CURRICULUM VITAE

 

MITCHELL B. HART

 

 

Department of History

025 Keene-Flint Hall 

University of Florida

Gainesville, Florida  32611

352-392-0271, ext. 236

hartm@ufl.edu

 

 

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

 

Associate Professor, University of Florida, 2003-

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

 

The Healthy Jew: The Symbiosis of Judaism and Modern Medicine (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, 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 

 

 

ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS

 

"The Unbearable Lightness of Britain:  Anglo Jewish Historiography and the Problem of 'Success'" (submitted to the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies)

 

"Nature's Chosen People:  Social Darwinism in Jewish Social Scientific Thought," forthcoming in Darwin in Europe, 2 vols., ed. Thomas Glick (London, Continuum, 2008)

 

 "Let the Numbers Speak!": On the Exploitation of Jewish Social Science by Nazi Scholars,"

Simon Dubnow Institute Yearbook, vol. 5, 2006.

 

"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

 

 "'ŠPerioden 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?" Sh¹ma: 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

 

"Racial Science, Social Science, and the Politics of Jewish Assimilation," Isis: Journal of the History of Science Society, vol. 90, no. 2, June 1999

     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

 

 

BOOK REVIEWS and NOTES

 

Orientalism and the Jews, edited by Ivan Kalmar and Derek Penslar, American Historical Review, vol. 111, no. 1, February 2006.

 

Lloyd Gartner, The History of the Jews in Modern Times.  Oxford University Press, 2001.  Jewish Culture and History, vol. 6, no. 2, 2005.

 

Wissenschaft vom Judentum: Annäherungen nach dem Holocaust.  Edited by Michael Brenner and Stefan Rohrbacher.  Göttingen,  2000.  Central European History, vol. 36, no. 1 (Mar. 2003): 160-2.

 

David Brenner, Marketing Identities: The Invention of Jewish Ethnicity in Ost und West. Detroit, Wayne State University Press, German Studies Review, vol. 24, no. 3, October, 2001, pp. 616-617.

 

Ritchie Robertson, The 'Jewish Question' in German Literature, 1749-1939, Religious Studies Review, Vol.26, No.4, October, 2000, p. 395.

 

"Jüdisches Leben in der Weimarer Republik/Jews in the Weimar Republic. Edited by Wolfgang Benz, Arnold Paucker, and Peter Pulzer.  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 (Indiana University Press, 1998), 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).

 

Derek Penslar, Zionism and Technocracy, History of European Ideas, vol. 18, no. 6, Nov. 1994

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PAPERS and PRESENTATIONS

 

"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.

 

"Towards Abnormality: Assimilation and Degeneration in German-Jewish Social Thought." Conference on Towards Normality? Patterns of Assimilation and Acculturation of German-Speaking Jews, London Leo Baeck Institute, Clare College, Cambridge, UK, September, 2001

 

"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 für jüdische 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

 

 

LANGUAGES

Hebrew, German, Yiddish, French