Dr. David Shneer

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University of Denver
Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Center for Judaic Studies
Associate ProfessorAppointed: 2005
University of Denver
Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences
Center for Judaic Studies
DirectorAppointed: 2003

Mailing Address

Center for Judaic Studies
2000 E. Asbury Ave.
University of Denver
Denver, Colorado 80208
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (303) 871-2956
Fax: (303) 871-2957
dshneer@du.edu

Qualifications

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, History, 2001.

Expertise and Research Interests

20th Century Russian history
Soviet history
Jewish culture
American Jewish history
Yiddish culture
Modern Jewish history
Holocaust/genocide studies
Queer studies
Cultural studies

Other Expertise

Organizing museum exhibits
Teaching and pedagogy


Future Research

20th Century Yiddish Culture
Modern Jewish Ideologies
Zionism and Socialism

Keywords

COS Keywords:

History, Jewish History, Jewish Studies, Russian History, Russian Language or Literature, Russian Studies.

Additional Terms:

American Jewish History, Genocide Studies, History, Holocaust, Jewish Studies, Photography, Queer Studies, Russian History, Yiddish.

Languages

(Reading, Writing, Speaking)

Russian: (Fluent, Fluent, Fluent)
Yiddish: (Fluent, Fluent, Fluent)
Hebrew: (Fluent, Functional, Fluent)
German: (Functional, Functional, Functional)
French: (Basic, Basic, Basic)
Ukrainian

Memberships

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
American Historical Association
Association for Jewish Studies

Honors and Awards

1999-2000, Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, International and Area Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Political Economy
1998, Fellow, Ford Foundation Seminar on Incorporating Gender into the Humanities, University of California, Berkeley
1994, Phi Beta Kappa, University of California, Berkeley

Previous Positions

2006, Visiting Fellow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Russian and East European Center
2004-2007, Visiting Professor, National Yiddish Book Center
2003, Visiting Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Women's Studies
2000, Visiting Lecturer, Graduate Theological Union, Center for Jewish Studies
1999, Visiting Lecturer, University of California, Davis, College of Letters and Science, Division of Social Sciences, History

Funding Received

  • National Council for Research on Eastern Europe and Russia: Fellow, $24,000, 2006 to 2007.
  • University of Denver: Professional Research Opportunity Fellowship, 10,000, 2005 to 2006.
  • Social Science Research Council (SSRC) - USA: Fellow, $20,000, 2005 to 2006.
  • Holocaust Education Foundation: Research Fellow, $2500, 2005 to .
  • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Pearl Resnick Postdoctoral Fellowship, $20,000, 2004 to .
  • Mellon Foundation: Dissertation Fellowship, 2000 to 2001.
  • International Research and Exchange Council (IREX): Dissertation Research Grant, 1998 to 1999.
  • University of California: Regents' Fellowship, 1997 to 1998.
  • U.S. Department of Education: Foreign Language and Area Studies Grant, 1997 to 1998.

Publications

  • David Shneer, Caryn Aviv, American Queer, Boulder, CO, Paradigm Publishers, Spring 2006
  • David Shneer, Caryn Aviv, New Jews: The End of the Jewish Diaspora (NYU Press), New York University Press, 01 Nov 2005
  • David Shneer, Yiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture (book), 01 Apr 2004
  • David Shneer and Caryn Aviv, eds., Queer Jews (Routledge, 2002), 01 Aug 2002
  • David Shneer, An Ambivalent Revolution: Izi Kharik's Image of the Shtetl, East European Jewish Affairs, 31(2), Winter 2001
  • David Shneer, Making Yiddish Modern: The Creation of a Yiddish Language Establishment in the Soviet Union, East European Jewish Affairs, 30(2), Winter 2001
  • David Shneer, Stanovlenie revoliutsionera: Izi Kharik, Sovietskaia evreiskaia poeziia i sozidatel'noe unichtozhenie, in Motya Chlenov, Katya Rempel, and David Shneer, eds., Tirosh: Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Sefer Jewish Studies Conference, 2001
  • David Shneer, 'Making the Taiga Bloom: The Birobidzhan Idea', in Center for Slavic and East European Studies Newsletter, 13(1), Summer 1996
  • David Shneer, Seeing Red: Soviet Jewish Photojournalists, Stalinism, and the Holocaust, Unpublished
  • David Shneer, 'The Life and Death of the 'Truth': Soviet Yiddish Newspapers and Der Emes, in Gennady Estraikh and Mikhail Krutikov, eds., Yiddish and the Left
  • David Shneer, 'Perets Markish', in Sorrel Kerbel, Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century
  • The Final Frontier: Queering Jewish Education, in David Shneer and Caryn Aviv, eds., Queer Jews

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