Liah Greenfeld
 University Professor; Professor of Political Science and Sociology, College of Arts and Sciences; Director, the Institute for the Advancement of the Social Sciences.
B.A., M.A., Ph.D.,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Professor Greenfeld's current work concerns the interrelations between culture and the mind and specifically mental disease on modern society. She has held appointments as John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Social Science at Harvard University, Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Visiting Professor of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and several times as Visiting Professor at the summer university of the law faculty at University of Fribourg, Switzerland. In 1984 she was awarded a Mellon Fellowship. She was a John M. Olin Research Fellow from 1987-1988, in 1989 and 1990 a member of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton and in 1997/98 received the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. In 2004 she delivered the Gellner Lecture at the London School of Economics on the subject of "Nationalism and the Mind," which connected her previous work on modern culture to her current investigations. Her books include Center: Ideas and Institutions (1988) (coedited with Michael Martin), Different Worlds: A Study in the Sociology of Taste, Choice, and Success in Art (1989), Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity (1992), Nationalisme i Modernitat (1999), The Spirit of Capitalism: Nationalism and Economic Growth (2001), for which she won the 2002 Donald Kagan Best Book in European History Prize, and the first volume of her collected essays, Nationalism and the Mind (2006). Professor Greenfeld's work has appeared in French, Hebrew, Portuguese, Russian, Catalan, Slovenian and Chinese.
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