Lisa Moses Leff Assistant Professor of History MA, PhD, University of Chicago BA, Oberlin College Location: MBH 220 Phone: 512-863-1409 History Home Page

ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD Assistant Professor of History, Southwestern University, 2000-present   CAREER AND PROFESSIONAL AWARDS Brown Fellowship, 2003-04 Southwestern Young Investigator Award (for Outstanding Junior Faculty Researcher), 2003 Cullen International Travel/Research Grants, 2002, 2004 Bernadotte E. Schmitt Fellowship, American Historical Association, 2001 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 1998-99 Bourse Chateaubriand, 1996-97   RESEARCH AREAS Modern France Modern Jewish History European Imperialism Intellectual/Cultural History   REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS Sacred Bonds of Solidarity: The Rise of Jewish Internationalism in Nineteenth-Century France (forthcoming, Stanford University Press, 2006) "Jews, Liberals, and the Civilizing Mission in Nineteenth Century France." Historical Reflections/Reflexions historiques (forthcoming, January 2006). Guest Co-Editor, "Jewish Racial Self-Fashioning in Comparative Perspective," special issue of Jewish History, vol. 19, no. 1 (January 2005). "Self-Definition and Self-Defense: Jewish Racial Identity in Nineteenth Century France." Jewish History vol. 19, no. 1 (January 2005): 7-28. "'Jewish Solidarity' in Nineteenth Century France: The Evolution of a Concept." The Journal of Modern History 74 (March 2002): 33-61.