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Malachi H. Hacohen, Fred W. Shaffer Associate Professor of History, Political Science and Religion

Malachi H. Hacohen
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Office Location:  Box 90719
Office Phone:  (919) 684-6819
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Teaching (Fall 2009):

Teaching (Spring 2010):

Education:

PhD, Columbia University, 1993
Specialties:

Political Theory
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MALACHI HAIM HACOHEN (Ph.D., Columbia), Associate Professor of History, Political Science and Religion, and a Bass Fellow, 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 the Central European Jewish intelligentsia, the dilemmas of the nation state, Jewish- Christian relations and the relationship of cosmopolitanism, multiculturalism, and Jewish identity. Hacohen's 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 journals and collections. He is presently working on a book on the Central European Jewish intelligentsia, including essays on the modern uses of the typology of Jacob and Esau (Jews and non-Jews), Jewish emancipation and the dilemmas of the European nation state, Austrian and Jewish identity, and Cold War liberalism, the Congress for Cultural Freedom and the formation of a public sphere in postwar Central Europe. Hacohen 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 was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto in 2006-07, at the National Humanities Center in 2002-03 and at the IFK (Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften) in Viennain 2001 . 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 editorial board of MIH (modern intellectual history) and the program board of the Vienna International Summer University, the IFK, and the jury for the Adler and Vogelsang Austrian State Prizes.

Curriculum Vitae
Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. Malachi Haim Hacohen, Jacob and Esau Between Nation and Empire: The Central European Jewish Intelligentsia, 1781-1968 (2010) .
  2. M.H. Hacohen, ’The Strange Fact That the State of Israel Exists’: The Cold War Liberals Between Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism, Jewish Social Studies, vol. 15 no. 2 (2009), pp. 37-81 .
  3. M.H. Hacohen, The Culture of Viennese Science and the Riddle of Austrian Liberalism, Modern Intellectual History, vol. 6 no. 2 (2009), pp. 369-396 .
  4. M.H. Hacohen, Eugene R. Sheppard, Leo Strauss and the Politics of Exile: The Making of a Political Philosopher, Studies in Contemporary Jewry, vol. 24 (2009) .
  5. M.H. Hacohen, Kosmopoliten in einer ethnonationalen Zeit? Juden und Österreicher in der 1. Republik, in Das Werden der Republik: Österreich 1918-1920, edited by Helmut Konrad and Wolfgang Maderthaner (Fall, 2008), Gerold .