Personal Information
Name:		Zef Segal
Birth Date:		August 8th , 1980
Family Status: 	Married+ 2
E-Mail address: 	zefsegal@gmail.com
Phone Number:	054-6865246

Higher Education

-	07-13: 	Tel Aviv University, Department of History, Ph.D. 
(Practices and Representations of the State Space: The Medium Sized German States in the Years 1815-1866), supervised by Prof. Shulamit Volkov.
-	05-08: 	Tel Aviv University, Department of Mathematics, MSc. in Pure Mathematics with honors (Thesis in Graph theory, "Variation of the Game Chromatic Number"), Supervised by prof. Michael Krivelevich.
-	03-05: 	Tel Aviv University, Department of Philosophy, MA with honors (Thesis in Moral Philosophy and Aesthetics, "The Aesthetic Ethics and its Realization in "On the Aesthetic Education of Man" by Friedrich Schiller"), supervised by prof. Zvi Tauber.
-	03-05: 	Tel Aviv University, Department of Mathematics, BSc. in Pure mathematics with honors.
-	96-03: 	Open University, Humanities, BA with honors (Majors: History and Philosophy).

Professional Experience
-	14-:	Ben Gurion University, Government and Politics Department, Post Doctoral Fellow. (New conceptualization of the history of the bordering process).
-	14-:	Haifa University, Haifa Center for German & European Studies, Post Doctoral Associate Fellow.
-	13-:	Da’at Hamakom, Center for the Study of Cultures of Place in the Modern Jewish World, Post Doctoral Fellow, (Communications analysis of European and American orthodox communities in the turn of the nineteenth century).
-	13-14:	Haifa University, Department of General History and Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society, Post Doctoral Fellow, ("Black on white"- Mapping New States 1800-1939).
-	13-14:	The Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University, Post Doctoral Associate Fellow, (Communication Patterns and Social Regrouping: Integration, Secession and Transnationalism). 

Research groups

-	12-13:	New conceptualization of border studies, the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations (Hebrew University) and Euroborderscapes project (Ben Gurion University).

Teaching experience

-	13-14:	Haifa University, Department of General History, lecturer.
-	12-:	Open University, Department of Mathematics, lecturer.
-	12-14:	Ruppin College, School of Engineering, lecturer.
-	05-11:	Tel Aviv University, Department of Mathematics, lecturer.
-	06- :	Academic College of Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Department of Computer science, lecturer.
-	08:	Afeka College of Engineering, assistant lecturer.
-	04- :      	Alexander Muss High School in Israel (Mathematics, History and Philosophy teacher).

Courses taught

-	State Construction in the German Space from the mid 19th century to the end of the Weimar Republic
-	Linear Algebra 1 and 2
-	Discrete Mathematics
-	Introduction to Probability
-	Introduction to Logic and Set Theory
-	Calculus 1 and 2
-	Calculus 1 and 2 for engineering
-	Calculus and Algebra for Economists
-	Calculus and Algebra for Business Management
-	Mathematical Methods for Economists (advanced mathematical optimization)
-	Mathematical Concepts for Social Sciences

Scholarships, Awards
Academic scholarships and awards
-	2013:	Haifa University, Presidential fellowship award.
-	2009-2012: 	Gotesmann scholarship for doctoral students of the school of history at TAU
-	2009: 	DAAD scholarship for further academic study and training in Germany.
-	2007: 	DAAD scholarship for further academic study and training in Germany.
-	2005: 	The "Posis" Grant for philosophical research on a literary topic on "The Aesthetic Ethics", a Philosophy dissertation. 
-	2004: 	Dean Certificate for outstanding results in Mathematical studies, Tel Aviv University.
-	2002: 	Dean Certificate for outstanding results in Humanities studies, Open University.
-	1998: 	Grant of "Inbar fund for the research on Terror", for "The PLO, from a military struggle to a diplomatic struggle", written as a high school research paper.
-	1997: 	Dean Certificate for outstanding results in Humanities studies, Open University.

Teaching scholarships and awards
-	2013:	Academic College of Tel Aviv Jaffa award for outstanding lecturers.
-	2012:	Academic College of Tel Aviv Jaffa award for outstanding lecturers.
-	2010:	Faculty of Industry award for outstanding assistant lecturers.
-	2008:	Faculty of Industry award for outstanding assistant lecturers.
-	2008: 	Elyosef scholarship for outstanding assistant lecturers in Tel Aviv University.

Publications and Research
Journal articles

-	2014:	“Nationalizing the Global and the Local: Spatial Re-Organization of the Catholic and Protestant Churches following the end of the Holy Roman Empire”, Wichmann-Jahrbuch des Diözesangeschichtsvereins Berlin (accepted for publication)
“Regionalism, Nationalism and Globalism in German Railway Cartography during the mid Nineteenth Century”, Imago Mundi (accepted for publication)
“Post and Railway Infrastructures as Delimitators of Voluntary Territorial Identities in mid 19th Century Germany”, in New Directions in the History of Infrastructure (forthcoming autumn 2015, title might change).

Conference Report “International Affairs and the Politics of Memory: German-Jewish-Israeli Relations after the Holocaust”, Haifa, 12.01.2014- 14.01.2014, in H-Soz-u-Kult (May 2014).
-	2013:	"Communication and State Construction: The Postal Service in the Medium sized German States, 1815-1866", The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 44, No. 4, 453-473.  
- 	2012: 	“Real, Actual and Imagined Borders – State Construction in the »Third Germany«” in Jose Brunner and Iris Nachum (eds.), Die Deutschen als die Anderen: Deutschland in der imagination seiner Nachbarn (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2012).
Theses
-	2013:	"Practices and Representations of the State Space: The Medium Sized German States in the Years 1815-1866" (Tel Aviv University: Dissertation, 2013)

- 	2006: 	"Variation of the Game Chromatic Number", (Tel Aviv University: MSc Dissertation, 2006).
 -	2005: 	"The Aesthetic Ethics and its Realization in "On the Aesthetic Education of Man" by Friedrich Schiller", (Tel Aviv University: MA Dissertation, 2005). 
- 	1998: 	"The PLO, from a military struggle to a diplomatic struggle". (Ramat Hasharon: Library of the Center for the Intelligence Heritage, 1998), <http://www.keren-inbar.co.il/INB/cache/pic_22439.pdf>.

Conferences
-	2015
			“Representations of 19th Century Trains and Railways as Natural Phenomenon in the German world” in Mobilität und Umwelt, Munich, February 2015.
			“German Capital Cities: Empowerment and State Construction 1815-1866” in American Historical Association 129, New York, January 2015.

-	2014

		“Infrastructure, Cartography and Movement: Debordering and Rebordering 19th Century Germany” in Brit XIV: The Border, a Source of Innovation, Arres, Lille and Mons, November 2014.
		“Post and Railway as Creators of Voluntary Territorial Identity in Mid 19th Century Germany” in New Directions in the History of Infrastructure, Interdisciplinary Conference at the Danish Post & Tele Museum, Copenhagen, September 2014.
		"Demarking Church Authority: Spatial Reorganization following the End of the Holy Roman Empire” in Die katholische Daispora in Deutschland: Stand und Perspektiven der Forschung, Katholische Akademie in Berlin, Berlin, March 2014.

-	2013
			"Inter German Migration Patterns and Transnational Identity: "Third Germany" in Mid 19th Century" in Migration, Refugees, Nomadic, the Annual Israeli Historical Society Conference, Haifa, June 2013.

-  	2012
			"Infrastructure, Cartography and Movement: Spatial Perception in 19th Century Germany" in Geography without Boundaries, the Annual Israeli Geographical Association Conference, Be'er Sheva, Dec. 2012.
			“Maps create “space”: The Map and the medium German States in the 19th century", in Cartography and Geographical Knowledge in the Public Sphere, IGU pre-conference, Leipzig, Aug. 2012.
			“The Extensions of Man”: The State and the Postal System: German medium Sized States 1815-1866, International Conference of Historical Geographers, Prague, Aug. 2012.
			“Was ist des Bayern Vaterland?”: Bavaria’s Spatial Formation, 1815-1866”, in Colloquium on Social, Cultural & Political History (TAU, UCLA, University of Zurich), Peqi’in, Feb. 2012.

- 	2011
			“Real, Actual and Imagined Borders: The Creation of German States “, in Germany and its Neighbors: Borders, Identities, Relations, Tel Aviv, Feb. 2011.

- 	2010
			"Bavaria in the 19th Century: an Integrating or Disintegrating State?", in In the Enchanted Circle: Jews, Germans and Others in German History, In Honor of Professor Shulamit Volkov, Tel Aviv, Oct. 2010.
			"Maps Create Space: The Map and the German States in the 19th Century", in Identity and Space, the Annual Israeli Historical Society Conference, Ra'anana, April 2010.
			"Representation and Practices of State Space: The Medium Sized States in Germany in the Years 1815-1866", in Workshop for Young Researchers in German History, Yad Hashmona, Jan. 2010.
-	2008
 			„Between region and state: the spatial identity of the medium German states in the years 1815-1866”, in a Doctorate workshop of Hans Ulrich Wehler, Jerusalem, March 2008.

Colloquium Talks
-	2015
“Geopolitics and the Territorial State: The Representation of New States in German Cartography 1800-1939” in Colloquium of the Department of General History, Tel Aviv University, June 2015.
-	2014
“Geopolitics and the Territorial State: The Representation of New States in German Cartography 1800-1939” in Colloquium of the Department of General History, Bar Ilan University, December 2014.
	“America on the Responsa Map: Hasidim, Mitnagdim and the Connection between Distance and Authority” in Da’at Hamakom Annual Conference, September 2014.
	“The Geopolitcs of the Concept of a ‘Territorial State’”, in Bucerius Institute Forum, June 2014.
	“Digital Humanities: an Introduction to GIS and SNA”, in Truman Institute Forum, June 2014.
	“Cartographic Creation of New Political Spaces: Nineteenth Century Germany”, in “The Spatial Turn and the study of History”, MA Seminar at the Hebrew University, May 2014.
	“Maps create “Space”: The Map and the Medium German States in the 19th Century", in Colloquium of the Department of General History, the University of Haifa, January 2014.
	“Communication Patterns and Social Regrouping”, in the Harry S. Truman Research Institute Colloquium, the Hebrew University, January 2014.
-	2013
	 “The Cartographic formation of Borders”, in “Borders and States in Modern History”, BA Seminar at Tel Aviv University, November 2013.
-	2010
	“The Prussian as a German other”, in "Who is the Other? Studies in the Question of German Identity”, MA Seminar at Tel Aviv University.