Malachi H. Hacohen, Associate Professor of History and History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine
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Teaching (Spring 2012):
- HISTORY 134C.01, JEWISH HISTORY, 1492-PRESENT
Synopsis
- Carr 240, WF 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
- HISTORY 204S.01, POST WAR EUROPE, 1945-1968
Synopsis
- Bivins 114, W 01:30 PM-03:55 PM
- Education:
PhD Columbia University 1993
- Specialties:
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Intellectual History
Political Theory
Race and Ethnicity
Politics, Public Life and Governance
Global Transnational History
Cultural History
Comparative Colonial Studies
- Research Interests:
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.
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- Malachi Haim Hacohen. "Jacob and Esau Between Nation and Empire: A Jewish European History." June, 2013
- M.H. Hacohen. "Envisioning Central Europe: Friedrich Torberg, the Austrian Émigrés and Jewish European History." 2012
- M.H. Hacohen. "Erich Auerbach and Judeo-Christian Europe." December, 2011
- M.H. Hacohen. "From Forvm to Neues Forvm: The ‘Congress for Cultural Freedom,’ the 68ers and the Émigrés." Das Jahr 1968 – Ereignis, Symbol, Chiffre. Ed. Oliver Rathkolb and Friedrich Stadler. Vienna University Press, 2010
- M.H. Hacohen. "’The Strange Fact That the State of Israel Exists’: The Cold War Liberals Between Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism." Jewish Social Studies 15.2 (2009): 37-81.