Curriculum Vitae
IAN REIFOWITZ, PhD
(on sabbatical 2009-2010, please contact by email)
Ian.Reifowitz@esc.edu
Education:
Georgetown University, Washington, DC
PhD in History, 2000, MA in History, 1997
Brown University, Providence, RI
BA in History, 1993
Teaching Experience:
Assistant Professor, State University of New York, Empire State College, Old Westbury, NY, 2002-present
Visiting Assistant Professor, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ, 2000-2002
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Long Island University-Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY, 1999-2000
Royden B. Davis Teaching Fellow, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 1999
Books:
Imagining an Austrian Nation: Joseph Samuel Bloch and the Search for a Multiethnic Austrian Identity: 1846-1919(East European Monographs; distributed by Columbia University Press, 2003)
Articles:
“Nationalism, Ethnic Identity and Jews in the Socialist Ideology of Otto Bauer and Karl Renner,” Journal of Jewish
Identities Vol. 2 (2009), No. 1 (forthcoming)
“When Speaking About Race, Choose Words Carefully,” Post Star, July 5, 2009
“Trying to Move Beyond the Racial Preference Era,” Newsday, July 1, 2009
“Francis Joseph's Fatal Mistake: The Consequences of Rejecting Kremsier/Kroměříž,” Nationalities Papers Vol. 37
(2009), No. 2
“We Could Better Integrate New Immigrants Into American Society – And Should,” History News Network, October 6,
2008
“’Saviour of the People(s)’: The Enlightenment and the Depiction of Jews, Poles, and Ukrainians in the Stories of Karl
Emil Franzos,” East European Quarterly, XLII, 1 (2008)
“The Vienna of Hitler and Freud: An Undergraduate Seminar Course,” Teaching Austria, Vol. 2 (2006) [published by
Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association]
“An Alternative to Ethnic Nationalism: Austrian State Patriotism in the Writings of Joseph Samuel Bloch, 1882-1918,” in
Teodor Pavel, coord., Political Options of the Central-Eastern European Peoples in the 19th Century, Vol. 2, (Ed.
Argonaut, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2006)
“Majority Rules: What the religious right and radical multiculturalists have in common,” The New Republic (online),
August 10, 2005
“Same Difference: Radical Multiculturalists, The Christian Right, and American Pluralism,” The New Republic (online),
May 4, 2005
“Threads Intertwined: German National Egoism and Liberalism in Adolf Fischhof’s Vision for Austria,” Nationalities
Papers, Vol. 29 (2001), No. 3
“‘To become Jews once again’: Antisemitism and the Call to Embrace a Jewish Identity in fin-de-siècle Austria,”
Transversal (The Journal of the Center for Jewish Studies, Karl Franzens Universität-Graz, Austria), Vol. 2 (2001), No.
2
“Nationalism, Modernity, and Multinational Austria in the Works of Joseph Roth,” in Donald Daviau, ed., Austria in
Literature (Riverside, CA: 2000)
“An Austrianist and a Zionist: The Ideas of Joseph Samuel Bloch and Theodor Herzl on National Identity and the
Multinational State,” Hildegard Kernmayer, ed., Zerfall und Rekonstruktion. Identitäten in der österreichischen
Moderne, Vol. 5 of Studien zur Moderne, (Vienna: 1999)
“Jewish, Austrian, European: Joseph Samuel Bloch and the Construction of a Supranational Austrian Identity,” Das
Jüdische Echo, Vol. 45 (1996)
Book Reviews and Encyclopedia Entries:
Review of Steven Beller, Antisemitism: A Very Short Introduction. Journal of Jewish Identities (2009, forthcoming)
Review of Laurence Cole and Daniel Unowsky, eds., The Limits of Loyalty: Imperial Symbolism, Popular
Allegiances, and State Patriotism in the Late Habsburg Monarchy. Slavic Review 67, No. 4 (2008)
Review of Steven Beller, A Concise History of Austria. Central European History 41, No. 1(2008)
Review of Marsha Rozenblit, Reconstructing a National Identity: The Jews of Habsburg Austria During World
War I. Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry(http://webserver.brandeis.edu/aapjs/polin/Book%20Reviews/Reifowitz.pdf)
Review of Pieter Judson, Guardians of the Nation: Activists on the Language Frontiers of Imperial Austria.
German Politics and Society Journal, 25, No. 3 (2007)
Review of S.S. Prawer, Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933.
German Studies Review 30, No. 2 (2007)
Review of Nancy Wingfield, ed., Creating the Other: Ethnic Conflict and Nationalism in East Central Europe.
German Studies Review, 29, No. 1 (2006)
Review of Georg Potyka, A Life’s Wager: The Story of a Viennese Civil Servant. H-German online reviews (2006)
“Joseph Samuel Bloch,” in Richard S. Levy, ed., Antisemitism : A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and
Persecution, 2 vols. (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2005)
Review of Marie-Theres Arnbom, Friedmann, Gutmann, Lieben, Mandl, Strakosch. Fünf Familienporträts aus Wien vor 1938. Austrian History Yearbook, XXXV
Review of Gordon A. Craig, The Battle of Königgrätz: Prussia’s Victory over Austria, 1866. H-German online reviews (2004). http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=193401085642813
Selected Conference Papers and Other Public Presentations:
“A Way Out of (Being) the ‘Prison of Nations’?: The consequences of rejecting the Kremsier Constitution of 1848-49 on the Habsburg State and its Peoples,” Association for the Study of Nationalities Conference at Columbia University, 2007
“Images of Galician Nationalities in Stories of Village Life in Habsburg Galicia,” University of Colorado: Word and Image in Habsburg Europe Conference, 2006
“Habsburgtreu Socialists?: Austrian Social Democrats’ Ideology on the Habsburg Nationalities Question and a Civic Austrian Identity,” American Historical Association Conference, 2006
Merchant Marine Academy, 2005
“A Jewish German ‘Colonizer:’ Assimilation, Enlightenment, and Karl-Emil Franzos’ Depiction of Jews, Poles, and
Ukrainians,” Midwest Jewish Studies Association Conference, 2004
“Aurel Popovici’s ‘The United States of Great-Austria:’ A Transylvanian Romanian’s Vision of a Multiethnic Habsburg
State,” Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, 2003
“‘The Personality Principle:’ Karl Renner’s Nationalities Reform Plan and His Vision for Multiethnic Austria,” Congress
of the Social Sciences and Humanities, 2003
“‘To become Jews once again’: Antisemitism and the Call to Embrace a Jewish Identity in fin-de-siècle Vienna,”
Midwest Jewish Studies Association Conference, 2001
“Threads Intertwined: German National Egoism and Liberalism in the Austrian Consciousness of Adolf Fischhof,” (also
Panel Organizer); Panel Moderator: “German Jews and the Question of Assimilation,” German Studies Association
Conference, 2000
“Inventing a Nation: Joseph Samuel Bloch and the Cultivation of a Supraethnic Austrian Identity,” Association for the
Study of Nationalities Conference at Columbia University, 2000
Reading Turn of the Century Culture at the Turn of the Century, 1999
“Nationalism, Modernity and Multinational Austria in the Works of Joseph Roth,” University of California-Riverside
Conference: Austria in Literature, 1997
Political Activity:
Senior Advisor, Joshua Zeitz for Congress 2008 (NJ-4): Duties: Advise on campaign strategy, write/edit speeches, issue pages for website, press releases, advertisements, blog posts, help manage field operations
Recent Professional & Departmental Service:
2008- Chair of the Faculty, Long Island Center, SUNY-Empire State College
2006- Editorial Board Member, Journal of Jewish Identities
2005-2008 Chair, Long Island Center Faculty Development Committee, SUNY-Empire State College
Fellowships, Grants and Honors:
1999 Short-Term Dissertation Research Grant, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC
1999 Royden B. Davis Teaching Fellowship (competitive), Georgetown University
1998 Junior Scholar, East Europe Studies, Woodrow Wilson Center
1996 Junior Research Fellowship, Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Austria
1996, 1998 University Fellowship, Georgetown University