David
Myers

University of California, L.A.
Ellie and Herbert D. Katz Distinguished Fellowship

Research Topic

Beyond History: Anti-Historicism in Modern Jewish Thought

Bio

David N. Myers is Distinguished Professor and holds the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Professor of Jewish History at the University of California, Los Angeles and Director of the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy. His fields of expertise are modern Jewish intellectual and cultural history.

David has been a coeditor of the Jewish Quarterly Review since 2004.

Fellowship

2016–2017

Asking if and how Jewish history, culture, and experience offered new paradigms with which to engage the politicaland, conversely, how mainstream political theories might expand Jewish studies in new and productive directions.

2014–2015

Deepening our understanding of the intellectual revolution at the heart of modern Jewish history.

2009–2010

Engaging in a critical analysis of secularization, the secular, and secularism, and their effects on religious, intellectual, and political life.

1994–1995

Taking stock of the distinctive properties of, and putative boundary between, traditional memory and modern critical history.