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Position: Lecturer/Professor
Department of Communication & Arts, Roskilde Universitet (Roskilde University)
Institut for Kommunikation & Humanistisk videnskab (Department of Communication & Arts)
Building 42-3
Roskilde
DK-4000
Denmark
Teaches (T) and/or researches (R) in:
2. History of the Jewish People: TR
Early Modern: TR
Modern: TR
Historiography: TR
3. Religion and Religious Movements: R
28: Reform Judaism: R
30: Religion in the State of Israel: R
4. Jewish Thought and Philosophy: TR
Modern Philosophy: TR
6. Literature (other than Biblical and Rabbinic): TR
Israeli: TR
Literary criticism: TR
7. Languages: T
51: Hebrew: T
9. Contemporary Studies: TR
State of Israel: TR
65: Jews in the United States: R
Jewish identity and assimilation: TR
Anti-Semitism: TR
72: Psychology and Psychoanalysis: R
76: Jews and the Sciences: R
10. Jewish Studies and Resources: TR
Scholarship, history of: TR
Description
My research and teaching area is trans-national and global history after 1750.
My research deals with the construction and development of humanistic ideas and concepts in science and intellectual culture. I am particularly interested in the construction and development of ideas, concepts and methods within modern Jewish history, anti-Semitism, Zionism, European-Middle Eastern cultural relations, colonialism and anti-colonialism, and cultural and historical philosophy. I also have a related interest in the history of psychoanalysis and Orientalism.
I direct the research project \"Identifying Jews and Jewishness, 1783-1939\" funded by the research council for culture and communication for the period 2013-20116
Teaching and supervision: Anti-Semitism, European-Middle Eastern relations, Europe\'s discovery of the world, historical and cultural theory and philosophy, immigration, Islamism, Israel, Israel-Palestine conflict, Jewish history, colonialism, history and societies of the Middle East, minorities, Muslims in Europe, Zionism.
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