|
|
Announcements
Baron Prize | Workshop | Publication Subventions |
Past News
Posted 30 July 2009 | top
BARON BOOK PRIZE
The American Academy for Jewish Research invites submissions for the Salo Wittmayer Baron Book Prize. The Baron Book Prize ($5,000) is awarded annually to the author of an outstanding first book in Jewish studies.
Eligibility: An academic book, in English, in any area of Jewish Studies, published in 2009; the work must be the author's first book; the author must have received his or her Ph.D. degree within the previous seven years.
Deadline: Submissions should be received by January 30, 2010. The winner will be announced by late spring, 2010.
When submitting a book for consideration, please have 3 copies of the book sent, along with a statement of when and from where the author received the Ph.D., to:
Sheila Allen
American Academy for Jewish Research
420 Walnut Street
Philadelphia , PA 19106
If you have questions, please contact Prof. David Sorkin, chair of the Baron Prize committee, via email at djsorkin@facstaff.wisc.edu.
BARON PRIZE AWARD 2008
The Baron Book Prize for 2008 was awarded to Marina Rustow of Emory University for
"Heresy and the Politics of Community: The Jews of the Fatimid Caliphate" published by
Cornell University Press.
BARON PRIZE AWARD 2007
The Baron Book Prize for 2007 was awarded to Jonathan Decter of Brandeis University, for "Iberian Jewish Literature: Between al-Andalus and Christian Europe" published by Indiana University Press.
American Academy for Jewish Research
Graduate Student Seminar 2010
The Languages and Histories of Jews
Faculty
Anita Norich, University of Michigan, English Language and Literature and The Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
Gershon Hundert, McGill University, History and Jewish Studies
The AAJR is pleased to sponsor a week-long residential seminar for graduate students in all areas of Jewish Studies. The seminar will be held Sunday, May 23, 2010, through Thursday, May 27, 2010, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Students will participate in formal and informal sessions with Professors Norich and Hundert, as well as other AAJR Fellows. The purpose of this seminar is to create a community in which graduate students can examine current work in history and culture as well as matters concerning the nature of the academic profession in general and Jewish studies in particular. The latter will include discussions of the job market, publishing, career trajectories, pedagogic concerns, and the balance between personal and professional choices. In addition, some preassigned readings will be discussed. Approximately a dozen graduate students will be chosen to participate and will be asked to present parts of their dissertations. These presentations may include the prospectus, research plans, chapters, conference papers, and articles. In this workshop format, students will receive constructive feedback from seminar participants.
Free on-campus housing, meals, and tuition will be provided. Those who are accepted to the seminar are encouraged to apply to their home universities for transportation expenses.
Enrollment in the seminar is competitive and limited to those who have completed at least one year of doctoral study in any discipline or time period. Applicants must submit:
A three to five-page description of their doctoral studies focus, the topic of their dissertation, and their foreign language proficiency.
A letter from their advisor (to be e-mailed by the advisor to JudaicStudies@umich.edu)
A transcript
A curriculum vitae
A brief description of their career goals
Deadline is February 1, 2010. Please email all materials to JudaicStudies@umich.edu with AAJR Seminar in the subject line. Applicants will be notified in early March. For further information, please contact JudaicStudies@umich.edu
Posted 16 October 2008 | top
The American Academy of Jewish Research and the Jewish Studies Programs of The University of California, Davis, and The University of California, Berkeley are pleased to announce - "Workshop for Early Career Faculty
in Jewish Studies" - at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA. - May 24-27, 2009
The workshop will be devoted to the enhancement of the teaching and research of untenured scholars at the early stages of their careers in Jewish studies.The program aims to develop ideas and methods of instruction, stimulate scholarly research and writing, discuss integrating personal and professional responsibilities, and create a community of scholars.
Sessions will focus on:
- the current research of participants
- personal intellectual biographies
- pedagogical and curricular issues
- special challenges facing early career scholars
Workshop Directors:
David Biale, Emanuel Ringelblum Professor of Jewish History, University of California, Davis;
Robert Alter, Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley
Eligibility:
The workshop is open to untenured full-time faculty who have launched their careers within the last seven years and who work primarily in a field of Jewish Studies. Lodging and food will be paid for by the workshop sponsors. Participants are expected to turn to their own departments and programs for transportation expenses. Enrollment is limited to twelve participants.
Applicants must submit:
- a curriculum vitae
- a syllabus for a Jewish studies course that the applicant has offered within the last five years
- a personal statement of academic interests and pedagogical goals
Please submit all materials electronically by January 15, 2009, to David Biale at dbiale@ucdavis.edu
Posted
March 7, 2001
| top
PUBLICATION SUBVENTIONS
The AAJR sponsors a limited subvention program for manuscripts that
are of exceptionally high scholarly value but because of their
complexity, very limited potential sales in relation to production
costs, or some other cogent limiting factor would not be published by
a reputable academic publisher without a modest subsidy. Requests on
behalf of such manuscripts, where funds have been shown not to be
available to the author from his or her university or other likely
sources, will be considered by a committee of the Academy, as will
unusual projects of particular merit, such as a newly conceived
periodical. Authors who would like to submit a request for
subvention of a manuscript should include:
- A letter describing the manuscript as fully as possible, along
with the reports of the two readers who evaluated it for the press.
- A letter from the press, on its stationery, indicating
acceptance of the manuscript for publication, a projected budget, and
the need and amount of required subsidy.
- A letter of endorsement from a fellow of the Academy. (The
author should review the list of fellows , select one whose field is
close to that of the manuscript, contact the fellow, and ask that the
letter be sent directly to the address below.)
These materials should be
sent to:
Professor Prof. Elisheva Carlebach
Columbia University
Dept. of History
611 Fayerweather Hall
1180 Amsterdam Ave
New York, NY 10027
ec607@columbia.edu
Completed requests, with full documentation, should be submitted by
November 1 of any given year. The Publications Subvention Committee
will inform the applicant of its decision by the end of that calendar
year.
PAST NEWS
Posted 15 April 2005 | top
Winner of the post-doctoral fellowship for 2005-06 is Olga Borovaya. She earned her doctoral degree at the RussianStateUniversity for the Humanities. She will spend next year at StanfordUniversity, under the direction of Prof. Aron Rodrigue, where her field of research will be "New Forms of Ladino Cultural Production in the Ottoman Empire in the late-19th and early 20th-Centuries".
Posted 8 April 2004
| top
Winner of the post-doctoral
fellowship for 2004-05 is Rebecca Kobrin. She earned her doctoral degree at University of Pennsylvania. She will be spending next year at New YorkUniversity under the direction of Prof. David
Engel. Her field of research is modern Jewish history.
Posted 21 May 2003
| top
The Baron Prize book awards
for 2003 were won by:
Peter
Eli Gordon
Rosenzweig
and Heidegger: Between Judaism and German Philosophy
(The S. Mark Taper Foundation Imprint in Jewish Studies Weimar and Now; 33)
University of California Press, 2003
Sarah
Abrevaya Stein
Making Jews Modern: The Yiddish and Ladino Press in the Russian
and Ottoman Empires
(Modern Jewish Experience (Bloomington, Ind.))
Indiana University Press, 2004
Posted 21 May
2003 | top
The Baron Prize Committee has
selected for the 2002 prize: Jewish Marriage and Divorce in Imperial
Russia by ChaeRan Freeze, published by New England Press.
Posted 25 April
2003 | top
Winner of the post-doctoral
fellowship for 2003-04 is Yitzhak Melamed. During the coming year, he will be
engaged in research on Avraham Cohen Herrera and on Spinoza, at Yale
University and at City University of New York.
Posted 9 May
2002 | top
Winner of the post-doctoral
fellowship for 2002-03 is: Dr. Maria Baader. During the coming academic year
Dr. Baader will be engaged in research at the University of Toronto on the
topic "Business, Bildung, and Family Bonds: Gender and Middle-Class
Formation among Nineteenth Century German Jews".
Posted 25 April
2002 | top
The Baron Prize Committee has
selected for the 2001 prize: Milton and the Rabbis. Hebraism, Hellenism,
& Christianity by Jeffrey Shoulson, published by Columbia University
Press.
Posted 17
October 2001 | top
1. Winner of the
post-doctoral fellowship for 2001-02 is: Isaac Hollander who earned his
doctoral degree from Hebrew University. His doctoral thesis was on "Protection, Politics and the End of the Jewish-Muslim Experience in
Lower Yemen, 1918-1948". He will be engaged in research in Toronto
during the coming academic year.
2. The Baron Prize book
awards for 2000 were won by:
Charlotte
Elisheva Fonrobert
Menstrual Purity: Rabbinic and Christian Reconstruction of Biblical Gender
(Contraversions: Jews and Other Differences)
Stanford University Press, 2000
Mitchell
Bryan Hart
Social Science and the Politics of Modern Jewish Identity
(Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture Series)
Stanford University Press, 2000
Jonathan
Klawans
Impurity and Sin in Ancient Judaism"
Oxford University Press, 2000
|
