About

Prof. Shaham's general field is Islamic legal history (mainly modern). He has published extensively on the Sharia courts and qadis in modern Egypt, Egyptian family law reform, the legal status of non-Muslims in modern Islamic societies, the ʿulamaʾ and reform in the modern period and Islamic law in Israel.

Selected Publications

Family and the Courts in Modern Egypt (Brill, 1997)

The Expert Witness in Islamic Courts: Medicine and Crafts in the Service of Law (University of Chicago Press, 2010)

Rethinking Islamic Legal Modernism: the Teaching of Yusuf al-Qaradawi (Brill, 2018)

Editor of Law, Custom and Statute in the Muslim World: Studies in Honor of Aharon Layish (Brill, 2007)

Selected Awards

1988 DAAD (West-Germany), for research in Tubingen

Lady Davis post-doctoral fellowship

Fulbright post-doctoral scholarship

The Golda Meir Fellowship

2009  Fulbright Specialist Program; selected to spend one month at Central Lakes College, Brainerd, Minnesota

Teaching

Bachelor's degree courses

Introduction to Islamic Law

Islam and the State (B.A. seminar)

The Family in Modern Islamic Societies (Textual Course in Arabic)

The Modernists in Islam (Textual Course in Arabic)

Readings in Modern Legal Opinions (Fatwas)

Islamic Law in the State of Israel (Textual Course in Arabic) 

Master's degree courses

Islam and the State (M.A. seminar in English)

Islamic Attitudes to Other Religions and to Israel (Textual Course in Arabic)

The Inheritance System in Islamic Societies (Textual Course in Arabic)  

About

Gideon Shelach-Lavi is the Louis Freiberg Professor of East Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is an Archaeologist who specializes in the archaeology of North China, where his is conducting field work. He recently completed the Fuxin Regional Archaeological Project in Liaoning province, China and has started a new regional project in Shandong province. He is also directing the Long-Wall project in Northeast Mongolia, which is funded by an ERC advanced grant (see: https://thewall.huji.ac.il/ ).

Selected Publications

Shelach, G. 2015. The Archaeology of Ancient China: From Prehistory to the Han Dynasty. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Shelach-Lavi, G., Honeychurch, W. and Chunag, A (2020). “Does extra-large equal extra-ordinary? The ‘Wall of Chinggis Khan’ from a multidimensional perspective.” Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 7, 22. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-0524-2

Shelach-Lavi G., M. Teng, Y. Goldsmith, I. Wachtel, C.J. Stevens, O. Marder, X. Wan, X. Wu, D. Tu, R. Shavit, P. Polissar, H. Xu, D.Q. Fuller (2019) “Sedentism and plant cultivation in northeast China emerged during affluent conditions.” PLoS ONE. 14(7): e0218751. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218751.

Shelach-Lavi, G. and Tu Dongdong, 2017. “Food, Pots and Socio-Economic Transformation: The Beginning and Intensification of Pottery Production in North China.” Archaeological Research in Asia. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ara.2017.10.001

Shelach, G. and Y. Jaffe , 2014. “The Earliest States in China: A long-Term Trajectory Approach.” Journal of Archaeological Research. 22 (4): 327-364. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10814-014-9074-8

Selected Awards

1998-2003, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Grant for the Project: Regional Lifeway and Cultural Remains in the Northern Corridor (in collaboration with Prof. K. Linduff and Prof. Zhang Zhongpei). $145,000

2001-2004, Israel Science Foundation grant for the study, Social Change and the Rise of Pastoral Economy in Northeast China c. 2200-600 BCE (no. 893/01). $97,600.

2003-2008, NSF award for Chifeng International Archaeological Research Project. Award Number BSC-0106048 (co-PI with K. Linduff and R. Drennan). $166,000.

2009-2011, National Geographic Society, Committee for Research and Exploration, Origins of Agriculture and Sedentary Communities in Northeast China (grant no. 8614-09). $19,920.

2011-2015, Israel Science Foundation grant for the research, The Origins of Agriculture and Sedentary Communities in Northeast China (no. 502\11), $ 267,430 (234,000 NIS a year for 4 years).

2017-2021, Israel Science Foundation grant for the research, What’s Cooking? Long-Term Changes in Diet Habits, Economic Strategies and Social Organization in East China (no. 728/17;  300,000 NIS a year for 4 years; Total 1,200,000 NIS).

2020-2025. ERC Advanced Grant "The Wall: People and Ecology in Medieval Mongolia and China" (proposal no. 882894) (EUR 2,499,75).

Teaching

Introduction to the History and Culture of Traditional China

Art and Architecture in China

Personal, social and group identities in China

Roads, boarders and walls: the archaeology of movement and space (MA)

“Use the Past to Serve the Present” – Representations and Manipulations of the Past in Modern China (MA)

About

Michael Shenkar (PhD, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem) is an Associate Professor of Pre-Islamic Iranian studies at the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Since 2014, he has been directing (together with Sharof Kurbanov of the Tajik Academy of Sciences) the excavations of the Sogdian site Sanjar-Shah in northern Tajikistan.

Selected Publications

Shenkar, M. (2014), Intangible Spirits and Graven Images. Iconography of Deities in the Pre-Islamic Iranian World, Boston—Leiden: Brill.

Shenkar, M. (2014), “The Epic of Farāmarz in the Panjikent Paintings”, Bulletin of the Asia Institute 24, pp. 67-85.

Shenkar, M. (2015), “Rethinking Sasanian Iconoclasm”, Journal of the American Oriental Society 135.3, pp. 471-498.

Shenkar, M. (2017), “The Great Iranian Divide: Between Aniconic West and Anthropomorphic East”, Religion 47/3, pp. 378-398.

Shenkar, M. (2020), “The Origin of the Sogdian Civic Communities (nāf)”, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 63.3, pp. 357-388.

Selected Awards

Alon Fellowship for Outstanding Young Faculty by the Israeli Council for Higher Education

Prix Ghirshman of the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Institut de France, Paris

Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship at the German Archaeological Institute, Berlin

Max Schlomiuk Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Teaching

Introduction to Zoroastrianism (38272).

Civilizations and Cultures in Pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia (38257). 

Kingship and Royal Court in Pre-Islamic Iran (38477).

Panjikent – Life and Death of a Sogdian City (5th-8th centuries CE) (38131).

Public Space and Shaping of Memory in Sasanian Iran (38132).

The Sasanian Empire in Light of its Material Culture (38273).

Masters of the “Silk Road” – the Rise and Fall of the Sogdian Culture (38476).

The Arab Conquest of Iran and Central Asia (38218).

Cultural Contacts Along the “Silk Road”: From China to Sogdiana (4th-8th centuries CE) (38962).

Eurasian Nomads and their Culture in the Pre-Islamic Period (38874).

Eurasian Nomads and their Culture in World History (38717), together with Prof. Michal Biran.

The Sogdian Civilization on the “Silk Roads” (first millennium CE) (38802).

About

Noam’s research is concerned with learning, reading, and their intersection, mostly from the prism of individual-differences. His most recent work deals primarily with how individuals differ from one another in their literacy skills given their learning capacities and the properties of their native language’s writing system. This work involves the development of computational tools to mathematically quantify the structure of writing systems, and the use of behavioral, eye-tracking, and neurobiological methods to unveil the computations available to learners as they assimilate this structure.

Selected Publications

Siegelman, N., Rueckl, J. G., Steacy, L. M., Frost, S. J., van den Bunt, M., Zevin, J. D., Seidenberg, M. S., Pugh, K. R., Compton, D. L., & Morris, R. D. (2020). Individual differences in learning the regularities between orthography, phonology and semantics predict early reading skills. Journal of Memory and Language.

Siegelman, N., Schroder, S., Acarturk, C., Alexeeva, S, Amenta, S., An, H., Bertram, R., Bondarini, R., Brysbaert, M., Chernova, D., Da Fonesca, S. M., Dirix, N., Duyck, W., Fella, A., Frost, R., Gattei, C., Kalaitzi, A., Kwon, N., Marelli, M., … Kuperman, V. (2022). Expanding horizons of cross-linguistic research on reading: The Multilingual Eye-movement Corpus (MECO). Behavior Research Methods.

Siegelman, N., van den Bunt, M., Lo, J. C. M., Rueckl, J. G., & Pugh, K. R. (2021). Theory-driven classification of individuals with and without reading difficulties using Bayesian latent-mixture models. NeuroImage.  

Siegelman, N., Bogaerts, L., Christiansen, M.H., & Frost, R. (2017). Towards a theory of individual differences in statistical learning. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

Siegelman, N., & Frost, R. (2015). Statistical learning as an individual ability: Theoretical perspectives and empirical evidence. Journal of Memory and Language.

Selected Awards

2022-present: Azrieli Early Career Faculty Fellowship

2020-2021: Israel Science Foundation (ISF) postdoctoral fellowship

2018-2019: Rothschild Yad-Hanadiv postdoctoral fellowship

2019: Alex Berger award for an outstanding Ph.D. dissertation (Hebrew University)

Teaching

Courses taught in the last 5 years (B.A., M.A.)

2022-present: Statistics for Graduate Students: From t-tests to Mixed-Effect Models

2022-present: Field Work: Individual Differences in Learning and High-Level Cognitive Abilities

2022-present: Research Methods for Cognitive Sciences

2018: A Hands-on Tutorial: Mixed-effect Models in R

2015-2018: Research Methods for Cognitive Sciences

About

Prof. Adam Silverstein is a historian of the Near and Middle East, with a particular focus on Islamic civilization in comparative context. He trained at the University of Cambridge (earning his Ph.D. there in 2002). From 2002 through 2005, Silverstein held a British Academy post-doctoral fellowship at Cambridge. Subsequently, Prof. Silverstein held positions at the University of Oxford, at King's College London, and at Bar Ilan University. Prof. Silverstein joined the Hebrew University in 2021.

Selected Publications

Postal Systems in the Pre-Modern Islamic World, Cambridge, 2007

Islamic History: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, 2010

Veiling Esther, Unveiling her Story: The Reception of a Biblical Book in Islamic Lands, Oxford, 2018

The Oxford Handbook of the Abrahamic Religions (ed. with Guy Stroumsa), Oxford, 2015

Late Antiquity: Eastern Perspectives (ed. with Teresa Bernheimer), Oxford: Oxbow, 2012

Teaching

Introduction to Islam

Topics in Early Islamic History

Islamic Geography

Islam as an Abrahamic Religion

Quranic figures in Islamic Historiography

About

Moshe Sluhovsky studied medieval history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem before moving to Princeton University, where he earned his PhD in 1992 under the supervision of Professors Natalie Z. Davis and Peter Brown. After three years as a post-doctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology, he moved back to Israel and to the Hebrew University, where he has been teaching ever since. He became a Full Professor in 2013 and holds the Paulette and Paul Kelman Chair for the Study of the History of French Jewry. He has served as the Chair of the Department of History and the Institute of History, and as director of the Lafer Program for Women’s and Gender Studies.

Currently he has shifted his research interest to the history of the entanglement of Jews and homosexuality in Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany. Prof. Sluhovsky  has received grants from the German Israeli Foundation, the Einstein Stiftung, and the Israel Science Foundation to pursue this topic.

Selected Publications

 2017             Becoming a New Self: Practices of Belief in Early Modern Catholicism (University of Chicago Press), 232 pp.

 2007             “Believe not Every Spirit": Possession, Mysticism, and Discernment in Early Modern Catholicism (The University of Chicago Press), 373 pgs.

2021                         Co-editor (with Andreas Krass), Queer Jewish Lives between Central Europe and Mandatory Palestine (Frankfurt: Transcript), 300 pp.

2019                         (ed. and Introduction) Into the Dark Night and Back: The Mystical Writings of Jean-Joseph Surin (Leiden and New York: Brill), 548 pp.

2007 – 2011              Editor in Chief, On the Threshold of a New Era, a series of 10 textbooks on early modern European History, The Open University of Israel (in Hebrew)

Selected Awards

2022-2024                                ISF Research Grant (wth Prof. Yuvaul Yonay, Haifa University and Dr. Michal Shapira, TLV), 920,000.00 NIS

2020 - 2023                              Einstein Stiftung grant (465,000.00 Euros)

2017-2020                                German Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research Fellowship (GIF) (200,000.00 Euros)

2013-2014                                Distinguished Fellow, Advanced Research Collaborative Initiative of the Graduate Center, City University of New York

2013-2014                                Remarque Center Fellow, New York University

2012-2013                                Davis Center Fellow, Princeton University

2002 – 2003                              National Humanities Center Fellowship, North Carolina

Teaching

Introduction to 19^th Century Europe

Introduction to 20^th Century Europe

History of Modern Sexuality

The French Revolution

French Theory after 1945

Colonial Encounters

History and Theory (M.A.)

Theories of the Subject (M.A.)

About

Yuval Tal is a historian of modern France and the French colonial Empire in North Africa. His research brings the history of Christians, Muslims, and Jews from across Europe and the Mediterranean into a shared analytical framework. This desegregated method allows him to bridge the divide between national and imperial histories of Europe and bring into view sublimated ethnic premises and biases that haunt European liberal democracies.

Selected Publications

“The ‘Latin’ Melting-Pot: Ethnorepublican Thinking and Immigrant Assimilation in and through Colonial Algeria,” French Historical Studies 44:1 (2021), 85-118.

“The Social Logic of Colonial Anti-Judaism: Revisiting the Anti-Jewish Crisis in French Algeria, 1889-1902," Studies in Contemporary Jewry 30 (2018), 17-36.

Teaching

Gender and Law in France, 1870-2022

Nationalism and Colonialism in Modern France 

After Empire: Decolonization and the Remaking of Europe

The Right to the City in Modern Paris: Race, Sexuality, and Capitalism

About

Senior lecturer in Classics

Selected Publications

The Worlds of Aulus Gellius, eds. L. Holford-Strevens and A. Vardi (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)

“Diiudicatio Locorum: Gellius and the History of a Mode in Ancient Comparative Criticism”, Classical Quarterly2 46 (1996), 492-514

“An Anthology of Early Latin Epigrams? A Ghost Reconsidered”, Classical Quarterly2 50 (2000), 147-158

Teaching

Bachelor's degree courses

Catuulus

Vergil's Ecl., Vergil's. Georgics, Vergil's Aeneid

Cicero, de Officiis, Cicero, de Oratore, Cic. de Amicitia, Cic. in Cat. I, Cicero, pro Archia, Cicero and Pliny, E

pistles

Roman Historians

Plautus, Menaechmi, Plautus, Catptivi

Terence, Adelphoe

Ovid, Met

Master's degree courses seminars

The Self in Seneca the younger and Pliny the youger

Horace, Odes; Horace satirre

Intellectua life at Rome

Love in Roman Elegy

The concept of Decline in Tacitus' dialogus de oratoribus

About

Prof. Gal Ventura is a cultural art historian in the Department of Art History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research  focuses on nineteenth-century French art, an epoch of revolutionary political, demographic, and cultural changes and engages socio-medical aspects of childhood, maternity, breastfeeding, pain, death, and sleep. Her recent essays, published in various international journals, investigate motherhood, medicine, design, and fashion.

Selected Publications

Gal Ventura, 2015, "Nursing in Style: Fashion versus Socio-medical Ideologies in Late Nineteenth-Century France," Journal of Social History 48, no. 3 (Spring, 2015): 536-554.

Gal Ventura, 2017, "Intention, Interpretation and Reception: The Aestheticization of Poverty in William Bouguereau's Indigent Family," Visual Resources 33, nos. 3-4 (Autumn, 2017): 204-233.

Gal Ventura, 2017, "'Long Live the Bottle': The French Bottle-Feeding Industry in the Nineteenth Century," Social History of Medicine 33, no. 2 (Autumn, 2017): 329-356.

Gal Ventura, 2019, "'Ceci n'est pas un Berceau': The Majestic Cradle of Napoleon's Son," Journal of Design History 32, no. 4 (September, 2019), 323-339.

Gal Ventura, 2020, "The Game of Chance: Marcel Duchamp's Large Glass and Nineteenth-Century French Political Caricatures," Konsthistorisk tidskrift: Journal of Art History 89, no. 5 (September, 2020), 1-23.

Teaching

Bachelor's degree courses

Introduction to Modern and Contemporary Art (2013-present)

Aesthetics: Critical thought about Art (2008-2012)

Oh Mama! Maternity in Visual Culture (2011-2012, 2018-2019, 2021)

Paris: Capital of the Nineteenth Century (2014-2016, 2019, 2021)

The Art of Blasphemy (2015, 2017, 2020)

Paris: Urbanism, Consumerism and Modernity (2016-present, Amirim)

Introduction to Aesthetics: Modern Critical Thinking Through the Arts (2017)

Me, Me, Me: Selfie and Narcissism (2019)

Master's degree courses

The History of Art History (2016-present, M.A.)

From Durer to the Selfie: The Art of Portraiture (2016-2017, 2021, M.A.)

About

Born in Jerusalem (1962)

BA and MA (1983-87), PhD (1993, Assyriology): The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Professor of Assyriology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2011-2014      Vice-dean for research, Faculty of Humanities, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2010–2011     Mercator Guest Professor (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) at the Altorientalisches Institut, University of Leipzig

2008–2014    Associate professor in Assyriology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (27.4.2008 –18.11.2014)

2002–2008   Senior lecturer in Assyriology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (13.5.2002 – 26.4.2008)

1995–2002    Lecturer in Assyriology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1.4.1995 – 12.5.2002)

1993–1994     Post-doc, UPR 193, CNRS, Paris (équipe de Mari) 

Selected Publications

 “Style and Form in Old-Babylonian Literary Texts,” Cuneiform Monographs 27, Leiden/Boston: Brill/Styx, 2003.

“Akkadian Love Literature of the 3rd and 2nd Millennium BCE,” Leipziger Altorientalistische Studien 4, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2016.

 Labor Pains, Difficult Birth, Sick Child: Three Old Babylonian Incantations from a Private Collection,  Bibliotheca Orientalis 75 (2018), 14–25.

“The Susa Funerary Texts: A New Edition and Re-Evaluation and the Question of Psychostasia in Ancient Mesopotamia,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 139 (2019), 859–891.

 The Flood: The Akkadian Sources. A New Edition, Commentary, and a Literary Discussion (Orbis

Biblicus et Orientalis, 290), Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2020.

Teaching

Jerusalem: 2017/18

Akkadian for Beginners; BA (Mon. and Wed. 10:30-12:00) ► course

 Death in the Literature of Mesopotamia; BA (Winter semester, Mon. 16:30-18:00) ► course

You Cross Regularly Through the Heavens: The Great Shamash Hymn; BA (Summer semester, Wed. 14:30-16:00) ► course

 Akkadian incantations against demons, sickness, and various animals; MA  (Mon. 12:30-14:00) ► course

Leipzig: December 2017

Reading Tablets from Photos (4–7 December: "Blockseminar". With Prof. M. P. Streck)

Jerusalem: 2018/19

Kings & Cities: Introduction to the History of Ancient Mesopotamia; BA (Summer semester, Mon. 16:30-18:00) ► course

Wisdom Literature: Advanced Akkadian; BA (Summer semester, Mon. 12:30-14:00) ► course

The Assyrian Dialect: Letters; BA (Summer semester, Wed. 10:30-12:00) ► course

Jerusalem: 2019/20

Introduction to Akkadian; BA (Winter semester, Mon. and Wed. 10:30-12:00) ► course

Akkadian Texts for Beginners ; BA (Summer semester, Mon. and Wed. 10:30-12:00) ► course

Jerusalem: 2020/21

Reading in the Laws of Hammurapi; BA (Winter semester, Mon. 10:30–12:00) ► course

Selected Old Babylonian Letters: BA (Winter semester, Mon. 13:00–14:30) ► course

Kings & Cities: Introduction to the History of Ancient Mesopotamia; BA (Summer semester, Mon. 17:00-18:30) ► course

The Flood in Akkadian Literature (Summer semester, Mon. 10:30-12:00) ► course 

About

Zeev Weiss is the Eleazar L. Sukenik Professor of Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology. Trained in Classical Archaeology, he specializes in Roman and Late Antique art and architecture in the provinces of Syria-Palestine. Weiss’s ongoing excavations at Sepphoris since 1990 have uncovered the remains of the ancient city that flourished from the Roman period and throughout late antiquity. The wealth of evidence emerging from Sepphoris, one of the major Galilean settlements, illustrates the glorious past of this large and prosperous city that housed a mosaic of cultures.

Selected Publications

 Z. Weiss, Public Spectacles in Roman and Late Antique Palestine (Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2014)

Z. Weiss, Sepphoris: A Mosaic of Cultures (Jerusalem, Yad Izhak ben-Zvi, 2021) (Hebrew)

 M. Sherman, Z. Weiss, T. Zilberman, and G. Yasur, “Chalkstone Vessels from Sepphoris: Galilean Production in Roman Times,” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 383 (2020), 79–95

Z. Weiss, “Urban and Rural Synagogues in Late Antique Palestine: Is there That Much of a Difference between Them?” in Early Christian Encounters with Town and Countryside Essays on the Urban and Rural Worlds of Early Christianity, ed. M. Tiwald and J. K. Zangenberg, Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus / Studien zur Umwelt des Neuen Testaments 126 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021), 377-396

 Z. Weiss, The “Magdala Stone Table”: Its Function and Role in Determining the Liturgical Furniture in the Ancient Synagogue,” Journal of Roman Archaeology (in press)

Selected Awards

Irene Levi-Sala Book Prize in the Archaeology of Israel (for: The Sepphoris Synagogue: Deciphering an Ancient Message through Its Archaeological and Socio-Historical Contexts [Jerusalem, 2005])

Teaching

Undergraduate Courses

Introduction to Roman Archaeology (43156)

Introduction to Byzantine Archaeology (43107)

Introduction to Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine Archaeology of the Land of Israel (43511)

Classical Art and Architecture: The Roman Period (43427)

Topics of Classical Byzantine Archaeology: Urbanization in Roman Palestine (43526)

Topics of Classical Byzantine Archaeology: Cult Buildings in Ancient Palestine (43526)

The Roman House and Its Decorations (43409)

Graduate Courses

Jews and Christians in Ancient Palestine: The Archaeological Evidence (43956)

In the Path of the Galilee: Architecture, Art, and Society (43776)

The Ancient Synagogue: New Finds, New Paradigms (43760)

Mosaic Art in Ancient Palestine (43814)

Jews and Christians in Byzantine Palestine: A Literary and Archaeological Approach (with Prof. David Satran) (8801)

Between Text and Artifact: Everyday Life in Late Antique Palestine (with Prof. Joshua Levinson) (8804)

About

Dr. Alena Witzlack-Makarevich's research revolves around capturing, describing, and explaining linguistic diversity. In her work, Witzlack-Makarevich combines large-scale typological studies involving hundreds of languages with in-depth studies of individual languages. Alena is also actively involved in language documentation and description.

Selected Publications

Bickel, Balthasar, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Kamal K. Choudhary, Matthias Schlesewsky & Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky. 2015. “The neurophysiology of language processing shapes the evolution of grammar: evidence from case marking”, PLOS ONE 10(8): e0132819. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0132819.

Seifart, Frank, Jan Strunk, Swintha Danielsen, Iren Hartmann, Brigitte Pakendorf, Søren Wichmann, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Nivja H. de Jong & Balthasar Bickel. 2018. “Nouns slow down speech across structurally and culturally diverse languages”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences May 2018, 201800708.

Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena & Hirosi Nakagawa. 2019. Linguistic features and typologies in languages commonly referred to as ‘Khoisan’. In Ekkehard Wolff (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of African Linguistics, 382–416. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena & Ilja A. Seržant. “Differential argument marking: Patterns of variation. In Seržant, Ilja A. & Alena Witzlack-Makarevich (eds), Diachrony of differential argument marking”, 1–40. Berlin: Language Science Press.

Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena, Taras Zakharko, Lennart Bierkandt, Fernando Zúñiga & Balthasar Bickel. “Decomposing hierarchical alignment: co-arguments as conditions on alignment and the limits of referential hierarchies as explanations in verb agreement”, Linguistics 54(3), 531–561.

Teaching

Corpus linguistics

Quantitative methods in linguistics

Pidgins and creoles

Lexical typology

Practical lexicography

ǃUi languages of the Tuu family

Introduction to the structure of Khoekhoe

Register Variation

Comparative linguistics and phylogenetic methods

Linguistic typology

Field linguistics

About

Dr. Naomi Yuval-Naeh is a cultural historian interested in science, environment, and nature, focusing mainly on 19^th century Britain. Naomi holds a BSc (Biology and Amirim), and M.Sc (Plant Science) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Ph.D (History) from Tel Aviv University. Dr. Yuval-Naeh serves as the academic curator of the Herbarium at the Hebrew University’s National Natural History Collections.

Selected Publications

“Cultivating the Carboniferous: Coal as a Botanical Curiosity in Victorian Culture”, Victorian Studies 61.3 (2019)

 (Forthcoming) “The Botany Department and the Spatial Question, 1948-1967” (Hebrew), in The History of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Vol. V, eds. Yfaat Weiss and Uzi Rebhun (Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press)

Selected Awards

Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship

Lady Davis Postdoctoral Fellowship

Dan David Prize Scholarship

Teaching

Environmental History

History of Natural History

On Plants and People: Entangled Histories

Industrial Culture in 19th Century Britain

Victorian Environments: Between the Country and the City

Victorian Society and Culture

Selected Publications

Double Vision: Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama (Princeton, 2006)

Ethics and the Beast (Princeton, 2007)

Acts: Theater, Philosophy and the Performing Self (The University of Michigan Press, 2014)

Ascent: Philosophy and Paradise Lost (Oxford, 2017

Just Literature: Philosophical Criticism and Justice (Routledge, 2019).

Teaching

Bachelor's degree courses

Shakespeare: Selected Plays

Ecocriticism

Money and Literature

Shakespeare: from text to performance

Master's degree courses

Poetic Justice

Philosophy and Literature

Love in Philosophy and Literature

Shakespeare's Comedies

The Poetry of Faith