University Director

April ****

Alon Confino

Department of History - University of Virginia

Charlottesville, VA 22903

Phone: 434-***-****

Home phone: 434-***-****

E-mail: abow4r@r.postjobfree.com

Curriculum Vitae

I. PROFESSIONAL TRAJECTORY

Education:

? Ph.D. History, University of California, Berkeley, 1992

? M.A. History, University of California, Berkeley, 1986

? B.A. History, Tel Aviv University, 1985

Professional Positions:

? Full Professor of History, University of Virginia, 2006--

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Associate Professor of History, University of Virginia, 1998-2006

Assistant Professor of History, University of Virginia, 1992-1998Visiting and Professional Appointments

Associate Fellow, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities,

University of Virginia, 2011-2012,

for the digital history project ?Palestine,

1948.?

? Visiting Fellow,

Department of History and Civilization, European University

Institute, Florence, Italy, 2009-10

Co-director of Project: ?Forced Migration and Ethnic Cleansing in the Modern

World,? University of Virginia, 2009-2011

Visiting Professor, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2006-2007

Visiting Professor, Tel Aviv University, 2006

Visiting Professor, NYU/UVa in London, 2003

Directeur d etudes, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France,

1999

II. PUBLICATIONS:

Refereed Journal Articles:

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Muller and Rolf Petri, eds., Die Nationalisierung von Grenzen. Zur Konstruktion

nationler Identitat in sprachlich gemischten Grenzregionen (Verlag: Herder-

Institut: Marburg, 2002). In: Central European History 37/1 (March 2004): 149-

154.

? Joe Cleary, Literature, Partition, and the Nation State: Culture and Conflict in

Ireland, Israel and Palestine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).

In: Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 3/3 (Winter 2002): (on line

journal)

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_colonialism_and_colonial_history/v003/

3.3confino.html

? Maria Bucur and Nancy Wingfield, eds., Staging the Past: The Politics of

Commemoration in Habsburg Central Europe, 1848 to the Present (West

Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2001). In: American Historical Review

(December 2002): 1662-1663.

? John Dickie, Darkest Italy: The Nation and Stereotypes of the Mezzogiorno,

1860-1900 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999). In: Mediterranean Historical

Review 17/1 (June 2002): 77-80.

? Andreas Glaeser, Divided in Unity: Identity, Germany, and the Berlin Police

(The University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 2000). In: Central European History

35/2 (2002):320-322.

? Michael Maurer, ed., Neue Impulse der Reiseforschung (Berlin: Akademie

Verlag, 1999). In: German History 18/3 (2000): 389-390.

? ?42 Up, directed by Michael Apted.? A film review. In: American Historical

Review (June 2000): 1064-1065.

? Kirsten Belgum, Popularizing the Nation: Audience, representation, and the

Production of Identity in Die Gartenlaube, 1853-1900 (University of Nebraska

Press: Lincoln, 1998). In: Nineteenth-Century Prose 27/1 (Spring 2000): 108-

113.

? Christine Keitz, Reisen als Leitbild: Die Entstehung des modernen

Massentourismus in Deutschland (Munich: DTV, 1997) and Christoph Hennig,

Reiselust: Touristen, Tourismus, und Urlaubskultur (Frankfurt a/M: Insel Verlag,

1997). In: German History 17/3 (1999):

III. FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

? John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 2011-2012.

? Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, Diane and Howard Wohl Fellowship,

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2010 (Decline).

? The Lady Davis Visiting Professorship, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2006.

? Institute of Advanced Studies, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2005-2006:

Member of the research team ?Ethnography, Literature, Experience.?

? University of Virginia: Research Summer Grant, 2004, 2003, 2001, 1995.

? Humboldt-Stiftung: The Humboldt Fellowship, Berlin, 1999-2000.

? Social Science Research Council: The Berlin Program Post-Doctoral Fellowship,

1996-1997.

? Israel Academy of Sciences: Wolfsohn Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 1992-1993.

? Tel Aviv University, Institute for German History: Post-Doctoral Fellowship,

1992-1993.

? University of California, Berkeley: Chancellor Fellowship, 1991-1992.

? University of California, Berkeley, Institute of International Studies: John L.

Simpson Fellowship, 1991-1992.

? University of California, Berkeley: Hans Rosenberg Fellowship for European

Studies, 1990-1991.

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? DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Fellowship for doctoral research

in West Germany, 1988-1990.

? University of California, Berkeley: Humanities Dissertation Research Grant,

1988.

? Social Science Research Council: Doctoral Research Fellowship for Western

Europe, 1988.

? Tel Aviv University, Institute for German History: Doctoral Research

Fellowship, 1988.

? Fulbright Fellowship to support two years of graduate work toward the Ph.D.,

1985-1987 at UC Berkeley.

? DAAD, Goethe Institute Language Course, Berlin, summer 1984.

IV. TALKS

? A Three Year Review Committee, Chair, 2008-2009

? Committee to evaluate the hiring of a modern European historian, Chair, 2008-2009.

? Committee to evaluate the hiring of an Africanist, member, 2008-2009.

? A Tenure and Promotion Committee, member, 2007-2008.

? Committee on Courses and Mnemonic Numbers, member, 2004.

? Oversight Committee for the Institute of Public History, member, 2004-2005.

? Steering Committee, member, 2001-2002.

? A Tenure and Promotion Committee, member, 2001-2002.

? Governance Committee, member, 2000-2001.

? Modern European Jewish History Search Committee, member, 2000-01.

? Committee to Evaluate relations between the History Department and the Miller Center of

Public

Affairs at UVa, member, 2000-2001.

? A Tenure and Promotion Committee, member, 2000-2001.

? Director of History Undergraduates Distinguished Majors Program, 1998-2001.

? Polish History Search Committee, member, 1998-1999.

? Committee to evaluate the hiring of a historian of science, member, 1998-1999.

? Graduate Committee, member, 1997-1998, 2007-2008.

? Personnel Committee, member, 1994-1995.

To the University:

? Jewish Studies Director Search Committee, 2010.

? Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee, Religious Studies Department, 2008-2009.

? Promotion committee, the Papers of George Washington, member, 2008-2009.

? Jewish Studies Program, Committee for New Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellows, member,

2008-

2009.

? Humanities Subcommittee reporting to the Search Committee of the Dean of the

College of Arts and Sciences, member, 2007.

? Director of Jewish Studies Program, 2007-2008.

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? Advisory Board, Center for German Studies, member, 2007--.

? Nominating Committee of College of Arts and Sciences, 2003-2005.

? Fellow, Center for the Study of Local Knowledge, 2002-2004.

? Steering Committee of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, 2001-2002.

? Page Barbour & James W. Richards Lecture Series Committee, member and

interim Chair, 1998-2001.

? Committee on Educational Policy and the Curriculum, member, 2000-2002.

? Selection Committee on exchange program with the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en

Sciences Sociales and the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, France, member,

2000-2005.

? Three Years Review Committee, Department of Asian and Middle East

Languages and Cultures, member, 2000-2001

? Committee to establish a Jewish Studies Program at the University of Virginia,

member, 1998-1999.

? Committee on Faculty Rules, member 1995-1998.

To the Profession:

? Chair, the Hans Rosenberg Book Prize awarded by the Conference Group of

Central European History, 2010.

? Member, Editorial Board, Protocols of History and Theory, journal of Bezalel

Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, 2009--

? Member, Editorial Board, Dapim Studies on the Holocaust, 2009--.

? Member, Editorial Board, History and Memory, 2007--.

? Member, Advisory Board, German History, 2006--.

? Executive Committee of the Modern European Section of the American

Historical Association, 2003-2006, Chair from 2005.

? Member, Editorial Board, Central European History, 2002--.

? The Hans Rosenberg Book Prize Committee, awarded by the Conference Group

of Central European History, 2002.

? External consultant to the German Department in Miami University (Oxford,

OH) on issues of German curriculum and cultural studies, 2002.

? Member, Editorial Board, National Identities, 2001--.

? Higby Prize Committee, the Journal of Modern History, 2000.

? Member, Editorial Board, Series on Leisure, Consumption, and Culture (Berg

Publishers), 1998-2006.

Manuscripts reviewed for the following journals:

German History; Journal of Modern History; American Historical Review; Central

European History; History and Memory; National Identities; American Sociological

Review; Comparativ; Historia (journal of the Historical Society of Israel); Dapim

Studies on the Holocaust.

Manuscripts reviewed for the following publishers:

Harvard University Press; Stanford University Press; University of Michigan Press;

Northern Illinois University Press; University Press of Virginia; Yale University

Press; Berghahn Press; Berg Publishers.

Research projects reviewed for:

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Israel Academy of Sciences; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of

Canada; Social Science Research Council; Art and Humanities Research Council,

UK; Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF: Wiener Wissenschafts-,

Forschungs- und Technologiefonds).

VI. COURSES TAUGHT:

Undergraduate lecture courses: Western Civilization; German History, 1871-2006

(different periods thereof); Palestine, 1948; Nationalism and Memory.

Undergraduate seminars: Collective Memory; The Holocaust; European Memories of

the Second World War; Imperialism, Independence, and Forced Migration in

Palestine, 1948; Distinguished Majors Program third-year seminar; Distinguished

Majors Program fourth-year seminar.

Graduate courses: Twentieth Century Europe; Nationalism: Global Perspectives

(team-taught course with Ajay Skaria, Professor of Indian History); Modern German

History; German History: 1500-2000 (team-taught course with Erik Midelfort,

Professor of Early Modern German history); Consumer Culture and Perceptions of the

Past; History and Memory; Nationhood, History, and Memory; War and Forced

Migrations in the Modern World; History, Memory, Narrative.

VII. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY--VARIOUS

International Working and Research Team Activities

? Member of the research team ?Relating Identities: Locality, Region, Nation &

Professional Societies:

American Historical Association

German Studies Association

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Languages:

German: Speak, write, and read.

Italian: Speak, write, and read.

Hebrew: native speaker.

French: read.

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