Matti Bunzl – Curriculum Vitae
Matti Bunzl – Curriculum Vitae
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
109 Davenport Hall
607 S. Mathews
Urbana, IL 61801
Tel.: (217) 265-4068
e-mail: bunzl@uiuc.edu
Fax: (217) 244-3490
2205 Misty Meadow Place
Champaign, IL 61822
Tel.: (217) 355-3122
Date of Birth: July 8, 1971
Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria
Citizenship: Austria
Education:
| 1981 - 1989 | Realgymnasium Wien III |
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| Graduation with Special Distinction (Matura mit ausgezeichnetem Erfolg). | ||
| October 1990 - September 1993 | Stanford University – B.A. (with Distinction) & M.A. in Anthropology. |
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| Master's Thesis: “From Historicism to Historical Particularism: Franz Boas and the Tradition of 19th Century German Anthropology and Linguistics.” | ||
| October 1993 - August 1998 | University of Chicago – Ph.D. in Anthropology. |
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| Dissertation: “From Silence to Defiance: Jews and Queers in Contemporary Vienna.” | ||
Employment:
| Fall 1998 - Summer 2003 | Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology – |
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| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. | |||
| Fall 2003 - | Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology – |
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| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. | |||
| Courtesy Appointments: Department of History, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Program in Jewish Culture and Society, Women’s Studies Program, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, Russian and East European Center, European Union Center. | |||
| October 1993 - August 1998 | Director, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH) – |
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| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. | |||
Research Interests
- The Anthropology of Europe and North America.
- The History of Anthropology.
- German-Jewish Culture and History.
- The Cultural and Literary Fields of Fin-de-siècle Vienna.
- Contemporary Anthropological Theory.
Peer Reviewed Publications:
Books
| 2004 | Symptoms of Modernity: Jews and Queers in Late-Twentieth-Century Vienna (Berkeley: University of California Press). |
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| German Translation: Symptome der Moderne: Juden und Queers im späten 20. Jahrhundert (Vienna: Parabasen, in preparation). | ||
Books Edited
| In preparation | Postcolonial Studies and Beyond (with Suvir Kaul, Ania Loomba, Antoinette Burton, and Jed Esty) (Durham: Duke University Press). |
| In preparation | New Anthropologies of Europe: A Reader (with Daphne Berdahl and Michael Herzfeld) (Indiana University Press). |
| 2003 | Worldly Provincialism: German Anthropology in the Age of Empire (with Glenn Penny) (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press). |
| 2000 | Altering States: Ethnographies of Transition in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union (with Daphne Berdahl and Martha Lampland) (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press). |
Articles and Book Chapters
| 2003 | “Of Holograms and Storage Areas: Modernity and Postmodernity at Vienna’s Jewish Museum.” Cultural Anthropology 18(4): 435-468. |
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| 2003 | "Austrian Zionism and the Jews of the New Europe." Jewish Social Studies 9(2): 154-173. | |
| 2003 | Worldly Provincialism: German Anthropology in the Age of Empire (with Glenn Penny) (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press). |
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| 2003 | “Introduction: Rethinking German Anthropology, Colonialism, and Race” (with Glenn Penny). In Glenn Penny & Matti Bunzl, eds., Worldly Provincialism: German Anthropology in the Age of Empire (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press): 1-30. | |
| 2003 | “Völkerpsychologie and German-Jewish Emancipation.” In Glenn Penny & Matti Bunzl, eds., Worldly Provincialism: German Anthropology in the Age of Empire (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press): 47-85. |
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| 2000 | “Resistive Play: Sports and the Emergence of Jewish Visibility in Contemporary Vienna.” Journal of Sport & Social Issues 24(3): 232-250. | |
| 2000 | “Inverted Appellation and Discursive Gender Insubordination: An Austrian Case Study in Gay Male Conversation.” Discourse & Society 11(2): 207-236. |
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| 2000 | “Political Inscription, Artistic Reflection: A Recontextualization of Contemporary Viennese-Jewish Literature.” The German Quarterly 73(2): 163-170. | |
| 2000 | “The Prague Experience: Gay Male Sex Tourism and the Neo-Colonial Invention of an Embodied Border.” In Daphne Berdahl, Matti Bunzl, & Martha Lampland, eds., Altering States: Ethnographies of the Transition in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press): 70-95. | |
| 2000 | “Die Wiener Jahrhundertwende und die Konstruktion jüdischer Identitäten in der zweiten Republik” (“Vienna’s Fin de Siècle and the Construction of Jewish Identities in the Second Republic”). In Sabine Hödl & Eleonore Lappin, eds., Erinnerung als Gegenwart: Jüdische Gedenkkulturen (Berlin: Philo Verlag): 149-172. |
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| 2000 | “Modes of Nostalgia and Figurations of 'Austria' in the Exil(auto)biographien of Richard Beer-Hofmann and Stefan Zweig.” In Donald Daviau, ed., Austria in Literature (Riverside: Ariadne Press): 48-59. | |
| 1999 | “From Kreisky to Waldheim: Another Jewish Youth in Vienna.” In Dagmar Lorenz, ed., Contemporary Jewish Writing in Austria: An Anthology (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press): 349-358. |
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| 1998 | “Johannes Fabians Time and the Other: Synthesen einer kritischen Anthropologie” (“Johannes Fabian’s Time and the Other: Syntheses of a Critical Anthropology”). Historische Anthropologie 6(3): 466-478. |
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| English Translation: "Foreword to Johannes Fabian's Time and the Other/ Syntheses of a Critical Anthropology." In Johannes Fabian, Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object. Reprint Edition (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002): ix-xxxiv.. | ||
| Italian Translation: “Sintesi di una Anthropologia Critica.” In Johannes Fabian, Il Tempo et gli Altri: La Politica del Tempo in Anthropologia (Naples: L’ancora, 2000): 11-24 | ||
| 1998 | “Counter-Memory and Modes of Resistance: The Uses of Fin-de-siècle Vienna for Present-day Austrian Jews.” In Dagmar Lorenz & Renate Posthofen, eds., Transforming the Center, Eroding the Margins: Essays on Ethnic and Cultural Boundaries in German-Speaking Countries (Columbia, SC: Camden House): 169-184. | |
| 1997 | “Theodor Herzl's Zionism as Gendered Discourse.” In Edward Timms & Ritchie Robertson, eds., Theodor Herzl and the Origins of Zionism – Austrian Studies 8 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press): 74-86. | |
| 1997 | “Outing as Performance/ Outing as Resistance: A Queer Reading of Austrian (Homo)Sexualities.” Cultural Anthropology 12(1): 129-151. | |
| 1996 | “The Poetics of Politics and the Politics of Poetics: Richard Beer-Hofmann and Theodor Herzl Reconsidered.” The German Quarterly 69(3): 277-304. | |
| 1996 | “The City and the Self: Narratives of Spatial Belonging among Austrian Jews.” City & Society (1996): 50-81. |
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| 1996 | “Franz Boas and the Humboldtian Tradition: From Volksgeist and Nationalcharakter to an Anthropological Concept of Culture.” In George Stocking, ed., Volksgeist as Method and Ethic: Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition –History of Anthropology, vol. 8 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press): 17-78. | |
| 1995 | “On the Politics and Semantics of Austrian Memory: Vienna's Monument against War and Fascism.” History & Memory 7(2): 7-40. |
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Review Articles
| 2002 | “Sexual Modernity as Subject and Object.” Review Essay discussing Harry Oosterhuis, Stepchildren of Nature: Krafft-Ebing, Psychiatry, and the Making of Sexual Identity (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000) and Chandak Sengoopta, Otto Weininger: Sex, Science, and Self in Imperial Vienna (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000). Modernism/modernity 9(1): 165-175. |
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| 2000 | “Jews, Queers, and other Symptoms: Recent Work in Jewish Cultural Studies.” Review Essay discussing Daniel Boyarin, Unheroic Conduct: The Rise of Heterosexuality and the Invention of the Jewish Man (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), Miriam Peskowitz & Laura Levitt, eds. Judaism Since Gender (New York: Routledge, 1997), and Jonathan Boyarin & Daniel Boyarin, eds., Jews and Other Differences: The New Jewish Cultural Studies (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997). GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 6(2): 321-341. | |
| 1995 | “Between Oppression and Affirmation: Historical Ethnography of Lesbian and Gay Pasts.” Review Essay discussing Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy & Madeline D. Davis, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community (New York & London: Routledge, 1994) and George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (New York: BasicBooks, 1994). Anthropological Quarterly 68(2): 121-128. |
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Review
| 2003 | Review of Adam Kuper, Among the Anthroplogists: History and Context in Anthropology (London: The Athlone Press, 1999). Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 39(2): 200-201. |
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| 2002 | Review of Christine Oertel, Juden auf der Flucht durch Austria: Jüdische Displaced Persons in der US-Besatzungszone Österreichs (Vienna: Werner Eichbauer Verlag, 1999). Austrian History Yearbook XXXIII: 306-307. | |
| 2001 | Review of Douglas Cole, Franz Boas: The Early Years, 1858-1906 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999). American Ethnologist 28(2): 457-458. |
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| 2000 | Review of Regna Darnell, And Along Came Boas: Continuity and Revolution in Americanist Anthropology (Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1998). The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 6(4): 728-729. |
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| 2000 | Review of Adam Kuper, Culture: The Anthropologists’ Account (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999). Isis: Journal of the History of Science Society 91(2): 404-405. | |
| 2000 | Booknote on Andre Gingrich, Erkundungen: Themen der Ethnologischen Forschung (Vienna: Böhlau, 1999). Religious Studies Review 26:355. |
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| 2000 | Review of Seth Kunin, God’s Place in the World: Sacred Space and Sacred Place in Judaism (London: Cassell, 1998). American Ethnologist 27(1): 194-196. |
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| 1999 | Review of Allison James, Jenny Hockey, & Andrew Dawson, eds. After Writing Culture: Epistemology and Praxis in Contemporary Anthropology (London: Routledge, 1997). American Ethnologist 26(1): 260-261. | |
| 1998 | Review of Rudy Bleys, The Geography of Perversion: Male-to-male Sexual Behaviour outside the West and the Ethnographic Imagination, 1750-1918 (London: Cassell, 1996). Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences 34(4): 386-387. |
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| 1998 | Review of Sander Gilman, Franz Kafka, the Jewish Patient (New York & London: Routledge, 1995). Modern Austrian Literature 31(2): 139-141. |
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| 1997 | Review of Britta Rupp-Eisenreich & Justin Stagl, eds. Kulturwissenschaft im Vielvölkerstaat: Zur Geschichte der Ethnologie und verwandter Gebiete in Österreich, ca. 1780-1918 (Vienna and Cologne: Böhlau, 1995). Austrian History Yearbook XXVIII: 313-315. | |
| 1996 | Review of Nancy Harrowitz and Barbara Hyams, eds, Jews & Gender: Responses to Otto Weininger (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995). Modern Austrian Literature 29(1): 140-147. |
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| 1996 | Review of Helga Embacher, Neubeginn ohne Illusionen: Juden in Österreich nach 1945 (Vienna: Picus, 1995). German Studies Review 19(3): 602-603. |
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| 1996 | Review of Han Vermeulen and Arturo Alvarez Roldán, eds, Fieldwork and Footnotes: Studies in the History of European Anthropology (London and New York: Routledge, 1995). American Anthropologist 98(3): 684-686. |
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| 1996 | Review of Karin Jusek, Auf der Suche nach der Verlorenen: Die Prostitutionsdebatten im Wien der Jahrhundertwende (Vienna: Löcker, 1994). Austrian History Yearbook XXVII: 339-341. | |
| 1996 | Review of Ruth Wodak, Florian Menz, Richard Mitten, Frank Stern, Die Sprachen der Vergangenheiten: Öffentliches Gedenken in österreichischen und deutschen Medien (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1994). German Studies Review 19(1): 210-212. |
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| 1994 | Review of Kurt Mueller-Vollmer, Wilhelm von Humboldts Sprachwissenschaft (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 1993). American Anthropologist 96(4): 999-1000. |
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| 1994 | Review of Michael Dürr, Erich Kasten, Egon Renner, eds, Franz Boas: Ethnologe, Anthropologe, Sprachwissenschaftler. Ein Wegbereiter der modernen Wissenschaft vom Menschen (Berlin: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, 1992). American Anthropologist 96(1): 207-208. | |
| 1994 | Review of George Stocking, The Ethnographer's Magic and other Essays in the History of Anthropology (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992). Social Anthropology 2(2): 195-196. |
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| 1994 | Review of Robert Wistrich, ed, Austrians and Jews in the Twentieth Century: From Franz Joseph to Waldheim (London: Macmillan, 1992). The Jewish Quarterly 153 (Spring 1994): 65-66. |
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Other Publications
| 1998 | Review of Rudy Bleys, The Geography of Perversion: Male-to-male Sexual Behaviour outside the West and the Ethnographic Imagination, 1750-1918 (London: Cassell, 1996). Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences 34(4): 386-387. |
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| 1998 | Review of Sander Gilman, Franz Kafka, the Jewish Patient (New York & London: Routledge, 1995). Modern Austrian Literature 31(2): 139-141. |
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| 1997 | Review of Britta Rupp-Eisenreich & Justin Stagl, eds. Kulturwissenschaft im Vielvölkerstaat: Zur Geschichte der Ethnologie und verwandter Gebiete in Österreich, ca. 1780-1918 (Vienna and Cologne: Böhlau, 1995). Austrian History Yearbook XXVIII: 313-315. | |
| 1996 | Review of Nancy Harrowitz and Barbara Hyams, eds, Jews & Gender: Responses to Otto Weininger (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995). Modern Austrian Literature 29(1): 140-147. |
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| 1996 | Review of Helga Embacher, Neubeginn ohne Illusionen: Juden in Österreich nach 1945 (Vienna: Picus, 1995). German Studies Review 19(3): 602-603. |
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| 1996 | Review of Han Vermeulen and Arturo Alvarez Roldán, eds, Fieldwork and Footnotes: Studies in the History of European Anthropology (London and New York: Routledge, 1995). American Anthropologist 98(3): 684-686. |
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| 1996 | Review of Karin Jusek, Auf der Suche nach der Verlorenen: Die Prostitutionsdebatten im Wien der Jahrhundertwende (Vienna: Löcker, 1994). Austrian History Yearbook XXVII: 339-341. | |
| 1996 | Review of Ruth Wodak, Florian Menz, Richard Mitten, Frank Stern, Die Sprachen der Vergangenheiten: Öffentliches Gedenken in österreichischen und deutschen Medien (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1994). German Studies Review 19(1): 210-212. |
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| 1994 | Review of Kurt Mueller-Vollmer, Wilhelm von Humboldts Sprachwissenschaft (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 1993). American Anthropologist 96(4): 999-1000. |
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| 1994 | Review of Michael Dürr, Erich Kasten, Egon Renner, eds, Franz Boas: Ethnologe, Anthropologe, Sprachwissenschaftler. Ein Wegbereiter der modernen Wissenschaft vom Menschen (Berlin: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, 1992). American Anthropologist 96(1): 207-208. | |
| 1994 | Review of George Stocking, The Ethnographer's Magic and other Essays in the History of Anthropology (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992). Social Anthropology 2(2): 195-196. |
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| 1994 | Review of Robert Wistrich, ed, Austrians and Jews in the Twentieth Century: From Franz Joseph to Waldheim (London: Macmillan, 1992). The Jewish Quarterly 153 (Spring 1994): 65-66. |
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Conferences Organized
| 2003 | Understanding the 21st Century” (with Michael Rothberg and Stephen Hartnett). University of Illinois, Nov. 15. |
| 2003 | "EUtopia: Enlargement and the Politics of European Identity” (with Zsuzsa Gille and Robert Pahre), University of Illinois, April 11-12. |
| 2002 | Postcolonial Studies and Beyond” (with Ania Loomba, Suvir Kaul, Joshua Esty, and Antoinette Burton), University of Illinois, April 25-28. |
| 1998 | Historical Memory/ Historisches Gedächtnis“ (with Dan Diner). Conference held at the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften (IFK), Vienna, March 19-21. |
Sessions and Panels Organized
| 2004 | The Iraq War: A Panel on the First Anniversary.” Panel Discussion at the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH), University of Illinois, March 18. |
| 2004 | Turkey between East and West: A Panel on the Present and Future of Europe and the Middle East.” Panel Discussion at the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH), University of Illinois, Feb. 24. |
| 2004 | Religion and Modernity” (with Nils Jacobsen). Panel Discussion at the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH), University of Illinois, Feb. 5. |
| 2003 | Yann Martel, Life of Pi, and the World of Religion: A Discussion with Yann Martel.” Panel Discussion at the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH), University of Illinois, Oct. 21. |
| 2003 | The Legacy of Edward Said: Reflections on Culture and Politics” (with Michael Rothberg and Stephen Hartnett). Panel Discussion at the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH), University of Illinois, Oct. 14. |
| 2003 | Violence on Trial: A Panel on Global Justice in the 20th Century” (with Brett Kaplan). Panel Discussion at the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH), University of Illinois, Oct. 9. |
| 2003 | Rethinking the Emeritus” (with Wojtek Chodzko-Zajko). Panel Discussion at the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH), University of Illinois, Sept. 15. |
| 2003 | "The Challenge of Creationism" (with Leslea Hlusko). Panel Discussion at the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH), University of Illinois, Sept. 9. |
| 2003 | Fieldwork Across The Disciplines.” Panel Discussion at the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH), University of Illinois, March 31. |
| 2003 | Old Europe/New Europe: A Panel on the Geopolitics of the Current Moment.” Panel Discussion at the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH), University of Illinois, March 18. |
| 2002 | "A Jewish Science?" Session at the Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), New Orleans, Nov. 20-24. |
| 2002 | Sex and the New Europe” (with Don Kulick). Session at the Bi-annual Conference of the Council for European Studies (CES), Chicago, March 14-16. |
| 2001 | The Future of the Holocaust: A Panel Discussion on the Politics and Culture of Memory.” Panel Discussion at the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH), University of Illinois, Sept. 6. |
| 2000 | Jewish Museums at the Center of Europe: Holographs, Dislocations, and Emptiness” (with Jeffrey Feldman). Session at the Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS), Boston, Dec. 17-19. |
| 2000 | Postcolonial Theory Across the Disciplines” (with Lisa Lampert). Panel Discussion at the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH), University of Illinois, Oct. 19. |
| 2000 | The Haider Phenomenon in Austria and Europe.” Session at the Bi-annual Conference of the Council for European Studies (CES), Chicago, March 30 - April 1. |
| 2000 | Understanding the Twentieth Century” (with Mark Mazower). Session at the Bi-annual Conference of the Council for European Studies (CES), Chicago, March 30 - April 1. |
| 2000 | Debating Europe: Discourses of Employment in the EU.” Session at the Bi-annual Conference of the Council for European Studies (CES), Chicago, March 30 - April 1. |
| 1999 | Ethnographic Perspectives on European Jewry.” Session at the Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS), Chicago, Dec. 19-21. |
| 1999 | The Pasts, Presents, and Futures of Boasian Anthropology.” General Anthropology Division (GAD) and Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA) Co-Sponsored Invited Session at the Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Chicago, Nov. 17-21. |
| 1999 | Anthropology Without Fears: The Politics of Experience and Positioning in Contemporary Anthropology” (with Meira Weiss). Roundtable at the Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Chicago, Nov. 17-21. |
| 1999 | Jews and Other Differences: The Position of Anthropology in the New Jewish Cultural Studies.” Open Discussion at the Annual Meeting of the Council for the Anthropology of Jews and Judaism (CAJJ). Held during the Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Chicago, Nov. 17-21. |
| 1999 | Crossing the Great Divide? A Panel on the Rapprochement of History and Anthropology.” Panel Discoussion at the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH), University of Illinois, Sept. 16. |
| 1999 | Anthropology – Whence/Whither: A Symposium on the Past, Present, and Future of Cultural Anthropology.” Panel Discoussion at the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH), University of Illinois, Feb. 25. |
| 1998 | Jewish Self/ Jewish Other: Race, Space, and Place at the Intersection of Anthropology and Jewish Studies” (with Sascha Goluboff). General Anthropology Division (GAD) and Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA) Co-Sponsored Invited Session at the Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Philadelphia, Dec. 2-6. |
| 1998 | Altering States: Ethnographies of Transition in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union” (with Daphne Berdahl). Session at the Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Philadelphia, Dec. 2-6. |
| 1997 | Historicisms, Presentisms, and the Future of Anthropology: Papers in Honor of George W. Stocking Jr.” (with Ira Bashkow). American Ethnological Society (AES) and Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA) Co-Sponsored Invited Session at the Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Washington D.C., Nov.20-24. |
| 1997 | The Historian’s Magic and the Remaking of Anthropology: Papers on the History and Anthropology of George W. Stocking, Jr.” (with Ira Bashkow). Session at the Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Washington D.C., Nov.20-24. |
| 1997 | Reconstituting Identities through Ritualistic Practices: New Ethnographic Studies from Germany and Austria” (with Daphne Berdahl and Hermine de Soto). Session at the Annual Conference of the German Studies Association (GSA), Washington D.C., Sept. 25-28. |
| 1996 | Gender, Sexuality, and Kinship in the New (Western) Europe” (with Daphne Berdahl and Hermine de Soto). Session at the Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), San Francisco, Nov. 19-23. |
| 1996 | Anthropology and the Politics of Culture” (with Hermine de Soto). Panel at the Annual Conference of the German Studies Association (GSA), Seattle, Oct. 10-13. |
| 1996 | Europe after the Fall: Political Reconstructions of Gender, Sexuality, and Reproductive Rights” (with Hermine de Soto). Session at the Bi-annual Conference of the Council for European Studies (CES), Chicago, March 14-16. |
| 1995 | Metropolitan Spaces and the Production of Histories and Identities in East- Central Europe” (with Robert Rotenberg). Society for the Anthropology of Europe (SAE) Invited Session at the Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Washington D.C., Nov.15-19. |
| 1995 | The Queer Predicament: Culture, Everyday Life and Lesbian/Gay History” (with David Churchill). Panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association (ASA), Pittsburgh, Nov.9-12. |
| 1995 | Interdisciplinary Approaches to Issues of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Twentieth-Century Austrian Literature” (with Jacqueline Vansant). Session at the Annual Conference of the German Studies Association (GSA), Chicago, Sept. 21- 24. |
Papers
| 2003 | Germany, Is It Good for the Jews (and Jewish Studies)?” Presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS), Boston, Dec. 21-23. |
| 2003 | From the Margins to the Center and Back: ‘Europe’ in the Anthropological Imagination.” Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Chicago, Nov. 19-23. |
| 2003 | Symptoms of Modernity: Jews and Queers in Late-Twentieth-Century Vienna.” Department of Jewish Studies, McGill University, March 27. |
| 2003 | Schiller in the Shtetl: Karl Emil Franzos and the Cultural Colonization of Eastern Jewry.” Presented at the Conference “Jewish Communities in the Former Habsburg Monarchy.” Department of Hebrew & Judaic Studies, New York University and The Leo Baeck Institute, New York, March 20. |
| 2003 | From Austrian Victims to European Victors: Viennese Jews at the Turn of the Millenium.” Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota, March 13. |
| 2002 | Franz Boas’ Judaism Reconsidered.” Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), New Orleans, Nov. 20-24. |
| 2002 | "Can Vienna Become Chicago?: Reflections on an Ethnographic Autobiography." Presented at the Symposium "Chicago and Vienna: Two Cities in Dialogue." University of Illinois at Chicago, Oct. 10-11. |
| 2002 | Of Holographic Images and Storage Spaces: Modernity and Postmodernity in Vienna’s Jewish Museum.” Presented at the Conference "Memory and the Invention of Jewish History." Center for Jewish Studies, University of Maryland, April 14-15. |
| 2002 | "Queer Politics and Queer Studies: A Transatlantic Comparison." Presented at the Queer Issues Lecture Series, University of Illinois, April 9. |
| 2002 | Queering Austria for the New Europe: Discourses of Sexuality and Visions of Development at the Turn of the Millennium.” Presented at the Bi-annual Conference of the Council for European Studies (CES), Chicago, March 14-16. |
| 2001 | A Stranger in the House: The Place of Anthropology in Jewish Studies.” Presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS), Washington, D.C., Dec. 16-18. |
| 2001 | Austrian Zionism and the Jews of the New Europe.” Presented to the Anthropology of Europe Workshop, University of Chicago, Oct. 18. |
| 2001 | Cosmopolitanism as Symptom and Condition: Austrian Jews at the Turn of the Millenium.” Presented at the Conference “Jews as Cosmopolitans: Stereotype, Denunciation, Ideal.” Schloss Elmau, Germany, July 14-17. |
| 2001 | Of Holographic Images and Storage Spaces: Modernity and Postmodernity in Vienna’s Jewish Museum.” Presented to the Jewish Studies Workshop, University of Illinois, April 19. |
| 2000 | Of Holographic Images and Storage Spaces: Localizing Identity at Vienna’s Jewish Museum.” Presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS), Boston, Dec. 17-19. |
| 2000 | Jewish Ethnography as Colonizing Practice: The Production of the Eastern Jews in Late Nineteenth Century Europe.” Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), San Francisco, Nov. 15-19. |
| 2000 | Les/Bi/Gay/Trans/Het: Studying Europe’s Sexual Subcultures.” Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), San Francisco, Nov. 15-19. |
| 2000 | Austrian Zionism and the Jews of the New Europe.” Presented to the German History Colloquium, University of Illinois, Sept. 6. |
| 2000 | Toward a Neo-Boasian Anthropology.” Presented to the Sociocultural Anthropology Workshop, University of Illinois, Sept. 1. |
| 2000 | The EU and Other Roads into the Open.” Presented at the Conference “Schnitzler 1900-2000: New Contexts and Perspectives.” Department of German, University of Illinois at Chicago, July 13-16. |
| 2000 | Die Wiener Jahrhundertwende und der Mythos des Alltäglichen: Jüdische Erinnerungskultur in Österreich” (“Fin-de-Siècle Vienna and Everday Mythology: Jewish Memorial Culture in Austria”). Presented at the Simon-Dubnow-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur, Universität Leipzig, June 22. |
| 2000 | Supra-National Identities, Fin-de-Siècle Zionisms, and the Jews of the New Europe.” Presented at the Conference “Nationalism, Zionism and Ethnic Mobilisation.” Institute of Jewish Studies, University College London, June 13-15. |
| 2000 | Der Holocaust im Erinnerungsbild der USA und Österreich” (“The Holocaust in the Memorial Field of the United States and Austria”). Presented at the Jüdisches Institut für Erwachsenenbildung, Vienna, May 9. |
| 1999 | Muscle Jewry at the End of the Millenium: Vienna’s Jewish Sports Movement and the Relocation of the Eastern Jew.” Presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS), Chicago, Dec. 19-21. |
| 1999 | The Cosmopolitanism of Sexual Subversion: Vienna's Regenbogenparade and the Making of a European Capital.” Presented at the Conference “Changing Symbolic Geographies of Central and Eastern European Capital Cities.” Internationales ForschungszentrumKulturwissenschaften (IFK), Vienna, Dec. 10-11. |
| 1999 | Foucauldian Notes on a Neo-Boasian Anthropology.” Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Chicago, Nov. 17-21. |
| 1999 | Passing as a Native Anthropologist.” Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Chicago, Nov. 17-21. |
| 1999 | Resistive Play: Sports and the Emergence of Jewish Visibility in Contemporary Vienna.” Presented in the Colloquium Series of the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois, Nov. 8. |
| 1999 | Erinnerung und jüdische Identität am Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts” (“Memory and Jewish Identity at the End of the Twenthieth Century”). Presented at the Conference “Geschichte als Erinnerung: Jüdische Gedenkkulturen” (“History as Memory: Jewish Cultures of Remembrance”), Sommerakademie des Instituts für die Geschichte der Juden in Österreich, Vienna, July 4-8. |
| 1999 | The Prague Experience: Gay Male Sex Tourism and the Neo-Colonial Invetion of an Embodied Border.” Presented to the Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia, May 7. |
| 1999 | Resistive Play: Sports and the Emergence of a New Jewish Visibility in Contemporary Vienna.” Presented to the Jewish Studies Workshop, University of Illinois, April 29. |
| 1999 | The Prague Experience: Gay Male Sex Tourism and the Neo-Colonial Invetion of an Embodied Border.” Presented to the Cultural Studies Group, University of Illinois, April 27. |
| 1999 | The Prague Experience: Gay Male Sex Tourism and the Neo-Colonial Invetion of an Embodied Border.” Presented to the Queer Studies Workshop, University of Illinois, Feb. 4. |
| 1998 | The Prague Experience: Gay Male Sex Tourism and the Neo-Colonial Invetion of an Embodied Border.” Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Philadelphia, Dec. 2-6. |
| 1998 | Modernity and Postmodernity in the History of Race and Sexuality.” Position Paper Presented at the Midwest German History Workshop. University of Michigan, Nov. 21. |
| 1998 | Viennese-Jewish Literature and the Politics of Memory.” Presented at the Symposium “Art, Memory, and Politics in Post-Shoah Germany and Austria.” University of Illinois at Chicago, Nov. 11. |
| 1998 | The Prague Experience: Gay Male Sex Tourism and the Neo-Colonial Invention of an Embodied Border.” Presented to the Russian and East European Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Nov. 10. |
| 1998 | From Critical Reiteration to Resistive Autonomy: Contemporary Viennese-Jewish Literature in Anthropological Perspective.” Presented to the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Nov. 5. |
| 1998 | Inverted Appellation and Discursive Gender Insubordination: An Austrian Case Study in Gay Male Conversation.” Presented to the Anthropology of Europe Workshop, University of Chicago, Oct. 28. |
| 1998 | From Positivism to Interpretivism: Historicizing the ‘Crisis of Anthropology’.” Presented at the Annual Conference of the History of Science Society (HSS), Kansas City, Oct. 21-25. |
| 1998 | Vienna’s Rainbow Parade: Lesbian/Gay Politics and the Invention of Public Ritual in the Age of Queer Theory.” Presented at the Sawyer Symposium on “Sexual Politics: Race, Desire & the Nation,” University of Chicago, March 7. |
| 1998 | Between Silence and Defiance: On Writing the Ethnography of Contemporary Austrian Jewry.” Presented to the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Ohio State University, Feb. 20. |
| 1998 | Counter-Memory and Modes of Resistance: The Uses of Fin-de-siècle Vienna for Present-Day Austrian Jews.” Presented to the Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Jan. 29. |
| 1998 | The Prague Experience: Gay Male Sex Tourism and the Neo-Colonial Invention of an Embodied Border.” Presented to the Anthropology of Europe Workshop, University of Chicago, Jan. 15. |
| 1998 | Vienna’s Rainbow Parade: Lesbian/Gay Politics and the Invention of Public Ritual in the Age of Queer Theory.” Presented to the Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota, Jan. 13. |
| 1998 | Inside Out: Gay Male Underground Literature and the Negotiation of Sexual Subjectivity in Contemporary Austria.” Presented to the Department of German, Scandinavian, and Dutch, University of Minnesota, Jan. 12. |
| 1997 | The House Historian and the Atlantic Divide: George Stocking between American and British Anthropologies.” Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Washington D.C., Nov. 20-24. |
| 1997 | Germany between East and West; or what does “Culture” have to do with it?” Position Paper Presented at the Midwest German History Workshop. University of Michigan, Nov. 8. |
| 1997 | Queer Musical Strategies and the Invention of Gay Pride: The Ethnomusicology and Ethnography of Austria’s Rainbow Parade” (joint paper with Billy Vaughn). Presented at the Annual Conference of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), Pittsburgh, Oct. 24-26. |
| 1997 | Waltzing Gaily: (Ethno)Musicology Meets Queer Theory at Vienna’s Rainbow Parade” (joint paper with Billy Vaughn). Presented to the Department of Music, University of Chicago, Oct. 17. |
| 1997 | Vienna’s Rainbow Parade: Lesbian/Gay Politics and the Invention of Public Ritual in the Age of Queer Theory.” Presented at the Annual Conference of the German Studies Association (GSA), Washington D.C., Sept. 25-28. |
| 1997 | Inside Out: Gay Male Underground Literature and the Negotiation of Sexual Subjectivity in Contemporary Austria.” Preseted at the Conference “Austria Inside Out: Austrian Cultures in International Context.” Bowling Green State University, Sept. 18-20. |
| 1997 | Von exotizistischen Sexualitäten zu gleichgeschlechtlichen Lebenswelten: Lesbian/Gay Studies in der Kulturanthropologie” (“From Exoticist Sexualities to Same-sex Lifeworlds: Lesbian/Gay Studies in Cultural Anthropology”). Presented at the Institut für Völkerkunde, Universität Wien, June 23. |
| 1997 | Modes of Nostalgia and Figurations of 'Austria' in the Exil(auto)biographien of Richard Beer-Hofmann and Stefan Zweig.” Presented at the Twelth Annual Symposium on Austrian Literature and Culture, University of California, Riverside, April 17-19. |
| 1997 | Erinnerung und Widerstand: Das Wien des Fin-de-siècle im Bewußtsein österreichischer Juden der Gegenwart.” (“Memory and Resistance: Fin-de-siècle Vienna in the Consciousness of Present-day Austrian Jews”). Presented at the Institut für Geschichte, Universität Salzburg, March 17. |
| 1997 | Toward an Ethnography of Gay Vienna.” Presented to the Central European Studies Workshop, University of Chicago, Jan. 28. |
| 1997 | Queer Politics, Urban Spectacle, and Musical Experience at Vienna's First Gay Pride Parade” (joint paper with Billy Vaughn). Presented to the Ethnomusicology of Public Spaces Workshop, University of Chicago, Jan. 16. |
| 1996 | Richard Beer-Hofmann's Paula: Fragments of a Geography of Exile/d Nostaligia.” Presented at the Annual Conference of the Modern Language Association (MLA), Washington D.C., Dec. 27-30. |
| 1996 | 'Sichtbar '96': The Struggle over Lesbian and Gay Visibility in a Trans/National Austria.” Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), San Francisco, Nov. 20-24. |
| 1996 | Von 'Klasse' und 'Rasse' zu 'Geschlecht' und 'Sexualität': Konzeptionelle Felder und paradigmatische Trends in den anglo-amerikanischen Cultural Studies.” (“From ‘Class’ and ‘Race’ to ‘Gender’ and ‘Sexuality’: Conceptual Fields and Paradigmatic Trends in Anglo-American Cultural Studies”). Presented at the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften (IFK), Vienna, Oct. 28. |
| 1996 | Historical Memory and Modes of Resistance: The Uses of Fin-de-siècle Vienna for Present-Day Austrian Jews.” Presented at the Fifth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), Utrecht, August 19-24. |
| 1996 | Neue Trends in den amerikansichen Cultural Studies: Eine 'Queer Theory'-Perspektive zur österreichischen 'Outing'-Affäre.” (“New Trends in American Cultural Studies: A ‘Queer Theory’- Perspective on Austria’s ‘Outing’-Affair”). Presented at the Zentrum für Internationale und Interdisziplinäre Studien (ZIIS), Universität Wien, June 19. |
| 1996 | Technologies of Modernity and Jewish Identity in Late Imperial Vienna.” Presented at the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften (IFK), Vienna, June 17. |
| 1996 | Theodor Herzl's Zionism as Gendered Discourse.” Presented at the Conference “Theodor Herzl and the Origins of Zionism.” Centre for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex, (held in) London, April 16-19. |
| 1996 | Outing as Performance/ Outing as Resistance: A Queer Reading of a Stratified Economy of Knowledge.” Presented to the Lesbian and Gay Studies Workshop, University of Chicago, April 2. |
| 1996 | Gay Bishops, Liberal Paternalism, and the Pathology of Outing: Austrian Homosexualities in the Age of EU-expansion.” Presented at the Bi-annual Conference of the Council for European Studies (CES), Chicago, March 14-16. |
| 1996 | The City and the Self: Narratives of Spatial Belonging among Austrian Jews.” Presented to the Central European Studies Workshop, University of Chicago, Jan. 16. |
| 1995 | The City and the Self: Discourses of Spatial Belonging among Viennese Jews.” Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Washington D.C., Nov. 15-19. |
| 1995 | Queering Culture: The Uses and Abuses of Anthropology for Lesbian/Gay Social History.” Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Studies Association (ASA), Pittsburgh, Nov. 9-12. |
| 1995 | Beyond the Spatial Mapping of Identity: Contemplating the Lebenswelten of present-day Austrian Jewry.” Presented to the Anthropology of Europe Workshop, University of Chicago, Nov. 8. |
| 1995 | 'Meiner Substanz nach bin ich durchaus Jude, funktionell durchaus Österreicher': Richard Beer-Hofmann and the Imagination of a Jewish Cultural Identity in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna.” Presented at the Annual Conference of the German Studies Association (GSA), Chicago, Sept. 21-24. |
| 1995 | The Making of a Prophet of Ancient and Noble Culture in Fin-de-siècle Vienna: Richard Beer-Hofmann between Politics, Literature, and Judaism.” Presented at the Annual Midwest Graduate Seminar in German Studies (MGSGS), Chicago, May 18-20. |
| 1995 | Toward a Transnational Hermeneutic: Reading Mass Media Events across National Boundaries.” Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Ethnological Society (AES), Austin, April 26-29. |
| 1995 | Virtual Austria: Decoding the Mass Media Construction of an Imaginary Community.” Presented to the Anthropology of Europe Workshop, University of Chicago, April 19. |
| 1995 | Third Sex and Male Eros: Aspects of the Intellectual Conflicts of the Early German Homosexual Emancipation Movement.” Presented to the Lesbian and Gay Studies Workshop, University of Chicago, Feb. 27. |
| 1994 | 'Hello Austria/ Hello Vienna': The Construction of Austria through American Travel Television.” Presented at the Conference “A Small State in the Shadow of A Superpower: Austria and the United States since 1945.” Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota, Nov. 3-6. |
| 1994 | Discourse at Work: Observing the Construction of (Homo)sexual Subjectivities.” Presented to the Anthropology of Europe Workshop, University of Chicago, Oct. 18. |
| 1994 | The Roots of the Anthropological Concept of Culture in 19th Century German Thought.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society (HSS), New Orleans, Oct. 12-16. |
| 1994 | From Volksgeist and Nationalcharakter to an Anthropological Concept of Culture: Franz Boas and the Humboldtian Tradition.” Presented to the History of the Human Sciences Workshop, University of Chicago, April 29. |
| 1994 | The Street-Washing Jew: Public Discourse and Communal Memory in Waldheim's Vienna.” Presented at the Bi-annual Conference of the Council for European Studies (CES), Chicago, March 31-April 2. |
| 1994 | The Politics of Public Memory in Austria: The Case of the Hrdlicka-Monument.” Presented to the Anthropology of Europe Workshop, University of Chicago, March 9. |
Session Chair/ Discussant
| 2004 | Chair of Session “Constructing the Nation through the Lens of Gender.” Fifth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History. University of Illinois, March 11-13. |
| 2004 | Discussant of Sarah Smith’s Paper “Rethinking Chimpanzee Culture.” Biological Anthropology Journals Club, University of Illinois, Feb. 3 |
| 2003 | Chair and Discussant of Session “Ritual: Origins, Innovations, and Meanings.” Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS), Boston, Dec. 21-23. |
| 2003 | Chair of Session “Nazi Crimes and Retribution in Austria.” Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS), Boston, Dec. 21-23. |
| 2003 | Discussant of Session “Choosing Jewish: Ethnicity, Performance, and the Cultural Politics of Jewishness.” Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Chicago, Nov. 19-23. |
| 2003 | Chair of Event "Israel/Palestine: An Assessment -- with Dan Rabinowitz". Discussion at the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH), University of Illinois, Oct. 31. |
| 2003 | Chair and Discussant of Session “Love.” Midwest German History Workshop, University of Illinois, Oct. 18-19. |
| 2003 | Chair of Session “Whose Holy Land?” Conference: “Cultures of Conflict: Reflections on Middle Eastern Dilemmas.” Sommerakademie des Instituts für die Geschichte der Juden in Österreich, Vienna, June 30 – July 2. |
| 2002 | Chair and Discussant of Session “Histories of Violence.” Midwest German History Workshop, University of Illinois, Nov. 9-10. |
| 2002 | Discussant of Gerald Creed’s Paper, “Surviving Subsistence: Dilemmas of Hybridity in Rural Bulgaria.” Sociocultural Anthropology Workshop, University of Illinois, Nov. 8. |
| 2002 | Chair of Session “‘Gay Reproduction.” Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Fourth Annual Spring Conference, “The Means of Reproduction.” University of Illinois, April 4-6. |
| 2002 | Discussant of Session “Cultural Nationalism Contesting Globalization.” Third Transnational Workshop at UIUC, Sociology – “Transnational Practices: Spaces, Economies, and Identities.” University of Illinois, March 28. |
| 2002 | Discussant of Jesook Song’s Paper, “Transforming the Gendered Welfare Subject?: South Korean Welfarism during the National Debt Crisis, 1998 to 2000.” Sociocultural Anthropology Workshop, University of Illinois, Feb. 8. |
| 2001 | Discussant of Session “European Soul Searching: New Discourses on European Identity.” Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Washington, D.C., Nov. 28 - Dec. 2. |
| 2000 | Chair and Discussant of Session “Sexual Idealism and Emancipation” at the Conference “The Future of the Queer Past.” University of Chicago, Sept. 14-17. |
| 2000 | Discussant at Workshop “Tourismus und Nationalismus: Reisen – Identitäten – Mythen” (“Tourism and Nationalism: Travel – Identities – Myths”). Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften (IFK), Vienna, May 26-27. |
| 2000 | Chair of Session “The Haider Phenomenon in Austria and Europe.” Bi-annual Conference of the Council for European Studies (CES), Chicago, March 30 - April 1. |
| 2000 | Chair of Session “German Memories and Historical Representation.” Bi-annual Conference of the Council for European Studies (CES), Chicago, March 30 - April 1. |
| 1999 | Chair of Session “The Pasts, Presents, and Futures of Boasian Anthropology” (with Richard Handler). Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Chicago, Nov. 17-21. |
| 1999 | Chair of Session “‘Native’ Informants: The Politics of Local Culture.” Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities First Annual Spring Conference, “Culture, Place, and the Cultures of Displacement.” University of Illinois, April 15-17. |
| 1998 | Chair of Session “Jewish Self/ Jewish Other: Race, Space, and Place at the Intersection of Anthropology and Jewish Studies” (with Sascha Goluboff). Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Philadelphia, Dec. 2-6. |
| 1998 | Discussant of Sascha Goluboff’s Paper, “‘Wild’ Markets, ‘Black’ Men: Building the Mountain Jewish Community at the Moscow Choral Synagogue.” Sociocultural Anthropology Workshop, University of Illinois, Oct. 30. |
| 1998 | Discussant of Gerhard Botz’ Paper at the Conference “Humanity at the Limit: The Impact of the Holocaust Experience on Jews and Christians.” University of Notre Dame, April 26-28. |
| 1998 | Discussant of Dagmar Lorenz’ Paper “Establishing the Present by Constructing a Past: Vienna Jewish Literature and Films of the 1980s” and Matthias Konzett’s Paper “'Suche nach M.': Marking Literature and Memory in a Culture of Amnesia” at the Conference “Historical Memory/ Historisches Gedächtnis.” Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften (IFK), Vienna, March 19-21. |
| 1997 | Chair of Session “The Historian’s Magic and the Remaking of Anthropology: Papers on the History and Anthropology of George W. Stocking, Jr.” Annual conference of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Washington D.C., Nov. 20-24. |
| 1995 | Discussant of Regina Bendix' Paper, “Longing for Authenticity: Canon Formation in Folklore Studies.” History of the Human Sciences Workshop, University of Chicago, Dec. 1. |
| 1995 | Discussant of Renata Wilk's Paper, “Felix Nussbaum: The Crisis of Jewish Identity in Germany 1925-1939.” Annual Midwest Graduate Seminar in German Studies (MGSGS), Chicago, May 18-20 |
Public Lectures, Interviews, and Other Speaking Engagements
| 2004 | “Deutsch im Jahre 2004.” (“German in the Year 2004”). Lecture delivered at the Induction Ceremony and Departmental Awards Night, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois, March 18. |
| 2004 | “Steven Pinker and the Nature/Nurture Debate.” Lecture delivered in the course “Anthropology” (Billy Vaughn). Department of Social Studies, University High School, Urbana, March 10. |
| 2004 | Participant in Panel Discussion “Dual Career Dilemmas.” 2004 Symposium on Graduate Education: Challenges, Choices, Careers. Graduate College, University of Illinois, Feb. 10. |
| 2004 | “The Concept of Cuture.” Lecture delivered in the course “Anthropology” (Billy Vaughn). Department of Social Studies, University High School, Urbana, Jan. 23. |
| 2003 | “Four Theorists of Postmodernity.” Lecture delivered in the course “Philosophy” (Billy Vaughn). Department of Social Studies, University High School, Urbana, Dec. 10. |
| 2003 | “Vienna’s Jewish Museum.” Lecture delivered in the course “Topics in Museum Studies” (Prof. Helaine Silverman). Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Dec. 1 |
| 2003 | “Political Ideas for the 21st Century.” Lecture delivered in the course “Philosophy” (Billy Vaughn). Department of Social Studies, University High School, Urbana, November 17. |
| 2003 | “Understanding the 21st Century.” Lecture delivered in the course “Philosophy” (Billy Vaughn). Department of Social Studies, University High School, Urbana, November 11. |
| 2003 | “Understanding the 21st Century.” Lecture delivered in the course “The World since 1945” (Chris Butler). Department of Social Studies, University High School, Urbana, November 11. |
| 2003 | "Interdisciplinarity" (with Harry Liebersohn). Lecture delivered in the "Graduate Proseminar" (Prof. Clare Crowston). Department of History, University of Illinois, Nov. 6 |
| 2003 | "Jewish Life in Europe before the Holocaust." Lecture delivered at "Humanities in the Classroom and Community: An Interdisciplinary Holocaust Curriculum." Office of Continuing Education, University of Illinois, July 28–Aug. 2. |
| 2003 | “Matti Bunzl: The Liberation of Austria’s Jews, Gays, and Lesbians.” Interview by Daniel Pinkerton, Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota. Austrian Studies Newsletter 15(2): 3, 8-9. |
| 2003 | “The Miracle of Intervale Avenue.” Lecture delivered in the course “Anthropology” (Billy Vaughn). University High School, Urbana, April 14. |
| 2003 | Commentary on Documentary “Trembling Before G-d.” Hillel, University of Illinois, April 1. |
| 2003 | “How Jews Became White.” Lecture delivered in the course “Constructing Race: Asians, Africans, Latino/as, and Native Americans in America” (Prof. Augusto Espiritu). Department of History, University of Illinois, Feb. 13. |
| 2003 | “Cultural Anthropology.” Lecture delivered in the course “Anthropology” (Billy Vaughn). Department of Social Studies, University High School, Urbana, Feb. 6. |
| 2003 | “Marx/Durkheim/Weber.” Lecture delivered in the course “Anthropology” (Billy Vaughn). Department of Social Studies, University High School, Urbana, Jan. 23. |
| 2002 | “The Question of Relativism.” Lecture delivered in the course “Philosophy” (Billy Vaughn). Department of Social Studies, University High School, Urbana, Dec. 2. |
| 2002 | “Queer Tourism: Itinerant Sexualities, Identities in Motion.” Lecture delivered in the course “Queer Globalization: Race, Sex and Nation.” (Prof. Martin Manalansan). Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Nov. 7. |
| 2002 | “Divergent Traditions: German and Eastern European Jewry.” Lecture delivered in the course “Yiddish Literature in Translation: 19th and 20th Century Landmarks.” (Prof. Brett Kaplan). Department of Comparative Literature, University of Illinois, Oct. 31. |
| 2002 | “The Modern Jew as Image and Other.” Lecture delivered in the course “Images of the ‘Other’: Anthropological Perspectives.” (Prof. Alma Gottlieb). Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Oct. 22. |
| 2002 | "Jewish Life in Europe before the Holocaust." Lecture delivered at "Humanities in the Classroom and Community: An Interdisciplinary Holocaust Curriculum." Office of Continuing Education, University of Illinois, July 28–Aug. 2. |
| 2002 | Speaker at Panel Discussion on Four-Field Teaching. Graduate Anthropology Student Symposium, University of Illinois, March 9. |
| 2002 | “The Possibilities and Challenges of Native Anthropology.” Lecture delivered in the course “Fieldwork in Cultural Anthropology: Theory and Method.” (Prof. Alma Gottlieb). Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Feb. 5. |
| 2001 | Speaker at “Anthropology Roundtable: September 11 and Its Aftermath.” Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Oct. 25. |
| 2001 | “Ruth Benedict and Cultural Relativism.” Lecture delivered in the course “Philosophy” (Billy Vaughn). Department of Social Studies, University High School, Urbana, Oct. 12. |
| 2001 | Radio Interview on WILL-AM 580 on the Political Situation in Austria (along with Doron Rabinovici), University of Illinois, Feb. 6. |
| 2000 | “Growing Up Jewish in Post-Holocaust Central Europe.” Lectured delivered at Hillel. University of Illinois, Sept. 8. |
| 2000 | “Kulturanthropologie in den USA” (“Cultural Anthropology in the United States”). Presented at the Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, Universität Wien, May 16. |
| 1999 | “The Place of Anthropology in Queer Studies.” Lecture delivered in the course “Introduction to Queer Studies” (Prof. Cheryl Cole). Women's Studies Program, University of Illiois, Nov. 2. |
| 1999 | “Growing up Gay and Jewish in Post-Shoah Vienna.” Lecture delivered to the Congregation Or Chadash, Chicago, Aug. 7. |
| 1999 | “Organizing a Panel.” Workshop presented to the Graduate Anthropology Student Association (GASA), Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, April 7. |
| 1999 | “Anthropology and Cultural Studies.” Lecture delivered to the Proseminar in Cultural Studies (Prof. Cameron McCarthy). Inst. for Communications Research, University of Illinois, April 1. |
| 1999 | “German-Jewish Culture between Emancipation, Assimilation, and Destruction.” Lecture delivered to the Adult Education Program, Sinai Temple, Champaign, March 28. |
| 1999 | “Being Jewish in Post-Holocaust Austria.” Lecture delivered to local B’nai B’rith chapter. Champaign, Jan. 17. |
| 1998 | “Austrian-Jewish Life after the Holocaust.” Lecture delivered in the course “The Holocaust in German Literature and Film” (Prof. Dagmar Lorenz). Department of German Studies, Ohio State University, Feb. 19. |
| 1997 | “Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Development of Queer Theory.” Lecture delivered in the course “Gender Theory in Anthropology” (Prof. Susan Gal). Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, Feb. 13. |
| 1995 | “Franz Boas and Nineteenth-Century German Anthropology.” Lecture delivered in the course “Culture” (Prof. Marshall Sahlins). Dept. of Anthropology, University of Chicago, Nov. 14. |
| 1995 | “The Tradition of Nineteenth-Century German Anthropology.” Lecture delivered in the course “The Practice of Anthropology” (Prof. George Stocking). Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, Jan. 11. |
Courses Taught
Undergraduate:
- Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (University of Illinois).
- The Anthropology of Jews and Judaism (University of Illinois).
- American Jewish Culture (University of Illinois).
- The Rapproachment of History and Anthropology in German Studies (with Drew Bergerson – University of Chicago).
- The Practice of Anthropology: Boasian Anthropology (Teaching Assist. – University of Chicago).
- Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology (Teaching Assist. – Stanford University).
Graduate:
- The History and Historiography of Anthropology (University of Illinois).
- German-Jewish Culture and History (University of Illinois).
- Enlightenment/Modernity: Historical and Anthropological Approaches to the Jewish Past (with Adam Sutcliffe – University of Illinois).
- The History of the Human Sciences: Sociology & Anthropology (with Harry Liebersohn – University of Illinois).
- Integrated Four Field Seminar (with Steven Leigh and Timothy Pauketat – University of Illinois).
- Introduction to Illinois Anthropology (University of Illinois).
- Symptoms of Modernity: The Ethnography of Minorities as Critical History (University of Vienna).
Reading Courses:
- The Ethnography of Yiddish Culture (University of Illinois).
- The Anthropology of Israel/Palestine (University of Illinois).
- Modern German- and Austrian-Jewish History (University of Illinois).
- Austrian-Jewish Literature (University of Illinois).
- Eastern European Jewish History (University of Illinois).
- The History and Culture of Modern Poland (University of Illinois).
- Classical Readings in the History of Anthropology (University of Illinois).
- Aspects in the History of Social Theory (University of Illinois).
- German Hermeneutical Theory (University of Illinois).
- Introduction to Ethnography (University of Illinois).
- Modernity, Space, Tourism, and the State (University of Illinois).
- The Global Anthropology of Institutions (University of Illinois).
- The Anthropology of Globalization (University of Illinois).
- Women, Sexuality, and Science in American Culture (University of Illinois).
- Queer Anthropology (University of Illinois).
Grants & Stipends
| 2003 | Successful Application for a Publication Subvention of Postcolonial Studies and Beyond (Durham: Duke University Press) (with Jed Esty and Antoinette Burton) -awarded by the University of Illinois Research Board. |
| 2002 | Successful Application for Research and Travel Support for Book Project "Boasian Contexts: Essays on the German and Jewish History of American Anthropology" -awarded by the University of Illinois Research Board. |
| 2000/01 | Successful Application for a Half-Time Research Assistantship for Book Project "Symptoms of Modernity: Jews and Queers in Late-Twentieth-Century Vienna" -awarded by the University of Illinois Research Board. |
| Jan. 1997 | Doktorandenstipendium der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften June 1998 (Dissertation Stipend of the Austrian Academy of Sciences) – Awarded annually in a national, cross-disciplinary competition. |
| April 1997 | Wissenschaftsstipendium der Stadt Wien (Scholarly Stipend of the City of Vienna) |
| Aug. 1997 | Awarded to Support Work on the Introduction of Johannes Fabian’s Time and the Other. |
| April 1996 | Junior Fellowship – Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften (IFK), Vienna. |
| July 1996 | Resident fellowship awarded to facilitate dissertation research. |
| 1994/95 | Phoenix Fellowship – Division of the Social Sciences, University of Chicago. |
| 1996/97 | Three-year stipend conferred in recognition of outstanding first-year performance. |
| 1993/94 | Century Scholarship – Division of the Social Sciences, University of Chicago. |
| 1996/97 | Scholarship covering university tuition for four years. |
| 1994 | Small Research and Travel Grants awarded by the History of Science Society, the Morris Fishbein Center for the Study of the History of Science and Medicine (University of Chicago), the Division of the Social Sciences (University of Chicago), the Center for Austrian Studies (University of Minnesota), the Center for German-Jewish Studies (University of Sussex), the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Drobny Program for the Study of Jewish Culture and Society (University of Illinois), the Institute for the History of the Jews in Austria, and the Scholar’s Travel Fund (University of Illinois). |
Awards, Prizes & Recognitions
| 2002/03 | Outstanding Undergraduate Teacher, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois. |
| 2002/03 | Named to Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent – Spring Semester, University of Illinois. |
| 2001/02 | Named to Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent – Fall & Spring Semester, University of Illinois. |
| 2000/01 | Named to Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent – Fall Semester, University of Illinois. |
| 1999/00 | Named to Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent – Fall Semester, University of Illinois. |
| 1999/00 | Recipient of an Alumni Discretionary Award – College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois. |
| 1999 | History of Science Society (HSS) Article Prize for “Franz Boas and the Humboldtian Tradition: From Volksgeist and Nationalcharakter to an Anthropological Concept of Culture.” Prize awarded by the Forum for the History of the Human Sciences (a subsection of HSS) for best article published in the history of the human sciences between 1996 and 1998. |
| 1998/99 | Named to Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent – Fall & Spring Semester, University of Illinois. |
| 1996 | Graduate Student Article Prize awarded by the Society for the Anthropology of Europe for “The City and the Self: Narratives of Spatial Belonging among Austrian Jews.” |
| 1996 | Van Holst Prize Lecturership awarded (together with Andrew Bergerson) for syllabus “The Rapprochement of History and Anthropology in German Studies” – Department of History, University of Chicago. |
| 1993 | Centennial Teaching Assistant – Department of Anthropology, Stanford University. Bi-annual award presented to the outstanding teaching assistant in the department during 1992/93. |
Book Series Edited
| 2002 | Co-Editor (with Daphne Berdahl and Michael Herzfeld) of “New Anthropologies of Europe” (Indiana University Press). |
Editorial Boards
| 2002 | Member, Editorial Board, Jewish Culture and History (Frank Cass Publishers; Nadia Valman, Editor). |
| 2002 | Member, International Editorial Advisory Board of the Jahrbuch des Simon-Dubnow-Instituts/Yearbook of the Simon Dubnow Institute (Simon Dubnow Institute; Dan Diner, Editor). |
| 1999 | Member, Editorial Board, History of Anthropology (University of Wisconsin Press; Richard Handler, Editor). |
| 1999 | Assistant Editor, Journal of Sport and Social Issues (Sage Publications; Cheryl Cole, Editor). 2001 |
| 1998 | Associate Editor and Book Review Editor, Anthropology of Eurasia Review (De Paul University; 2001 Robert Rotenberg, Editor). |
Peer Reviews
Book Manuscripts Reviewed for:
- University of California Press (3)
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Wayne State University Press
- Routledge Blackwell
- Palgrave
Article Manuscripts Reviewed for:
- Cultural Anthropology (8)
- American Ethnologist (5)
- City & Society (5)
- Journal of Sport and Social Issues (4)
- Modern Austrian Literature (4)
- American Anthropologist (3)
- History of Anthropology (2)
- Jewish Culture and History (2)
- Identities (2)
- The German Quarterly (2) Anthropological Quarterly
- Ethnos
- Jewish Social Studies
- GLQ
- Social Politics
- The Communication Review
- Slavic Review
Tenure and Promotion Reviews
Swarthmore College
Other Professional Service and Appointments
| 2004 | Member, Program Committee, Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), San Francisco, Nov. 17-21. |
| 2003 | Councillor and Member of the Executive Board, American Ethnological Society (AES). |
| 2003 | Member, Board of Directors, Illinois Humanities Council (IHC). |
| 2003 | Member, Society for the Anthropology of Europe (SAE) Student Essay Prize Committee. |
| 2002/03 | Member, Selection Committee, Council for European Studies (CES) Pre-Dissertation 2003/04 Fellowships. |
| 2002/03 | Evaluator, SSRC-ACLS International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship Program. |
| Spring 2003 | Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of European Ethnology, University of Vienna. |
| 2000-01 | Member, Society for the Anthropology of Europe (SAE) Student Essay Prize Committee. |
| 2000 | Evaluator, Dissertation Stipend, Austrian Academy of Sciences. |
| Fall 1999 | Head, Council for the Anthropology of Jews and Judaism (CAJJ). |
| Fall 1999 | Member-at-Large, Board of Directors, Society for the Anthropology of Europe (SAE). Fall 2001 |
| Fall 1999 | Member, Centennial Advisory Board Committee, American Anthropological Association (AAA). Fall 2002 |
| 1999/2000 | Member, Conference Planning Committee, Council for European Studies (CES). |
| 1999 | Member, Society for the Anthropology of Europe (SAE) Student Essay Prize Review Committee. |
| Fall 1998 | External Evaluator, Department of Sociolinguistics, University of Vienna. |
| March 1994 | Sociocultural Editor of the Chicago Anthropology Exchange (student-run journal). July 1994 |
| March 1993 | Assistant to Jane Collier as Program Chair for the General Anthropology. June 1993. Division of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). |
University Service
| Winter 2004 | Member, Advisory Committee, Center for Global Studies, University of Illinois. |
| Winter 2004 | Successful Application for Continued Funding of the Working Group on Globalization and Empire as a Project Supported by Chancellor’s Initiative on “The Humanities in a Globalizing World” (with Stephen Hartnett and Michael Rothberg), University of Illinois. |
| Fall 2003 | On-Campus Interviewer, Fulbright Applications, University of Illinois. |
| Fall 2003 | Member, Ad-Hoc Humanities Initiative Committee, Department of History, University of Illinois. |
| Fall 2003 | Member, Search Committee for an Associate Director, Center for Global Studies, University of Illinois. |
| Spring 2003 | Acting Director, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH), University of Illinois. |
| Spring 2003 | Successful Application for Funding of the Working Group on Globalization and Empire as a Project Supported by Chancellor’s Initiative on “The Humanities in a Globalizing World” (with Stephen Hartnett and Michael Rothberg), University of Illinois. |
| Spring 2003 | Member, Steering Committee, Mellon Initiative. University of Illinois. |
| Spring 2003 | Member, Campus-Wide Committee on New Directions in General Education. |
| 2002/03 | Co-Chair, Steering Committee, “The Humanities in a Globalizing World.” University of Illinois. |
| Fall 2002 | Chair, Committee on Colloquia and Intellectual Community, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois. |
| 2002/03 | Member, Search Committee for the Joint Position in Anthropology and East Asian Languages and Cultures with a Specialization in the Anthropology of China. Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois. |
| Spring 2002 | Member, Initiatives Advisory Board, University of Illinois. |
| February 2002 | Facilitator at “Cross-Campus Initiatives Retreat: Positioning the Campus for the Future.” University of Illinois. |
| 2001/02 | Member, Admissions Committee, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois. |
| Spring 2001 | Successful Application for Continuation of Funding of Jewish Studies Workshop as an Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Reading Group (with Lisa Lampert), University of Illinois. |
| Spring 2001 | Member, Search Committee for a New Director, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH), University of Illinois. |
| Spring 2001 | Member, Graduate Requirements Committee, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois. |
| Fall 2000 | Successful Application for Funding of Jewish Studies Workshop as an Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Reading Group (with Lisa Lampert), University of Illinois. |
| Fall 2000 | Member, Fifth-Year Review Committee, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH), University of Illinois. |
| 2000/01 | Member, By-Laws Committee, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois. |
| 1999/00 | Member, Advisory Committee, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois. 2001/02 |
| 1999/00 | Member, Sociocultural Subcommittee on Undergraduate Curriculum, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois. |
| 1998/99 | Member, History and Anthropology Committee, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois. |
| 1998/99 | Member, Executive Committee, Program in Jewish Culture and Society, University of Illinois. |
| 1998/99 | Member, Queer Studies Steering Committee, University of Illinois. |
| 1998/99 | Member, Admissions and Financial Aid Committee, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois. |
| Spring 1999 | Coordinator, Jewish Studies Workshop, University of Illinois. |
| Spring 1999 | Coordinator, Queer Studies Workshop, University of Illinois. Fall 2000 |
| Fall 1998 | Coordinator, Sociocultural Anthropology Workshop, University of Illinois. |
| Fall 1998 | Successful Funding Applications for and Organization of Campus Visits by, among others, George Stocking, Marshall Sahlins, Johannes Fabian, Richard Handler, Dan Rabinowitz, Tony Judt, Dan Diner, Peter Novick, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Ruth Behar, Doron Rabinovici, David Cohen, Carolyn Dinshaw and Steven Pinker. University of Illinois. |
| 1995/96 | Coordinator, Anthropology of Europe Workshop, University of Chicago. |
| 1993/94 | Member, Student-Faculty Liason Committee. Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago. |
Student Advising
Member, Dissertation Committee, Bryan Ganaway. Department of History, University of Illinois. Title: “Consuming Miniatures: Toys and the Creation of Middle Class Childhood in Imperial Germany.” Defended, May 15, 2003.
Member, Dissertation Committee, Molly Wilkinson. Department of History, University of Illinois. Title: "Sports, Mass Mobilization, and the Everyday Culture of Socialism in East Germany." Defended, April 10, 2003.
Member, Dissertation Committee, Jesook Song. Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois. Title: "Shifting Technologies: Neoliberalization of the Welfare State in South Korea, 1997-2001." Defended, Nov. 4, 2002.
Member, Dissertation Committee, David Bielanski. Department of History, University of Illinois. Title: "Front Line Weimar: Paramilitary Mobilization and Masculine Representation in Post-War Germany." Defended, Oct. 9, 2002.
Member, Dissertation Committee, E.J. Carter. Department of History, University of Illinois. Title: "The Green Table: Gambling Casinos and the Culture of Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Germany." Defended, Sept. 18, 2002.
Member, Dissertation Committee, Sarah Phillips. Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois. Title: "’Civil’ Societies and ‘Evil’ States: Ambiguities of Women's NGO Organizing and Paternalism in Ukraine." Defended, May 8, 2002.
Member, Dissertation Committee, Brent Maner. Department of History, University of Illinois. Title: “The Search for a Buried Nation: Archaeology in Central Europe, 1750 to the Present.” Defended, Sept. 7, 2001.
Member, Dissertation Committee, Joe Perry. Department of History, University of Illinois. Title: “Christmas and the Search for Community in Modern Germany.” Defended, Aug. 18, 2000.
Member, Dissertation Committee, Richard Freeman. Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois. Title: “Learning to Rebel: Socialist Youth Activism in Contemporary Buenos Aires.” Defended, Sept. 7, 1999.
Member, Preliminary Examination Committee, Tatjana Soldat-Jaffe. Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois. Examined, February 19, 2002.
Member, Preliminary Examination Committee, Irina Gigova. Department of History, University of Illinois. Examined, May 15, 2001.
Member, Preliminary Examination Committee, Gregory Stroud. Department of History, University of Illinois. Examined, Oct. 30, 2000.
Member, Preliminary Examination Committee, Dmitry Tartakovsky. Department of History, University of Illinois. Examined, Sept. 18, 2000.
Member, Preliminary Examination Committee, E.J. Carter. Department of History, University of Illinois. Examined, May 24, 1999.