th century Jerusalem – Patterns of Development and Municipal Administration”. 3rd Biennial Conference of the Society for the Study of the Mediterranean, Cambridge, UK.
Neo-Aramaic Semitic Linguistics Language Documentation Jewish Folklore Oral Culture
Current Projects:
The aim of my current research project is to produce an annotated edition of a corpus of 33 folk-narratives, ‘the tales of Mamo Yona’. Mamo (‘uncle’) Yona Gabbay Zaqen (Zakho 1867–Jerusalem 1970), an exceptional bearer and performer of the rich tradition of the Jews of Kurdistan and a well-known storyteller throughout Iraqi Kurdistan, was recorded during 1964 by Professor Yona Sabar for the Hebrew University’s Jewish Language Traditions Project (Mifʿal Masorot Ha-Llašon). Thus far only a small portion of this material has been published. The importance of this corpus is not only due to it being a rich sample of the Jewish Neo-Aramaic dialect of Zakho and an attestation of its condition before the contact with Israeli Hebrew; it is important also because it sheds light on various cultural and social aspects of the Jewish communities of Kurdistan, reflecting aspects of social structure, education practices, religion, customs, gender relations, relations with the non-Jewish surrounding, the function of storytelling in the community’s life, and more. The annotated edition will contain a transcription of the original Neo-Aramaic, translation into English, and analyses of the text using both linguistic and folkloristic approaches.
Curriculum Vitae
Education: 2018-2019: PhD in Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge. Supervisor: Professor Geoffrey Khan. Thesis title: ‘Aspects of the Oral Heritage of the Neo-Aramaic-Speaking Jewish Community of Zakho.’ 2011-2012: MPhil in Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge. Supervisor: Professor Geoffrey Khan. Dissertation title: ‘The Neo-Aramaic Speaking Jewish Community of Zakho.’ 2007-2010: BA in Jewish Thought, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Publications
Books:
Aloni, Oz, (2022), The Neo-Aramaic Oral Heritage of the Jews of Zakho, Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures 11, Cambridge: Open Book Publishers.
Aloni, Oz, (2014), The Neo-Aramaic Speaking Jewish Community of Zakho – A Survey of the Oral Culture, MPhil Dissertation, Saarbrücken: Lambert.
Edited books:
Shilo, Varda (2014), Lishana – A Bilingual Anthology of Folktales of the Jewish Community of Zakho, Oz Aloni (ed., tr.), Jerusalem: Minerva Press, [in Hebrew].
Fiction Book:
Aloni, Oz, (2023), Sefer Biqqurim [“Book of Visits”], Jerusalem: Carmel Publishing House, [in Hebrew].
Chapters in books: Aloni, Oz, (2014), ‘The Jews of Zakho and Their Language – An Introduction,’ in: Shilo, Varda, Lishana – A Bilingual Anthology of Folktales of the Jewish Community of Zakho, Jerusalem: Minerva Press, [in Hebrew].
Peer-reviewed articles: Aloni, Oz, (2014), ‘Folk-narratives in the Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Zakho – The Case of Yosef Ve-ʾEḥav,’ in: Khan, Geoffrey & Napiorkowska, Lidia, eds., Neo-Aramaic and Its Linguistic Context, Piscataway: Gorgias Press.
Aloni, Oz, (2016), ‘The Encounter of Neo-Aramaic and Modern Hebrew – The Personal Experience of a Neo-Aramaic Speaker,’ Carmillim 11, University of Haifa Press, [in Hebrew].
Aloni, Oz, (2018), ‘“The King and the Wazir”: A Folk-Tale in the Jewish North-Eastern Neo- Aramaic Dialect of Zakho,’ in: Vidro, Nadia, et al. (eds.), Studies in Semitic Linguistics and Manuscripts: A Liber Discipulorum in Honour of Professor Geoffrey Khan, Uppsala: Uppsala University Library.
Social-Cultural Anthropology Science Technology and Society Studies (STS) Anthropology Beyond the Human Time and Temporality Israel/Palestine and the Middle East
My first book Struggling for Time: Environmental Governance and Agrarian Resistance in Israel/Palestine will be published with Stanford University Press in May 2024.
Struggling for Time examines how time is used as a mechanism of control by the Israeli state and a site of mundane resistance among Palestinian agriculture professionals. Natalia Gutkowski unpacks power structures to show how a settler society lays moral claim on indigenous time through agrarian environmental policies, science, technologies, landscapes, and bureaucracy. Shifting the analysis of Israel/Palestine from land and space to time, she offers new insight into the operation of power in agrarian environments and develops a contemporary framework to understand land and resource grabs under temporal justifications.
Traveling across both policymaking arenas and Palestinian citizens' agrarian fields, Gutkowski follows the multiple ways that state officials, agronomists, planners, environmentalists, and agriculturalists use time as a tool of collective agency. Through investigations of wetland drainage in Galilee, transformations in olive agriculture, sustainable agrarian development, and regulation of the shmita biblical commandment, the "year of release" for agricultural fields, this work highlights how Palestinian citizens' agriculture has become a site for the state to settle and mediate time conflicts to justify its existence. As Struggling for Time demonstrates, time politics will take on ever greater urgency as societies and governments plan for an uncertain future in our era of climate change.
In my second book project “Species Remaking Borders: Climate Change as a Regional Challenge”, I follow scientists, policymakers, and agriculturalists in Israel, the West Bank and Jordan who cooperate around pest management. I show how insects’ mobility forces state and social actors to collaborate, but it also reveals changing forms of power under climate change predicament. These dynamics frame climate change as a political and regional scale problem rather than the prevalent national or global frameworks. This research is novel in its regional fieldwork challenging the prevalent methodological nationalism evident in the region and overcoming the nation state as a central unit of study in the social sciences.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2019–2024
Post-Doctoral Fellow, The Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2019–2020
(Declined) Lecturer, Judaic Studies Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
2017–2019
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Academy Scholar, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, Harvard University.
2017–2018
(Declined) Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
2016–2017
Visiting Graduate Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.
2015–2016
Graduate Fellowship, The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University.
2015 Spring
Visiting Student - Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz.
AWARDS and SCHOLARSHIPS
2022 Research Grant, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Research Authority.
2020-2021 Returning Scientist Grant, Israeli Ministry of Absorption.
2018 Max Gluckman Prize for Outstanding PhD, Israeli Anthropological Association.
2015 The Land Theme Award, Institute for Social Sciences, Cornell University.
2015 Tammy Steinmatz Center for Peace Studies Doctoral Award, Tel Aviv University.
2014–2015 The Whole Organism Award, Chief Scientist, Ministry of Agriculture, Israel.
2012–2015 Israel Science Fund Grant No. 932/12. *PI – Prof. Dan Rabinowitz
2011–2015 Tel Aviv University Rector and The School of Environmental Studies PhD Scholarship
2014 Honorable Mention: Lebach Institute for Jewish-Arab Coexistence, Tel Aviv University.
2011–2013 Excellence in Teaching - Honorable Mentions by the Kibbutzim College’s Dean.
2012–2013 The Smaller Winikow Foundation for Environmental Research Scholarship.
2012 The Israeli Sociological Association: First Prize in MA Thesis contest.
PUBLICATIONS
MONOGRAPH and EDITED VOLUME
Gutkowski, Natalia. (2024) Struggling for Time: Environmental Governance and Agrarian Resistance in Israel/Palestine. Stanford University Press, 340 pp.
Gutkowski, Natalia, R. Grosglik and L. Shani (eds), (2017) Israeli Sociology vol. 18(2) Special Issue on Environment and Society, 269 pp. (Hebrew).
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Gutkowski, Natalia (2023) “Climate Change and the Environmental Imaginary in the Middle East” (Theory and Criticism). 57: Winter. pp 69-81 (Hebrew).
Gutkowski, Natalia (2020) “Bodies that Count: Administering Multispecies in the Borderlands of Palestine/Israel.” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space Vol. 4(1) 135–157.
Gutkowski, Natalia (2018). Governing through Timescape: Israeli Sustainable Agriculture Policy and the Palestinian-Arab Citizens. International Journal of Middle East Studies 50(3), 471-492.
Gutkowski, Natalia, Grosglik. Rafi Shani, Liron (2017) Toward a Social-Environmental Paradigm in Israeli Sociology and Anthropology. Introduction to Israeli Sociology vol. 18(2) Special issue on Environment and Society, p.7-28 (Hebrew).
Gutkowski, N. Disegni D., Rabinowitz D. (2013) “Fair Trade Olive Oil and its Environmental Impact”, in The Journal of Ecology and the Environment, 4 (1) p. 22-13 (Hebrew).
JOURNAL ARTICLES IN PROGRESS
Gutkowski, Natalia and Ashawari Chaudhuri (n.d.) “Time as Power in Agrarian Environments” (Under review, Journal of Peasants Studies).
Gutkowski, Natalia and Rafi Grosglik (n.d.) “A Self-Defeating Warfare? The Red Palm Weevil and the Military-Agriculture Nexus in the Time of Climate Change” (In Preparation).
Gutkowski, Natalia (n.d) “Un/Settling Times for Border Control: A Porous Political Ecology of Date Plantations in the Jordan Valley” (In Preparation)
Gutkowski, Natalia (n.d) “Native Agrarian Science: Palestinian Arab Agronomists’ Navigation in the Israeli State System” (In preparation).
RESEARCH COMMENTARIES and BOOK REVIEW
Gutkowski, Natalia (2023) Book Review of “Azazel Mall” Off Road Driving in the Judean Desert: Consumerism, Nationalism, and Israeli Manhood” by Asaf Hazani” (Israeli Sociology) Vol 24(1). (Hebrew).
Gutkowski, Natalia (2021) “A Borderless Virus? The Sovereignty Games in the Administration of COVID-19 in Israel/Palestine.” Israeli Sociology Vol. 21 (2) 90-97. (Hebrew).
Neugarten Tamar and Gutkowski Natalia (2013) “Community Gardening: Reclaiming Public Spaces”, in MAARAV [Ambush], OnlineJournal for Art, Culture and Media. February Issue (Hebrew and English Publications.)
BOOK CHAPTERS
Gutkowski, N. (2024) “Cultivating Indigeneity - Producing Time, Israel/Palestine, 2013” in Wolf-Meyer Matthew and Danielle Elliot (Eds). Naked Fieldnotes: A Rough Guide to Ethnographic Writing Minnesota University Press.
Gutkowski, N. (2016). "Teaching Environmental Justice in Israel", Avisar I. (ed), TheChallenge of Sustainability: Education for Social and Environmental Responsibility in Israel Hakkibutz Hameuchad Publication, Tel Aviv. [In Hebrew - Translation available].
Gutkowski, N. (2012) (The chapters) “World Agriculture”; “Rural Development in Israel”; “Agricultural Work, Agriculture Crosses Borders”; “Agriculture and the Environment”, in Zaban, Haim (Ed.) 150 Years of Agriculture in Israel, Maariv Publication, Tel Aviv. (Hebrew)
Adwan Sami, Bar-on Dan, Eyal Naveh, Bader Khalil, Gutkowski Natalia, Al-Husseini Maysoon, Cohen Nir (2012): Side by Side: Parallel Histories of Israel-Palestine. New York, NY, The New Press.
Gutkowski, N. (2007) “Kibbutzim Education College – An Open Space of Supremacy?” in Aloni, Nimrod, (ed.) Education and Context –Kibbutzim College Publications, Tel Aviv. [Hebrew -Translation available].
Late Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean Jewish History History of Science and Medicine Historical Linguistics Sociolinguistics Ladino and Jewish Languages
Reading from the Margins: The Place of Language among the Jews of Christian Spain (twelfth-fifteenth centuries)
Castilian Hegemony in the Jewish Mediterranean: The Formation of Sephardic Communities (sixteenth-eighteenth centuries)
Curriculum Vitae
Education
2018: PhD, Department of Romance and Latin American Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2012: MA in Romance Languages, Department of Romance and Latin American Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
2009: BA, General Linguistics; Communication & Journalism, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Post Doctoral Research
2019-2023: The Buber Society of Fellows, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Postdoctoral Fellow.
2019: The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University, Postdoctoral Researcher.
2018-2019: The Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, Postdoctoral Fellow.
2017-2021: Collaborating Researcher, University of Barcelona: “Vernacular Science in the Crown of Aragon and Its Romance Context (13th-16th Centuries)” [2017-2019]; “Vernacular Science in the Medieval and Early Modern Western Mediterranean” [2019-2021], financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.
Publications
Baum, Ilil. “Jewish Lullism around the Expulsion: Spanish-Catalan Fragment in Hebrew Characters from Ramon Llull’s Introductorium Magnae Artis Generalis.” Jewish Quarterly Review 110.3 (2020), forthcoming.
Baum, Ilil. “Traces of Jewish Scotism Among Late Medieval Catalan Jews: A Catalan Translation in Hebrew Script of De Distinctione Predicamentorum by Petrus Thomae.” Medieval Encounters, forthcoming.
Baum, Ilil. “El judeoespañol y la conservación del léxico popular del castellano medieval.” In Conunaletrajoven. Avances en el estudio de la Historiografía e Historia de la Lengua Española, edited by Clara Grande López, Leyre Martín Aizpuru, Soraya Salicio Bravo. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2014: 187-191.
I am currently working on the perception of objects produced and maintained by imperial governments in antiquity by ancient Jews – specifically coins and legal documents – as a way to understand the reception of empire by subaltern populations.
Curriculum Vitae
Fellowships and Grants
2014-2017 Council for Higher Education – Rothenstreich Doctoral Fellow in the Humanities.
2013-2017 Honors PhD Program, The Hebrew University.
2012-2013 Guggenheim Foundation for Jewish Morals and Ethics, PhD Fellow.
Prizes
2013 Targum Shlishi Dissertation Award.
Education
2013-2019 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. PhD in Talmud.
2016-2017 Visiting Graduate Student, Department of Religion, Princeton University.
2014 Visiting Doctoral Student, Wolfson College, Oxford University (Winter).
2013, 2014 Visiting Scholar, Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, Columbia University (Summer).
2009-2012 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. MA Magna cum Laude in Talmud.
2006-2009 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. BA Magna cum Laude in Talmud and Classics.
Publications
Chapters in books
Forthcoming - “A New Fragment of Sifre Numbers from Breslau,” in European Genizah: Texts and Studies, vol 3, ed. by Andreas Lehnardt.
2017 “There and Back again: A Journey to Ashkelon and its Intertexts in Yerushalmi Sanhedrin 4:6 (=Hagigah 2:2),” Journeys in the Roman East: Imagined and Real, ed. by M. Niehoff and R. Feldmeyer. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 139-154.
Peer-reviewed articles
Forthcoming - “The Tannaitic Laws of Battery,” Tarbiz (Hebrew).
2017 “Twisting Words: Does halakhah Really Circumvent Scripture?” Journal of Jewish Studies 68: 260-283.
2012 “A New Reading of the Three Dialogues in Mishnah Avodah Zarah,” Jewish Studies Quarterly 19: 207-229.
Translations
2018 Texts annotated and introduced in Judaism and the Economy: A Sourcebook, ed. by M. Satlow. London; New York: Routledge, sections A20, A26, A27, A36, C20.
Presentations
2019 “The Biblical Poor in Tannaitic Midrash,” Talmud Departmental Seminar, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, March.
2019 “Roman Money in the Provinces: A View from Rabbinic Literature,” Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Pennsylvania, January.
Music and sound studies Political ethnography Anthropology of religion Relation between Europe and the Middle East
Current Projects:
My new research project chronicles the present and past lives of a Syrian-Jewish musical record which was released by the Lebanese Baidaphon company in the 1920s. It draws on archival research and fieldwork undertaken in Berlin, Beirut, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Cairo.
Curriculum Vitae
Fellowships and Grants
Doctoral Studentship Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation), 2016-2019
Mildred Loss Studentship, Jewish Music Institute (JMI), SOAS, 2015-2019
Employment
Senior Teaching Fellow, Music Department, SOAS, London, 2018-2019
Education
PhD in Ethnomusicology, SOAS, London, 2015-present
MA Middle Eastern Studies, SOAS, London, 2012-2013
BA Philosophy (Munich School of Philosophy), 2008-2010
Publications
Wenz, Clara. 2016. “The Lost Paradise: Andalusi Music in Urban North Africa and Performing al-Andalus: Music and Nostalgia across the Mediterranean” (Review), Ethnomusicology Forum 25 (3): 373-377.
Presentations
“Suspicion, Borders and Landscapes Lost to Conflict: My Journey with an Arab-Jewish Baidaphon Record”, Workshop Beginnings and Legacies of Recording Technologies in the Eastern Mediterranean, EUME, Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin 4-5 April 2019.
“Tarab in Crisis, Samples of a New World: The Music of Hello Psychaleppo”, ICTM Study Group for the Music in the Arab World Symposium, Cairo Egypt, 7-10 January 2019.
“Music, Religion and Voice on the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Border” (with Dr. Ilana Webster-Kogen), Consortium for Asian and African Studies (CAAS), 9th Symposium, Paris, France, 19-20 Oct 2018.
“History on Rewind: Traveling with an Arab-Jewish Baidaphon Record”, Middle East and Central Asian Music Forum, London, 10 Nov 2017.
“Dancing Dissonance - Refugees in Concert in Berlin”, Annual Conference of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology (BFE), Sheffield, UK, 20-23 April 2017.
“Listening to Arab-Jewish Aleppo: Towards an Architecture of Musical Memory”, International Graduate and Post-Doctoral Summer Workshop, Forum for Contemporary Ethnomusicology and Da’at Hamakom, Yad Hashmonah, Israel, July 10-11 2016.
My current research interest concerns the relationship between Indonesia and the Middle East. After I researched Indonesians’ ideas of ‘Arabness’ in the context of pilgrimage and labor migration to the Arabian Peninsula, I am now working on religious tourism from Indonesia to Israel and the Palestinian Territories.
2017-2019: Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Centre for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, funded by the I-CORE Program of the Planning and Budgeting Committee and the Israel Science Foundation (grant No 12/1754).
PhD in Social Anthropology 1/2013 – 2/2017 PhD Thesis: Indonesians and their Arab World: Guided Mobility among Labour Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, date of conferral: 09.02.2017
Master of Arts in Social Anthropology 10/2010 – 12/2012 MA Thesis: Between ‘Good’ and ‘Real’ Governance – An Anthropological Perspective on Public Service Delivery in Indonesia. Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, date of conferral: 19.12.2012
Bachelor of Arts in Social Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies 10/2007 – 9/2010 BA Thesis: Muslimische Predigerinnen in Marokko. Die Mourchidat als Gestalterinnen einer ‚Islamischen Moderne‘? (Female Muslim Preachers in Morocco. The Mourchidat as Designers of an Islamic Modernity?) Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, date of conferral: 06.09.201
Publications
Peer Reviewed Articles
Lücking, Mirjam (forthcoming). "Israeli Dead Sea Cosmetics and Charity for Palestinian Children: Indonesian Women’s Shopping Activities on Pilgrimages to Jerusalem." In: Reconfiguring Muslim pilgrimage through the lens of women’s new mobilities, edited by Buitelaar, Marjo; Stephan-Emmrich, Manja; Thimm, Viola. London: Routledge.
Lücking, Mirjam (2019) 'Reciprocity in Research Relationships: Learning from Imbalances', In: Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography, edited by Stodulka, Thomas; Dinkelaker, Samia; Thajib, Ferdiansyah. New York: Springer.
Lücking, Mirjam (2017) ‘Working in Mecca. How Informal Pilgrimage-Migration from Madura, Indonesia, to Saudi Arabia Challenges State Sovereignty’, In: European Journal of East Asian Studies. Volume 16, Issue 2, Special Issue: Challenging State Sovereignty: A multi-level approach to Southeast and East Asian migration. pp: 248–274.
Lücking, Mirjam and Evi Eliyanah (2017) ‘Images of Authentic Muslim Selves: Gendered Moralities and Constructions of Arab Others in Contemporary Indonesia’, In: Social Sciences 6(3): 1-20.
Lücking, Mirjam (2016) ‘Beyond Islam Nusantara and ‘Arabization’: Capitalizing ‘Arabness’ in Madura, East Java’, in: ASIEN. The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Nr. 137 (April): 5-24.
Lücking, Mirjam (2014a) ‘Making ‘Arab’ One’s Own. Muslim Pilgrimage Experiences in Central Java, Indonesia’, in: Internationales Asienforum. International Quarterly for Asian Studies 45 (1-2): 129-152.
Lücking, Mirjam (2014b) ‘Arabness’ as Social Capital in Madura’, in: Islamika Indonesiana. Vol. 1 (2): 37-46.
“Indonesians in Jerusalem: Pilgrimage, Conversion and Competition” The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Humanities, Sternberg Prize Awarding Ceremony, Jerusalem, 12 March 2019
“Food unites us… not anymore.” – Indonesian pilgrims eating kosher and halal in Jerusalem
Ben Gurion University of the Negev, ISF Workshop, Eating Religiously: Food and Faith in the 21st Century, Beer Sheva, 23 May 2019
“Mecca Selfies and Images of Jerusalem. Indonesian Pilgrims’ Online Performances of ‘Having Been There’”
Annual Assembly of the Israeli Anthropological Association, Beer Sheva, 27 May 2019
“The Mount of Olives as a site of sacred separation? Experiences of tourists and residents”
Conference on “Sacred Spaces”, Center for the Study of Conversion and Interreligious Encounters, Beer Sheva, 4 June 2019
“Narratives of separation, pragmatic cooperation and surprising similarities: Movement between Israel, Indonesia and Palestine”
EuroSEAS Humboldt-University Berlin 10-13 September 2019
“Israeli Dead Sea Cosmetics and Charity for Palestinian Children: Feminized Inter-Religious Competition among Indonesian Jerusalem Pilgrims”, Biennial conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, Stockholm, 15 August 2018
“Untold Stories from Israel and Palestine”, Islamic Boarding School Pondok Pesantren Al-Kahfi Somalangu, Kebumen, 28 July 2018
“Ziarah Persaingan – Perjalanan Orang Indonesia ke Yerusalem”, Fakultas Adab, Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Kalijaga, Yogyakarta, 25 July 2018
“Contemporary Journeys of Conversion from Indonesia to Israel”, International Conference on “Conversion, Then and Now”, Center for the Study of Conversion and Interreligious Encounters, Beer Sheva, 28 May 2018
“Asian Values and Islamic Piety among Female Migrant Workers in Java and Madura, Indonesia”, biennial conference of Asian Studies in Israel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 24 May 2018
“Indonesians’ Competitive Pilgrimages to Mecca and Jerusalem”, Israeli Anthropological Association, Annual Conference, Dimona, 23 May 2018
“Between Arab-Phobia and Pop-Arabness: Ambivalent Muslim lifestyles in Contemporary Indonesia”, Jerusalem 30 November 2017, “Introducing Indonesia” – International Conference, The Hebrew University 29/30 November 2017
“Islam und Demokratie in Südostasien“, Seminar: Südostasien – Ein Einblick in die Tigerstaaten, Baden Württembergischen Landeszentrale für politische Bildung, Studienhaus Wiesneck, Buchenbach, 25 March 2017
“Academic and Religious Pilgrimages from Indonesia to the Middle East”, with Judith Schlehe, Conference “Trans-l Encounters: Religious Education and Islamic Popular Culture in Asia and the Middle East”, University of Marburg, Marburg, 26 May 2016
“Labour Migrants in Central Java and Madura: Between K-Pop and Piety”, Workshop “EuroSEAS PhD Master Class”, EuroSEAS Conference, Vienna, 10 August 2015
“Making ‘Arab Others’: Gendered Moralities, Identities and Journeys to the Middle East among Indonesian Muslims”, with Evi Eliyanah, Workshop “Social Identities in Indonesia”, Australian National University, Canberra, October 2015
"Turkifying Poverty or: The Phantom Pain of İzmir's Lost Christian Working Class, 1924-26". In: Middle Eastern Studies 55, 4 (2019), 499–518. https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2018.1559157
“Das Jahr 1917 in der türkischen Historiographie,” in: Historische Mitteilungen der Ranke-Gesellschaft (HMRG) 29 (2017) 49–62.
"Fear and Loathing in 'Gavur' Izmir: Emotions in early Republican Memories of the Greek occupation (1919-1922)," International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (IJMES). Vol. 49 (2017), 71–89. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743816001148
"Refugees, Locals, and “The” State: Property Compensation in the Province of Izmir Following the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange of 1923". In: Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Studies Association (JOTSA) 2:1 (2015), 147-166. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/jottturstuass.2.1.147#metadata_info_tab_contents Also published in: Kent Schull, M. Safa Saraçoğlu, Robert Zens (eds) Law and Legality in the Ottoman Empire and Republic of Turkey, (Bloomington: Indiana University Press 2016), 179–200.
National Socialism, concentration camps and Holocaust studies German-Jewish history and culture, Masculinity and gender studies Emigration, exile and identity formation, Regional history
Buber Fellow: 2011 to 2015
Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary History at LMU Munich
My research interest centre on German and German-Jewish history in modern times, with a focus on the Weimar Republic and National Socialism. In my doctoral thesis, completed as part of the AHRC-funded research project “Before the Holocaust” at Birkbeck, University of London, I explored the key role of the pre-war concentration camps in the evolution of the Nazi regime’s antisemitic policy and the persecution of the Jews. Looking at the camps as sites of terror and exclusion, the study analyses dynamics of social change in German society in the Third Reich.
In subsequent projects, I have researched intellectual migration and the history of science by critically evaluating early “theories of terror” advanced in the 1940s by émigré social scientists in exile. Studying modern identity formation, I also worked on Jews in the German labour movement in the early 20th century. In the past, my scholarship has dealt broadly with the history and theory of psychoanalysis, military history and desertion as well as Holocaust memorial cultures and representations. Furthermore, I was engaged in exhibition projects of the Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin (Holocaust Memorial) and Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. I also act as author, reviewer and historical consultant for online teaching modules produced by the German Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung).
Current Projects:
Currently, I am studying post-1945 relationships between German-Jewish émigrés form rural areas and their former hometowns. On a regional level, this project examines notions of ‘Heimat’ and history negotiated through contacts between ‘exile’ and ‘home’ as well as the role of grass-root initiatives in trans-national reconciliation efforts. Together with Laura Jockusch and Andreas Kraft, I also prepare the publication of a cross-disciplinary essay collection entitled Revenge, Retribution and Reconciliation: Justice and Emotions between Conflict and Mediation. Based on Buber Society Workshop held in June 2013, the volume will explore how individuals, groups and societies in a variety of cultural contexts, political settings and historical time periods respond to the perpetration of injustice.
Michal Frenkel is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she has served as a department chair (2018-2022). Her research focuses on power relations in and around organizations, examined through a dual lens: (i) How power relations affect the production of managerial knowledge and practices and how the latter are institutionalized, transferred, and implemented across national boundaries; and (ii) The role of such knowledge and practices in the reproduction of gender-, ethnicity-, race-, and religiosity-based social hierarchies. She studies the multilayered nature of power and theorizes the interrelations between the global, national, organizational, and interpersonal power dynamics and how these shape organizational control and members’ compliance, agency, and resistance in organizations. Her current studies focus on gender-religiosity intersectionality at work and the intersection of gender and age in shaping academic careers.
As a public sociologist, she applies insights from her studies (and others) to help public and private organizations implement more inclusive employment practices and become more family-friendly and egalitarian in their approach toward marginalized groups. She is a frequent commentator on questions of work, organization, and gender equity in the Israeli media. She enjoys mentoring up-and-coming scholars and has worked closely with more than fifty graduate and postdoctoral students in developing their studies and academic careers.
