JULIE ANN JACOBY

 

Department of History

450 McGraw Hall

Cornell University

Ithaca, NY 14853

jaj32@cornell.edu

 

 

EDUCATION

Ph.D candidate in Modern Central European History, Cornell University. Special Committee: Prof. Isabel Hull, Prof. Holly Case, Prof. Michael Steinberg, and Prof. David Bathrick

 

M.A. , Cornell University, April 2006, Examination Fields: Modern German history, Modern East Central European history, Modern Jewish history, German Studies.

 

Fulbright Scholar, University of Vienna, Institute for Contemporary History, Advisors: O-Univ. Prof. Gerhard Botz and DDr. Oliver Rathkolb, 2002-2003

 

B.A., History and Government, Magna Cum Laude, Claremont McKenna College, 2002

 

LANGUAGES

Near Native Fluency in German; Fluent in Yiddish, Polish, and French, Proficiency in Spanish and Ladino; Basic Knowledge of Russian

 

LANGUAGE TRAINING

·          Catholic University, Summer School of Polish Language and Culture, Lublin, Poland, Summer 2006

·          Jagiellonian University, Summer School of Polish Language and Culture, Krakow, Poland, Summer 2005

·          University of Indiana, Bloomington (SWSEEL) and Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Yiddish Summer School, Summer 2004

·          Institute for American Universities Study Abroad, Avignon, France, Summer 2002

·          Duke University/Humboldt University Berlin Study Abroad, Fall 2000

 

AWARDS AND HONORS

·          Einaudi Center Peace Studies Fellowship, Academic Year 2006-7

·          Institute for European Studies Sicca Grant for Pre-dissertation Research, Summer 2006

·          Einaudi Center Peace Studies Grant for Summer Study, Summer 2006

·          FLAS for Polish, Summer 2005

·          CAHS/USHMM Yiddish Summer School Scholarship (10 out of 70 applicants selected), Summer 2004

·          Sage Scholarship, Cornell University, 2003-2004

·          Fulbright Scholarship, Vienna, Austria  2002-2003

·          Phi Beta Kappa, 2002

·          Phi Alpha Theta (History Honors Society), 2002

·          John R. Dunbar Student Research Fellowship for Prof. Jonathan Petropoulos, Benjamin Z. Gould Center for Humanistic Studies, Claremont McKenna College, 2001-2002

·          Best Overall Achievement in History, Claremont McKenna College, 2002

·          Senior Honors Thesis in History & Government: “In Pursuit of Peace: War Crimes Tribunals in Germany 1918-1946”, 2002

·          European Union Studies Program with Honors (European Union Center of California), 2001

·          Zentrale Mittelstufengprüfung (ZMP) for Achievement and Proficiency in German, 2001

·          Distinguished Scholar 1998-2002, Claremont McKenna College

 

PUBLICATION

 

·          “Meine Augen haben so viel gesehen!” in Schweigen und Reden einer Generation Erinnerungsgespräche mit Opfern, Tätern und Mitläufern des Nationalsozialismus. Ed. Gerhard Botz. Vienna: Mandelbaum Verlag, 2005

 

PAPERS

 

·          “ ‘Inferior Peoples’ or Partners in Empire?: Epidemic Control, Volksernährung, and Political Awarenss in Austrian Occupied Poland,” Cornell University European History Colloquium, October 2006

 

·          “Testing Loyalties: The Austrian Occupation of Russian Poland”, Presented at Cornell University European History Colloquium, April 2006

 

·          “Myth of the Paradise on the Pruth: Czernowitz 1900-1937”, Presented at Cornell University European History Colloquium, February 2005 and at Cornell Department of History Graduate Student Conference, April 2006

 

·          “ ‘Don’t Turn Away—Look!’: US Army Signal Corps Footage of the Liberation of the Nazi Concentration Camps and American Perspectives on the Holocaust,” given at the Legacy of the Holocaust: National Perspectives Conference, Krakow, Poland, May 2003

 

·          “Trafficking in Women and the European Union,” given at the European Union Center Undergraduate Conference, University of California, Davis, April 2001.

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Teaching Assistant

·          20th Century Russia and Soviet Union, Prof. Peter Holquist, Spring 2006

·          Imperial Russia 1689-1905, Prof. Peter Holquist, Fall 2005

·          European Cultural History 1750-1870. Prof. Michael Steinberg, Spring 2005

·          Evolution,  Instr. Allen MacNeill, Fall 2004

 

Lectures  in capacity of Teaching Assistant

·          “Soviet Rock Music and Youth Culture, 1960-1990” Spring 2006

·          “Jews in the Pale of Settlement”  Fall 2005

·          “Nowa Huta: High Stalinism in Poland” Fall 2005 and Fall 2006 (for Eastern European History survey course taught by Prof. Holly Case)

·          “Cultural and Social History of 19th century Pet-keeping” Spring 2005

·          “Social Darwinism and Eugenics” Fall 2004

 

English Language Assistant, Bundesbildungsanstalt für Kindergartenpädagogik,

Vienna, Austria, 2002-2003

Taught English to students aged 13-19.  Developed and taught English class in the on-site Kindergarten for children aged 3-6.

 

German Grader and Tutor, Claremont McKenna College, 2001-2002

 

 

ORAL HISTORY/MUSEUM EXPERIENCE

 

Mauthausen Survivors Documentation Project and “Narrating Mauthausen” Video Exhibit at Mauthausen Memorial Visitors Center under the direction of Univ.-O.Prof. Gerhard Botz, Ludwig Boltzmann Institut, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, University of Vienna; Mag. Helga Amesberger and Brigitte Halbmayr, Institut für Konflikt Forschung, Vienna; Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes, Vienna:  Interviewer, Transcriber, Translator and Interpreter (English-German), 2002-2003