Oz Frankel
Professor of History
Email
frankelo@newschool.edu
Office Location
N - 66 Fifth Avenue
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I am Professor of听听at the 麻豆传媒色情片 for Social Research. I am a proponent of a critical history and view historicization as an instrument for rethinking and reimagining the world against convention and expectation; a mode of discovery, reframing, and estranging that is inherently political. Indeed, politics has been my recurrent subject matter, and 鈥渃ulture鈥 (broadly conceived to include literature, knowledge, science, memory, performance, and communication) my preferred entry point for analysis, critique, and teaching.
My fields of interest include US history (especially the nineteenth century), American presence abroad, modern British history, knowledge and its transmission, radicalism and its culture, social history, comparative history, history of the state, memory and commemoration, and history of the book. My recently published book,听, explores the early roots of the modern informational states.
I am now engaged in a transnational study that follows the social, cultural and political relationship between the US and Israel at the turn of the 1970s. My new book on this is (Stanford University Press, July 2024)
Degrees Held
PhD 1998, University of California, Berkeley
Recent Publications
听(Stanford University Press, July 2024)
",鈥澨Israel Studies听Vol. 24, No. 1 (Spring 2019), 174-199.
",鈥 in The Palgrave Handbook of State-Sponsored History After 1945, eds. Berber Bevernage and Nico Wouters (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), 653-668.
"," O帽ati Socio-Legal Studies (2017).
鈥淚nstructing the Liberal Subject: Facts and Voice in Victorian Blue Books,鈥 听(2013).
鈥,鈥 in Nico Slate, ed. Black Power Beyond Borders (Palgrave, 2012).
"," Common-Place听(2010).
鈥淭he State Between Orality and Textuality: Government Reports as 鈥極rature鈥欌 in听,听ed. Sandra M. Gustafson and Caroline Sloat (Notre Dame University Press, 2009).
鈥,鈥澨The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture听(2008).
听(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006).
鈥,鈥澨Victorian Studies听(2004).
鈥,鈥澨Social Research听(Spring 2003).
Research Interests
Social and political history of 19th-century U.S., Victorian Britain, American Empire, race, media and print culture, reform, state formation, and historiography.
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Awards And Honors
Postdoctoral Scholar in the Michigan Society of Fellows (1998-2001).
Reinhard Bendix Research Fellowship for Social and Political Thought (1997-98).
The Allan Sharlin Memorial Award (1997-98).
John L. Simpson Memorial Research Fellowship in International and Comparative Studies (1997-98).
Fellow of the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley (1996-97).
Mabelle McLeod Lewis Memorial Fund Dissertation Fellowship (1996-97).
International Dissertation Research Fellow of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) - Western Europe Program (1995-96).
The Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral Fellowship (1994-95).
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of the Massachusetts Historical Society (1994-95).