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December 2017

EUNICE G. POLLACK

ADDRESS: OFFICE: 242 Wooten Hall

Department of History email: epollack@unt.edu University of North Texas

P.O. Box 310650

Denton, TX 76203-0650

CURRENT POSITION: Lecturer

Department of History, University of North Texas, 2001 – Present

PREVIOUS POSITION: Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for the Medical Humanities

University of Texas Medical Branch, 2000 - 2001

EDUCATION:

MA, MPhil, PhD - American History (with Sociology minor) - Columbia University, 1999

PhD DISSERTATION:

“Haunted Households: Angst, Anger, and Eros in American Working-Class and Lower-Middle-Class Families, 1900 – 1970”

MA THESIS:

“The Social Impact of the Birth Control Pill”

FELLOWSHIPS:

National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Fellowship in Interdisciplinary History ( 4 Years

Columbia University President’s Fellowship ( 3 Years

MARQUIS WHO(S WHO IN AMERICA, 2010 –

NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL/STATE ACADEMIC ADVISORY BOARDS

Member, Academic Council, David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, 2004 -

Board Member, H-Antisemitism, 2012 – 2015

Founding Member, North Texas Council of Jewish Studies Professors, 2015 -

EDITOR OF BOOK SERIES

Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism in the English-Speaking World (Boston: Academic Studies Press)

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EDITORIAL BOARDS

Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism

Jewish Political Studies Review

PUBLICATIONS:

“The Childhood We Have Lost: When Siblings Were Caregivers, 1900 - 1970,” Journal of Social History 36 (September 2002): 31 - 61 Nominated by Journal of Social History for:

1) Berkshire Conference prize for outstanding article on any subject by woman historian residing in North America and 2) Society for the History of Children and Youth prize for the best article published anywhere in English over the last two years on children, childhood or youth.

Co-editor (with Stephen H. Norwood), Encyclopedia of American Jewish History, 2 vols.

(Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2008)

AWARD: Encyclopedia of American Jewish History received American Library Association Editor’s Choice Award for the year (January 2008)

“Introduction” and “Blacks and Jews,” Encyclopedia of American Jewish History, 2 vols. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2008)

Editor, Antisemitism on the Campus: Past & Present (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2011)

“Confronting Antisemitism on the Campus,” in Eunice G. Pollack, ed., Antisemitism on the Campus: Past & Present (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2011), pp. vii – xxiv

“African Americans and the Legitimization of Antisemitism on the Campus,” in Eunice G. Pollack, ed., Antisemitism on the Campus: Past & Present (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2011), pp. 216 – 233

Racializing Antisemitism: Black Militants, Jews and Israel, 1950 – Present (Jerusalem, Israel: Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, Hebrew University, December 2013), released January 2014

Editor, From Antisemitism to Anti-Zionism: the Past & Present of a Lethal Ideology (Boston: Academic Studies Press, June 2017)

“Foundation Myths of Anti-Zionism, 1917 – Present,” pp. 227-264, in Eunice G. Pollack, ed., From Antisemitism to Anti-Zionism: the Past & Present of a Lethal Ideology (Boston: Academic Studies Press, June 2017)

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“From a Pariah People to a Pariah State,” pp. vii – xxx in Eunice G. Pollack, ed., From Antisemitism to Anti-Zionism: the Past & Present of a Lethal Ideology (Boston: Academic Studies Press, June 2017)

“Joe Namath: Player On and Off the Field,” pp. 107-143, 367-371 in New York Sports, a volume in the series Sport, Culture & Society (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, in press, May 2018)

REVIEWS:

Stanley M. Hordes, To the End of the Earth: A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005) for Journal of the West 45 (Summer 2006)

Walter Laqueur, The Changing Face of Antisemitism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006) for Middle East Quarterly 14 (Fall 2007)

C. Nathan Hatton, Thrashing Seasons: Sporting Culture in Manitoba and the Genesis of Prairie Wrestling (Manitoba: University of Manitoba Press, 2016) for Great Plains Quarterly (in press, February 2018)

CONFERENCE PAPERS:

“Defending the Indefensible,” Allied Powers’ Responses to the Holocaust,” Menachem Begin Heritage Center, Jerusalem, March 2015 (invited lecture)

Chair and Commentator, “Antisemitism and the Left,” International Conference of the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, Indiana University, April 2014.

“Antisemitic Myths in the American Academy,” The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, June 2010 (invited lecture)

Organizer, Chair and Participant, Roundtable on “Antisemitism on American College Campuses,” Association for Jewish Studies Convention, Washington, DC, December 2008.

Chair and Commentator of Panel, “Righting the Record: Blacks and Jews in the Twentieth Century,” Association for Jewish Studies Convention, Chicago, December 1999

“The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews: The Professional Response to an Historical Libel,” Western Jewish Studies Association Convention, University of Arizona, April 1997

“Beyond the Blue-Collar Paradigm: The Effort to Expand Labor(s Concerns, 1950 - 1995,” Southern Labor Studies Conference, College of William and Mary, September 1997.

REFEREEING:

Refereed book manuscript on Antisemitism for Rowman & Littlefield, 2004

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Refereed book manuscript on American Antisemitism for Palgrave, Macmillan, 2006

Refereed book manuscript on American Antisemitism for Palgrave, Macmillan, 2007

Refereed United States History textbook for St. Martin(s Press, 2008

Refereed United States History textbook for Pearsons, 2009

Refereed several book proposals on Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism for Academic Studies Press, 2009 – present

Refereed United States History textbook for Macmillan, 2017

INVITED LECTURES:

Menachem Begin Heritage Center, Jerusalem, Israel—March 2015

Temple Israel, Dallas, TX—April 1 & April 15, 2015

Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism at Hebrew University in Jerusalem—June 2010

Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles, CA—August 2008

Center for Jewish Culture, Boston, MA—June 2008

Temple Israel, Dallas, TX—Fall 2008

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:

Organization of American Historians

American Historical Association

Association for Jewish Studies

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

University of North Texas

Columbia University

COURSES:

Antisemitism in the World from Ancient Times to the Present

American Jewish Experience

Jewish Women in Modern America

Jews and Gender in Modern America

Creating Contemporary America, 1950 - 1980

Social and Cultural Trends in the United States: From the Civil War to the World Wars

Making America Modern, 1877-1929

History of Gender and the Family in the United States

Childhood and Adolescence in U.S. History

History of the Family in the World

Men and Masculinities in American History

Women and Gender in U.S. History to 1900

Women and Gender in U.S. History, 1877 - Present

United States to 1865

United States since 1865

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SERVICE:

Member, Jewish and Israel Studies Program Planning Committee for Year-Long events on

Jerusalem, Dec 2017 – May 2019

Organizer, Moderator and Presenter, Conference on the Scholarship of the late Sir Martin Gilbert, Churchill College, University of Cambridge, UK, 2018

Introduction and Commentator, “The Fixer,” September 30, 2015, Jewish and Israel Studies Program event, University of North Texas

Steering Committee, 2015 - 2016, Antisemitism and Anti-Israel Event Series, Jewish and Israel Studies Program, University of North Texas (responsible for bringing in Irwin Cotler, whom I knew, a long-time Member of the Canadian Parliament, Attorney General of Canada, Canada’s Ambassador to UN)

Founding Member, 2015 - , North Texas Council of Jewish Studies Professors

Evaluator of Essays for Texas History Day, 2014

Steering Committee, 2007-2012, Jewish Studies, University of North Texas

Moderator and Commentator, Panel on “Columbia Unbecoming,” December 8, 2005, Jewish Studies, University of North Texas

Responsibility for bringing Sara Evans to University of North Texas for Women(s History Month, March 2003

“Combating Holocaust Denial,” conducted workshop for 200 high school and middle school teachers in Oklahoma, Omniplex Museum, Oklahoma City, June 2000

Scholarship Committee, 2002-2003, Jewish Studies, University of North Texas

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