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Shaul Mitelpunkt
Senior Lecturer in Modern History Examinations Officer

Biography

BA (Tel Aviv), MA (Chicago), PhD (Chicago)

Shaul Mitelpunkt is a Senior Lecturer in Modern History, specialising in 20th century U.S. history. Shaul's publications and teaching interests span a variety of fields including cultural, diplomatic, military, and political history in the U.S. and in the transnational contexts. Shaul is currently working on a book project titled ‘The Military Mystique’, which examines the fantasies Americans developed regarding military labor between the 1940s and the early 21st century, how they changed, and why they matter. He is also writing an essay about the political functions of representations of sad Soviet soldiers in American popular culture during the draft era, and an essay on militarism in a transnational context. Shaul's first book Israel in the American Mind: the Cultural Politics of U.S.-Israeli Relations, 1958-1988 (Cambridge University Press, 2018) examines the changing meanings Americans and Israelis invested in the relationship between their countries from the late 1950s to the 1980s. Shaul’s work appeared in Diplomatic History, Modern American History, and Gender & History, among other outlets. 

Shaul joined the department at York in 2015 having previously held a postdoctoral fellowship at Northwestern University. He is a member of the editorial board for the journal Modern American History. During the 2023/4 year Shaul is on a Leverhulme research fellowship for his work on the project ‘The Military Mystique’.

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Dr Shaul Mitelpunkt
Vanbrugh College V/A/225
Department of History
University of York
Heslington
York
YO10 5DD

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