Post-Doctoral Researchers and Temporary Affiliates
| Post Doctoral Researchers
Dr. Daria Solignac (Melnikova)
Daria Melnikova received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2018 and specializes in modern and contemporary Japanese art. In her book manuscript tentatively titled The Trajectory of Performance Art in Japan: From Modernist Dance to Happenings, she examines experimental art practices as a dynamic forum of creative exchange between Japanese visual artists, dancers, musicians, theater directors, and photographers from the early 1910s to the late 1960s.
Read MoreHer research also sheds light on the broader milieu of Japanese-Russian artistic and intellectual transnational relations in her recent article “What is Futurism? Russia and Japan Exchange Answers” (The Art Bulletin, March 2021). Her translation of the essay “Beyond the Circle” (1987) of Japanese avant-garde artist Shirakawa Yoshio was published on Art Platform Japan, an initiative run by the Agency of Cultural Affairs. She also taught courses on East Asian Art at Columbia University, New York.
Contact: daria.melnikova@mail.huji.ac.il
Guest Course
Musical and Cultural Politics: Modernity and Modernism in Korea and Japan Modernism was a global artistic phenomenon with a multiplicity of aesthetic practices and ideas that sought to overthrow traditional academic art. In the first half of the twentieth century, the formation of modernism in Korea and Japan highlights the transnational and multidirectional nature of the development of a global modernism. Join a conversation about artistic innovations in visual arts, cinema, music, dance, theater, and literature and explore a complex relationship between modernism and modernity in Imperial Japan and Colonial Korea.
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| Temporary Affiliate Researchers
Dr. Marc Abramson
Marc Abramson is a historian of medieval Chinese and Inner Asian history and a retired US Department of State Foreign Service Officer. He received his Ph.D. in East Asian Studies from Princeton University in 2001. He is currently working on two long-term translation projects: 1) Zeki Velidi Togan’s Umumi Türk Tarihine Giriş; 2) The Sui and Tang chapters of Sima Guang’s Zizhi tongjian.
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His publications include Ethnic Identity in Tang China (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008), reissued in paperback (ISEAS Press, 2013), and translated into Chinese as Tangdai Zhongguo de zuchun rentong (Renmin chubanshe, 2017); and, “Deep Eyes and High Noses: Physiognomy and the Depiction of Barbarians in Tang China,” in Nicola DiCosmo and Don Wyatt, eds., Political Frontiers, Ethnic Boundaries and Human Geographies in Chinese History (Routledge, 2003).Affiliate Temporary Member, 2023-2025
Contact: marcsa2222@gmail.comRead LessProf. Niv Horesh
Niv Horesh (PhD, ANU, 2006) is a China specialist with over 20 years of experience ranging across the private sector, public service and academe. Between 2000-2003, he lived and worked in Beijing, and has been visiting different parts of the Chinese-speaking world regularly since.
Over the course of his academic career, Niv has held teaching and research positions at Hebrew University, China Agricultural University, the University of New South Wales, and the University of Nottingham (UK). He gave keynote presentations of his research around the world including at Oxford University, NYU Stern School of Business and UCLA. Niv was also a Visiting Professor at the Beijing Foreign Studies University and Durham University.
Read MoreNiv's research incorporates four main strands in the following order: Chinese History, World Monetary History, PRC Political Economy, and PRC Foreign Policy with emphasis on the Middle East.
Niv’s most important study in the first and second strands is Chinese Money in Global Context: Historic Junctures Between 600 BCE and 2012 (Stanford University Press, 2014). The book is available in Chinese translation as of last year. Subsequently, Niv has been invited to write the general entry for "Money" in Information: A Historical Companion (Princeton University Press, 2021).The most important study in the third strand is East Asian Challenge to Western Neoliberalism: Critical Perspectives on the ‘China Model’ (Routledge, 2017), co-authored with geographer Kean Fan Lim. Within this strand too, Niv's study of influential CPC Politburo Standing Committee Member Wang Huning was the first of its kind to be published in English.
The fourth strand is best represented by How China's Rise is Changing the Middle East (Routledge, 2019), co-authored with Anoushiravan Ehteshami.
Affiliate Temporary Member, 2023-2024
Contact: niv.horesh@gmail.com
Read LessDr. Ilia Mozias
Ilia Mozias is a researcher of Daoism and Chinese religion. He earned his MA and Ph.D. degrees from the Hebrew University. His research focuses on the history of Daoism, internal alchemy, and spirit writing in late imperial and modern China. His dissertation was dedicated to one of the foundational figures in the history of internal alchemy, Lu Xixing 陸西星 (1520-1601 or 1606).
Read MoreCurrently, he is working on several projects related to the development of internal alchemy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: The history of one of the central modern schools of internal alchemy, the Western school (xipai 西派), and the connection between esoteric alchemical practice and modernist thinking of social reformers
such as renowned political thinker and alchemist Zheng Guanying 鄭觀應 (1842-1921).These projects aim to explore the impact of the modernization of Chinese society on the country’s religious thinking and practices. His publications include the article "Immortals and Alchemists: Spirit-Writing and Self-Cultivation in Ming Daoism" (Journal of Daoist Studies 11. 2018), and the monograph The Literati Path to Immortality: The Alchemical Teachings of Lu Xixing (Dunedin, FL: Three Pines Press, 2020)
Affiliate Temporary Member, 2023-2024
Read LessDr. Sharon Sanderovitch
Sharon Sanderovitch earned her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and pursued postdoctoral research at Tel Aviv University, the Center for Chinese Studies (Taipei), and most recently, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, as a Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Fellow. Her study of early-imperial Chinese intellectual history encompasses political rhetoric, poetry, and historiography, as well as an evolving interest in the traces of Han visual culture in the surviving literature from the period. Working across literary genres, she examines intersections of body, politics, and representation, particularly as pertaining to the discourse of monarchical rulership in the formative centuries of the long imperial era.
Read MoreIn the past couple of years she has collaborated with Taiwan-based colleagues in organizing a monthly online colloquium hosted by Academia Sinica’s Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy (February – July 2022), contributed chapters to forthcoming volumes, and presented her ongoing research in various professional venues, most recently the Needham Research Institute (Cambridge UK, June 2023). She is now working on two book manuscripts, for both general and academic readership—one deepening the grasp of the rich, multi-layered early-imperial political discourse, and the other introducing one such relevant and highly influential intellectual thread to contemporary Hebrew readers.
Affiliate Temporary Member, 2023-2024
Contact: sharon.sanderovitch@mail.huji.ac.il
Read LessDr. Alexandre Schiele
After a Ph.D. in Communication science (Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017) and another in Political science (University of Quebec at Montreal, 2018), Alexandre Schiele pursued postdoctoral research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research follows two complementary directions. On the one hand, he investigates the thought and practice of the successive Chinese generations of leadership in the realm of foreign relations from the comparative perspective of historical Chinese and Western politics. On the other hand, he analyzes the foreign media coverage of Chinese politics, with a particularly focus on interpretation models and their evolution overtime, and how they inform the public perception of China.
Read MoreAmong his publications, of note are: Étude du dispositif du Monde diplomatique : la couverture de l’évolution de la conjoncture chinoise entre 1975 et 1992 (2018) (Analysis of the Dispositif of the Monde diplomatique : the Coverage of the Evolution of the Chinese Conjuncture between 1975-1992), and China’s International Attitude of Withdrawal during the 19th Century (2015). Forthcoming 2022 is The Book of Lord Shang, Rational-Legal Authority and Totalitarianism Compared in Pines, Y, and GOLDIN, P. (Eds), The Dao Companion to China’s fa traditions: The Philosophy of Governance by Impartial Standards (Springer).
Frieberg Post-Doctoral Fellow, 2021-2022
Affiliate Temporary Member, 2023-2024
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