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Faculty Publications

Faculty Emeriti

  • Douglas Greenberg
  • Douglas Greenberg
  • Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History
  • Degree: Ph.D., Cornell University
  • Research Interests: Holocaust studies; memory and history; U.S. colonial history

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books

  • Editor (with others), Colonial America: Essays in Political and Social Development (6th edition; Routledge, 2010)
  • Editor (with Stanley N. Katz), The Life of Learning: The Charles Homer Haskins Lectures, 1983-1993 (Oxford University Press, 1994)
  • Editor (with others), Constitutionalism, Democracy, and the Transformation of the Modern World (Oxford University Press, New York, 1993)
  • Fellowships in the Humanities, 1983-1991 (ACLS Occasional Paper No. 18, 1992)
  • Co-author, A Concise History of the American People (Harlan Davidson Publishing Company, 1984)
  • Co-author, The American People: A History (Harlan Davidson Publishing Co., 1981; 2nd Edition, 1987; 3rd Edition, forthcoming)
  • Crime and Law Enforcement in the Colony of New York, 1691-1776 (Cornell University Press, 1976)

Articles and Chapters in Books

  • “Cool Hand Luke in the Marketplace of No Ideas,” Reviews in American History, (Forthcoming, Sepetember, 2010).
  • “Historical Memory of the Shoah: The Use of Survivor Testimony,” Extermination, Exterminations: The Shoah and Mass Violence in the 20th Century, (University of Florence [Italy], forthcoming)
  • “Andrew Marvell and Satchel Paige in Baghdad,” Library Resources & Technical Services, (April, 2005), 82-86
  • “Conservation and Meaning,” Stewards of the Sacred: Sacred Artifacts, Religious Culture and the Museum as Social Institution, [Center for World Religions (Harvard University) and American Association of Museums], Cambridge, MA. (2005), 41-48
  • “Henry’s Harmonica: Memory, History, and Technology in A Genocidal World”, Journal of the Sydney [Australia] Institute,  (May, 2003)
  • “Building and Using Cultural Digital Libraries: Supporting Access to Large Oral History Archives,” Proceedings of the Second ACM/IEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, (New York, 2002), 18-27 [with others]
  • “Introduction,” Go West!: Chicago and American Expansion (Chicago, 1999)
  • “Introduction,” What George Wore and Sally Didn’t: Surprising Stories from America’s Past (Chicago, 1998)
  • “Camel Drivers and Gatecrashers: Quality Control in the Digital Research Library,” in Patricia Battin and Brian Hawkins, eds., The Mirage of Continuity: The Reconfiguration of Academic Information Resources in the Twenty-First Century (Council on Library and Information Resources and American Association of Universities: 1998); reprinted EDUCAUSE Review (May/June 2000), 50-56

HONORS AND AWARDS

  • Triennial Award for Distinguished Service to the Humanities, Phi Beta Kappa Society of the United States (2009)
  • Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, Skidmore College (2006)
  • Ner Tamid Award, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, (2003)
  • Fellow, Society of American Historians (2003)
  • Fellow, Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities (2000-2008)
  • Community Service Award, The Southside Partnership [Chicago] (1999)
  • Doctor of History, honoris causa, Lincoln College (1996)
  • Elected Member, American Antiquarian Society (1996)
  • Fellow, New York Institute for the Humanities (1988-1993)
  • Visiting Fellow, Princeton University (1980-81)
  • Fellow, The Huntington Library (1981)
  • Philip Greven
  • Professor Emeritus
  • Specialty: Early American History; Religious, Intellectual, and Social History
  • Ann Fabian
  • Ann Fabian
  • Professor Emerita of History and American Studies
  • Degree: Ph.D. American Studies, Yale University
  • Rutgers : At Rutgers from 2000-2016

Additonal Degrees:

  • B.A. with Highest Honors in Philosophy,
    University of California, Santa Cruz

RESEARCH INTERESTS

I work on the cultural history of the United States in the long nineteenth century.  I have published books and essays on gambling, the history of the book, personal narratives, financial panics, ruined banks, and collections of human remains.  My work on burial and scientific collections of human bodies has led to an interest in American natural history, and I have begun research on a new book on the broad circles of early nineteenth-century collectors who traveled the world and found specimens for cabinets and museums.

I am also working on an essay on the place of everyday life in the photographs commissioned by the Farm Security Administration in the late 1930s and early 1940s.  The paper grew out of the 2010-2011 Center for Cultural Analysis on the “Everyday and the Ordinary” and from discussions with my students in an SAS Honors seminar on “American Culture in the 1930s.”

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

  • The Skull Collectors: Race, Science, and America’s Unburied Dead (University of Chicago Press, October 2010). New Jersey Council for the Humanities 2010 Honor Book
  • The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America (University of California Press, 2000; paperback, December 2001).
  • Card Sharps, Dream Books & Bucket Shops: Gambling in Nineteenth-Century America (Cornell University Press, 1991; paperback, Routledge, 1999).

RECENT ARTICLES

  • “An Education on a Whale Ship,” Rethinking History (Spring, 2011).
  • “Seeing Katrina’s Dead,” in Keith Wailoo, Roland Anglin, Karen O’Neill, and Jeffrey Dowd, eds., Katrina’s Imprint: Race and Vulnerability in America (Rutgers University Press, 2010).
  • “A Native among the Headhunters,” in Jay Cook, Lawrence Glickman, and Michael O’Malley, eds., The Cultural Turn in United States History (University of Chicago Press, 2009).
  • “Banks in Ruins,” Raritan Quarterly Review (Fall, 2009).
  • “One Man’s Skull: A Tale from the Sea Slug Trade,” www.common-place.org (January, 2008).
  • “The West” in Karen Halttunen, ed., Blackwell Companion to American Cultural History (Blackwell Publishers, 2008).
  • “Amateur Authors,” in Scott Casper, Jeffrey D.   Groves, Stephen Nissenbaum, and Michael Winship, eds., The History of the Book in America, vol. 3 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007).
  • “Amateurism and Self-Publishing,” in Janet Gabler-Hover and Robert D. Sattelmeyer, eds., American History through Literature, 1820-1870 (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2005).
  • “Curiosity Did/Did Not Kill the Cat,” with Joshua Brown, www.common-place.org (January 2004).
  • “Hannah Crafts, Novelist, or How a silent observer became a dabster at invention,” in Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Hollis Robbins, eds., In Search of Hannah Crafts: Critical Essays on The Bondswoman’s Narrative, (Basic Books, December 2003).
  • “The Curious Cabinet of Dr. Morton,” in Leah Dilworth, ed., Acts of Possession: Collecting in America, (Rutgers University Press, 2003).
  • “Laboring Classes, New Readers, and Print Cultures,” in Scott Casper, Joanne D. Chaison, and Jeffrey D. Groves, eds., Perspectives on American Book History: Artifacts and Commentary (University of Massachusetts Press, 2002).
  • “’More from a Wish to Benefit Me than from a Desire to Obtain such a Book’: Begging, Writing and the Art of Artlessness,” in Jeremy Adelman and Stephen Aron, eds., Trading Cultures: The Worlds of Western MerchantsEssays on Authority, Objectivity, and Evidence (Berpols, 2001).
  • “Bones of Contention: The Battle over Kennewick Man,” www.common-place.org (January, 2001).

AWARDS

  • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 2002-2003.
  • William Y. and Nettie K. Adams Summer Scholar Fellowship, The School of American Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Summer 2002.
  • Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Studies in History, Princeton University, 1996.
  • Stephen A. Botein Fellow, American Antiquarian Society, Summer 1994.
  • Sidonie Miskimmon Claus Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Humanities, Yale College, May 1991.
  • Morse Junior Faculty Fellowship, Yale University, 1988-1989.
  • Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Fellowship, 1980-1981.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ADVISORY BOARDS

  • American Studies Association
  • Organization of American Historians
  • American Historical Association
  • Society for the Historians of the Early American Republic (Advisory Board)
  • Council of the American Antiquarian Society
  • Editorial Boards of The Journal of American History, www.common-place.org; Raritan Quarterly, and Rutgers University Press
  • Dorothy Sue Cobble
  • Dorothy Sue Cobble
  • Distinguished Professor Emerita of History and Labor Studies
  • Degree: Ph.D., Stanford University
  • Additional Degree(s): B.A., University of California, Berkeley
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  • Research Interests: 20th century U.S. history; politics and social movements; U.S. and the world; global labor history; transnational reform networks and international social policy; comparative feminisms; gender and work; service work and service unionism.

 

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Books

  • Subversive Thinkers: An Intellectual History of American Labor (under contract, The New Press)
  • For the Many: American Feminists and the Global Fight for Democratic Equality (Princeton, 2021)
  • Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women’s Movements (co-authors: Linda Gordon and Astrid Henry). (Norton, 2014).
  • The Sex of Class: Women Transforming American Labor (Cornell, 2007).
  • The Other Women’s Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America (Princeton, 2004).
  • Women and Unions: Forging a Partnership (Cornell, 1993).
  • Dishing It Out: Waitresses and Their Unions in the Twentieth Century (University of Illinois, 1991).

Recent Essays

  • ““America Once Led the Push for Parental Rights” (with Mona Siegel) Washington Post, 8 February 2019.
  • “The Other ILO Founders,” in Eileen Boris, Dorothea Hoehtker, and Susan Zimmermann, eds. The Women’s ILO: Transnational Networks, Global Labor Standards and Gender Equity. Geneva: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, 27-49.
  • “Who Speaks for Workers? Japan and the 1919 ILO Debates Over Rights and Global Labor Standards,” In Jill Jensen and Nelson Lichtenstein, eds., The ILO From Geneva to the Pacific Rim: West Meets East. Geneva: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pp. 55-79.
  • “Shorter Hours, Higher Pay,” Pacific Standard Magazine, November 2015.
  • “What ‘Lean In’ Leaves Out” (with Linda Gordon and Astrid Henry), The Chronicle of Higher Education: The Chronicle Review, September 22, 2014
  • “A Higher ‘Standard of Life’ for the World: U.S. Women’s Social Justice Internationalism and the Legacies of 1919,” Journal of American History 100 (March 2014).
  • “Pure and Simple Radicalism: Putting the Progressive Era AFL in its Time,” Labor 10:2 (Winter 2013), 61-87, 111-116.
  • "The Promise and Peril of Global Labor History," International Labor and Working-Class History 82 (Fall 2012), 99-107.
  • "Don't Blame the Workers," Dissent Magazine, Winter 2012.
  • “The Wagner Act at 75: The Intellectual Origins of an Institutional Revolution,” ABA Journal of Labor and Employment Law 26:2 (Spring 2011): 201-212.
  • “Labor Feminists and President Kennedy’s Commission on Women,” In No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of American Feminism, ed. Nancy Hewitt (Rutgers University Press, 2010), pp. 144-167.
  • “Betting on New Forms of Worker Organization,” Labor 7:3 (Fall 2010): 17-23.
  • “More Intimate Unions,” in Intimate Labors: Care, Sex, and Domestic Work, eds. Rhacel Parrenas and Eileen Boris (Stanford University Press, 2010), pp. 280-295.
  • “It’s time for New Deal Feminism,” The Washington Post 12/13/09.

SELECTED AWARDS

  • Election to Membership in the Society of American Historians, 2018-
  • Honorary Doctorate in Social Science (DSc), Stockholm University, Sweden, September 2017.
  • Kerstin Hesselgren International Fellowship, Swedish Research Council 2016.
  • ACLS Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, 2015-2016.
  • Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2010-2011.
  • Alice Cook Distinguished Lectureship, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, September 2010.
  • Sol Stetin Award for Career Achievement in Labor History, Sidney Hillman Foundation, 2010.
  • Fellow, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University, 2007-2008.
  • Philip Taft Book Prize for The Other Women’s Movement, 2005.
  • Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, 1999-2000.
  • Herbert A. Gutman Book Prize for Dishing It Out, University of Illinois Press, 1992.

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • Scholarly Advisory Board, Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History, 2020-
  • Editorial Committee, Labor, 2018-
  • Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer, 2012-
  • Awards Panel, Sol Stein Labor History Prize, Sidney Hillman Foundation, 2011-2016.
  • Senior Editor, International Labor and Working-Class History, 2006-2010.
  • Editorial Board, International Labor and Working-Class History, 1994-
  • Expert Witness, NY Hotel and Motel Trades Council v. Hotel Association of NYC, Inc., 1988-89.

 

  • Yael Zerubavel
  • Yael Zerubavel
  • Professor Emerita of Jewish Studies & History
  • Professor of Jewish Studies and History, Founding Director, The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life
  • Degree: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
  • Additional Degree(s): M.A., University of Pennsylvania
    B.A., Tel-Aviv University
  • Specialty: Modern Middle East: History of Memory
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RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Collective memory, autobiographical memory, history and memory
  • Nationalism, national myths
  • Israeli culture, Israeli literature, Israeli film
  • Jewish memory, Jewish space
  • Trauma and identity

COURSES TAUGHT

  • Israeli Culture
  • Cultural Memory
  • Jewish Immigrant Experience
  • Jewish Memory
  • Jewish Space
  • Trauma and Memory in Israeli Culture
  • Israeli Society through Film

PUBLICATIONS

Tel Hai, 1920-2020: History and Memory Tel Hai, 1920-2020: History and Memory

Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi & Tel Aviv University Press, 2020

 Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition

University of Chicago Press, 1995

 Desert in the Promised Land Desert in the Promised Land

Stanford University Press, 2019

 Desert, Island, Wall: Symbolic Landscapes the Politics of Space in Israeli Culture Desert, Island, Wall: Symbolic Landscapes the Politics of Space in Israeli Culture

Ben-Gurion Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism, and Shazar Center for Jewish History (Hebrew), 2023

Books

Recent Articles (Selected)

  • “Zikaron ve-shikheha ba-hevra ha-yisra’elit” [Memory and Forgetting in Israeli Society], in Zikaron, hafatsim ve-yitsugim [Memory, Artefacts and Representations], edited by Naama Sheffi and Edna Lomsky-Feder. Haifa: Pardes Publishing, 2023, 29-43 (Hebrew).
  • "Identity (Ex)Changes, Gender, and Family Ties: Cinematic Representations of Israeli Jews and Palestinians,"  in Reel Gender: Palestinian and Israeli Cinema, edited by Sa’ed Atshan and Katharina Galor, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022, 197-229
  • “Life in Dialogue: An Autobiographical Essay” [Ha’hayim be’dialog: Masa otobiographit] in Kavin li’demutenu, edited by Avner Ben-Amos and Ofer Shiff, Ben-Gurion Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism, Ben-Gurion University & Yediot Ahronot, 2020 (Hebrew)
  • “The Shepherd, the Well, and the Jug: National Memory and Symbolic Bridges to Antiquity in Modern Hebrew Culture, in Contexts of Folklore: Festschrift for Dan Ben-Amos, edited by Simon  J. Bronner and Wolfgang Mieder. Peter Lang Publishers: 2019, 333-42.
  • “Negotiating Difference and Empathy: Cinematic Representations of Passing and Exchanged Identities in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” in Rethinking Peace: Discourse, Memory, Translation and Dialogue, edited by Alexander Laban Hinton, Gorgio Shari and Jeremiah Alberg. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2019, 93-107.
  • "Putting Numbers into Space: Place Names and Collective Remembrances in Israeli Culture," in Taking Stock: Cultures of Enumeration in Contemporary Jewish Life, edited by Michal Kravel-Tovi and Deborah Dash Moore.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016, 69-92.
  • "Numerical Commemoration and the Challenges of Collective Remembrance in Israel," in History and Memory 26, 1 (Spring/Summer 2014): 5-38.
  • The Bible Now: Contemporizing, Political Satire, and National Memory” [Ha’tanakh akhshav: Ikh’shuv, satira politit ve’zikaron le’umi], Essays in Honor of Galit Hasan-Rokem, edited by Hagar Salomon and Avigdor Shinan; Jerusalem Studies in Hebrew Literature, 25, Summer 2013, II, 755-88 [Hebrew]
  • “Back to the Bible: Hiking in the Land as a Mnemonic Practice in Contemporary Israeli Tourist Discourse” [Ha’hazara el ha’tanakh:Ha’tiyul ve’zikhron ha’avar ba’siah ha’tayaruti be’israel], in Culture, Memory and History: Essays in Honor of Anita Shapira, edited by Meir Hazan and Uri Cohen.Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 2012, vol. 2, 497- 522 [Hebrew]
  • Coping with the Legacy of Death: The War Widow in Israeli Films,” in Israeli Cinema: Identities in Motion, edited by Miri Talmon and Yaron Peleg. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011, 84-95

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

  • Israel Studies Review, Association for Israel Studies, 2000 – present
  • Journal of Israeli History (Tel Aviv University), 2002 – present
  • AJS Perspectives, the bi-annual magazine of the Association for Jewish Studies, 2010-present
  • Merhav Tziburi [Public Space] (Tel Aviv University)- 2016- Present
  • Academic Studies Press, series on Israel : Society, Culture, and History – 2009-present
  • Association for Jewish Studies (Board of Directors, 1993-95; 1995-2002; 2006-10)
  • Association for Israel Studies (Board of Directors, 1990-94, 1997-2001; 2006-09)

HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS (Selected)

  • Lifetime Achievement Award, Association for Israel Studies, 2019
  • Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Fall 2016
  • Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2009-10
  • Ben-Gurion Research Center at Ben-Gurion University, Israel, Spring 2005
  • Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Spring 2004
  • Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture at Rutgers, 2001-2
  • École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, Spring 2000

RECENT INVITED LECTURES (Selected)

Lectures & Programs related to Desert in the Promised Land:

  • Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies, February 2020 ·        
  • Middle Eastern Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 2019
  • Middle East Centre, Antony’s College, University of Oxford, May 2019
  • The Woolf Institute, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge, May 2019
  • Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London, May 2020
  • University of Massachusetts, Amherst, September 2019
  • Plenary Session, Association for Israel Studies, June 2019
  • Taub Center for Israel Studies, New York University, April 2019
  • Kwartler Lecture, Princeton University, November 2018
  • Middle East Studies, Yale University, October 2018

“Israeli Memorial Landscape: Competing Approaches to Remembrance and Forgetting," Israel Studies Colloquium, University of California, Berkley, February 2020

"Re-enacting the Bible: Iconic Symbols and Subversive Narratives in Israel," Jewish Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 2019

The Inaugural Michael Feige Annual Lecture, “The Desert and the Island as Symbolic Spaces: On Landscapes, Identity and Memory in Israeli Culture,” Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sde Boker, May 2018

“The 'Return to the Bible' and the Performance of the Past in Israeli Culture,” Frankel Institute for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, September 2016

“Numerical Commemoration and Commemorative Place Names: Memory and Forgetting in Israeli Public Space,” The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, January 2015

 

  1. Yans, Virginia
  2. White, Deborah Gray
  3. Wasserman, Mark
  4. Triner, Gail

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