Malachi H. Hacohen- Contact Info:
Teaching (Spring 2024):
- History 251.01, Jewish history, 1492-present
Synopsis
- Class bldg 114, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
- Ames 720.01d, Middle east practicum
Synopsis
- See instru, Tu 06:00 PM-07:50 PM
- Education:
Ph.D. | Columbia University | 1993 |
M.Phil. | Columbia University | 1983 |
M.A. | Columbia University | 1982 |
B.A. | Bar Ilan University (Israel) | 1979 |
- Specialties:
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Intellectual History
Political Theory Behavior & Identities Race and Ethnicity Politics, Public Life and Governance Global Transnational History Cultural History Comparative Colonial Studies Global and Comparative European and Russia
- Research Interests:
Malachi Haim Hacohen (Ph.D., Columbia), Fred W. Shaffer Associate Professor of History and Political Science, teaches European intellectual history and Jewish history. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, and Reed College. His research focuses on Central Europe and includes social theory, political philosophy, and philosophy of science. He is presently interested especially in Jewish- Christian relations and in the relationship of cosmopolitanism, multiculturalism, and Jewish identity. His Karl Popper - The Formative Years, 1902-1945 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000) has won the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the AHA and the Victor Adler- Staatspreis (Austrian state-prize) . He has published essays in The Journal of Modern History, The Journal of the History of Ideas, History and Theory, and numerous collections. He is presently working on two projects: "Jacob and Esau, Jewish Emancipation and the Dilemmas of Multiculturalism" and "Dilemmas of Liberalism: The Congress for Cultural Freedom and the Cultural Cold War." He has been a recipient of the Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship from the ACLS, as well as of Fulbright, Mellon, and Whiting fellowships and a number of teaching awards. He is presently (2003-04) a fellow at the National Humanities Center and, in 2001, was a senior fellow at the IFK (Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften) in Vienna. He plans to be at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto in 2006-07 . He is a coordinator of the Triangle Intellectual History Program (Duke, NCSU at Raleigh, UNC at Chapel Hill) and the Judaic Studies Seminar, and he serves on the program board of the Vienna International Summer University, the IFK, and the VGA (Verein fuer Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung), Vienna.
- Curriculum Vitae
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- Hacohen, M, Agassi and Popper on Nationalism – and Beyond,
Philosophy of the Social Sciences, vol. 53 no. 1
(January, 2023),
pp. 60-71 [doi] [abs].
- Hacohen, MH, The University and the Talmud,
Annali di Storia delle Universita Italiane, vol. 24 no. 1
(June, 2020),
pp. 49-61 [doi] [abs].
- Hacohen, MH, Foreword: Roma, jews and european history
(January, 2020),
pp. xi-xiv.
- Hacohen, MH, The young popper as a scholarly field: A comment on dahms, hansen, and ter hark,
in Karl Popper: A Centenary Assessment, vol. 1
(June, 2019),
pp. 99-110.
- Hacohen, MH, Jacob & Esau Jewish European history between nation and empire
(January, 2019),
pp. 1-734, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi] [abs].
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