| Curriculum Vitae Malachi H. Hacohen |
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Education
- PhD, 1993, Columbia University
- M. Phil., 1983, Columbia University with distinction
- MA, 1982, Columbia University
- BA, 1979, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Professional Experience / Employment History
- Duke University: Fred W. Shaffer Associate Professor of History and Political Science, 2003
- : Fred W. Shaffer Associate Professor of History, 2000
- : Assistant Professor of History, 1993 - 2000
- Reed College: Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Humanities and Co-Chair of the History-Literature Program Co-Chair of the, 1989
- Cooper Union College: Adjunct Lecturer in History, 1986 - 1988
- Columbia University: Preceptor, Contemporary Civilization, 1984 - 1988
- New York University: Adjunct Lecturer, 1984-1986
- Residential Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford), 2006-07
- Victor Adler Staatspreis (Austrian State Prize), History of Social Movements for Karl Popper - The Formative Years, 1902-1945, 2003
- Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship, ACLS, tenable at the National Humanities Center, 2003-04
- Herbert Baxter Adams Prize for the best book in European history, AHA (American Historical Association), 2002
- Senior Fellow, IFK (Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften), Vienna, Austria, Spring 2001
- International Committee for the Victor Adler State Prize, 2004 - present
- Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, 2002 - present
- Modern Intellectual History (Cambridge Journal), 2002 - present
- Ph.D. dissertation, 2001 - present
- Ph.D. dissertation, 2001 - present
- International Summer University, 1999 - present
- International Summer University, 1999 - present
- Duke-IFK graduate and postdoc exchange program, funded through the IFK and the Austrian Ministry of Education, 1999 - present
- Cambridge University Press, Duke University Press, Routledge, ISIS, The Journal of the History of Ideas, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Modern Int, 1994 - present
- Karl Popper 2002 Centenary Congress, 2000 - 2002
- Humanities Program, Reed College: redesigning curriculum, 1990 - 1993
- AHA Panel, Chicago: “Universal History and Totalitarianism”, 1991
- Committee for the Integration of Gender into Contemporary Civilization, 1985 - 1988
Selected Recent Talks and Lectures
- ""Thinking with the Cold War Liberals" Einstein Forum (Potsdam)," conference: "Open Wounds: Nazism, Communism and the 20th Century", 10 October 2005.
- "The Rise, the Fall and the Afterlife of the Central European Jewish Intelligenstia," Jews in Multiethnic Netrworks Conference, University of Haifa, Israel, December 20, 2004.
- ""The Central European Jewish Intelligentsia from Enlightenment to Cold War"," Bucerius Lectures at the University of Haifa, 2004.
- "The Central European Jewish Intelligentsia from Enlightenment to Cold War: Jacob and Esau in the Age of Emancipation; Karl Popper, the Assimilated Viennese Jewry, and Fin-de-siecle Cosmopolitan Culture; Austria, the Congress for Cultural Freedom, and the," Bucerius Lectures at the University of Haifa; last lecture, revised, delivered also at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, June 07, 2004.
- "Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism in a Global Perspective," Europe and Israel: What’s Next? The Israeli-European Dialogue in a Global Perspective, The University of Haifa, Israel, June 05, 2004.
- "When Jacob Became Once Again a Jew: Jacob, Esau and Ethnonationalism," Council for European Studies Conference, Chicago, March 15, 2004.
- "Historicizing Method: Science, Democracy, and the Historian," Political Science Seminar, Duke University, 2003.
- "Jacob and Esau, Jewish Emancipation and the Dilemmas of Multiculturalism” (English and Hebrew)," National Humanities Center (USA), Duke University, and Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, 2003.
- "Popper’s Life In-Between: Cosmopolitanism and the Assimilated Viennese Jewry," Simon Dubnow Institut für Jüdische Geschichte und Kultur, Leipzig, Germany, 2003.
- "Historicizing Deduction," European Science Foundation Conference on "Induction and Deduction in the Sciences," University of Vienna, 2002.
- "Karl Popper and the Liberal Imagination in Science and Politics," European Forum Alpbach (Austria), the Karl Popper Centenary Congress (Vienna), the University of Minnesota (History of Science Seminar), and the Forum for Contemporary Thought, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 2002.
- "Assimilated Jewry and Central European Culture," Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, 2001.
- "Jacob and Esau in the Enlightenment: Emancipation and the Limits of the Multicultural Imagination," Public Lecture, Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna, 2001.
- "Karl Popper and the Viennese Origins of Cold War Liberalism," Kings College, Cambridge and Institut fur Zeitegeschichte, University of Vienna, 2001.
- "Living In-between: Jewish Intellectuals from Enlightenment to Cold War," Langford Lecture. Duke University, 2001.
- "Rediscovering Intellectual Biography," Wiener Kreis Institut and the University of Vienna, 2001.
- "The Exners: Science in a Viennese Bildungsburger Family," Comment at the History of Science Conference, Denver, 2001.
- "Dilemmas of Cold War Liberalism: Democracy and Citizenship in Aron's Tocqueville," Mellon Seminar, National Humanities Center, 2000.
- "From Viennese Progressivism to Postwar Atlantic Liberalism: Karl Popper and Piecemeal Social Engineering," Karl Popper Institute, Vienna, 1999.
- "Cosmopolitanism and the Dilemmas of Jewish Identity," Annual Karl Popper Conference, LSE, London; Intellectual History – Jewish Studies Seminar, University of Wisconsin – Madison; conferences on Judaism at the 21st Century, UNC – Chapel Hill, and Zionism: The First Hundred Years, Duke, 1997.
- "The Rebirth of Liberalism in Science and Politics: Karl Popper's Critiques of the Vienna Circle and Red Vienna," International Symposium, Metropolis Vienna: Textures of the Modern, Vienna; Triangle Intellectual History Seminar, National Humanities Center, 1996.
- "Karl Popper and Interwar Vienna: Jewish Identity in Central European Culture," International Symposium, Beyond Vienna 1900, Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota; Social Science Research Seminar, Wake Forest University; Center for European Studies, Duke, 1995.
- "The Poverty of Historicism in context: Philosophy of Science, Economics, and Socialization in Interwar Vienna," History of Economic Thought Workshop, Duke University; Triangle Seminar in the History of Science, 1995.
- "The Ambiguities of European Liberalism: Tocqueville and Aron on Democracy, Community, and Religion," University of Victoria, British Columbia (Canada), Rutgers University, and Duke History Seminar, 1993-4.
- "European Liberalism in the Age of Totalitarianism: Liberty, Equality and Order in the Political Writings of Popper, Aron, and Talmon," Reed College Humanities Seminar and History Workshop, 1992-3.
- "Karl Popper and the Jewish Question," The Portland Jewish Institute, 1992.
- "Karl Popper: Scientific Prediction and Economic Planning in Interwar Vienna," American Historical Association Convention, Chicago, 1991.
- "The Debate on Enlightenment, Modernity and Postmodernity," College of Liberal Arts, Concordia University, Montreal, 1989.
- "Modernity from Marx to Heidegger," Contemporary Civilization Seminar, Columbia University, 1988.
- "The Concept of ‘Negative Liberty’ and the Dilemmas of Liberalism," Contemporary Civilization Seminar, Columbia University, 1987.
- "The Central European Jewish Intelligentsia from Enlightenment to Cold War: Jacob and Esau in the Age of Jewish Emancipation: The National State and the Dilemmas of Multiculturalism; Karl Popper, the Assimilated Viennese Jewry, and the Cosmopolitan Culture, June 0114, 2004.
- "The Central European Jewish Intelligentsia from Enlightenment to Cold War: Jacob and Esau in the Age of Jewish Emancipation: The National State and the Dilemmas of Multiculturalism; Karl Popper, the Assimilated Viennese Jewry, and the Cosmopolitan Culture, June 114, 2004.
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