Department of History
The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
University of Washington, Box 353650
Seattle, Washington, 98195-3650
Phone (206) 616-6202  Fax (206) 685-0668
sstein@u.washington.edu
 

EMPLOYMENT
1999-present Assistant Professor.  Department of History, The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies,
University of Washington, Seattle.
 

EDUCATION
1999  Stanford University
Ph.D., History.
Oral Examinations passed with distinction.
Dissertation for Department of History:  “The creation of Yiddish and Judeo-Spanish newspaper cultures in the Russian and Ottoman Empires,” under supervision of Aron Rodrigue and Steven Zipperstein.

1993  Brown University
   BA, Magna Cum Laude, in History and Judaic Studies.
Honors thesis for the History Department: “Transformation and Preservation, the Ethnographic Expedition of S. An-Sky, 1912-1915,” under supervision of Patricia Herlihy.

 Language Experience
 Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, Russian, French, Turkish.

PUBLICATIONS
Current Projects
Manuscript  Making Jews Modern: Yiddish and Ladino Newspaper Cultures of the Russian and Ottoman Empires.   Under scholarly review by university publisher.

Edited Volume With Re?at Kasaba, Re-envisioning the Ottoman Empire.

Book Chapter    “The Permeable boundaries of Ottoman Jewry.” Joel Migdal, editor, Boundaries and Belonging.

Book Chapter With Re?at Kasaba, “Turkish Jews in the First World War,” Najwa  Al-Qattan, editor, Memory and the Ottoman Great War. Peer Reviewed.

Book Chapter “A Survey of Sephardic Studies,” Martin Goodman, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies, Oxford University Press, anticipated publication 2002.  Peer Reviewed.

Articles
Forthcoming “Shameful news: Language politics and the first Judeo-Spanish daily of the Ottoman Empire,” in Languages and Literatures of Sephardi and Oriental Jews, edited by Zev Harvey.  Peer Reviewed.

Forthcoming “Ottomanism in Ladino.” Mediterranean Programme Working Paper Series, European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.  Peer Reviewed.

1999 “Creating a Taste for the News:  Historicizing Judeo-Spanish Periodicals of the Ottoman Empire.” Jewish History, 13/2.  Peer Reviewed.

1998  “Sander Smarts.” Jewish Social Studies 4/2.  Peer Reviewed.

1997 “Illustrating Chicago’s Jewish Left:  Todros Geller and the L. M. Stein Farlag,”  Jewish Social Studies 3/1.    Peer Reviewed.

1997 “Diversified Diasporas.”  Diaspora, A Journal of Transnational Studies 6/1.  Peer Reviewed.

Reviews
Forthcoming Review of Daniel J. Elazar, Still moving:  Recent Jewish Migration in Comparative Perspective.  The European Legacy:  Toward a New Perspective.

Forthcoming Review of Chava Rosenfarb, Bociany and Of Lodz and Love.  Association of Jewish Studies Review.

2001 Review of Yaffa Eliach, There Once Was a World, A 900 Year-Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok.  Shofar, An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies.

2000 Review of Michael Berkowitz, The Jewish Self Image in the West.  American Jewish History 88/3, September.

2000 Review of Edhem Eldem, Daniel Goffman, and Bruce Masters, The Ottoman City between East and West:  Aleppo, Istanbul, Izmir.  New Perspectives on Turkey, Fall.
 

SERVICE
2001 Academic Council, Le Centre Albert Benveniste d’Etudes Sepharades, Section des Sciences Religieuses de l’Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sorbonne, Paris.

2001  Washington State Jewish Historical Society, Board Member.  Seattle, Washington.

2001 Workshop Co-coordinator, with Resat Kasaba and Fikret Adanir, “The Ethnic Break-Up of the Ottoman Empire.”
  Second Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting of the European University Institute of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies in Florence, Italy. Florence, Italy.

2001  Workshop Coordinator, “Ladino In Print.”
  Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities.  University of Washington.

2001 Co-coordinator, with Early Music Guild of Seattle, “Sephardic Culture, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.”

2000 Coordinator, “The First Annual Sephardic/Mizrahi Film Series.”  University of Washington.

1999-present Advisory Board, Thomashefsky Project, San Francisco, California.

1999-present Director and Creator, Sephardic Studies. University of Washington.
 

TEACHING
2002 “The Jewish Twentieth Century in Film.”  Lecture course, University of Washington.
2001 “Spaces of Inter-war Polish Jewry.”  Undergraduate seminar, University of Washington.
2001  “History of the Sephardic Diaspora.”  Lecture course, University of Washington.
2000 “Empires and Culture:  Multi-ethnicity in the Russian and Ottoman Empires.”  Graduate seminar, University of Washington.
2000 “Early Moden European Jewish History.”  Lecture course, University of Washington.
2000    “Modern European Jewish History.”  Lecture course, University of Washington.
1999 “The Invention of Russian Jewry.” Undergraduate seminar, University of Washington.
1997  “History in 3-D.”  Undergraduate seminar, Stanford University.