MITCHELL B. HART
Department of History
025
Keene-Flint Hall
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida 32611
352-273-3361
hartm@ufl.edu
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Professor, and Alexander
Grass Chair in Jewish History, University of Florida, 2009-
Member, Editorial Board, Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture,
Society, 2009-
Associate Professor,
University of Florida, 2003-2009
Padnos Visiting Professor, Program
in Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2002-2003
Skirball Fellow, Oxford Centre for Jewish and Hebrew Studies, Oxford, England,
Spring, 2001
Associate Professor, Florida
International University, 2001-2003
Assistant Professor, Florida
International University, 1995-2001
Director, Program in Jewish
Studies, Florida International University,
1997-2000
EDUCATION
Ph.D., History, University
of California, Los Angeles, 1994
Dissertation: "Social Science and National Identity:
A History of Jewish Statistics, 1880-1930"
M.A., Jewish History, University
of California, Los Angeles, 1986
B.A., Jewish Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 1984
Magna Cum Laude
BOOKS
Monographs
The Healthy Jew: The Symbiosis of Judaism and Modern Medicine (Cambridge University
Press, 2007)
Social Science and the Politics of Modern Jewish Identity (Stanford University Press,
2000)
Winner, Salo Baron Book Prize for Best First
Book in Jewish Studies
Finalist, Koret Jewish Book Award, History
Edited Books
Editor, Jewish Blood: Reality and Metaphor in Jewish History, Religion, and
Culture (Routledge, 2009)
Editor, Jews on Race: A Reader (University Press of New England, 2010,
forthcoming)
Co-editor, with Tony Michels, The
Cambridge History of Modern Judaism, volume 8: The Modern Period, 1815-2000
(under contract with Cambridge University Press)
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
ÒÕAre the Jews a Race?Õ: An Introduction,Ó in Jews
on Race: A Reader (University Press of New England, 2010, forthcoming)
ÒJewish Blood: An
Introduction,Ó in Jewish Blood: Reality
and Metaphor in Jewish History, Religion, and Culture (Routledge,
2009)
"Maurice Fishberg and the Ambiguities of Jewish Identity," AJS Perspectives, Fall 2007, pp. 20-25.
"The Unbearable
Lightness of Britain: Anglo Jewish
Historiography and the Problem of 'Success'," Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, July 2007, pp.
145-165.
"Let the Numbers
Speak!": On the Exploitation of Jewish Social
Science by Nazi Scholars,"
Simon Dubnow
Institute Yearbook, vol. 5, 2006, pp. 281-299.
"Here it is, to an Astounding Degree, Saved": The Leo Baeck Institute in New York, 1956-2000," Preserving the Legacy of Germany Jewry. A History of the Leo Baeck Institute,1955-2005, edited by Christhard
Hoffmann (Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2005), pp.
135-171.
"Jews, Capitalism, and
Racial Imagery in the German-Jewish Context," Jewish History, vol. 19, no. 1, January,
2005, pp. 49-63.
"Die Juden sollen
zahlen: Judische Statistik als
nationalistisches
Projekt" in 10+5=Gott. Die Macht der Zeichen,
edited by Daniel Tyradelis and Michal Friedlander
(Berlin: Jewish Museum Berlin, 2004), pp. 223-235
"Towards Abnormality:
Assimilation and Degeneration in German-Jewish Social Thought." In Towards Normality? Acculturation and Modern German Jewry, edited by Rainer
Liedtke and David Rechter
(Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003), pp. 329-346
"'ÉPerioden des Gluecks sind leere
Blaetter.' Die juedische
Geschichtsschreibung in England und das Problem der 'Gravitas'," in Judentum und Historismus. Zur Entstehung der juedischen Geschichtswissenschaft
in Europa, ed. Ulrich Wyrwa
(Frankfurt/M and New York: Campus-Verlag, 2003), pp.
57-84
"Franz Boas as German,
American, Jew." In German-Jewish
Identities in America, eds. C. Mauch
and J. Salomon (Madison: Max Kade Institute, 2003),
pp. 88-105
"What Would Be Lost?"
ShÕma: A Journal of Jewish Responsibility
(December, 2002)
"The Historian's Past
in Three Recent Jewish Autobiographies," Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture, Society, vol. 5, no. 3,
1999, pp. 132-160
"Racial Science, Social
Science, and the Politics of Jewish Assimilation," Isis: Journal of the History of Science Society, vol. 90, no. 2,
June 1999, pp. 268-297
Reprinted in Science, Race and Ethnicity: Readings from Isis and Osiris, edited
by John P. Jackson (University of Chicago Press, 2002)
"Picturing Jews:
Iconography and Racial Science," Studies
in Contemporary Jewry, (Oxford University Press), vol. 11, 1995, pp.
159-175.
"Moses the
Microbiologist: Judaism and Social
Hygiene in the Work of Alfred Nossig," Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture,
Society, vol. 2, no. 1, 1995, pp. 72-97.
BOOK REVIEWS and NOTES
David
N. Livingstone, Adam's Ancestors: Race,
Religion, and the Politics of Human Origins, in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, vol. 60, no. 3, July 2009,
pp. 625-626.
Todd Presner,
Mobile Modernity: Jews, Germans, Trains,
in Journal of Modern History, vol.
81, no. 2, 2009.
Michael
Brenner and Gideon Reuveni (eds.), Emancipation through Muscles: Jews and
Sports in Europe, in Studies in
Contemporary Jewry, vol. 23, 2008.
Nils Roemer, Jewish Culture and Scholarship in
Nineteenth-Century Germany, in Central
European History, vol. 40, no. 4, December 2007, pp. 729-731.
Orientalism and the Jews, edited by Ivan Kalmar and Derek Penslar, in
American Historical Review, vol. 111,
no. 1, February 2006, p. 131.
Lloyd Gartner, The History of the Jews in Modern Times,
in Jewish Culture and History, vol.
6, no. 2, 2005.
S. Ilan
Troen, Imagining
Zion: Dreams, Designs, and Realities in a Century of Jewish Settlement, in ShÕma, May 2004,
pp. 13-14.
Wissenschaft vom Judentum: AnnŠherungen nach dem Holocaust, edited by Michael Brenner
and Stefan Rohrbacher, in Central European History, vol. 36, no. 1 (Mar. 2003): 160-2.
David Brenner, Marketing Identities: The Invention of
Jewish Ethnicity in Ost und West, German Studies Review, vol. 24, no. 3,
October, 2001, pp. 616-617.
Ritchie Robertson, The 'Jewish
Question' in German Literature, 1749-1939, in Religious Studies Review, Vol.26, No.4, October, 2000, p. 395.
JŸdisches Leben in der Weimarer Republik/Jews in the
Weimar Republic, edited by Wolfgang Benz, Arnold Paucker,
and Peter Pulzer, in Religious Studies Review, vol. 26, no. 4, October, 2000, p.
395-396.
In Search of
Jewish Community: Jewish Identities In Germany and Austria 1918-1933,
edited by Michael Brenner and
Derek J. Penslar, in Religious Studies Review, vol. 26, no. 4, October 2000, p. 395.
Omer Bartov,
Murder in Our Midst: The Holocaust,
Industrial Killing, and Representation, in German Studies Review, vol. 20, no. 3, October 1997, 472-473.
Derek Penslar,
Zionism and Technocracy, in History of European Ideas, vol. 18, no.
6, Nov. 1994, pp. 959-960
PAPERS and PRESENTATIONS
ÒNatureÕs Chosen People:
Social Darwinism, Eugenics, and the Reinterpretation of Jewish History,Ó Keynote
Talk, University of College London,
July 20, 2009; Weinstein-Minkoff Lecture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, April
2008.
"The Pathological Circle": The Image of 'Health' in
Zionism," Public Lecture in Jewish Studies, Daytona Museum of Arts and Sciences, October 29, 2006.
"TB or
not TB," Seminars in Medical Humanities and Bioethics. Presented by the Medical Humanities Program at Indiana
University Purdue University at Indianopolis, in conjunction
with the Indiana University Center for Bioethics, March 2006.
"TB or
not TB, That was a Jewish Question: Tuberculosis and the Reinterpretation of
Jews and Judaism" Association of
Jewish Studies Annual Convention, Washington D.C.,
December 2005.
"German Jews and Racial
Thinking," Padnos Visiting Lecture, University of Michigan, October 24, 2002.
"Evidence of Trust:
Jews, Nazis, and Scholarship," Program
in Jewish Studies, University of Pennsylvania, March 2, 2002.
"Jews, Race, and
Capitalism in the German-Jewish Context." Program in Jewish
Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, April,
2001; Annual Association of Jewish Studies Conference, Boston, December, 2000
"Franz Boas and
Strategies of Jewish Self-Representation." Conference on "The German-Jewish Legacy in
America", University of Wisconsin, Madison, October, 2000
"The Uses of Jewish
History." Department of History, Northwestern University, February, 2000
"Jews, Capitalism, and
the Question of Racial Identity." Department of History, The University of Oregon, Eugene, February 1999
"The Power of Numbers:
Nazi Scholarship, Jewish Scholarship, and the Question of Evidence." Intellectual History and Practice: A
Workshop, University of California, Berkeley, October
2-3, 1998
"Jews, Capitalism, and
the Idea of 'Racial Worth'." Conference
on Jews and the Biological and Social Sciences, Oxford Centre for Hebrew
and Jewish Studies, Oxford, England, August 1998
"Capital Crimes: Money,
Urbanism,and Jewish
Criminality." American Historical
Association Annual Meeting, January 1998
"A Jew Grows in Brooklyn:
Physical Anthropology, Medical Sociology, and the Politics of Jewish
Integration." Department of History, Southern Illinois
University at Edwardsville, April 3, 1997
"Jews, Criminality, and
Social Science in Fin-de-Siecle Central
Europe." Annual Association of Jewish Studies Conference, December,
1996; German Studies Association Conference, October 10-13, 1996
"The Verein fŸr jŸdische
Statistik: The Creation of an Organized Jewish Social
Science as a Zionist Project." Annual
Association of Jewish Studies Conference, December 17-19, 1995
"Physical Anthropology
and National Identity: The Representation of Jews in Social Scientific
Texts." Annual Association of Jewish Studies Conference, December 18-20,
1994
"Envisioning Modern
Jewish Politics: Early Zionism and the Representation of the Jew." Symposium on Visuality,
University of California, Berkeley, March 12-13, 1994
AWARDS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS
Salo Baron Book Prize, Best
First Book in Jewish Studies, 2001
Skirball Visiting Fellowship, Oxford
Centre for Jewish and Hebrew Studies, Oxford, England, Spring, 2001
Faculty Development Grant,
Florida International University, Spring 2000
Florida International
University Foundation Grant, Summer 1997
Faculty Development Grant,
Florida International University, Fall 1996
Faculty Development Grant,
Florida International University, Fall 1995
Academy for the Art of
Teaching, Grant, Fall 1995
Fellowship, Conference on
Jewish Social Studies (1993-1995)
Monkarsh Fellowship, UCLA (1993-94)
UCLA Provost Fellowship
(1988-89)
National Foundation for
Jewish Culture Fellowship (1987-88)
Memorial Foundation for
Jewish Culture Fellowship (1986-87, 1987-88)
Interuniversity Fellowship
Program for Jewish Studies, Hebrew University (1988-89, 1990-91)
1939 Club Fellowship- UCLA
(1985-86, 1986-87)
Jewish Community Foundation
Fellowship (1984-85)
Phi Beta Kappa