Dr. Tatjana Lichtenstein. Department of History, The University of Texas at Austin

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1 Dr. Tatjana Lichtenstein Department of History The University of Texas at Austin 128 Inner Camus Drive B7000 Austin, TX ACADEMIC POSITIONS Department of History, The University of Texas at Austin Assistant Professor, Modern Eastern Europe 2009-Present Jewish Studies Program, American University Schusterman Teaching Fellow in Jewish Studies EDUCATION PhD History, University of Toronto, Canada 2009 MA History, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 2000 MA Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University, USA 1999 BA History, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 1997 FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS Residential Fellowships Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, rd International Forum of Young Scholars on East European Jewry, London, UK; organized by The Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East European Jewry, Hebrew University, 2007 Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture, Leipzig University, Germany, External Awards Subvention Grant, The Helen B. Schwartz Fund for New Scholarship in Jewish Studies, the Helen B. Schwartz and the Borns Jewish Studies Program, Indiana University, Bloomington, 2014

2 Lichtenstein 2 International Fellowship in Jewish Studies, The Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University, Research/Travel Grant, 2004 The Danish Research Agency, Internal Awards Fellow, Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and Ideas, 2015 Subvention Grant, Office of the Vice-President for Research, The University of Texas at Austin, 2014 College Research Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts, The University of Texas at Austin, fall 2011 Summer Research Assignment for Faculty, The Graduate School, University of Texas at Austin, 2011 Center for European Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 2010 New Faculty Colloquium, Center for Women and Gender Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Scholarly Activities Grant, Department of History, The University of Texas at Austin, , 2014 Special Research Grant, Office of the Vice President for Research, The University of Texas at Austin, , 2014 Massey College in the University of Toronto, Junior Fellow, Naim S. Mahlab Graduate Scholarship in Jewish-Canadian History, 2007 Arthur Vaile Memorial Graduate Prize in Jewish Studies, 2005 Liebe Sharon Wilensky Lesk Graduate Scholarship in Jewish Studies, 2005 University of Toronto Fellowship, 2004 The Connaught Scholarship, Israel and Golda Koschitzky Fellowship in Jewish Studies, , 2008 PUBLICATIONS Book Zionists in Interwar Czechoslovakia: Minority Nationalism and the Politics of Belonging (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, forthcoming February 2016) Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles An Athlete Like a Soldier Must Not Retreat : Zionists, Sport, and Belonging in Interwar Czechoslovakia. Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies vol. 33, no. 4. (Forthcoming, fall 2015). Jewish Power and Powerlessness: Prague Zionists and the Paris Peace Conference, in East European Jewish Affairs vol. 44, no. 1 (2014): Racializing Jewishness: Zionist Responses to National Indifference in Interwar Czechoslovakia, in Austrian History Yearbook vol. 43 (Spring 2012):

3 Lichtenstein 3 Making Jews at Home: Zionism and the Construction of Jewish Nationality in Interwar Czechoslovakia, East European Jewish Affairs vol. 36, no. 1 (2006): Contributions to Edited Volumes Heja, Heja Hagibor! Jewish Sports, Politics, and Nationalism in Czechoslovakia, , Leipziger Beiträge zur jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur 2 (2004): Encyclopaedia Entries Czechoslovakia. In The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture, edited by Judith Baskin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Českožidovské listy. In Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, Leipzig/Stuttgart: Simon-Dubnow-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur/ Verlag J.B. Metzler, Jews in Denmark. In Encyclopedia of Diasporas: Immigrant and Refugee Cultures Around the World, edited by C. Ember, M. Ember, & I. Skoggard, New York: Springer Science & Business Media Other Publications Introduction to Gerta Solan, My Heart is at Ease (Toronto: The Azrieli Foundation/The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs, 2014), xv-xxx. A Life at Odds: The Political and Private Worlds of a Prague Zionist, 12-15, in Frankel Institute Annual Review of Ines Koeltzsch, Geteilte Kulturen: Eine Geschichte der tschechisch-jüdischdeutschen Beziehungen in Prag ( ), in Judaica Bohemiae vol. 48, no. 1 (2013): Review of Mark Cornwall, The Devil s Wall: The Nationalist Youth Mission of Heinz Rutha, in Central Europe vol. 11, no. 1 (2013): Shop on Main Street, on Not Even Past, 2011 (NEP website with short articles, podcasts, and videos developed by the Department of History, UT Austin) The Snows of Yesteryear, on Not Even Past, Review of Alison Rose, Jewish Women in Fin de Siècle Vienna, in Austrian History Yearbook vol. 41 (2010): Review of Isabel Vincent, Bodies and Souls: the tragic plight of three Jewish women forced into prostitution in the Americas, in idea&s the arts & science review, 3, no. 2 (Autumn 2006).

4 Lichtenstein 4 Conference report Germans-Jews-Czechs: The Case of the Czech Lands, , Bohemia 44, no. 2 (2003): PRESENTATIONS Invited Lectures Maccabi ČSR: Zionist Sport, Citizenship, and National Mobilization in Interwar Czechoslovakia, paper presented at the Working Group Etudes sociales et politiques des populations, de la protection sociale et de la santé, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, France, January 7, Racializing Jewishness: Zionists Reponses to National Indifference in Interwar Czechoslovakia, paper presented at the Working Group Histoire comparée de l'europe centrale de 1700 à nos jours. Etats, populations, identités et territoires, Panthéon Sorbonne, Centre d histoire de l Europe centrale contemporaine, Paris, France, December 17, A Stateless Nation s Territory: Zionists and the Jewish National Schools, paper presented at École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, France, December 10, Makabi in Czechoslovakia Sport as a Rite of Citizenship, paper presented at the conference Sport and Society in the Bohemian Lands/Czechoslovakia Part I: Sport in a Multiethnic Society, 1800s to 1938/39, organized by the Historische Kommission für die böhmischen Länder, Brücke-Most stiftung, Dresden, April 24-26, Racializing Jewishness: Zionist Reponses to National Indifference in Interwar Czechoslovakia, paper presented at the symposium Sites of Indifference to Nation in Habsburg Central Europe, at the Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, May 9-10, Conference Papers Jewish Studies in the Czech Republic, the Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, December A Jew on the Street, a Human Being at Home : Intermarriage and Jewish Identities in the Bohemian Lands, the German Studies Association, Denver, CO, October Jewish Power and Powerlessness: Prague Zionists and the Paris Peace Conference, the Association for Jewish Studies, Washington DC, December From the Soccer Pitch to the Barricades: Zionist Tactics in Interwar Czechoslovakia, the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Los Angeles, November 2010.

5 Lichtenstein 5 Jewish Nationalists and the Census in Interwar Czechoslovakia the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Boston, November Space and Jewish Identity: František Friedmann and the Construction of Czechoslovak Jewry, the Association for Jewish Studies, Toronto, December Lessons of Empire: Jewish Identity and the Politics of Neutral Loyalty in Interwar Czechoslovakia, the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies National Convention, New Orleans, November Divided Loyalties: Czechoslovak Zionists and the Boycott of the 1936 Olympics, the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies National Convention, Washington DC, November Clipping the wings of the Jewish Canary: Zionism as a way of making Jews at home in Czechoslovakia, at Jews of Czechoslovakia as Social Canaries? Questions of Memory and Identity an International Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Toronto, January Other Presentations Making Jews at Home: Zionism as a Strategy for Integration in Interwar Czechoslovakia, Colloquium, Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October From Fortress to Ghetto: Terezín/Theresienstadt in History a lecture presented as part of the symposium Terezín: Creativity in the Face of Death, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies and Texas Performing Arts, UT Austin, October A Battle for the Nation s Youth: Zionist views on Communism in Interwar Czechoslovakia, the 11 th Annual Czech Studies Workshop, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, April Jewish Identities in Bohemia and Moravia, , at the doctoral colloquium on Central European Jewish History at Jüdisches Museum in Berlin, Leo Baeck Institute, February TEACHING EXPERIENCE The University of Texas at Austin War and Memory in Eastern Europe Eastern Europe in the 20 th Century World War II in Eastern Europe East European Jews in the Modern World,

6 Lichtenstein 6 Nations and Nationalism in Eastern Europe Jews of Eastern Europe Introduction to the Holocaust Uncovering Jewish Prague, Past and Present, a UT Maymester Abroad (2012) Poland and the Second World War, Normandy Scholar Program on WWII (2014-) American University Jews, Culture, Empire (undergraduate/graduate seminar) The Holocaust (undergraduate course) History of Israel (undergraduate course) Modern Jewish Politics (undergraduate seminar) University of Toronto Teaching Assistant for lower- and upper-division courses in Modern European History TEACHING DISTINCTION Recipient, Josefina Paredes Endowed Teaching Award, 2014 Award for outstanding teaching in the College of Liberal Arts, The University of Texas at Austin Member, Society for Teaching Excellence, Academy of Distinguished Teachers, The University of Texas at Austin, PEDAGOGICAL DEVELOPMENT Presenter, Creative Assignments in Courses on the Holocaust, Lessons & Legacies XI, Boca Raton, November Participant, Jack and Anita Hess Faculty Seminar on The Holocaust and Other Genocides: Historical Contexts, Legal Issues, and Ethical Dilemmas, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Participant, The Holocaust Educational Foundation s Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization, Northwestern University, SERVICE Organizer, The 13 th Annual Czech Studies Workshop, The University of Texas at Austin, 2012 Member, College of the Reviewers for the Canada Research Chairs Program, Grant Reviewer, Austrian Science Fund/Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, Grant Reviewer, Czech Science Foundation, Czech Republic, 2015-

7 Lichtenstein 7 Peer Reviewer, Austrian History Yearbook, Peer Reviewer, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Peer Reviewer, East European Jewish Affairs, Peer Reviewer, Journal of Contemporary History, Reviewer, Bloomsbury Academic Publishers, PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Association for Jewish Studies Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Czechoslovak Studies Association