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CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 2005-2007 Selected from 241 applications and 31 nominations, merit and promise based research fellowship with one-course-per-semester teaching responsibilities; hosted by the department of Near Eastern Studies Coolidge Scholar, Crosscurrents, 2005 Highly selective, competition based research fellowship Townsend/Mellon Strategic Working Group in New Media Fellowship, UC Berkeley 2005-2006 Visiting Scholar at the Department of Near Eastern
Studies, UC Berkeley, 2004-2005 Dorot Award, Association for Jewish Studies, 2004 Honorary award for one of the best student paper proposals Chancellor's Fellowship for Dissertation Research, UC
Berkeley, 2003-2004 Newhall Fellowship, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, 2003-2004 A competition based fellowship awarded to professors’ nominees Research Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, Summer Semester 2003 Jewish Studies Block Grants, University of California, Berkeley, 1999-2004 Dean Normative-Time Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 2001-2002 A merit, normative-time based fellowship awarded yearly to doctoral students who passed their comprehensive exams within a normative time Presidential Scholarship, Graduate Theological Union & UC Berkeley, 1999-2000 A merit-based two-year fellowship awarded yearly to 8 out of 120 applicants Jerusalem Fellows, Jerusalem, one-year fellowship 1997-1998 The worldwide elite program for upper level leaders in Jewish Education Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 1996-1997 Melton Center fellowship for Senior Educators Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture 1994 One year grant to edit a quarterly bibliographic index of Judaica in Russia Books What Is Talmud? The Art of Disagreement N.Y. Fordham University Press; [Forthcoming] Of Talmudic Rhetoric: An Analysis in View of Post-Structuralism. Affect and Figure. Ed. by Ilya Dvorkin, New Horizons. Jewish Thought in the Modern World. Saint - Petersburg: The United Publishing Project of Petersburg Jewish University and the Russian Jewry Heritage Center (M.I.R.) in Jerusalem, 1998. [Russian with a Summary in English] Papers Sibmitted: "The Siblings of Science" - solicited by and submitted to CrossCurrents for Spring 2007 Issue Papers Dolgopolski, Serguei. 2004. “Judaism in Practice from the Middle Ages through the Early Modern Period, edited by Lawrence Fine, Princeton Readings in Religions, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001” A Book Review. Shofar 22 (3):136-137. ______. "Against Rhetoric." Logos. A Journal for Philosophy and Literature 2, no. 12 (1999): 57 - 79. [Russian] Logos is a peer-reviewed journal, one of the five leading philosophic and literary academic journals in Russia. ———. "Constituting a Field of Sense in Speech Facts. Analysis of Theoretical Rhetoric of the Babylonian Gemarrah." Dissertation presented for a degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Cultural Science, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1999. [Russian] ———. "Descartes and Spinoza: Heuristics of Cartesian Meditations." In Meeting Descartes, edited by Yury Senokosov, n/a. Moscow: Ad Marginem, 1998. [Russian] Ad Marginem is a leading peer-reviewed philosophical and literary publishing house in Russia ———. "Eliciting the Language: Language and Allegory in Benjamin and De Man." Logos. A Journal for Philosophy and Literature 2, no. 29 (2001): 152 - 62. [Russian] ———. "From Topos to Figure: A Topolgy out of Seeing." In Produced and Called, edited by Juri Senokosov; Vitim Kruglikov, 220-34. Moscow: Ad Marginem, 1998. [Russian] ———. "The Hidden: Non-Expressionism in Philosophy." Logos. A Journal for Philosophy and Literature 5, no. 15 (1999): 121 -33. [Russian] ———. "Interview with Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen." Logos. A Journal for Philosophy and Literature 5, no. 15 (1999): 149 - 54. [Russian] ———. "The Problem of Reflection in and Beyond Philosophical Speculation." Dissertation presented for a degree of Candidate of Sciences in Philosophy, Rostov University, 1991. [Russian] ———. "Speculation and Infinity: Hegel and Derrida (a Review)." Contemporary Research in German Classical Philosophy Abroad. A Collection of Reviews, no. 4 (1991): 171-91. [Russian]
University of Kansas, Lawrence
Department of Religious Studies, Jewish Studies Program, since August 2006 Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Hebrew Scripture Comparative examination of the reception of Hebrew Scripture, Old Testament, Torah, and Mirkra in Jewish, Christian, and Secular scholarship; upper-level undergrad course; Fall 2006. Studies in Judaism: Human, Animal, and Divine in Rabbinic Discourse. A study of the relationship to others – human, animal, and Divine in classical rabbinical texts, and their contemporary appropriations in philosophical and rhetorical theory; graduate course; Fall 2006 University of California Berkeley Department of Near Eastern Studies, Department of Rhetoric, 2005-2006 Mellon Lecturer Language, Truth, and Dialogue Comparative examination of philosophical and rabbinical dialogues from Plato, to Talmudic tradition, to Heidegger and beyond; focus on the interaction within the dialogue, the participation required of the reader/listener, and the relation of such interaction and participation to thinking, speaking and knowing. Fall 2005 Rabbinic Judaism in Late Antiquity Introduction to Hermeneutical traditions of Rabbinic Judaism in their historical, cultural, philosophical, and rhetorical contexts, Spring 2006 Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley Winter Beth-Midrash, Center of Jewish Studies, January 2005, 2006 University of California, Davis Department of Religious Studies, Summers 2004 and 2005, Winter 2005 Lecturer Introduction to Judaism Introduction to the study of religion using examples from the rituals, art and holy texts of Judaism Religious Ethics Introduction in Ethical thinking through reading selected works in Jewish, Christian (including secularist) ethical thought Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies, Spring Semester 2004 Lecturer Hermeneutical Approaches and Exegesis in Late Antiquity: the Talmud and the Church Fathers A master-level course; a study in rhetoric of exegesis and interpretation University of San Francisco, San-Francisco Department of Theology, three years of teaching, Fall 2000 – Spring 2003 Instructor Modern Jewish Thought Upper Division; study of texts from Spinoza to Buber Contemporary Jewish Thought Upper Division; study of texts from Rosenzweig and Strauss to Levinas Jewish-Christian Relationship Upper Division; comparative study of selected classical texts in Jewish and Christian Traditions Introduction to Judaism Upper Division; introductory course to main cultural and textual elements of Jewish Tradition Lomonosov Moscow University, Moscow, Center for Jewish Studies, Fall 1998, Spring 1999 Institute for Asian and African Studies, Center for Jewish Civilization and Jewish Culture Instructor Rabbinic Argumentation A course for graduate students Institute for Psychoanalysis, Moscow Fall 1995, Fall 1998, Spring 1999 Instructor Philosophy of Psychoanalysis Introduction to philosophical context of Freud’s psychoanalysis Techniques of Interpretation Graduate Seminar, Freud’s and post-Freudian analysis in Jewish and Christian contexts
LANGUAGES
Hebrew University of Jerusalem; one year Program for Senior Educators, Jerusalem Fall 1996 - Spring 1997
Jerusalem Fellows; one-year program, Jerusalem, Fall 1997-Spring 1998
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Fall 1996 – Spring 1998 Hartman Institute (Beth Midrash), Jerusalem, Fall 1997 – Spring 1998 Informal education (yeshiva), Moscow 1991 - 1994
University of California, Berkeley, August 2000
Conceiving, programming and coordinating a guest-lecturer visit for the Jewish Studies Lectures Series: Prof. Hindy Najman of the Univ. of Toronto. Fall 2006-Spring 2007. Visits dates: Feb. 27-March 1 2007. Organization and Proposal of a Panel on AAR 2007: "The Talmud and Philosophy", 2007 Search committee for the Professorship in Yiddish, Fall 2006 - Spring 2007 Grant Proposal in Teaching Religion in Academic Context, Submitted to the KU Center of Teaching Excellence, Fall 2006 Jewish Studies Library Collection Development, Designed or proposed bibliographical listings for new library acqusitions in Jewish Studies. Curriculum Development, Designed and Proposed two new courses for the KU Lawrence Jewish Studies Minor: Classical and Contemporary Jewish Thought, and New Media and Interpretation. Fall 2006. Course Development, Designed and offered a new course in Human, Animal, and Divine in Rabbinic Discourse; Proposed and applied for a grant for course development for the new Introduction to Judaism course. Center For Teaching Excellence, Ambassador for the KU Lawrence Department of Religious Studies, since Fall 2006. Studies Committee, Department of Religious Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence, since Fall 2006. Jewish Studies Advisory Committee, University of Kansas, Lawrence, since Fall 2006. AAR Regional Conference Section Co-Chair, Section of Philosophy of Religion and Theology, 2002- 2003, 2003 – 2004, 2004-2005. Community Talmud Classes, Congregation Beth Israel, 2000, 2001, 2003; Public Lecture at Judah Magnes Museum, 2004; Public lecture at Berkeley Richmond Jewish Community Center, 2005. Public Lecture at Congregation Netivot Shalom, Berkeley, June 2006; Public courses in Lehrhaus Judaica, Berkeley Spring 2006; A public lecture surveying the history of Jewish philosophy; offered in Hebrew in the Overland Park The Hug of Hebrew Culture , Fall 2006, Spring 2007 (February 2, 2007); A two-lectures series "The Taste of Talmud", March 15 - 27 2007, at Lawrence JCC. Applied to Best Practices Institute of CTE KU Lawrence: March 2007. |