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[email protected] (315) 256-2908 200 Barnes Street, Apt. A14 Carrboro, NC 27510 samueljkessler.com unc.academia.edu/SamuelKessler iTunes: search “Samuel Kessler” Education Ph.D., Religious Studies Anticipated Graduation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill May 2017 Dissertation: “‘A New Shoot From the House of David:’ Adolf Jellinek and the Creation of the Modern Rabbinate” M.A., Religious Studies University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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B.A., History (High Honors) Minor: Religious Studies New York University

May 2010

Peer-Review Articles • “Translating Judaism for Modernity: Adolf Jellinek in Leopoldstadt, 1857-1865,” Simon Dubnow Institute Yearbook 14 (2015): 1-27. • “Malamud in Italy: The Moral Choice of Being Jewish in ‘The Lady of the Lake,’” Studies in American Jewish Literature. (Accepted November 12, 2014.) • “Foucault and the Holocaust: Epistemic Shift, Liminality, and the Death Camps,” Dapim – Studies on the Holocaust 28, no. 3 (Nov. 2014): 139-154. • “Religion and the Public University,” Philosophy and Public Policy Quarterly 31, no. 1 (Spring 2013), 19-27. • “Systematization, Theology, and the Baroque Wunderkammern: Seeing Nature After Linnaeus,” Heythrop Journal (in press [published online June 4, 2013].) • “The Sacredness of ‘Secular’ Literature: A Case Study in Walter Benjamin,” Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory 12, no. 1 (Spring 2012): 100-114. In Review • “Everything Would Be Seen To Be Turning Into Its Opposite”: Time and Memory in Lawrence Durrell’s Avignon Quintet.” Deus Loci: The Lawrence Durrell Journal. In Progress • “‘My Father’s Face:’ Judaism, God, and Ritual Practice in Philip Roth’s Nemesis, Indignation, and Everyman.” Other Research and Publications • “Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Voice on the Back of the Page,” Devil’s Tale Blog, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University, March 12, 2014. [http://blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/2014/03/12/heschel-highlights-part-6/] • “Erasmus Darwin, Henry Fuseli, and The Temple of Nature: Religion, Poetry, and Art in Enlightenment Natural History,” Master's Thesis, Department of Religious Studies, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, May 2013.

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“Nietzsche and the Poetical Imperative for Philosophy.” Consortium: A Journal of Crossdisciplinary Inquiry. Umbrellagraph Press, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2011. “The Silverman Prayer Book, Political Zionism, and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America,” Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Department of History, New York University, 2010 (High Honors). “From ‘Massive Retaliation’ to ‘Flexible Response’: Robert McNamara at the Pentagon,” Journal of Politics and International Affairs (Undergraduate publication of NYU’s International Relations Department). Spring 2010. “Confucius, Ignatius Loyola, and the Jesuit Mission to China: A Study in Spiritual Lives and Encounters,” The Historian (undergraduate publication of NYU’s History Department). Spring 2009. “Culture Corner—Heroism’s Quiet Laborers: on finding a Jewish world in Berlin” June 21, 2009. Koach Online Magazine. Reprinted July 16, 2009, The Jewish Observer of Central New York. [http://www.koach.org/koc_5769_tamuz_culture.htm] “Jezreel Valley—Avocados and the Shmitah” August, 2008. Koach Online Magazine. [http://www.koach.org/koc_5768_av_skgilbride.htm]

Grants and Fellowships Research Grants & Fellowships • Research Grant, Society of Fellows, Counsel for European Studies, Duke University, June 2015 ($2,000) • Title VIII Short-term Research Grant (for East European Studies), Global Europe Program, The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, June 2015. ($3,200) • Jack O. Spies and Family Jewish Studies Fund Research Grant, Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, June and July 2014. ($5,000) • Research Fellowship, Simon-Dubnow-Institut, Leipzig, June and July 2013. (1,750€) Travel Grants • Travel Grant to Graduate Students, American Academy for Jewish Research, July 2015 ($2,500) • Jewish Studies Graduate Student Research and Travel Grant, Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, July 2015. ($1,500) • Travel Grant, Robert Miller Fund for Graduate Student Excellence, Department of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, October 2014. ($500) • Travel Grant, Graduate and Professional Student Association, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, October 2011. ($400) • Jewish Studies Graduate Student Research and Travel Grant, Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, July 2013. ($2,000) • Travel Grant, Graduate Student Caucus, Northeast Modern Language Association, March 2013. ($175) • Summer Research and Travel Grant, Department of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, June and July 2011. ($3,500) • Travel Grant, Graduate and Professional Student Association, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April 2011. ($400) Teaching Experience Teaching Fellow Philosophical Approaches to Religion (Carolina Courses Online, Summer 2015); Religion and Science (Spring 2015); Introduction to Religious Ethics (Fall 2014) Upcoming: Introduction to Christian Traditions (Carolina Courses Online, Fall 2015); The Birth of Christianity (Carolina Courses Online, Spring 2016)

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Teaching Assistant History of Religion in America (Spring 2014); Introduction to Early Judaism (Fall 2013); Classic Jewish Texts (Spring 2013); Introduction to Early Judaism (Fall 2012); Judaism in Our Time (Spring 2012, including lecture ‘Effects of the Holocaust on Jews and Jewish Thought’); Introduction to the Hebrew Bible (Fall 2011); History of Religion in America (Spring 2011, including lecture ‘Jews and Judaism in America’); Heaven & Hell (Fall 2010, including lecture: ‘The Enlightenment, Thomas Reid, and Immanuel Kant.’) Professional Presentations • Public Talk, “Religion and the Encounter with Modernity: What Can We Learn from Jewish Urbanization,” The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, June 30, 2015. (Available on iTunes; search: “Samuel Kessler”) • Paper, “At the Temple in Leopoldstadt: Adolf Jellinek and the Politics of Jewish Immigration in 1850s Vienna,” Southeast Commission for the Study of Religion, Nashville, TN, March 8, 2015. • Paper, “The Story in Future Retrospect: Monsieur and the Idealization of Memory in Lawrence Durrell’s Avignon Quintet,” Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, Louisville, KY, February 26-28, 2015. • Paper, “The Efficacy of the Past in a Changing Present: Adolph Jellinek’s 1864 Talmud Speeches,” German Studies Association, Kansas City, MO, September 21, 2014. • Paper, “Roth and Jewish Ritual in Nemeses: Four Novels,” Philip Roth: Across Cultures, Across Disciplines, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, June 13, 2014. • Paper, “Adolf Jellinek’s Talmud: Tradition and Acculturation in Nineteenth-Century Vienna,” Southeast Commission for the Study of Religion, Atlanta, GE, March 9, 2014. • Paper, “Jewish Identity as Moral Choice: A Reading of Malamud’s ‘The Lady of the Lake,’” American Academy of Religion, Baltimore, MD, November 24, 2013. • Paper, “Systematization, Theology, and the Baroque Wunderkammern: Seeing Nature After Linnaeus,” Southern Historical Association, Saint Louis, MO, November 3, 2013. • Paper, “Enlightenment as Totalitarian and the World After the Holocaust,” MTSU 2013 International Holocaust Studies Conference, Murfreesboro, TN, October 16, 2013 • Paper, “Erasmus Darwin & Henry Fuseli: Poetry, Art, and Nature at the turn of the Nineteenth Century,” Northeast Modern Language Association, Boston, MA, March 23, 2013. • Paper, “Nemesis Divine; or, An Analysis of the Specter of God in Philip Roth’s Late Fiction,” Roth@80, Newark, NJ, March 18, 2013. • Paper, “Malamud in Italy: The Moral Choice of Being Jewish in ‘The Lady of the Lake,’” Southeast Commission for the Study of Religion, Greenville, SC, March 15, 2013. • Paper, “The Silverman Prayer Book, Political Zionism, and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America,” Southeast Commission for the Study of Religion, Atlanta, GE, March 3, 2012. • Paper, “Nietzsche and the Poetical Imperative for Philosophy.” Florida State University Graduate Conference in Religion, February 18, 2012. • Paper, “Walter Benjamin and the Material Sacred,” Society for the Anthropology of Religion Conference, Santa Fe, NM, April 30, 2011. • Response, “European Jewish Émigrés and the Shaping of Postwar Culture Conference,” National Humanities Center, Duke University, April 3, 2011 Accepted Presentations • Seminar Participant, “Science, Nature, and Art: From the Age of Goethe to the Present” German Studies Association, Washington DC, October 1-4, 2015. • Invited Paper, “From the Pulpit: The Rabbinical Sermon as a Marker of Religious Revolution,” Triangle Intellectual History Seminar, Durham, NC, November 22, 2015

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Professional Activities Carolina Center for Jewish Studies Graduate student representative to the Board of Directors Fall 2013 to present Coordinator, Second Annual Graduate Student Speaker Series Spring to Fall 2015 Invited Guest: Prof. Veronika Feuchtner, Dartmouth College Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University Processing Intern January to April 2014 Graduate and Professional Student Federation Religious Studies Department Senator Fall 2012 to Spring 2014 Journal of Politics, Religion & Ideology Blind reviewer Fall 2012 Southeast Commission for the Study of Religion Committee Co-Chairman, Judaism Section March 2012 to present Triangle Intellectual History and Triangle Jewish Studies Seminars Official rapporteur Fall 2011 to Spring 2014 Other Professional Experience Assistant to Curatorial Staff September 2009 to American Museum of Natural History, New York City July 2010 Responsible for organization and integration of gifts, purchases, and existing holdings in the entomological collections, with specific focus on Heteroptera, Lepidoptera and Diptera. Reference Associate September 2006 to Bobst Library, New York University May 2010 Responsible for re-shelving and reorganization of reference books, inputting new reference books into NYU system, assisting students, faculty and staff with locating resource materials. Community Outreach Invited Speaker • Chapel in the Pines, October 27, 2015 • “History of Religion and Science: The Evolution of Conflict”, Religion and Science Symposium, UNC Chapel Hill and Duke University, Saturday, March 29, 2014. Teaching • Bar/Bat Mitzvah Tutoring, Chapel Hill Kehillah Synagogue (Spring 2012-Fall 2014) Major Honors Fellow, Society of Scholars, Council for European Studies, Duke University, Academic Year 2015-16 Peer Recognition Teaching Award 2014 In acknowledgement of exceptional teaching within UNC Chapel Hill’s Department of Religious Studies, as evidenced through peer observation. Graduated with High Honors in History New York University, 2010 (Including Honors Thesis) Presidential Honors Scholar NYU College of Arts and Science, Academic Years 2008-10 Michael L. Probst Scholar, Academic Year 2007-08, Office of the Dean, New York University (Including $2,500 scholarship) Dean’s Circle (Sophomore Honors Program, including Thesis) New York University, Academic Year 2007-08 Languages German (reading fluency) Hebrew (working knowledge)

Kessler French (working knowledge) Memberships in Profession Organizations American Academy of Religion Association for Jewish Studies Bibliographic Society of America German Studies Association History of Science Society Nineteenth Century Studies Association Philip Roth Society The International Lawrence Durrell Society

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