Term:
Academic Year,
2024-2025
Contact:
ysternhell@fas.harvard.edu
Courses:
Spring 2025:
HIST 16I: Refugees in the 20th-Century United States
Yael Sternhell
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Department of History, Department of English and American Studies, Tel Aviv University
Joseph Engel Visiting Associate Professor of Jewish Studies: Department of History
Professor Yael Sternhell specializes in the history of the long Civil War era, the global history of archives, and the history of modern societies at war. Her books include Routes of War: The World of Movement in the Confederate South (Harvard University Press, 2012) and War on Record: The Archive and the Afterlife of the Civil War (Yale University Press, 2023). Her work has won awards from the Organization of American Historians, the Southern Historical Association, and the Society for Civil War Historians. Beyond academia, Sternhell is a board member of the New Israel Fund, Israel’s leading human rights and social justice organization, and a regular contributor for Ha’aretz. At Harvard she will be teaching a course on the history of refugees in 20th century U.S. history, with special emphasis on the World Wars era and the experiences of Jewish refugees.