Sagi Schaefer, Assistant professor of History, Tel Aviv Universitypage 1 of 3

Tel Aviv University, history 052-8695008

EDUCATION

Columbia University,New York, NY.

Ph.D. in History,February 2011.

Dissertation:

Ironing the Curtain: Border and Boundary Formation inCold War Rural Germany.

Committee members:

Volker Berghahn, Mark Mazower, Karen Barkey,Gil Eyal, Atina Grossmann.

M.PhilMay 2007.

General Exam fields: Modern Germany (Volker Berghahn)

State-Society Relations, Borders and Boundaries (Charles Tilly)

Peasants and Rural Societies (Karen Barkey)

East Central Europe in the Twentieth Century (Bradley Abrams)

M.A. March 2006.

Thesis: Self Destruction and Self Preservation Duringthe Final Year of the Third Reich.

Honors:

ISERP MellonInterdisciplinary Graduate Research Fellowship, 2009-11.

Whiting Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 2009-10.

ColumbiaUniversity, GSAS, Richard Hofstadter Fellowship, 2004-2009.

DAAD Research Grant in Germany, 2008.

ColumbiaUniversity,Natalie and Howard Shawn Scholar, 2007; 2008.

ColumbiaUniversity, International Travel Fellowship, 2007-2008.

German Historical Institute, Washington DC, Summer Seminar in Germany, 2007.

TelAvivUniversitySchool of History,Tel-Aviv, Israel.

M.A.summa cum laude, June 2004.

Thesis: “Guilty” and Less Guilty, “Germans” and Less Germans: The Integration of Germans from the East in the West-German Public Discussion and Their Influence on It.

Honors:

Kurt Lion Foundation Research Grant, University of Constance, Germany, 2002-2003.

DAAD Scholarship for Language Studies in Germany, 2001.

Tel-AvivUniversity, School of History, Aran Fellowship, 2001.

Tel-AvivUniversity,Incoming Students Distinction Scholarship, 1999.

Ben-GurionUniversity of the Negev,Be’er-Sheva, Israel.

B.A., History and Behavioral Sciences, summa cum laude, June 1998.

Honors:

Ben-GurionUniversity,Rector’s Special Distinction Prize, 1997.

Ben-GurionUniversity,Rector’s Distinction Scholarship, 1996; 1997.

Ben-GurionUniversity,Community Involvement Scholarship, 1996.

Ben-GurionUniversity,Incoming Students Distinction Scholarship, 1995.

PUBLICATIONS

States of Division: Constructing East and West in Cold War Rural Germany (under review at Oxford University Press).

“Re-Creation: Iron Curtain Tourism and the Production of ‘East’ and ‘West’ in Cold War Germany,” Tel Aviv Yearbook for German History40 (2012), 116-131.

“Hidden Behind the Wall: West-German State-Building and the Division of Germany,” Central European History 43:3 (2011), 506-535.

“Border-Land: Property Rights, Kinship and the Emergence of the inter-German Border in the Eichsfeld,”in Praktiken der Differenz: Diasporakulturen in der Zeitgeschichte, Miriam Rürup ed., 197-214(Göttingen: Wallstein, 2009) (in English).

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Tel Aviv University, Tel aviv, Israel, Department of General History

Assistant Professor of Modern European History, 2012-present

RESEARCH POSITIONS

Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, History department and Franz Rosenzweig Center

Lady Davis Post-Doctoral Fellow, 2011-2012

Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and Public Spheres, Vienna, Austria

Affiliated Researcher, Border Communities: Micro-studies on Everyday Life, 2010-12.

European University Institute, Florence, Italy

Visiting Fellow, 2010-2011.

Institute for Social and Economic Research & Policy, Columbia University,New York, NY

Mellon Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow, 2009-2011.

Center for Metropolitan Studies, Technical University,Berlin, Germany.

Visiting Fellow, 2007-2008.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Columbia University History Department, New York, NY.

Teaching Assistant, 2005-9.Taught two weekly sections and gave one general lecture in the courses:

“German History 1900-2000,” 2006, 2009.

“European History 1900-1950,” 2005, 2008.

“The History of the State of Israel,” 2007.

“The Historical Origins of Human Rights,” 2006.

BenGurionUniversity of the Negev, Be’er Sheva, Israel.

Teaching Assistant, 1995-7.

“Introduction to Medieval History,” Department of History, 1995-1997.

“Sociology of Religion,”Department of Behavioral Sciences, 1996-1997.

Yuvalim Educational Agency, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Lecturer, 2000-2002.

Lectured on History and Sociology in community centers around Israel.

Ironi Tet Municipal High School, Tel Aviv. Israel.

History Teacher, 1999-2000.

Taught upper level high school history in preparation for matriculation exams.

Center for Achievements in Underprivileged Communities, Tel Aviv, Israel.

History Teacher,1999-2002.

Prepared high school students for their matriculation exams.

SELECTED PAPER PRESENTATIONS

Guarding and the Community. Given at the GermanStudies Association’s Annual Conference,

Denver Colorado, 2013.

Re-Creation: Border Tourism and the Production of East and West in Postwar Germany. Given at the Workshop “Germany and its Neighbors: Borders, Identities, Relations” Tel Aviv 2011.

Hidden Behind the Wall: How the West Built the Iron Curtain. Given at the Association for the

Study of Nationalities’ Annual Convention, New York, 2010.

Practicing Division, Given at the workshop“Border Communities”, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute

for European History and Public Spheres, Vienna 2010.

The German Cold War and the Division of Germany on Ground Level. Given at the German

Studies Association’s Annual Conference, WashingtonDC, 2009.

The Economy of Diaspora Property Rights. Given at the Lower Saxon 20th Century History

Research Group’sAnnual Workshop, Göttingen 2008.

Ironing the Curtain, Given at the annual “Shawn Symposium,” Columbia University History Department, New York 2008.

OTHER WORKEXPERIENCE

iMDsoft (medical software), Tel Aviv, Israel.Clinical Application Specialist, 2003-2004.

Trained medical staff in software usage and developed user manuals.

Mayor’s Office,Macabim-Reut, Israel.Manager of Youth Department, 1997-1999.

Planned and oversaw implementation of informaleducationand recreation activities.

LANGUAGES

Fluent in English, Hebrew and German.Proficient in Polish, Arabic, Yiddish and Latin.