Date of Birth: 1947

Department of History

 

1971 – BA cum laude, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1973 – MA, Brown University, Providence, R.I., USA
1976 – Ph.D., Brown University, Providence, R.I., USA 

Academic Positions outside the Hebrew University
1975 – lecturer, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA

1976 – lecturer, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

1982 – Senior lecturer, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

1993 – Associate professor, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

1985 – Visiting fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Wassenaar, The Netherlands.

1998-99 – Research fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Wassenaar, The Netherlands.

1999-2000 – Visiting member, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

2003-2004 – Research fellow, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA.

2008 – 2010 – Research group leader, “Knowledge and Pain,” Scholion Interdisciplinary Center of the Mandel Institute for Jewish Studies.

2011-2012 – Life member, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

 

2000 - 2003 – Chair, Amirim honors students’ program. 

2006 - 2007 – Member, faculty of humanities senior promotions committee.

2006 - 2010 – sciences promotions committee, external member.

2008 – 2011 – Senate representative, permanent superior university committee.

2012 - Member, supreme university promotions committee.

 

1998-99 – Research fellowship, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Wassenaar, The Netherlands.

2003-2004 – Research fellowship, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA.

2007-2010 – Scholion Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Knowledge and Pain Scholarship.

2009 – Recipient of the Yad HaNadiv (The Rothchild foundation, the Humanities Fund in Israel), together with Profs. Aslanov (Hebrew University) and Hen (Ben Gurion University) a grant for running three summer courses in medieval Latin and paleography. Thus far, the first course has taken place in the summer of 2010, and will be repeated in the summer of 2013, with a third course envisioned eventually.

2011 – Recipient of the Polonsky prize in the humanities for The Modulated Scream.