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YUVAL TAL 

CURRICULUM VITAE 

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

 Mount Scopus, 9190501  

Jerusalem, Israel 

yuval.tal@mail.huji.ac.il 

 

EDUCATION 

2016-2020 Ph.D., History, Johns Hopkins University 

 

Dissertation: “The Ethnic Republic: The European Contours of the French Universal Idea and the Making of French Algeria, 1870-1919” 

Advisor: Prof. Todd Shepard 

 

2014-2016      M.A., History, Johns Hopkins University 

 

2011-2014       M.A. Magna cum laude in Contemporary Jewish History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem  

 

2007-2010 B.A. Magna cum laude in History and the School of History Honors Program, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem  

 

2010-2011       Visiting Student, Université Paris-Sorbonne 

 

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 

 

2022-Present Assistant Professor, The Romance Studies Department & the European Forum, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

 

2021-2022 The Martin Buber Society of Fellows, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

 

2020-2021 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

 

PUBLICATIONS 

Books: 

The Republic Estranged: Catholics, Muslims, and Jews in French Algeria (Under Submission) 

Articles and Chapters: 

 

“The ‘Latin’ Melting-Pot: Ethnorepublican Thinking and Immigrant Assimilation in and through Colonial Algeria,” French Historical Studies 44:1 (2021), 85-118.  

 

“The Social Logic of Colonial Anti-Judaism: Revisiting the Anti-Jewish Crisis in French Algeria, 1889-1902," Studies in Contemporary Jewry 30 (2018), 17-36.  

 

Yuval Tal, Lior Sternfeld et al., “The Modern Jewish Economy: Class, Trade, and Capital,” in Reimagining Jewish Life in the Modern Middle East, 1800-Present, eds. Lior Sternfeld, Orit Bashkin, et al. (Stanford University Press) (Forthcoming) 

 

“Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory in Israeli Historiography of North African Jews,” Zion (forthcoming) 

 

"Jewish and Sexual Identities in the Works of George Mosse," Hayo Haya - A Young Forum for History 9 (2012), 64-84. (Hebrew) 

 

In Progress: 

 

“Consumption and Jewish-Muslim Relations in Colonial Algeria,” Past & Present (under submission) 

 

Book Reviews: 

 

Ethan B. Katz, The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to 

France, in Studies in Contemporary Jewry 30 (2018), 301-3.  

 

Dónal Hassett, Mobilizing Memory: The Great War and the Language of Politics in Colonial Algeria, 1918-1939, in French Studies 76:2 (2022). 

 

CONFERENCE ORGANIZING 

 

Co-organized the international conference, “Contemporary Migration: Nordic Countries, Europe, and Israel,” The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, March 21-22, 2023.   

 

Organized the international conference, “Jews, Muslims, and Christians in the Colonial North African City, 1870-1962,” The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, March 20-22, 2022. 

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, SEMINARS, INVITED LECTURES 

 

“From Class Resentment to Ethnic Violence: Jewish-Muslim Consumer Relations in Colonial Constantine,” 5th Congress on Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Université de Lyon, July 11-13, 2023. 

 

“Jews and Muslims in Colonial Algeria: Between Intimacy and Resentment,” Jews of Arab Lands Speaker Series, University of Washington, November 2, 2022. 

 

“The Social Origins of the 1962 Jewish Exodus from Algeria,” Jewish Questions and the Global South: Between Sovereignty and Human Rights Conference, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, May 16-18, 2022.  

 

“Jewish-Muslim Class Antagonism in Algerian Sites of Consumption,” Jews, Muslims, and Christians in the Colonial North African City, 1870-1962 Conference, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, March 20-22, 2022. 

 

“Class and Ethnicity in Colonial North Africa,” Jews in the Muslim World Workshop, Penn State University, February 23, 2021. [online] 

 

“Working-Class Jewish-Muslim Encounters in Early Twentieth-Century Algeria,” Diwan Forum, The Open University of Israel, February 17, 2021 [online] 

 

“Working Class Politics and Jewish–Muslim Relations in Colonial Algeria, 1889–1926,” The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism Research Seminar, January 4, 2021 [online] 

 

“The Ethnic Limits of Class Politics in Colonial Algiers, 1898-1910,” The Annual Meeting of the Middle East & Islamic Studies Association of Israel, Ramat Gan, June 22, 2020. [Postponed] 

 

“The Colonial Origins of the 1889 French Nationality Law,” Annual Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society, Buffalo, NY, May 28-31, 2020. [Postponed] 

 

“Jewish Class Politics and Critique of Republican Universalism in French Algeria,” Globalizing French Jewish Politics Conference, Central European University, Budapest, July 2-3, 2019. 

 

“The ‘Latin’ Melting Pot: Probing the Republican Origins of Vichy’s Ethnic Ideology through French Algeria,” Revisiting Vichy – 1940 – 2018 – International Conference, Jerusalem, December 3-5, 2018. 

 

“Mediterranean Bodies, French Minds: The Idea of Mediterranean Fusion in French Algeria, 1889-1909,” Contemporary French Civilization Conference, Baltimore, MD, September 3-5, 2015. 

“Writing the History of Helplessness: The Postcolonial Perspective,” Panel Discussion on Amos Goldberg’s book “Trauma in First Person: Diary Writing During the Holocaust,” Hebrew University of Jerusalem, March 7, 2013. 

 

“Gender, Kinship, and the Heritage of Colonialism in Algeria” workshop, Johns Hopkins University, Dec. 5-6, 2017. [respondent] 

 

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS 

 

2022 The Paul Desmarais Center for the Study of French Culture Research Grant 

2021-2022 The Martin Buber Society of Fellows 

2020 Mandel Scholion Fellowship (finalist) 

2020 The Martin Buber Society of Fellows (finalist) 

2016-2018       The Posen Society of Fellows 

2015 The Butler Prize for Best First-Year Paper, Johns Hopkins University  

2014-2016 The Owen Scholars Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University 

2011-2014 Dean’s Fellowship, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

2012-2013 Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Fellowship  

2012-2013 Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies Scholarship 

2014 Yitzhak Averbuch Award, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

2010 Rector Prize, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

2008-2010 Dean’s Fellowship, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE 

 

Primary Instructor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: 

 

Spring 2023 “After Empire: Decolonization and the Remaking of Europe” 

 

Spring 2023 “The Right to the City in Modern Paris: Race, Sexuality, and Capitalism” 

 

Fall 2022 “Gender and Law in France, 1870-2022”  

 

Fall 2022 “The Latin Sisters: Nation, Church, and Race in Italy and France” 

 

Spring 2022 “Nationalism and Colonialism in Modern France, 1870-2000” 

 

Fall 2020 “Antisemitism, Colonialism, and Postcolonial Theory”  

 

LANGUAGES 

 

French, Hebrew, Arabic (excellent), Italian (reading knowledge), German (reading knowledge) 

 

MEMBERSHIPS 

 

Society for French Historical Studies  

Middle Eastern Studies Association  

French Colonial Historical Society