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Myron J. AronoffContact InformationRutgers Political Science Tel: (732) 932-1074 Fax: (732) 932-7170 Website:http://fas-polisci.rutgers.edu
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Tel: (732) 463-7954 EducationNorthwestern University, Political Science, 1958-1960B. A., Miami University (Ohio), Government, 1960-62 University of California at Los Angeles, 1962-65, Political Science (African Studies), M.A. and Ph.D., 1976 Manchester University, 1965-69, Ph.D., Social Anthropology (Supervisor, Professor Max Gluckman) Academic ExperienceTeaching and Research Assistant, 1962-65, UCLAResearch Fellow, 1965-69, Manchester University Lecturer, 1970-73, Tel Aviv University Senior Lecturer (with tenure), 1973-76, Tel Aviv University Associate Professor, 1976-77, Tel Aviv University Associate Professor, 1977-81, Rutgers University Professor, 1981-1990, Department of Political Science, Rutgers University Professor, Graduate Program of Anthropology, 1982-1990, Rutgers University Professor II, 1990, Political Science and Anthropology, Rutgers University Professor II, 2000, Jewish Studies, Political Science and Anthropology, Rutgers University Visiting AppointmentsVisiting Lecturer, 1969-70, Tel Aviv UniversityFellow, 1974-75, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies Visiting Professor of Anthropology, University of Cape Town, April 1988 Adjunct Professor, University of Pittsburgh Semester at Sea Program, Spring 1992 Fellow, 1996-97, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies Administrative ExperienceChairman, Department of Political Science, 1979-82, Livingston College, Rutgers UniversityVice Chair, Graduate Studies, 1984-1988, Department of Political Science, Rutgers University Resident Director, Rutgers Junior Year in Israel Program, 1987-1988 Chair, Department of Political Science, Rutgers University, 1988- 1991 Co-convener, ACultures of Democracy and Democratization: Israel, Eastern Europe and Beyond 1999-2000 AwardsBernstein Israel Research Trust Fellowship (1965-69)Social Science Research Council of the United Kingdom Grant (1969-71) Ford Foundation Grant (1972-73) Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (1974-75) Rutgers Research and Sponsored Programs grants 1978 and 1980 Council on Instructional Development of Rutgers University Grant (1979-80, 1980-81, 1982-83) Rutgers University Faculty Academic Study Program Leave and Grant (1982-83) Joint Committee on the Near and Middle East of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council (1982-83) Research Council of Rutgers University and Transaction/Wiley Fund Grants (1986) Rutgers University Faculty Academic Study Program Leave (1991-1992) Rutgers University Faculty Academic Study Program Leave (Fall 1995) Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (1996-1997) Fellow of the Center for the Critical Study of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University (1999-2000) Grants from the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life and the Center for Russian, Central and East European Studies, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and the Graduate School of Rutgers University for the seminar on Cultures of Democracy and Democratization: Israel, Eastern Europe, and Beyond (1999-2000) The Spy Novels of John le Carre: Balancing Ethics and Politics was nominated for: MLA Distinguished Scholarly Editions, the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Nonfiction, and the ACLU Prize for interdisciplinary studies. Listed in 56th-59th editions of Who's Who In America (2001-2004) PublicationsFRONTIERTOWN: THE POLITICS OF COMMUNITY BUILDING IN ISRAEL.Manchester University Press and Jerusalem Academic Press, 1974 POWER AND RITUAL IN THE ISRAEL LABOR PARTY, Amsterdam: Royal Van Gorcum, 1977. ISRAELI VISIONS AND DIVISIONS: CULTURAL CHANGE AND POLITICAL CONFLICT. New Brunswick: Transaction, 1989; paperback edition, 1991. POWER AND RITUAL IN THE ISRAEL LABOR PARTY, Revised & expanded edition. Armonk NY: M.E. Sharpe Inc., 1993. THE SPY NOVELS OF JOHN LE CARRE: BALANCING ETHICS AND POLITICS. New York: St. Martin=s Press, 1999. Paperback: Palgrave, 2001. ANTHROPOLOGY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE: CULTURE, POLITICS, IDENTITY, AND DEMOCRATIZATION. (with Jan Kubik), William Beeman and David Kertzer, series editors. New York: Berghan Books, (work in progress). EditedFREEDOM AND CONSTRAINT: A MEMORIAL TRIBUTE TO MAX GLUCKMAN,Royal Van Gorcum, 1976 (Myron J. Aronoff, ed.) IDEOLOGY AND INTEREST: THE DIALECTICS OF POLITICS. POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY YEARBOOK, Volume I; 1980. (Myron J. Aronoff, ed.) New Brunswick: Transaction. CULTURE AND POLITICAL CHANGE. POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Volume 2, 1983. (Myron J. Aronoff, ed.). New Brunswick: Transaction. RELIGION AND POLITICS: POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Volume 3, 1984. (Myron J. Aronoff, ed.). New Brunswick: Transaction CROSS CURRENTS IN ISRAELI CULTURE AND POLITICS. POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Volume 4 (1984), (Myron J. Aronoff, ed.). New Brunswick: Transaction. THE FRAILTY OF AUTHORITY. POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Volume 5 (1986), (Myron J. Aronoff, ed.). New Brunswick: Transaction. Articles in Referred JournalsThe Politics of Religion in a new Israeli Town, THEEASTERN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Vol. 26, pp. 145-171, 1973. Communal Cohesion Through Political Strife in an Israeli An Anthropological Approach to the Analysis of Non-Issues, The Dynamics of Power in the Israel Labor Party, SOCIAL Political Change in Israel: The Case of a New Town, Secular Ritual: The Standing Committee of the Labor Freedom and Constraint: A Memorial Tribute to Max Comment on the Limits of Jarvie's Interpretation of Ritual Rebellion and Assertion in the Israel Labor Party, Civil Religion in Israel, ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE NEWS, Vol. 44, pp. 2-6, 1981. Comment on Grace E. Goodell, _Paternalism, Patronage, and Chapters in BooksParty Center and Local Branch Relationships: The IsraelLabor Party, THE ELECTIONS IN ISRAEL-1969, A. Arian (ed.), Jerusalem Academic Press, pp. 150-183, 1972. Development Towns in Israel, ISRAEL: SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND CHANGE, M. Curtis and M. Chertoff (eds.), Transaction Press, pp. 27-46, 1973. The Power of Nominations in the Israel Labor Party, THE ELECTIONS IN ISRAEL-1973, A. Arian (ed.), Jerusalem Academic Press, pp. 21-40, 1975. Introduction FREEDOM AND CONSTRAINT; A MEMORIAL TRIBUTE TO MAX GLUCKMAN, M. J. Aronoff (ed.), Royal Van Gorcum, pp. 1-6, 1976. Ritual Rebellion and Assertion in the Israel Labor Party, FREEDOM AND CONSTRAINT: A MEMORIAL TRIBUTE TO MAX GLUCKMAN, M. J. Aronoff (ed.), Royal Van Gorcum, pp. 132-164, 1976. Fission and Fusion: The Politics of Factionalism in the Israel Labor Parties, FACTION POLITICS, F. Belloni and D. Beller (eds.), ABC Clio Press, pp. 109-139, 1978. Ritual in Consensual Power Relationships: The Israel Labor Party, POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE STATE OF THE ART, H. Claessen and S. L. Seaton (eds.), Mouton, (deGruyter), pp. 275-310, 1979. The Decline of the Israel Labor Party: Causes and Significance, ISRAEL AT THE POLLS-1977, Howard Penniman (ed.), American Enterprise Institute, 1979, pp. 115-145. Centre-Periphery Relationships in the Israeli Labour Party, A COLLECTIVE PORTRAIT OF ISRAEL, E. Marx (ed.), London: Academic Press, pp. 29-57, 1980. Hebrew version published by Am Oved. Ideology and Interest: The Dialectics of Politics, POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY YEARBOOK, Vol. I, Myron J. Aronoff (ed.), Transaction, pp. 1-29, 1980. Religion and Politics in an Israeli new Town, READINGS IN SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, M. Shokeid, E. Marx, and S. Deshen (eds.) Schoken, 1980. The Labor Party in Opposition, ISRAEL IN THE BEGIN ERA, PRESSbr>
(forthcoming) Book ReviewsPeter Y. Medding, MAPAI IN ISRAEL, THE JEWISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY, pp. 248-252, 1973.Harvey Goldberg, CAVE DWELLERS AND CITRUS GROWERS, POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY, pp. 225-227, 1974. H. Smith, et.al., AREA HANDBOOK FOR ISRAEL, THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW, pp. 347-348, 1975. I. Rabinovich and H. Shaked (eds.), FROM JUNE TO OCTOBER, MIDDLE EAST REVIEW, Fall, 1978. Sammy Smoocha, ISRAEL; PLURALISM AND CONFLICT, AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW, Vol. 73, December 1979, pp. 1194-1196. David Lipset, GREGORY BATESON: THE LEGACY OF A SCIENTIST, SOCIETY, Vol. 88, November/December, 1981, pp. 88-89. Lewis Anthony Dexter, REPRESENTATION VERSUS DIRECT DEMOCRACY IN FIGHTING ABOUT TAXES, ASSOCIATION OF POLITICAL AND LEGAL ANTHROPOLOGY NEWSLETTER. Rael Jean Isaac, PARTIES AND POLITICS IN ISRAEL, SOCIETY, Vol. 21, No. 3, March/April, 1984, pp. 97-100. Baruch Kimmerling, ZIONISM AND ECONOMY, THE MIDDLE EAST JOURNAL, Vol. 38, No. 3, Summer 1984, p.571. Nathan Yanai, PARTY LEADERSHIP IN ISRAEL, STATE, GOVERNMENT, AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, Vol. 24, Summer 1985, pp. 89-90. Asher Arian, POLITICS IN ISRAEL: THE SECOND GENERATION, ASSOCIATION FOR ISRAEL STUDIES NEWSLETTER, Vol. 1, No. 1, Fall 1985, pp. 9-10. Review essay of Yaacov Shafit, Jabotinsky and the Revisionist Movement and Sasson Sofer, Begin: An Anatomy of Leadership,in the International Journal of Middle East Studies (199?). Yael Yishai, Land or Peace: Whither Israel? in Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Volume 7, pp. 411-14. Peter M. Medding, ed., Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Volume 5, The Jerusalem Post January 18, 1991. Peter Y. Medding, The Founding of Israeli Democracy, 1948-1967, International Journal of Middle East Studies,(1991) Virginia R. Dominguez, People as Subject, People as Object: Selfhood and Peoplehood in Contemporary Israel,Anthropological Quarterly, Volume 64, Number 3, July 1991, pp. 157-8. Matthew C. Moen and Lowell S. Gustafson, eds., The Religious Challenge to the State, American Political Science Review, 1993. Efraim Inbar, War and Peace in Israeli Politics. Labor Party Positions on National Security, Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Volume 10, pp. 412-16. Uri Ram, The Changing Agenda of Israeli Sociology, Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, Volume 29, 1995, pp. 184-5 Yael Zerubavel, Recovered Roots, The American Political Science Review Vol. 90, No. 2, June 1996, pp. 465-6. Michael Damper, The Politics of Jerusalem Since 1967, The American Political Science Review. Neill Lochery, The Israeli Labor Party in the Shadow of the Likud, The Middle East Journal, Volume 53, Number 2, Spring 1999, pp. 300-1. Non-Refereed Publications Defeat and After: An Analysis of the Labor Party's First Two Years in Opposition, Jewish Frontier Aug./Sept. 1979, pp. 10-17. Comments on Ehud Sprinzak, Fundamentalism, Terrorism and Democracy. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Occasional Paper, 1987. Interpreting Israeli Political Culture. Invited lecture the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research, University of Capetown, April 13, 1988. Israel Has Democracy, but Needs Civility. VIEWPOINTS, Newsday. May 8, 1998, pp. A55- ReportsPolitical Problems of Development Towns in Israel, ISRAEL'SNEW TOWNS:A STRATEGY FOR THEIR FUTURE, N. Lichfield, Tavistock House and Institute for Planning and Development for Israel Ministry of Housing, 1970. The Political Form of the Proposed Metropolitan Government of the Greater Tel Aviv Area, A PROPOSAL FOR METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT OF THE GREATER TEL AVIV AREA, C. Ben Schachar, Institute for Urban Planning for Israel, Ministry of the Interior, 1972. The Internal Dynamics of the Israel Labor Party in the 1973 Elections, A Report of Research Findings to the Ford Foundation, 1975. Israeli Visions and Divisions, A Report of Research Findings to the Social Science Research Council. Professional ActivitiesPapers Presented at (and Active Participation in) Scientific Meetings: Ritual in Consensual Power Relationships: The Israel Labor Party, IXth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Chicago, Ill., 1973.Fission and Fusion: The Politics of Factionalism in the Israel Labor Parties, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Ill., 1974. The Standing Committee of the Israel Labor Party: A Secular Ritual Considered, Burg Wartenstein Symposium No. 64 - Secular Rituals Considered: Prolegomena Toward a Theory of Ritual, Ceremony, and Formality (Wenner-Gren Foundation sponsored by invitation only), Burg Wartenstein Castle, Austria, 1974. Political Change in New Towns in Israel, (Panel chair & organizer) International Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Amsterdam, Holland, 1975. A Critical Look at the Study of Myth, Symbol, and Ritual in American Politics, (Panel chair) Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Ill., 1976. A Framework for a Political Anthropological Approach to the Study of Ideology, Xth ICAES, New Delhi, India, December, 1978. Roundtable on the Middle East; 1979 Annual Meeting of the New Jersey Political Science Association, Camden, New Jersey. The Labor Party in Opposition, Israel in the Begin Era, Baltimore, Md., 1979. Conceptualizing the Role of Culture in Political Change, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., 1979. The Use and Abuse of Power and the Creation and Corruption of Civil Religion in Israel, Burg Wartenstein Symposium No. 84 on the Exercise of Power in Complex Organizations, Austria, July 19-27, 1980 (By invitation only). Chairman of panel on The Role of Culture in Political Change: Anthropological Approaches to the S Study of Political Change, 1980 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D. C., August 28-31, 1980. First Annual Meeting of the Association for Israel Studies, An Interpretation of Israel: Political Culture,_ The Symbolism of Conflict: Central America and the Middle East,_ University of Maryland, March 21, 1986. Under the patronage of the President of Israel.Democracy_ in U.S. and Israeli Parties. Co-authored with Gerald Pomper, Work Group on Elections and Parties of the Committee on Political Sociology (IPSA and ISA). Paris, France, April 10-12, 1989 Rutgers University. AThe Politics of Collective Identity 14th International Congress of the Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, July 26-August, 1998, EDITORIAL POSITIONS Office in Professional SocietiesVice President, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (1993-2003)President, Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (1985-1987) President, Association for Israel Studies (1985-1987) Member Board of Directors of the Association for Israel Studies (1987-2001) Member Executive Council, Northeast Political Science Association (1984-85) Membership in Professional SocietiesInternational Union of Anthropological and Ethnological SciencesAmerican Political Science Association American Anthropological Association Association of Social Anthropologists of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth Association of Political and Legal Anthropology Association for Israel Studies Invited Lectures (Selected)Middle East Seminar, University of Chicago, 1976.Department of Political Science, University of Iowa, 1976. Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego, 1976. Middle East Seminar, George Washington University, 1979. Philadelphia Anthropological Society, University of Pennsylvania, April 16, 1982. Faculty Seminars: Departments of Political Science and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Bar-Ilan University, 1982-1983. Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, London, 1984. The Wilson Center: Program on History, Culture and Society, 1986. Anthropology Seminar, Columbia University, 1986. Faculty Seminars: Departments of Anthropology and Political Science, Bar-Ilan University, Haifa University, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Tel-Aviv University, 1987-1988. Faculty Seminars: Departments of Anthropology, Politics, Religion, and Psychology,Interdisciplinary Seminar on _Cultural Theory,University of Capetown, April 1988. Annual Guest Lecture, The Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research, University of Capetown, April, 1988 Inaugural Lecture Judaic Studies Program Monmouth College The Domestic Implications of the Intifada Lou Douglas Lecture at Kansas State University, September 19, 1989. Alternative Ramifications of the Peace Talks for the Developing Israeli Political Culture the Center for Middle East Studies, University of Arizona, January, 1994. Anthropological Explanations of the Peace Process,@ the Middle East Center, University of Utah, February, 1996. AThe Impact of the Peace Process on the 1996 Israeli Election and the Implications of the 1996 Elections on the Peace Process Department of Peace and Conflict Research Uppsala University (Sweden) August 23, 1996. AW[h]ither the Middle East Peace Process? Netherland Institute for Advanced Studies, Nov.20, 1996. The 1999 Israeli Elections_ Middle East Institute Seminar, Columbia University, March 10,1999. The Political Process in Israel American Israel Political Action Committee Northeast Regional Leadership Institute, Lenox, Massachusetts, April 17, 1999. Israel's 1999 Election and the Peace Process_ Executive Seminar, Columbia University, May 12, 1999. The Prospects of Jewish Terrorism in Light of the Likely Progress in the Peace Process, Council on Foreign Relations and the United States Department of State. Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., June 16, 1999. APolitical and Cultural Change in Contemporary Israel, Department of Political Science and the Jewish Studies Center, Indiana University, November 15, 1999. APost-Zionism, New York Chapter of the American Jewish Committee, New York, March 22, 2000. GrantsJohn Simon Guggenheim Memorial FoundationNational Endowment for the Humanities The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research National Science Foundation U.S.-Israel Bi-national Science Foundation Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowships Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Inter-American Foundation Israel Science Foundation ArticlesCURRENT ANTHROPOLOGYTHE AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW COMPARATIVE POLITICS JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST HUMAN ORGANIZATION MAN, THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTION COMPARATIVE POLITICAL STUDIES BooksPrinceton University PressCornell University Press University of Wisconsin Press Rutgers University Press University of California Press Yale University Press Council on Foreign Relations University of Chicago Press Research Institutes - Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford) Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences; Bellagio Study and Conference Center (The Rockefeller Foundation) National Humanities Center Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Center for International Affairs, Harvard University Promotions at Other Universities University of Leiden (The Netherlands) Tel Aviv University (Israel) University of Haifa (Israel) Brown University University of California, San Diego United States Military Academy Brandeis University Colgate University George Mason University University of Mississippi University of Michigan University of Pennsylvania Bar Ilan University (Israel) Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) Membership on Outside Doctoral Committees Hebrew University of Jerusalem University of Amsterdam Princeton University Tel Aviv University Urban Planning, Rutgers University Department, College and University ActivitiesActive member of departments of political science, graduate anthropology, & Jewish StudiesFAS Appointments and Promotions Committee for Professor II,1998-2000 The Presidents Coordinating Council on International Education, 1992-1993 FAS Study Abroad Committee, 1992-1993 Ad-Hoc Professor II Promotion Committee, Sociology Dept, 1992 Advisory Board of the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis,1990-1993 Chair, Department of Political Science, 1988-1991 Vice Chair, Graduate Studies, Department of Political Science, 1984-1988. Chairman, Department of Political Science, Livingston College, 1979-1981; L.R.I., 1981-1982. Graduate Students Advisers Coordinator, 1979-1981. Consultant to the University Research Council, 1977-1981. Livingston College Lecture Series Committee, 1979-1980. Livingston College Educational Policy and Course Committee,1978-1979. New Brunswick Executive Committee, 1979-1980; Advisory Committee, 1981-1982. Chairman, Livingston Public Law Search Committee, 1979-1980. Chairman, New Brunswick Comparative Politics Committee,1978-1979 and 1981-1982. Search Committee for Douglass/Eagleton, 1978-1979. New Brunswick Personnel Committee, 1977-1978 and 1981-1982. Graduate Financial Aid Committee, 1977-1978, 1984-1988. Chairman, Nominating Committee for New Brunswick Chair and Graduate Director, 1980. Livingston College Honors Program Planning Committee, 1980. International Relations Search Committee, 1983-1985. Livingston College Assembly, 1983-1987. Rutgers College Honors Committee, 1983-1986. Rutgers College General Honors Program Associate,1984-1987. Ad Hoc Promotion Committee Department of Anthropology, 1984. University Senate, 1984-1987. Graduate Admissions Committee, 1984-1987 ExOfficio member of Advisory Committee, 1984-1987 |
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