Selected Publications
Foreword
Chapter in Edited Collection
Foreword to the Dutch translation of Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent, by Katherine Angel. Morgen wordt seks beter. Forthcoming with Mazirel Pers, June 2023.
“The Family of Relational Approaches in Intellectual History and the Sociology of Ideas,” with Quentin Fondu, in The Routledge Handbook on Intellectual History and the Sociology of Ideas, ed. Gisèle Sapiro and Stefanos Geroulanos (Abingdon, Oxon and New York: Routledge: 2023).
Journal Special Issue Introduction
The term minority is today applied to describe beleaguered, persecuted, and exiled people whose subordination is preserved or merely “tolerated” by majoritarian politics inherent to modern states. As this introduction indicates, however, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries minority politics became a rubric for sociopolitical emancipation, providing a framework for intellectuals in colonized Asia and Africa to question European powers' treatment of marginalized communities. Bar Sadeh and Houwink ten Cate contend that “minority” has unique value as an instrument for historical analysis that is restricted neither solely to minority-majority relations nor to debates about (political) representation. Instead, the authors propose a global intellectual history of “minority” as a concept and experience, which is explored in the essays compiled in this special section, “Minority Questions.” By examining the diverse genealogies of the concept of minority, the essays that follow provide a valuable contribution to efforts to redress historical wrongs, even as they offer a range of explanations for the enduring legacy and power of this multifaceted concept.
Edited Journal Issue
“Minority Questions,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (CSSAAME) with Roy Bar Sadeh. Vol. 41, No. 3, 2021.
Journal Article
“Die Amerikanerin Scolds!”: How the Private Friendship between Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem Went Public
“‘Die Amerikanerin Scolds’: How the Private Friendship Between Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem Went Public.” New German Critique. Vol. 26, No. 1. 2019. pp. 1-14.
This article, based on unpublished materials from the Scholem Library at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the digitized Arendt Papers at the New School, New York, seeks to illuminate Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem’s long friendship, their exchange about Eichmann in Jerusalem, and especially the publication of this exchange. Although Scholem had mixed views on Eichmann in Jerusalem, he suppressed his more positive assessments while crafting his first letter to Arendt so as to write the most critical reaction he could muster. Arendt was not aware that Scholem intended to have their private communication published in both the Jewish and the Gentile, and European and American, worlds, and she was unpleasantly surprised when she discovered that Scholem had alerted his friend Isaiah Berlin to this correspondence, and that Berlin had acted as a go-between with the London-based magazine Encounter.
Online
Feminism and Friendship in the Academy: An Interview with Maggie Doherty for the Journal of the History of Ideas Blog, June 2020
A conversation with Maggie Doherty about her wonderful book, The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s, which was published by Knopf in May 2020.
Introduction to the H-Diplo roundtable on Unlearning Eugenics: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Disability in Post-Nazi Europe (2018) by Dagmar Herzog, July 2019
“Allowing oneself to be altered by engagement: it is this expansive imagination that forms the heart of Dagmar Herzog’s history writing, and that illuminates precisely how much we have left to dream and desire.”
“George Mosse at One Hundred: A Child of His Century” with Jonathon Catlin, for the Journal of the History of Ideas Blog and Literaturwissenschaft Berlin, July 2019
“From June 6–9, 2019, over thirty eminent scholars of German and Jewish history and culture gathered in Berlin at the conference “Mosse’s Europe: New Perspectives in the Study of German Judaism, Fascism, and Sexuality” to critically reassess and carry on the legacy of the pathbreaking German-Jewish historian George L. Mosse (1918–1999) on the occasion of the centenary of his birth.”