David Newman Is Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Ben-Gurion University

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SUMMARY BIO

David Newman is Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Ben-Gurion University (since 2010) and Professor of Political Geography and Geopolitics there. He founded the Department of Politics and Government at BGU in 1998 and served as its first chairperson until 2003. He also facilitated the establishment of the Center for the Study of European Politics and Society (CSEPS) in 2003. He has been the Chief Editor of the International journal of Geopolitics for a period of fifteen years before stepping down in 2014.

Prof. Newman obtained his PhD at the University of Durham (1981), and his BA from the University of London (1978). His research is primarily concerned with issues of borders and settlements and is an active member of a number of border networks, including ABS, IBRU, ABORNE and BRIT. He is currently a consortium member of the EU FP7 research project (including 19 universities throughout Europe) entitled EUROBORDERSCAPES, the RELATE consortium of the Finnish Academy of Sciences on Territory and Nationalism; and the SSHRC Consortium (Canadian Academy of Sciences), on Borders and Globalization.

In 2013 Prof Newman was awarded the OBE by the British Government for his efforts in promoting scientific cooperation between Israel and the UK. In addition to his academic writing, Newman writes a weekly commentary column for the Jerusalem Post covering political, academic and Israeli-Jewish topics – as of 2014 this has reached 350 columns over a period of fifteen years.

CURRICULUM VITAE

1. Personal Details

David Newman.

Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences,

Department of Politics and Government,

Ben GurionUniversity of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel, 84105.

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2. Education

B.A. (Honours), 1978,Department of Geography, Queen Mary College, University of London.

Ph.D. December, 1981.(Dunelm) University of Durham, England.

3. Employment History

Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 2010-2016.

Full Professor, Department of Politics and Government, BenGurionUniversity of the Negev, 2003 - Present.

Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Development, BenGurionUniversity of the Negev, 1996 – 2003..

Research Fellow, Center for International and Strategic Studies, York University, Ontario, Canada, 19941995.

Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science, York University, Ontario, Canada, 19941995.

Visiting Professor, Department of Geography, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 19931994.

Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography, BenGurionUniversity of the Negev, 1989 1995.

Lecturer, Department of Geography, BenGurionUniversity of the Negev, 19871989.

Senior Research Fellow, Settlement Study Centre, Rehovot, 19841986. CoDirector of Planning Evaluation project of Community (Rurban) Settlements in Israel.

Lecturer, Department of Geography, TelAvivUniversity, 19831986.

Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Geography, TelAvivUniversity, 19821983.

4. Professional Activities.

a)International

Member of Working Groups and Commissions, IBG, AAG, IPSA, ECPR, BRIT, IBRU, ABS.

Reviewer of submitted manuscripts to over 30 Q1 and Q2 journals within the fields of Political Geography, Geopolitics, Political Science, International Relations, Israel Studies, etc; (approx. 60 manuscripts since 2000)

Reviewer of research proposals for Academy of Sciences in Britain, USA, Canada, Finland etc; - approx. 15-20 reviews since 2000), ISF (in Israel), and a range of international funding agencies (Ford, Macarthur, Leverhulme, Social Science Research Councils etc;).

HUMBRIS – Israel-Britain project on the Humanities – Auspices of the British Council and the Akademia, 2012 – ongoing.

Representative of Israeli Universities (IAB – International Academic Board on Academic Freedom) in the UK on matters relating to the Academic Boycott, 2007-2008.

Vice-President, Israel Geographical Association, 1997-1998.

Member of the Working Commission on the World Political Map of the International Geographical Union (IGU): 1996-2000; re-elected for second term, 2000-2004; third term 2004-2008; Honorary Secretary, 2008-2012.

b)University

Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2010-2016

Representative of BenGurionUniversity Foundation in the UK, 2006-2008.

Member of University Senate, October 2004-September 2006: October 2008 – ongoing.

Faculty Promotion and Tenure Committee, October 2004-September 2006; 2009-2010; Chairperson (Dean) 2010-2016.

Chairperson, Steering Committee, Center for the Study of European Politics and Society, Ben Gurion University, January 2003 – present.

Director, Distinguished Visitors Program, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, 1998- 2004.

Chairperson, Department of Politics and Government, BenGurionUniversity of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel, May 1998 – July 2002.

Founder, Center for the Study of European Politics and Society, Ben Gurion University,

Founder, Department of Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University.

Steering Committee, Chaim Herzog Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Diplomacy, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, 1996 – 2008: 2010- present.

Planning and Development Committee, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, BenGurionUniversity of the Negev, 1996 – 2000.

Director, the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute for Social Research, BenGurionUniversity of the Negev, 1995 - 1998.

c)Academic Journals

Chairperson of the International Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Borderland Studies, January 2009 – present.

Editor, International Journal of GEOPOLITICS (formerly, Geopolitics and International Boundaries), 1998 –2014 (Frank Cass Publishers until 2004: Taylor-Francis (Routledge) Publishers from 2005). Respnsibility for 16 years – approx. 60 issues – 500 manuscripts.

International Editorial Advisory Board, SWISS, 1996-2012.

International Editorial Advisory Board, Geopolitics and International Boundaries, July 1996 July 1998.

Editorial Board, Town and Region (Ir V'Ezor), November 1991 1994.

International Editorial Advisory Board, Progress in Human Geography, September 1990 January 1999.

Editor, Geography Research Forum, 19891993.

d)Conference Organization

Convenor, FP7 International Colloqium on Borders at the Interface – December 2014 – Beer Sheva and Jerusalem.

Convenor, IGU (International Geographical Union) Commission on Political Geography (CPG, Borders, Territory, Conflict (Tentative title), IGU Regional Conference, Israel, July 2010

Convenor (with M. Albert), The New Geopolitics and Changing Territorialities: Between International Studies and Political Geography, Workshop 8, European Consortium on Political Research (ECPR), Department of Political Science, University of Rennes, France, 11-16 April, 2008.

Convenor, BRIT (Border Regions in Transition) VII Conference:Crossing Disciplines,

Crossing Scales, Crossing Regions, Centre for the Study of European Politics and Society

(CSEPS), BenGurionUniversity, and he Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, January 2005.

Convenor, Research Workshop on Rethinking Borders, Van Leer Institute, 2004-2005.

Convenor (with V. Kolossov – RussianAcademy of Sciences), Sessions of the Commission on Political Geography (WPM) of the International Geographical Union (IGU), University of Glasgow, August 2004.

March 2002 – Convenor of International Workshop,Geopolitical Images and Discourses: Europe, The Mediterranean and the Middle East, as part of the Third Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute.

Convenor and organizer, International Seminar on The Changing World Political Map: Geopolitics at the End of the Twentieth Century, BenGurionUniversity, March 2000.

Participant in Track II Negotiations, Middle East Regional Security, BurklesCenter for International Relations, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) 1998 – present (2-3 meetings per year).

Convenor and Organizer, International Seminar on Challenging the Nation State: Perspectives on Citizenship and Identity, BenGurionUniversity, January 1999. Funded by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.

Convenor and Co-Organizer, International Conference on Geopolitics and Globalization in a Postmodern World, Haifa and BenGurionUniversities, January 1998. Commission of the World Political Map of the International Geographical Union (IGU).

5. Awards, Honors, Research Fellowships

(a) Honors and awards

Lifetime Achievement Award for contribution to Geopolitics on behalf of BRIT, ABS, and Taylor Francis – Presented at the ABS International Conference in Finland, June 2014.

OBE, British Government, 2013, for the Advancement of Scientific Cooperation between Israel and the UK.

Visiting Fellow and Doctorate Adviser, Geopolitics programme, Kings College , University of London, 2010 – ongoing.

Professorial Fellow and Academic Consultant, Roehampton University, London, 2008-2011.

Visiting Scholar, Research Programme in The Critical Junctures of Globalization, University of Leipzig, Germany, December 10-20th, 2007.

Visiting Professor, Department of Geography, Queen Mary and WestfieldCollege, University of London, 2007-2008.

Leverhulme Fellowship, Visiting Professor of Geopolitics, Department of Geography, University of Bristol, UK – Academic Year 2006-2007.

Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Geography, QueenMaryCollege, University of London, February 2004.

Visiting Senior Research Fellow, OxfordCenter for Posgraduate Studies, Yarnton, University of Oxford, August-September, 2000.

Scholar in Residence, Center for the Study of Geopolitics, Punjab University, India, February 2000.

Scholar in Residence, the European Foundation for Research, LondonSchool of Economics, February 2000. Sponsored by the European Community.

Fellow, Salzburg Seminar, Eclipse of the Nation State?, Salzburg, Austria, 215-22 March, 1997.

CanadaIsrael Academic Exchange, Visiting Scholar 199495, Department of Political Science, YorkUniversity.

Research Fellow, JerusalemCenter for Israel Studies, to write a book on Local Government in Rural Areas, 1994.

CanadaIsrael Academic Exchange, Visiting Scholar 199394, Department of Geography, University of Calgary.

Fellow, Salzburg Seminar, Perspectives on Federalism, Salzburg, Austria, 2229th May, 1993.

Research Fellowship, OxfordCenter for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, for Participation in Seminar on Israel the Decade after Independence, August 1992.

Canadian Government Faculty Enrichment Award 1988, to the value of C$3,800.

(b) Research Grants:

June 2013 – June 2018 RELATE Center of Excellence, Finnish Academy of Sciences, 14 University consortium for project on: The Relational and Territorial Politics of Bordering, Identities and Transnationalization

May 2013 – April 2020 Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada, University Consortium on Borders and Globalization Project – Total project value approx. $4 million (CAN) – proportional distribution between participating universities.

June 2012 - June 2016: EU FP7 Border Consortium – EUROBORDERSCAPES project – 375,000 EURO (consortium of 19 universities – total project 8 million EURO)

September 2004 – December 2007: EU Partnership in Peace Program, 275,000 EURO for a three years applied project on Religious Narratives and the Peace Process in Israel Palestine (Additional funding received from Abraham and Kahanov Foundations).

April 2004 – United States Institute of Peace (USIP), $45,000 for project on Transboundary Projects Under Conditions of Peace. 2004-2006.

January 2003 - EUROBORDERS Comparative Research Project (consortium of eight European Universities dealing with geopolitical and territorial issues). Director of the Israeli research participation. 120,000 EURO.

January 2003 – January 2005 – Research Fellow in Globalization, Territoriality, and Conflict Project. Organized by The Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS) at the University of California San Diego, and funded by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

October 2000 – November 2001. European Community, MEDA (Middle East Democracy Program). 150,000 ECU for Workshops for Local Government Empowerment Amongst Beduin Communities of the Negev.

January 1999. Friedrich Ebert Foundation. $18,000 for International Seminar on Nationalism, Citizenship and Identity.

September 1998 - June 1999. Abraham Foundation. $12,00 (continuing) for Workshop for Local Government Empowerment Amongst Beduin Communities of the Negev.

September 1997 - June 1998. Abraham Foundation. $12,000 for Workshop for Local Government Empowerment Amongst Bedouin Communities of the Negev

October 1993 April 1995 (with G. Falah). MacArthur Foundation, $95,000: Spatial Alternatives for the Israel-Palestine Conflict.

June 1992 December 1993 (with Y. Gradus and T. Godovich). Ministry of Housing, 150,000 shekel: The Impact of Mass Immigration on the Urban Settlement System of the Northern Negev.

August 1991 December 1991. Truman Research Institute, $2,000: Preparation of Working Paper on the West Bank Settlement Process.

February 1991 July 1991. Ministry of Interior, IS3,000: The Municipal Structure of the Mateh Yehuda Regional Council.

April 1990 March 1991. Ministry of Interior, $50,000 (with L. Applebaum): The Private Enterprise Settlement Sector.

May 1989 January 1990. Organization of Regional Councils in Israel, IS60,000: Preparation and Editing of Regional Council Atlas.

1988. Keren Sappir Research Award for Municipal Studies, IS5,000: Functional Problems of the Regional Councils.

1988/89. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, BenGurionUniversity, $1,000: The Functioning of Regional Councils in Israel.

May 1988 May 1989. Ministry of Interior, $35,000 (with L. Applebaum): Satellite Settlements in Peripheral Regions.

19871989. Ford Foundation, $17,000 (with G. Falah): Managerialism, Gatekeeping and Local Government in Israel's Mixed Towns.

December 1984 December 1986. Ford Foundation, Israel Trustees, $30,000 (with J. Portugali): Spatial Interaction between Israelis and Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

September 1984 September 1986. Rural Settlement Department of the Jewish Agency and the Ministry of Housing, $60,000 (with L. Applebaum): New Settlement Types in Israel.

6. Scientific Publications.

(a) Books.

NEWMAN, DAVID An Advanced Introduction to Geopolitics – Publication date 2015

NEWMAN, DAVID. 1997 Changing Patterns of Rural Settlement in Israel, 19671985. Undergraduate course for the Open University. (In Hebrew).

NEWMAN, DAVID. 1996 The Regional Councils in Rural Areas: Reform and Change in Local Government. Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies: Jerusalem. (In Hebrew). 144p.

NEWMAN, DAVID and AVIGDOR ORGAD. 1990 (with A. Orgad) The Regional Councils in Israel. Achdut Publishing House: Tel Aviv (English & Hebrew + 54 anotated maps). 235p.

APPLEBAUM, LEVIAH AND DAVID NEWMAN 1989 Between Village and Suburb: New Settlement Types in Israel. Bialik Publishers: Jerusalem (In Hebrew). 137p.

(b) Monographs.

NEWMAN, DAVID AND LEVIAH APPLEBAUM. 1997. The Impact of Change on Rural Local Government: Dilemmas and Problems. The Floersheimer Institute for Policy Studies: Jerusalem. (In Hebrew). 64pp.

NEWMAN, DAVID. 1996 Efficiency, Functionality and the Social Construction of Municipal Space: Reforming Rural Local Government in Israel. NegevCenter for Regional Development, Working Paper No. 7. BenGurionUniversity of the Negev: Beer Sheva. 31pp.

NEWMAN, DAVID, YEHUDAH GRADUS AND ESTHER LEVINSON. 1995. The Impact of Mass Immigration on the Urban Settlements in a Frontier Region: the Case of the Negev, NegevCenter for Regional Development, Working Paper No. 3. BenGurionUniversity of the Negev: Beer Sheva. 32p.

NEWMAN, DAVID. 1995 Boundaries in Flux: The Green Line Boundary between Israel and the West Bank - Past, Present and Future. Monograph Series, Boundary and Territory Briefings, No. 7, International Boundaries Research Unit: University of Durham, England.

NEWMAN, DAVID. 1992 Colonia in Suburbia: Reflections on 25 Years of Israeli Settlement in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, IsraeliPalestinian Peace Research Project, Working Paper Series, No. 18.

APPLEBAUM, LEVIAH AND DAVID NEWMAN. 1991. The Private Sector Settlements in Israel: Developmental Process and Local Government Status. The Center for Development Studies, Rehovot, Israel (In Hebrew) 116p.

NEWMAN, DAVID. 1991. Population, Settlement and Conflict: Israel and the West Bank. Update Series in Contemporary Geographical Issues. CambridgeUniversity Press. 64p.

NEWMAN, DAVID. 1982 Jewish Settlement in the West Bank: The Role of Gush Emunim. Occasional paper No 16, Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Durham. 91p.

c) Editorship of Collective Volumes and Scientific Journals.

NEWMAN, DAVID, Editor, A Companion to Geopolitics. Edgar Publishers- In Preparation – Publication date 2015 (A Handbook of 32 original essays from leading exponents within the field of Geopolitics).

NEWMAN, DAVID, Editor (with Joel Peters), Companion to the Israel-Palestine Conflict. Routledge Publishers. 2012.

NEWMAN, DAVID (with Elizabeth Matthews and Mohammed Dajani) The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Parallel Discourses. Routledge – Burkles Series on Middle East Security.

NEWMAN, DAVID, Editor, 2008, Special Issue of Israel Studies: Geography, Planning and Territory in Israeli Society.

NEWMAN, DAVID and MOHAMMAD DAJANI (2006) (Eds) Israel-Palestine: Concepts (Book I): Issues (Book II), Middle East Peace and Security Series. Taylor & Francis (Routledge Imprint).

NEWMAN, DAVID Chief Editor, Int. Jnl of GEOPOLITICS (quarterly peer reviewed journal, published by Taylor & Francis (Routledge imprint, SCI indexed) Editor since Vol 3 (1) (1998) – presently Vol 18 (2013) (Co-Editor: John Agnew, UCLA, 2000-2009; Simon Dalby, Carleton, 2009-present)

KEMP, ADRIANA, DAVID NEWMAN, URI RAM and OREN YIFTACHEL. 2004. Israelis in Conflict: Hegemonies, Identities, Challenges. SussexUniversity Press.

SCHOFIELD, CLIVE, DAVID NEWMAN and ALASDAIR DRYSDALE. 2002.The Razors Edge: International Boundaries and Political Geograph: Festschrift in Honour of Gerald H. Blake. Kluwer Law Academic: London.

KLIOT, NURIT and DAVID NEWMAN. 2000. Geopolitics at the End of the Twentieth Century: The Changing World Political Map. Frank Cass: London.

NEWMAN, DAVID. 1999 Territory, Boundaries and Postmodernity. Frank Cass: London.

NEWMAN, DAVID. 1996 Postmodernity and the Territorial Discourse of Peace. Special issue of Geojournal, Vol 39 (4).

GROSSMAN, DAVID, AVINOAM MEIR and DAVID NEWMAN. 1993. Changing Rural Systems - special issue of Geography Research Forum, Vol 13. BenGurionUniversity Press.

NEWMAN, DAVID. 1992 The Middle East and the Emerging New World Order. Special issue of Geojournal, Vol 28 (3).

NEWMAN, DAVID and SHLOMO HASSON. 1992. The Regional Councils in Israel. Special issue of Ir V'Ezor (Town and Region) Vol 22 (In Hebrew).

NEWMAN, DAVID and SHAUL KRAKOVER. 1990 – 1993. Geography Research Forum, Volumes 10-12. BenGurionUniversity Press.

NEWMAN, DAVID. 1985. The Impact of Gush Emunim. Croom Helm: London.

NEWMAN, DAVID, EWAN ANDERSON and GERALD BLAKE. 1982. The Security of Gulf Oil: An Introductory Bibliography. Occasional Paper No 13, Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Durham. 55p.

(d) Chapters in Collective Volumes.

NEWMAN DAVID. 2013 `Gush Emunim and the Settler Movement’, In Joel Peters and David Newman (Eds) A Companion to the Israel-Palestine Conflict. Routledge. Chap 22, pp. 255-266.

NEWMAN DAVID. 2013 `Territory and Borders’ In Joel Peters and David Newman (Eds) A Companion to the Israel-Palestine Conflict. Routledge. Chap 11, pp.135-144.

NEWMAN DAVID. 2012 `Borders and Conflict Resolution’ In Thomas Wilson and Hastings Donnan, Eds., A Companion to Border Studies, Blackwell. Chap 14, pp. 249-265.

NEWMAN DAVID. 2011 `Contemporary Research Agendasin Border Studies: An Overview’, In Doris Wastl-Water, Ed.Ashgate Research Companion to Border Studies. Ashgate Publishers. . Chap 2, pp.33-47.

NEWMAN, DAVID. 2011 `From bilateralism to unilateralism: the changing territorial discourses of conflict resolution', In Elizabeth Matthews, David Newman and Mohammed Dajani, Eds, The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Parallel Discourses. Routledge – Burkles Series on Middle East Security. Pp. 51-66..

NEWMAN DAVID. 2009. ` The Renaissance of a Border which Never Died: The Green Line between Israel and the West Bank’, , in A. Diener & J. Hagen (eds), Border Lines: History and Politics of Odd International Borders. Rowman & Littlefield.

NEWMAN DAVID, AND PAASI ANSSI 2009`Fences and neighbours in the post-modern world: boundary narratives in political geography', In J. Agnew & V. Mamadouh (eds) Politics:Critical Essays in Human Geography – Series on Contemporary Foundations of Space and Place. Ashgate Publishing. (REPRINTED from Progress in Human Geography, 22 (2), 186-207, 1998).

NEWMAN, DAVID. 2009 ‘New Geographies of Contemporary Borders’, In C. Flint (ed),Geographic Contributions to International Studies, (International Studies Compendium Project.), Blackwell Publishing.