Prof. Dr. Amos Morris-Reich

Biography

Academic positions:
2013-2014 Academic Coordinator
                        The Polonsky Academy for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences at    
                         the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
2008- Senior Lecturer (suggested rank, granted 2010)
                        The Department of Jewish History, The University of Haifa
2009-         Director, The Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and
                        Society, The University of Haifa

Education:
2004         The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, PhD (Summa cum Laude), Dissertation Title:
                        “Disciplinary Paradigms and Jewish Assimilation: The Jews as Object of Research”.    
                         Supervisors: Prof. Sander L. Gilman, Prof. Eli Lederhendler, Prof. Gabriel Motzkin
1995-1999       The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Direct Doctoral Course at Institute of
                          Contemporary Jewry
1993-1995       The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, B. A. (Summa cum Laude) in Jewish History and
                          General Studies; Faculty of Humanities.

Academic affiliations:
2012          Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Visiting Fellow
2011          Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Visiting Fellow
2010                 Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Visiting Fellow
2009           Glossberg Visiting Israeli Scholar, Knox College, Galesburg Illinois
2008           Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow
2007           The Jerusalem Van Leer Institute, Polonsky Foundation Fellow
2007             Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Jewish Culture, Leipzig University,
                          Leipzig, Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow
2005-2007   Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Postdoctoral Fellow, The Department of Jewish
                          Thought
2005           Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow
2004-2005   The Hebrew University Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Postdoctoral Fellow, The Institute of
                          Contemporary Jewry
2003-2004 The Department of Sociology and The Divinity School, The University of Chicago and
                        The Humanities Laboratory, The University of Illinois –  Chicago, Chicago, Visiting
                        Postdoctoral Fellow
2003            Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Jewish Culture, Leipzig University,
                         Leipzig, Visiting Research Fellow
2002          Franz Rosenzweig Research Center, The Hebrew University, Visiting Research Fellow
2001-2003 The Freudian Field Institute, Clinical Section of Jerusalem, Under the Auspices of the
                         Department of Psychoanalysis University of  Paris – VIII, Jerusalem
1998-2000 The Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Visiting Graduate Student

Education

PhD (Summa cum Laude), The Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Areas of Research / Professional Expertise

Jewish History within the Conceptual Foundations of European, particularly German Social Science and Social Thought, The History of Anti-Semitism within Science, and Israeli Cultural Ideology

Websites

• Bucerius Institute

Books