About

Dr. Helman is a social historian whose books focus on Mandate Era Palestine and 1950s Israel.

Selected Publications

Young Tel Aviv: A Tale of Two Cities (Lebanon NH: Brandeis UP and UPNE, 2010).

A Coat of Many Colors: Dress Culture in the Young State of Israel (Brighton MA: Academic Studies Press, 2011).

Becoming Israeli: National Ideals and Everyday Life in the 1950s (Lebanon NH: Brandeis University Press and University Press of New England, 2014).

Consumer Culture and Leisure in the Young State of Israel (Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center, 2020). [in Hebrew]

Selected Awards

2004 – The Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in the Humanistic Disciplines.

2008 – The Mordechai Ish-Shalom Prize (Yad Ben-Zvi) for "first-fruit" book on Israel History. 

2008 – The Shapiro Prize for best book in Israel Studies (Association of Israel Studies).

2021 – The Erika and Dr. Netanel Lorch Prize for best book on Israeli History.

Teaching

Consolidating a Hebrew National Culture in the Land of Israel

Visual Culture in Eretz Yisrael

Israel: The First Decade

Jews and Sport, 1780-1939

About

Prof. Yitzhak Hen is an historian of western Europe and the Mediterranean in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Professor Hen’s research focuses on the social, cultural and intellectual history of the post-Roman Barbarian kingdoms of the early medieval West; Western Liturgy; early medieval Latin Palaeography and Codicology.

Selected Publications

The Royal Patronage of Liturgy in Frankish Gaul to the Death of Charles the Bald (877), Henry Bradshaw Society, subsidia 3 (Boydell & Brewer: London, 2001)

Roman Barbarians: The Royal Court and Culture in the Early Medieval West (Palgrave-Macmillan: London and New York, 2007)

Sermo doctorum: Compilers, Preachers and Their Audiences in the Early Medieval West, co-edited with Max Diesenberger and Marianne Pollheimer (Brepols: Turnhout, 2014)

Barbarians and Jews: Jews and Judaism in the Early Medieval West, co-edited with Tom F.X. Noble (Brepols: Turnhout, 2018)

East and West in the Early Middle Ages: The Merovingian Kingdoms in Mediterranean Perspective, co-edited with Stefan Esders, Yaniv Fox and Laury Sarti (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2019)

Teaching

• Bachelor's degree courses
  • Introduction to Middle Ages
  • The Vikings in History
  • Charlemagne and the Carolingian Renaissance
  • England under William the Conqueror
  • Gregory of Tours and his World
    Master's degree courses
    • Historiography and Memory in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
    • The Passage from Antiquity to the Middle Ages - Cultural and Religious Aspects

About

Erella Hovers is a professor of prehistoric archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is a trained  lithic analyst and works on the earlier periods of human prehistory in eastern Africa and the Levant. Along with Dr.Tegenu Gossa, Prof. Hovers is currently co-directinga project at Melka Wakena (dated 1.6- 0.8 million years) on the Ethiopian highlands and at Hayonim Cave (western Galilee, Israel) focusing on the time period 350-200 thousand years ago. On-going off site activities include publications stemming from previous projects in collaboration with specialists and doctoral and post-doctoral students. 
 

Selected Publications

Hovers, E., Ilani, S., Bar-Yosef, O., Vandermeersch, B., 2003. “An early case of color symbolism: Ochre use by early modern humans in Qafzeh Cave.” Current Anthropology 44, 491-522.

Hovers, E., Belfer-Cohen, A., 2006. "Now you see it, now you don’t" – modern human behavior in the Middle Paleolithic, in: Hovers, E., Kuhn, S.L. (Eds.), Transitions Before The Transition: Evolution and Stability in the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age. Springer New York, pp. 295-304.

Hovers, E., 2009. The Lithic Assemblages of Qafzeh Cave. Oxford University Press, New York.

 Hovers, E., 2012. “Invention, re-invention, innovations: makings of the Oldowan” in: Elias, S. (Ed.), Origins of Human Creativity and Innovation. Elsevier, pp. 51-68.

 Belfer-Cohen, A., Hovers, E., 2020. “Prehistoric perspectives on ‘Others’ and ‘Strangers.’ Frontiers in Psychology 10, 3063.

Hovers, E., Gossa, T., Asrat, A., et al., 2021. “The expansion of the Acheulian to the Southeastern Ethiopian Highlands: Insights from the new early Pleistocene site-complex of Melka Wakena.” Quaternary Science Reviews 253, 106763.

Selected Awards

Research grants from the Israel Science Foundation, Thyssen foundation, National Geographic Society, Leakey Foundation, internal grants.

Teaching

Introduction to prehistoric archaeology;

The Lower and Middle Paleolithic in the Levant;

 On chimpanzees and humans;

The human settlement of Australia;

Processes of inventions and innovations in the prehistoric record;

Prehistoric perspectives on hunter-gatherers;

The emergence of modern humans; scientific writing

About

Dr. Abigail Jacobson is a historian who focuses on the social and urban history of late Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine and the Eastern Mediterranean. Her main research interest is the history of ethnically and nationally mixed spaces and communities, especially during times of war and conflict. She is also researching the history of Oriental Jews in Palestine and Israel.

Selected Publications

From Empire to Empire: Jerusalem between Ottoman and British Rule (Syracuse University Press, 2011).

Oriental Neighbors: Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine, co-authored with Moshe Naor (Brandeis University Press, 2016).

Bney Haaretz: Yehudim Ve’Aravim Bitkufat Hamndat  co-authored with Mosge Naor (Jerusalem: Magness Press, 2021)

“The Orphan, the Donor and the Photograph: Humanitarianism and Photography in Post-First World War Jerusalem,” Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 57 No. 1 (2021): 37-56.

“Negotiating Ottomanism in Times of War: Jerusalem during World War I through the Eyes of a Local Muslim Resident,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 40 no. 1 (February 2008): 69-88.

Selected Awards

Polonsky Prize for Excellence in Research, Faculty of Humanities, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2018)

Yehonatan Shapiro Best Book Award for 2016 (AIS)

Teaching

• Bachelor's degree courses
  • Introduction to Ottoman History – Introductory survey
  • World War I in the Middle East: Social and Political History- Undergraduate elective
  • Cities in the Middle East: History, Politics, Society – Upper-level seminar and upper-level undergraduate elective
  • The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict – Introductory survey
  • The Palestinian Citizens of Israel: Dilemmas of a National Minority – Upper-level seminar and upper-level undergraduate elective
  • Academic and Scientific Writing

About

Hilla Jacobson’s research focuses on the philosophy of mind and cognitive science and the philosophy of practical reasoning. Much of her work stands at the point where philosophical concerns overlap with and feed into empirical research in psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Jacobson is interested especially in the manner in which we consciously perceive and experience the world (including our own bodies); in the evaluative, valenced (pleasant/unpleasant), motivational (action-guiding) aspects of our perceptual experiences; and in the nature of – as well as the interplay between – mental elements that purport to represent how the world actually is (e.g., beliefs or judgments) and those that concern how it should be from the subject's perspective (e.g., desires and preferences).

Selected Publications

Jacobson, H. (2019). “Not only a messenger: towards an attitudinal-representational theory of pain”. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 99 (2), 382-408.

Jacobson, H. forthcoming. The Role of Valence in Perception: An ARTistic Treatment, Philosophical Review

Jacobson H, Putnam H. 2016. “Against Perceptual Conceptualism”. International Journal of Philosophical Studies

About

Sharon Krishek joined the philosophy department in 2013. She is interested in the nature of love and its relation to the correct way of living, and explores this and other related questions in the context of the philosophy of Kierkegaard, the philosophy of love, and works of literature.

Selected Publications

1. Lovers in Essence: A Kierkegaardian Defense of Romantic Love, Oxford University Press, 2022.

2. Kierkegaard on Faith and Love, Cambridge University Press, 2009.

3. “The Long Journey to Oneself: The Existential Import of The Sickness unto Death,” in Kierkegaard’s The Sickness unto Death: A Critical Guide, eds. Jeffrey Hanson and Sharon Krishek, Cambridge University Press, 2022.

4.”Kierkegaard’s Notion of a Divine Name and the Feasibility of Universal Love,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 2019.

5. “The enactment of love by faith: On Kierkegaard’s distinction between love and its works,” Faith and Philosophy, 2010.

Teaching

- Introduction to existentialism

- Love’s various forms

- A close reading of Kierkegaard’s The Concept of Anxiety

- Kierkegaard and Nietzsche

- Romantic love

- Philosophy and literature

- Sin, love, and the good life

- The importance of love

- Kierkegaardian love

- Sin, faith, love: A Reading in The Sickness unto Death

About

Alexander Kulik is a philologist and historian whose research concentrates on the cross-cultural transmission of texts and ideas. He studied at the Moscow State University, received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and conducted post-doctoral research at Harvard University. Kulik has authored five books and edited seven volumes. Together with Moshe Taube he initiated and headed the international research group at the Israel Institute of Advanced Studies. He founded and headed the Brill book series Studia Judaeoslavica. Alexander Kulik has held visiting positions at Harvard University, Moscow State University, St. Petersburg State University, University College London, Stanford University, University of Oxford, Université de Lausanne, Freie Universität Berlin, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, and National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow. Presently, he serves as Professor and Chair of the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies and Chair of the Academic Committee of the International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization. He holds the Tamara and Savely Grinberg Chair of Russian Studies at the Hebrew University. Prof. Kulik is a member of the International Committee of Slavists.


Selected Publications

Retroverting Slavonic Pseudepigrapha (Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2004 / Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2005)

3 Baruch: Greek-Slavonic Apocalypse of Baruch (Berlin-New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2009)

Biblical Pseudepigrapha in Slavonic Tradition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016; with S. Minov)

Jews in Old Rus’: A Documentary History (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press for HURI, forthcoming)

Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission (Oxford-New York: Oxford University Press; editor-in-chief, with G. Boccaccini, L. DiTommaso, D. Hamidovic, M. Stone, 2019).

Selected Awards

2007—2011       Israel Science Foundation (ISF), “Slavonic Pseudepigrapha in Intercultural Transmission,” ILS 550,000.

2010—2016       European Research Council (ERC), “Jews and Slavs in the Middle Ages: Interaction and Cross-Fertilization,” EUR 1.044 million

2014—2018      German-Israeli Foundation (GIF), “Visitors from Heaven, Visitors to Heaven: Judaeo-Christian Encounters and the Last Lingua Sacra of Europe” (with Moshe Taube [HU], Rainer Kampling [FU Berlin], Florentina Badalanova Geller [FU Berlin]), EUR 180,000

2016—2021      Israel Science Foundation (ISF), “The Bible in Russian Modernism” (with Roman Timenchik), ILS 600,000

2020—present   Israel Science Foundation (ISF), “Jews in Eastern Europe: 10th-14th centuries,” ILS 560,000

Teaching

BA

Russian and Slavic Linguistics

Old Church Slavonic

Introduction to Russian Culture

Introduction to Russian and East European Film and Film Theory

Russian Literature and Film

Jews of Medieval Rus'

Apocalyptic Literature

MA

The Bible in Slavic Traditions

Slavic Pseudepigrapha

The Bible in Russian Modernism

Russian Modernism in the Intercultural Context

Studies in Thematic Criticism

Literature and Art

About

Micha Lazarus is Senior Lecturer in English at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He works on the intellectual history and literary culture of Renaissance and Reformation Europe, and in particular on the reception of the classics in sixteenth-century England. He is General Editor of Sources in Early Poetics (Brill), and co-convenor of Poetics before Modernity, an international project on the history of literary criticism. Before coming to the Hebrew University, Micha spent several years as a research fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, and the Warburg Institute. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (UK) and a member of the Bar of England and Wales.

Selected Publications

1. ‘Birdsongs and Sonnets: Acoustic Imitation in Renaissance Lyric’, Huntington Library Quarterly 84.4 (2021), 681-715.  [online here]

2. ‘Sublimity by fiat: New Light on the English Longinus’, in The Places of Early Modern Criticism, ed. Gavin Alexander, Emma Gilby, and Alexander Marr (Oxford, 2021), 191-205.  [online here]

3. ‘Tragedy at Wittenberg: Sophocles in Reformation Europe’, Renaissance Quarterly 73.1 (2020), 33-77.  [online here]

4. ‘The Dramatic Prologues of Alexander Nowell: Accommodating the Classics at 1540s Westminster’, Review of English Studies 69.288 (2018), 32-55.  [online here]

5. ‘Aristotelian Criticism in Sixteenth-Century England’, in Oxford Handbooks Online (Oxford University Press, 2016).  [online here]

Selected Awards

Herzog August Bibliothek Research Fellow, Wolfenbüttel (2022)

Folger Shakespeare Library Research Fellow, Washington D.C. (2022)

Frances A. Yates Long-Term Fellow, Warburg Institute, London (2020-2021)

Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (2020)

Gordon Duff Prize in book history, University of Cambridge Libraries (2020); Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford (2012)

Folger Shakespeare Library Research Fellow, Washington D.C. (2019)

Renaissance Society of America Research Fellow (2018)

Dumbarton Oaks Research Award, Washington D.C. (2017)

Harry Ransom Center Research Fellow, University of Texas, Austin (2016)

Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge (2015–2021)

Teaching

Seventeenth-Century Poetry (B.A. seminar, Semester A, 2022/3)

Introduction to Poetry (B.A. lecture course, Semester A, 2022/3)

Introduction to Shakespeare (B.A. lecture course, Semester B, 2022/3)

Making it New in Renaissance England (M.A. seminar, Semester B, 2022/3)

About

Uzi Leibner is an associate professor in Classical Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology in at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He specializes in Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine archaeology of the Land of Israel and its surroundings. His interests lie in various aspects of landscape archaeology; rural settlements; ancient synagogues; ancient Jewish Art; and the integration of archaeological material and historical sources.

Selected Publications

 Khirbet Wadi Ḥamam: A Roman-period Village and Synagogue in the Lower Galilee, Jerusalem: Qedem ‎Reports 13, the Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2018.

 Settlement and History in Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Galilee: An Archaeological Survey of the Eastern ‎Galilee, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2009. ‎

 (with B. Arubas) "The Invisible Synagogues of the Second Temple Period," Cathedra (forthcoming) ‎‎(Hebrew).

 (with D. Adan-Bayewitz, F. Asaro and M. D. Glascock, "A Pottery Production-Site for late Second Temple-period ‎Jerusalem," Eretz Israel 34, forthcoming (Hebrew).

(with Ch. Ben David, "Imported Fine Ware in Palaestina Secunda: Geographic, Economic, and Ethnic Aspects," BASOR 371 (2014), pp. 185-201. ‎

Selected Awards

Eliezer Shimshon Rosenthal Prize in Talmudic Research (2017).

Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in the Humanistic Disciplines (2014).‎ 

Teaching

 Introduction to the Archaeology of the Land of Israel in the Hellenistic, Roman ‎and Byzantine Periods

‎Introduction to Byzantine Archaeology

‎Jewish Art and Architecture in the Second Temple Period and in the Days of the ‎Mishnah and Talmud

 Rural Settlements in the Land of Israel in the Roman and Byzantine Periods ‎

 Hellenistic and early Roman Pottery Roman and Byzantine Pottery

 Water Installations in israel and in the Classical World (B.A Seminar)

Galilee and its inhabitants during the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods (M.A Seminar)

The Ancient Synagogue - History and Archaeology (MA, with N. Hacham)

Talmudic Archaeology (MA, with D. Rosenthal)

About

Yael Levin is Associate Professor in English at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, director of The Barbara and Morton Mandel Doctoral Program in the Humanities and Social Sciences and Vice President of the Joseph Conrad Society of America. She is the author of Tracing the Aesthetic Principle in Conrad´s Novels (Palgrave Macmillan 2008) and Joseph Conrad: Slow Modernism (Oxford UP, 2020). Her work on modernism, postmodernism, narratology, the subject and disability has appeared in The Conradian, Conradiana, Partial Answers, Twentieth-Century Literature, Journal of Modern Literature and Journal of Beckett Studies as well as in a number of edited collections.

Selected Publications

Joseph Conrad: Slow Modernism. London: Oxford University Press, 2020.

Tracing the Aesthetic Principle in Conrad’s Novels. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

 "Beckett's Path of Least Resistance: Attention, Distraction, Drift.” Estudios Irlandeses. 14:2 (2019) 38-51.

“Univocity, Exhaustion and Failing Better: Reading Beckett with Disability Studies.” Journal of Beckett Studies 27.2 (2018): 157-174.

“The Spatialization of Moral Judgment: Borders in Conrad’s “Amy Foster,” Heart of Darkness and Under Western Eyes.” Conradiana 49.2-3 (2017): 85-102.

Selected Awards

2021-2023       Awarded funding from the Scholion School of Advanced Study at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for the research group “Attention and the Evolution of the Human Subject.”

2020    Awarded a grant to host “Coming to Attention” by the Israel Science Foundation. This is a workshop on New Modernisms that was held in Jerusalem during 6/2021.

2017-2020       Recipient of the Israeli Science Foundation three-year research grant for the project “Pioneering the Slow: Joseph Conrad’s Other Modernisms.”

Teaching

BA

20th Century Novel

Horror: At the Margins of Subjectivity

Villains in English Literature

American Literature and Culture

MA

Writer's Block

20th Century Literary Theory

About

Lewis is a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Department of Classics and the Principal Investigator of the multidesciplinary project ATLOMY – “Anatomy in Ancient Greece and Rome: An Interactive Visual and Textual Atlas” funded by an ERC-Starting Grant. Her research focuses on anatomy, physiology and diagnostics in pre-modern societies. Dr. Lewis is intrigued by how people explored and interpreted nature, in particularly the living body, its structure and its workings. She finds the collaboration with modern medical experts and practitioners particularly stimulating and fruitful.

Selected Publications

Praxagoras of Cos on Arteries Pulse and Pneuma: Fragments and Interpretation (Leiden: Brill, 2017). https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004337435

“The Substance of De Spiritu”, Early Science and Medicine, 20.2 (2015), 101-124. (with Pavel Gregoric and Martin Kuhar) https://doi.org/10.1086/680674

“The Clinical Method of the Anonymus Parisinus”, in: P. Bouras-Vallianatos (ed.), Exploring Greek Manuscripts at The Wellcome Library (London: Routledge, 2020), 25–54.  https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429470035

 Coughlin, S., Lewis, O., “What was Pneumatist about the Pneumatist School?”, in: S. Coughlin, D. Leith, O. Lewis (eds.), The Concept of Pneuma after Aristotle (Berlin: Edition Topoi, 2020), 203–236. https://edition-topoi.org/book/1597-the-concept-of-pneuma-after-aristotle/

 “Galen against Archigenes on the Classification of Pulses”, in M. Havrda and R.J. Hankinson (eds.), Galen's Epistemology: Experience and Reasoning in Ancient Medicine, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming April 2022).

Selected Awards

2020 Alon Scholarship for the Integration of Outstanding Faculty

2019 Starting Grant of the European Research Committee (Horizon 2020, GA 852550)

2019 Young Historian Prize of the Académie Internationale d’Histoire de Sciences.

2018 Shlomo Pines Prize for outstanding young scholars

Teaching

2021-2022
Winter Semester
- Advanced Greek (Part A)
- Digital Research in the Humanities: from Idea to Output (in English)

Summer Semester
- Introduction to Classical Civilization: Rome
- Reading Roman Historians (Advanced Latin Prose)

2020-2021
Winter Semester
- Lysias: Readings in Easy Greek Prose
- Body and Soul in Ancient Greece and Rome

Summer Semester
- Thucydides: Readings in Advanced greek Prose 
- Ancient Digital Science (in English)

At the Department of History:

Summer Semester 2018
Diagnostics and Therapeutics in Antiquity

About

Irina Lyan is an Assistant Professor and the Chair of the Korean Studies Program at the Department of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the recipient of prestigious scholarships and awards, including visiting postdoctoral fellowships at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Freie Universität Berlin, and the University of Oxford. Her research deals with South Korea’s economic miracle, known as “the Miracle on the Han River,” and the cultural miracle, known as “the Korean Wave,” or Hallyu. Irina has published several articles and book chapters on national images, imagery, and imagination, and their impact on the global positioning of Korea.

Selected Publications

 Lyan, Irina (2021). “Koreans are the Israelis of the East”: A postcolonial reading of cultural similarities in cross-cultural management. Culture and Organization (link).

 Lyan, Irina (2021).” ‘Start-up Nation’ vs. ‘The Republic of Samsung:’ Power and politics in the partner choice discourse in Israeli-Korean business collaboration.” Critical Perspectives in International Business (link).

Lyan, Irina (2021). "Between two homelands: Diasporic nationalism and academic pilgrimage of the Korean Christian Community in Jerusalem.” S/N Korean Humanities, 7(1), 37-70. (link).

Lyan, Irina and Frenkel, Michal (2020). “Industrial espionage revisited: Host country-foreign MNC legal disputes and the postcolonial imagery.” Organization (link).

Lyan, Irina (2019). “Welcome to Korea Day: From diasporic to fan-nationalism.” International Journal of Communication, 13, 3764-3780 (link).

Selected Awards

2021-2025       Israeli Science Foundation (ISF) Grant No. 1067/21 (32,400$/4 years)

2020                Korea Foundation Field Research Fellowship Grant

2019                Research Grant, St Antony’s College Committee in Israel, Tel Aviv University (20,000$)

Teaching

Modern Korea

Pre-modern Korea

Korean economic miracle

Popular culture in South Korea

Gender and sexuality in Korean cinema and literature

Forum of East Asian Economies

Asia in International Arena

About

Prof. Naomi Mandel's research focuses on contemporary literature and critical theory, with special interest in the ethics and aesthetics of violence. She was Professor of English and Film/Media at the University of Rhode Island, USA before joining the faculty at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Mandel’s current research focuses on the visual and literary culture of the digital revolution and the Information Age.

Selected Publications

Naomi Mandel. 2019. “Towards a new complicity for new media.” Comparative Literature Studies (CLS), 56, 4, Pp. 693-710

Mandel, Naomi. Disappear Here: Violence After Generation X. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2015

Mandel, Naomi, ed. Bret Easton Ellis: American Psycho, Glamorama, Lunar Park. London: Continuum, 2011

Durand, Alain-Philippe and Naomi Mandel, eds. Novels of the Contemporary Extreme. London: Continuum, 2006.

Mandel, Naomi. Against the Unspeakable: Complicity, the Holocaust and Slavery in America. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006.

Selected Awards

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Golda Meir Fellowship Fund, Faculty Fellowship | 2018-2019

 European Institutes for Advanced Study, Warsaw, Poland, 10-month residency Senior Fellowship | 2017-2018

The Israel Science Foundation, grant No. 1555/20. Hacking as Literary and Technological  Reciprocity: Backgrounds and Effects of the Human/Machine Symbiosis | 2020-2024

Teaching

Bachelor's degree courses

Introduction to Fiction

American Literature and Culture

The 20th Century English and American Novel

Hacker Culture 

Classic Science Fiction

Representing Violence, (Amirim honors program)

Master's degree courses

20th Century Literary Theory

The 9/11 Novel

Image/Culture

The Vietnam War in Literature and Film
 

About

Prof. Yossi Maurey holds a PhD in musicology from the University of Chicago.  Since 2008, he has been a faculty member of the department of Musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he holds the Hans J. Salter Chair in musicology. Prof. Maurey specializes in medieval sacred music and liturgy in France.

Selected Publications

Yossi Maurey, Liturgy and Sequences of the Sainte-Chapelle: Music, Relics, and Sacral Kingship in Thirteenth-Century France. Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Vol. 35, Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, forthcoming 2021.

Yossi Maurey, The Dominican Mass and Office for the Crown of Thorns.  Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen/ Musicological Studies. Lions Bay, Canada: The Institute of Mediæval Music, 2019.

Yossi Maurey, “A Soldier of Great Prowess in a Motet around 1500.” Acta Musicologica 87/2 (2015): 153-192.

Yossi Maurey, Historia Sancti Gatiani, Episcopi Turonensis. Wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen/ Musicological Studies LXV/23. Lions Bay, Canada: The Institute of Mediæval Music, 2014.

Yossi Maurey, Medieval Music, Legend, and The Cult of St Martin: The Local Foundations of a Universal Saint.  Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Selected Awards

Polonsky Prize for Creativity and Originality in the Humanistic Disciplines (2015)

Recipient of the Rector’s Prize for Excellence in Teaching, and Research (2016)

Teaching

• Bachelor's degree courses
  • The Melo-Dramatic Republic: Song and Opera in 19th-Century France
  • Writing about Music
  • Music in fin-de-siècle France
  • Music, People, the World
  • Ritual, Liturgy, and Additions to the Church Calendar
  • A New (Gregorian) Song in Born
  • Between the Monastery and the City: Monophonic Music in the Middle Ages
  • Notation and Music in the Fifteenth Century
  • Being a Musician in the Renaissance

About

Dr. Lee Mordechai is a historian of the Eastern Roman Empire - also called the Byzantine Empire. Mordechai approaches his research through social history, environmental history and the digital humanities. He completed his doctoral studies at Princeton University (graduated in 2017) and went on to postdoctoral studies at the University of Notre Dame (Indiana, USA) and at the Institute of Environmental Studies at Annapolis (Maryland, USA).

Selected Publications

Eisenberg, M. and Mordechai, L., “The Justinianic Plague, Global Pandemics: The Making of the Plague Concept”. American Historical Review 125(5): 1632-1667.

Mordechai, L., “Berytus and the Aftermath of the 551 Earthquake”. Late Antiquity – Studies in Source Criticism 17-18: 197-242.

Mordechai, L., Eisenberg, M., Newfield, T.P., Izdebski, A., Kay, J. and Poinar H. “The Justinianic Plague: An Inconsequential Pandemic?”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (51): 25546-25554.

Mordechai, L., Eisenberg, M. “Rejecting Catastrophe: the case of the Justinianic Plague”. Past and Present 244(1): 3-50.

Haldon, J.F., Mordechai, L., Newfield, T., Chase, A., Izdebski, A., Guzowski, P., Labuhn, I., Roberts, N., “History meets palaeoscience: Consilience and collaboration in studying past societal responses to environmental change”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115(13): 3210-3218.

Selected Awards

COVID-19 Grants for History in the Public Interest – from Albert Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest at Villanova University

SESYNC Pursuit, “Past Answers to Current Concerns: Historical Cases of Navigating Socio-Environmental Stress”

Fellow of the Israeli Academy of Sciences Junior Scholar Forum for the Social Sciences and Humanities

Princeton's Initiative for Comparative Antiquity support for FLAME

Peter R. Brown Prize for 2017

Teaching

Bachelor's degree courses

Epidemics and Zombies: the history of the end of the world in film

A Clash of Civilizations? Greeks and Persians in Antiquity

The Hellenistic Kingdoms

Disasters in the Late Antique Eastern Mediterranean

Introduction to Ancient Greek History

Introduction to Byzantine History

The Justinianic Plague between History and Science
Master's degree courses

New Directions in Premodern Environmental History