CURRICULUM VITAE

Alexander Yakobson

Updated: December2010

1. PERSONAL DETAILS

Date of Birth: 5.10.1959

Country of Birth: Russia

ID no.: 01636868

Nationality: Israeli

Marital status: Not married

No. of children:

Permanent address: Ha-Portzim Street 28/1 Jerusalem 92541.

Tel.: 02 - 5666970

E-mail address: yakobsona@mscc.huji.ac.il

(in chronological order)

Spring 1985: received BA (cum laude) in History and Political Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Summer 1989: received MA (cum laude) in Ancient History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

 1990 - 1994: doctoral student in the Department of History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. PhD dissertation: "Elections and canvassing in the late Roman Republic."

May 1995 - the doctoral dissertation is approved (summa cum laude) by the Hebrew University.

November 1994 - July 1995: post-doctoral year in the Institut für Altertumskunde — Alte Geschichte — Universität zu Köln (with a Rothchild Foundation post-doctoral fellowship).

(in chronological order)

10.1997 – Lecturer, Ancient History, Hebrew University. 

2. 2000 - Senior lecturer, Ancient History, Hebrew University.

(in chronological order)

2002 – 2004: Member of the Academic Committee of the Center for Academic and Educational Ties with Commonwealth of Independent States and Baltic States.

2002 – 2004:  BA Adviser, Department of History. 

2003 – 2008: Member of Lay Davis Academic Committee, representing the Faculty of Humanities.

2003 – 2009: Member of the Academic Committee of  the International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization and the Chais Center for Jewish Studies in Russian.

2004 – 2009: Member of the Academic Committee of Leonid Nevzlin Research  Center; 2007 – 2009 – Chairman of the Committee.

2004 – 2005: Member of the Disciplinary Committee of History, Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, Faculty of Humanities.

1.9.2005 – 28.2.2006 – participated in a study group on "Religion, and nationalism in the Jewish, Christian, Muslim and Muslim Worlds", The Institute for Advance Studies, Hebrew University.

2006 – 2009 - Member of the Academic Committee of the Swiss Center for Conflict Research, Management and Resolution.

2006 – 2010: Organizer, the Department Research Seminar for MA students, History Department (2006 – 2007: Department Research Seminar of History Department and Jewish History Department; 2008 – 2009 – together with Prof. Gabriel Herman).

2008 – 2011: Member of the Academic Committee of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the study of Anti-Semitism.

2008 – 2011: Member of the Academic Committee of the Cherrick Center for the Study of Zionism, the Yishuv and the State of Israel.

2009: Member of the Scholarship Committee, The Polonsky Scholarships for Outstanding Doctoral Candidates in the General Humanities and in Asian and African Studies.

2010 – Member of the Academic Committee of the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations.

(in chronological order)

1995 - 1997: Lecturer in Ancient History, Haifa University

2008 – 2009: Member of Humanities Committee on scholarships, The Israel Science

Foundation Founded by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities

27 May 2010: Member of the Steering Committee, International Conference on Bi-Nationalism, The Israel Democracy Institute.

(in chronological order)

1996 – 2008: Member of the Ministry of Education academic committee supervising the teaching of history in state schools.

2006 – 2008:  Member of the subcommittee for preparing a new curriculum for teaching history in state schools.

1995 – Member of the Israeli Association for the Promotion of Classical Studies

2007 – 2010: Member of the Board of the Israeli Association for the Promotion of Classical Studies.

C. Courses taught in the last 5 years

·        Bachelor's degree courses

Historiography  - examining classical texts.

Rome: From the Republic to the Principate

Augustus: One-man rule disguised as a Republic?

Fall of the (Roman) Republic

Rome: The Republic and the Empire

Athenian democracy in the 5^th  century

The crisis of the Roman Republic

Israel as a Jewish and Democratic State

·        Master's degree courses

Debates Between Historians - Department Research Seminar for MA

 Students

Augustus: The First Emperor

Tacitus and the Julio-Claudian Emperors

From Emperor to Emperor: Roman Emperors and their attitude to their predecessors

Augustus' successors (Julio-Claudian Emperors)

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

PI = principal investigator

C = co-author.   

1. Elections and canvassing in the late Roman Republic.  Instructors: Prof. Hannah Cotton and Israel Shatzman. Approved – Spring 1995 (the first stage of a research project that was eventually published as a book – see no. 2)

(in chronological order; cross-referenced)

prior to last promotion

2. Yakobson, A., Elections and Electioneering in Rome: A Study in the Political System of the Late Republic, Historia Einzelschriften (1999), 251 pp, Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart (see no. 1).

subsequent to last promotion

3. Yakobson, A. (PI) and Rubinstein, A. (C), Israel and the Family of Nations: Jewish Nation-State and Human Rights (2003), 476 pp., Schocken, Tel Aviv (in Hebrew) (see. no. 4 and 5).

4. Rubinstein, A (C) and Yakobson.A (PI), Israël et les nations. L’État-nation juif et les droits de l-homme (2006), 333 pp., Presses Universitaires de France, Paris  (French version of no. 3)

5. Yakobson, A. (PI) and Rubinstein, A,  Israel and the Family of Nations: The Jewish Nation-State and Human Rights (2009), 246 pp., Routledge, London and New York (English version of no. 3).  A paperback edition appeared in August 2010.

(in chronological order; cross-referenced)

prior to last promotion

subsequent to last promotion

(in chronological order; cross-referenced)

prior to last promotion

subsequent to last promotion

6. Cotton, H. M (PI), and Yakobson, A.  (PI) (2002), Arcanum Imperii: The Powers of Augustus, pp. 193 – 209, in: Clark G. and. Rajak, T (eds.), Philosophy and Power in the Graeco-Roman World, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

7. Yakobson, A., (2006), Popular Power in the Roman Republic, pp. 383 – 400, in: Resenstein, N. and Morstein-Marx, R. (eds.), A Companion to the Roman Republic, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford.

8. Yakobson, A., (2007), Us and them: Empire, memory and identity in Claudius' speech on bringing Gauls into the Roman Senate, pp. 19 – 36, in Mendels, D. (ed.), On Memory. An Interdisciplinary Approach, Peter Lang, Bern.

9. Yakobson, A., (2009), Public Opinion, Foreign Policy and ‘Just War’ in the Late

Republic” in C. Eilers (ed.)  Diplomats and Diplomacy in the Roman World, Brill, Leiden , pp. 45 – 72. 

10. Yakobson, A., (2010), The theory of "just war" in the Roman Republic – did the Romans claim that their wars were defensive?" – in Sh. Avineri (ed.), War and Peace, Shazar Centre, Jerusalem, pp. 39-58 (in Hebrew).

11. Yakobson, A., (forthcoming), The First (Roman) Emperor: image and memory, in Yuri Pines (ed.), The Birth of Empire: The State of Qin revisited, Studies in China, International and Area Studies, UC Berkeley. 

12. Yakobson, A., (forthcoming), Political stability and public order – Athens vs.  Rome", in Gabriel Herman (ed.),  Stability and Crisis in the Athenian Democracy (ed. Gabriel Herman), Historia Einzelschriften,  Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart. 

(in chronological order; cross-referenced)

prior to last promotion

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13. Yakobson, A., (PI) and Cotton, H. M (PI)   (1985), Caligula's recusatio imperii. Historia 34, pp. 497 - 503.  

14 . Yakobson, A., (1992), Petitio et Largitio: Popular Participation in the Centuriate Assembly of the Late Roman Republic. Journal of Roman Studies 82, pp. 32 - 52. 

15.  Yakobson, A., (1993), Dionysius of Halicarnassus on a  'Democratic Change ' in the Centuriate Assembly.  Scripta  Classica Israelica 12, pp. 139 -  155

16. Yakobson, A., (1995), The Secret Ballot and its Impact, Hermes 123, pp. 426  – 442.

17. Yakobson, A. ,(PI) and Horstkotte, H. (C), (1997), Yes, Quaestor: A Republican Politician Versus the Power of the Clerks, Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik 116, pp. 247 -  248.    

21. Yakobson, A., (2003), Maiestas, the Imperial Ideology and the Imperial Family: the Evidence of the senatus consultum de Cn. Pisone patre”, Eutopia (Nuova Serie III, 1 -2, Roma), pp. 75 – 108.

 22. Yakobson, A., (2004), The People's Voice and the Speakers' Platform: Popular Power, Persuasion and Manipulation in the Roman Forum,  Scripta Classica Israelica 23, pp. 201 – 212 (review article).

23. Yakobson, A., (2006),  Il popolo Romano, il sistema e l'"élite": il dibattito continua, Studi Storici  47/2, pp. 377 – 393.

24. Yakobson, A., (2008), Jewish Peoplehood and the Jewish State, How Unique? - A Comparative Survey", Israel Studies 13/2, pp. 1 – 27.     

25. Yakobson, A., (2010), Joining the Jewish people: non-Jewish immigrants from the former USSR, Israeli identity and Jewish peoplehood", Israel Law Review 43/1, pp.  218 – 239. 

26. Yakobson, A., (2010), Traditional political culture and the people's role in the Roman Republic", Historia 30, pp. 282-302.

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27. Yakobson, A., (2003), Review of: Greg Rowe, Princes and Political Cultures: The  New Tiberian Senatorial Decrees, The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor  2002 in  Scripta Classica Israelica 22,  pp. 323 - 325. 

28. Yakobson, A., (2006), Review of: H. I. Flower, The Art of Forgetting: Disgrace and Oblivion in Roman Political Culture, University of North Carolina Press,  Chapel Hill 2006 in Journal of Roman Studies 98, pp. 198 – 199.

29. Yakobson, A., (2008), "The Joy of Moral Preaching', Review of: Jacqueline Rose, The Question of Zion, Hebrew translation by Oded Wolkstein, Resling, Tel Aviv 2007, in Katharsis: A Critical Review in the Humanities and Social Sciences 9, pp. 18 – 50.

30. Yakobson, A., (2010),  Review of: Joseph Geiger, The First Hall of Fame: A Study of the Statues in the Forum Romanum, Brill, 2008 in Scripta Clasica Israelica 24, pp. 126 – 128.

31. Yakobson, A., (2010), Entries: "Elections and Voting" and "Freedom", in Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome Vol. 3, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 35 – 38; 230 – 232.

32. Yakobson, A., (forthcoming), "Elections, Roman", Encyclopedia of Ancient History, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford .

33.Yakobson, A., (forthcoming), Review of: H. I. Flower, Roman Republics, Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford 2010 in American Journal of Philology 132.1, to appear in Spring 2011. 

(in chronological order)

prior to last promotion

1. May 1992: A lecture at the Annual Conference of the Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies, Jerusalem. Title: 'Electoral bribery and popular participation in Roman elections'.

2. March 1995: A lecture at the Departmental Seminar, Department of History, University of Haifa. Title: 'Tiberius Gracchus, the year 133 and the mos maiorum.'

3. April 1995: A lecture at the Departmental Seminar, Institut für Altertumskunde,  Alte Geschichte,  Universität zu Köln. Title: 'Cicero's fourth Catilinarian oration and the question of "party politics" in the late Roman Republic."

4. May 1996: A lecture at the Annual Conference of the Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies, Bar-Ilan University. Title: 'Party politics in the Roman Republic? The meaning of the term "popularis" in Cicero's fourth speech against Catiline'.

5. December 1997: A lecture at the evening in memory of Prof. Chaim Wirszubski, Israeli Academy of Sciences. Title: 'How much freedom should be given to the people? Cicero's attitude to the power of the people in the third book of the De Legibus '.

6. January 1998: A lecture at the Alexander Fuks Seminar, Hebrew University. Title: 'Why democracy? The idea of democratic equality in Plato's Protagoras."

7. February 1998: A lecture at the Departmental Seminar, Department of Political Science, University of Tel-Aviv. Title: 'Oligarchy and democracy in the Roman Republic'.

subsequent to last promotion

8. October 2000: A lecture at the Departmental Seminar, Institut für Altertumskunde,  Alte Geschichte,  Universität zu Köln.. Title: "The imperim of Augustus".

9. May 2003: A lecture at the Annual Conference of the Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies, Tel-Aviv University. Title: "The Romans never read Mommsen's Staatsrecht" - is that so? Mommsen and the importance of Roman public law".

10. October 2002: a lecture at the Departmental Seminar, Ancient History,   University of Dresden. Title: "No Republican façade under Augustus? Examining Fergus Millar's thesis".

11. October 2003: a lecture at the Departmental Seminar, Ancient History,   University of Dresden. Title: "The law of maiestas and the dignity of the imperial family under Tiberius in light of SC de Gn. Pisone patre".

12. May 2004: A lecture at the Annual Conference of the Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies, Beer-Sheva University. Title:  "Speaking to the people - the argument about the Roman contio".

13. 24-25 September 2004: A lecture at the Fifth  E. Togo Salmon Conference on Diplomats and Diplomacy in the Roman World (McMaster University, Hamilton Ontario). Title: "Public opinion and foreign policy in the Late Republic." 

14.  25 November 2004: A lecture at the Alexander Fuks Seminar, Hebrew University. Title: Empire, "just war", conquest: public opinion and foreign policy in the Late Republic".

15. 28 October 2005: A lecture at the international colloquium on the political character of the Roman Republic (on the occasion of the publication of K. J. Hoelkeskamp, Rekonstructionen einer Republik. Die politische Kultur des antiken Rom und die Forschung der letzten Jahrzente), Istituto Italiano per la Storia Antica, Rome. Title: "Democracy and oligarchy in the Roman Republic".

16. April 2005: A lecture at the international Conference "On Memory: An Interdisciplinary Approach", at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University. Title: "Historical Memory and Imperial Identity - The Debate on Bringing Gauls into the Roman Senate".

June 2006: A lecture at the 30th annual Conference of the Israeli Historical Association on the subject of War and Peace, Shazar Center, Jerusalem. Title: "Did the Romans claim that their wars were just?".

17. 3 January 2007, A lecture at "The Contemporary Peoplehood of the Jews: Myth or Reality, An International Conference in Honor of Prof. Gideon Shimoni", Hebrew University. Title: "Israel: Typical or Peculiar among Democratic States?". 

18. 6 June 2007: A lecture at the international Conference on Democracy and Rationality, The Center for the Study of Rationality, Hebrew University. Title: "Rationality, corruption, and popular elections in the Roman Republic".

19. 11 June 2007: A lecture at "Collective Identities, States and Globalization -  international Conference / The Holberg Shop In Honor of Prof. Eisenstadt", Hebrew University. Title: "Is the European nation-state disappearing?". 

20. 22 June 2007: A lecture at the 2nd Galilee Colloquium on Social, Moral and Legal Philosophy (established by the Swiss-Israel Philosophy Foundation), Kafr Blum. Title: "Modern national movements and traditional religion".

21. October 2007: A lecture at the Department Seminar, Ancient History, New South Wales University, Sidney. Title: "The current state of the debate on 'democracy' and 'oligarchy' in the Roman Republic".

22. 11 June 2008: A lecture at the international seminar on immigration, The Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Title: "How could a foreigner become a Roman? The Emperor Claudius' speech on admitting Gauls into the Roman Senate".

23. 29 June 2008, A lecture at the colloquium on the publication of R. Vishnya, Elections and the Elected in the Ancient Roman Republic (In Hebrew), Tel-Aviv University. Title: "The formal and informal power of the people in the Roman Republic".  

24. 9 October 2008; A lecture at the international Conference on the Mediterranean and the New Euro-Mediterranean Perspectives, Deadalos Institute of Geopolitics, University of Nicosia, Cyprus. Title: "Israel, Europe and the Mediterranean: Identity and Policy".

25. 29 October 2008: A lecture at "Stability and Crisis in the Athenian Democracy -  International Conference in Memory of Alexander Fuks",  Hebrew University. Title: "Keeping the Public Order: Athens and Rome".

26. 26 November 2008: A lecture at the international conference "On Jewish Sovereignty: on the occasion of the 60^th anniversary of the State of Israel", University of Lausanne, the Centre for the Study of Judaism and Jewish History. Title: "The Nation-State and its Future, in Europe and in the Middle East".

27. 17 December 2008: Participation in a roundtable "Early Empires", as part of  the international  workshop "The Birth of Empire: The State of Qin Revisited",  in the Centre for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University. Topic: Early Empires: Comparing Civilizations (Roman Empire, China, India, The Islamic Empire, The Empires of the Steppe). 

28. 19 January 2009: Participating in a roundtable "Lessons from Kosovo – The Perspectives of the Middle East" as part of the international workshop "Ottoman Roots of Contemporary Realities: The Middle East and the Balkans Compared", European Forum at the Hebrew University, January 18-20, 2009.

29. 26 January 2009: A lecture at the international colloquium in honor of the publication of G. Geiger, "The First Hall of Fame: A Study of the Statues in the Forum Augustum" , Hebrew University. Title: "Would you buy a used will from Octavian? The question of the will of Marc Antony and the casus belli in the Roman civil war in 32 BC".

29. 27 May 2009: A lecture at the international conference "Human Rights and Justice in Immigration: National and International Perspectives", Minerva Center for Human Rights, Hebrew University. Title: "Non-Jewish Immigrants from the Former USSR and Israeli Identity". 

30. 4 March 2009: A lecture at the Ofakim seminar (the honours program), Haifa University. Title: "Who is a Roman? Identity, Memory and Citizenship in the Roman Empire."

31. 13 June 2009: A lecture at the 4th Galilee Colloquium on Social, Moral and Legal Philosophy (established by the Swiss-Israel Philosophy Foundation), Kafr Blum on "Immigration asylum-seeking and citizenship: entitlements, individual rights and collective identities". Title: "Israel's Law of Return between Universalism and Particularism".

32. 22 December 2009: A lecture at the First Annual International Conference: The Middle East in Transition, Institute for Asian and African Studies and Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Hebrew University. Title: "The Arab Israeli Peace Process: Lost Opportunities? An Israeli Perspective".

33. 27 May 2010: A lecture at the international Conference on Bi-Nationalism, The Israel Democracy Institute. Title: "National Identity and Citizenship in a Jewish Nation-State.

34. 11 June 2010: A lecture at the 5th Galilee Colloquium on Social, Moral and Legal Philosophy (established by the Swiss-Israel Philosophy Foundation), Kafr Blum on "The end of the nation state? Theoretical dimensions and historical realities". Title: "The fall and rise of the European nation state".