Spinner-Halev, Jeff 1964-

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SPINNER-HALEV, Jeff 1964-

PERSONAL: Born July 21, 1964, in Detroit, MI. Education: University of Michigan, B.A., 1985, Ph.D., 1992.


ADDRESSES: Offıce—Department of Political Science, University of Nebraska—Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588-0328. E-mail—[email protected].


CAREER: Citizens for Tax Justice, Washington, DC, policy analyst, 1985-87; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, lecturer in political science, ending 1991; University of Nebraska—Lincoln, assistant professor, 1992-98, Schlesinger Associate Professor of Political Science, 1998—, member of executive committee of Judaic Studies Program, 1997—, and Human Rights and Human Diversity Program, 2000-01, director of Human Rights and Human Diversity Program, 2001—. Princeton University, Laurance S. Rockefeller visiting fellow at University Center for Human Values, 1995-96; Cornell University, member of young scholar program, Program on Ethics and Public Life, 1997; Hebrew University of Jerusalem, faculty fellow at Institute for Advanced Studies, 2004; guest speaker at other institutions, including Syracuse University, University of Washington, Seattle, Canadian Center for Philosophy and Public Policy, University of Montreal, Hitotsubashi University, and Jawaharlal Nehru University.


MEMBER: American Political Science Association, Midwest Political Science Association (chair of Political Theory and Philosophy Section, 2001).

AWARDS, HONORS: Grant from National Endowment for the Humanities, 1994.


WRITINGS:

The Boundaries of Citizenship: Race, Ethnicity, andNationality in the Liberal State, Johns Hopkins University Press (Baltimore, MD), 1994.

Surviving Diversity: Religion and Democratic Citizenship, Johns Hopkins University Press (Baltimore, MD), 2000.


Contributor to books, including Multicultural Questions, edited by Steven Lukes and Christian Joppke, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1999; and Citizenship in Diverse Societies: Theory and Practice, edited by Will Kymlicka and Wayne Norman, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 2000. Contributor of articles and reviews to periodicals, including Polity, Journal of Political Philosophy, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, School Field Journal, and Ethics.


BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Australian Journal of Political Science, July, 2001, Michael Hogan, review of Surviving Diversity: Religion and Democratic Citizenship, p. 412.

Journal of Church and State, winter, 2001, Clinton Bennett, review of Surviving Diversity, p. 139.

Political Studies, March, 2001, Geoffrey Brahm Levey, review of Surviving Diversity, p. 143.