{"id":647,"date":"2019-05-07T16:42:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T21:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=647"},"modified":"2020-10-08T12:09:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T17:09:42","slug":"tatjana-lichtenstein","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/speaker\/tatjana-lichtenstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Tatjana Lichtenstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tatjana Lichtenstein holds degrees from the University of Toronto (PhD), Brandeis University (MA), and the University of Copenhagen (BA\/MA).\u00a0 Before coming to UT in 2009, she was a Schusterman Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish studies at American University in Washington, D.C.\u00a0\u00a0Since September 2017, she is director of the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies here at UT. Dr. Lichtenstein\u2019s research focuses on minorities, nationalism, state-building, war, and genocide in Eastern Europe in the twentieth century.\u00a0 Her monograph, <em>Zionists in Interwar Czechoslovakia: Minority Nationalism and the Politics of Belonging,<\/em>\u00a0was published by Indiana University Press in 2016.\u00a0 It explores how Zionist activists attempted to transform Jewish culture and society in ways that would allow Jews to claim belonging in the new multinational state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1954,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-647","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":"Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin and Director of the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies","speaker_last_name":"Lichtenstein","speaker_classification":["Current Staff"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1956,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/647\/revisions\/1956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}