Liora Halperin, University of Colorado Boulder
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Colorado Boulder and a core faculty member in the CU Program in Jewish Studies. My research focuses on Jewish cultural history, Jewish-Palestinian relations in Palestine and Israel, language ideology and policy, and the politics surrounding nation formation in Palestine in the years leading up to the creation of the State of Israel in 1948. I am also a member of the advisory board for CU's Archive of Post-Holocaust American Judaism, and affiliated faculty at the CU Center for Asian Studies.
My first book, tentatively titled Babel in Zion: Hebrew and the Politics of Language in Palestine, will be published by Yale University Press in 2014.
I received my Ph.D. from UCLA's history department. In 2011-2012 I was the Blaustein Postdoctoral Fellow in Judaic Studies at Yale University. In 2012-2013 I was an Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Judaic Studies at Princeton University, where I taught courses on Israel/Palestine, Modern Jewish History, and Middle Eastern History.
I received my undergraduate degree at Harvard in History and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and have held additional visiting affiliations at U.C. Berkeley, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and Harvard.
My first book, tentatively titled Babel in Zion: Hebrew and the Politics of Language in Palestine, will be published by Yale University Press in 2014.
I received my Ph.D. from UCLA's history department. In 2011-2012 I was the Blaustein Postdoctoral Fellow in Judaic Studies at Yale University. In 2012-2013 I was an Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Judaic Studies at Princeton University, where I taught courses on Israel/Palestine, Modern Jewish History, and Middle Eastern History.
I received my undergraduate degree at Harvard in History and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and have held additional visiting affiliations at U.C. Berkeley, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and Harvard.
