She received grants from the Mellon, Olin, and Earhart foundations, the National Council for Soviet & East European Research, and the German Marshall Fund of the United States. She was a recipient of the UAB Ireland Distinguished Visiting Scholar Award, fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Studies, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem, Israel. In 1994 she joined Boston University as a University Professor and Professor of Political Science, Sociology and Anthropology.Īt various periods, Greenfeld has held visiting positions at RPI, MIT, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, Lingnan University and the Open University of Hong Kong. Loeb Associate Professor of Social Sciences at Harvard during 1985–1994.
She moved on to hold positions of Assistant and later the John L. In the same year, she came to the United States as a postdoctoral fellow and a lecturer at the University of Chicago. Greenfeld received her doctoral degree in Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1982.
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In Sochi, before she emigrated to Israel with her parents, Greenfeld was first known as a child prodigy, playing violin on TV at the age of 7, receiving the Krasnodar Region's Second Prize for poetry (and a bust of Pushkin) at 16, and publishing a collection of poems, under a properly Russified alias, in Komsomolskaya Pravda. They obtained the permission to leave in 1972. Greenfeld's parents, dissidents from the get-go, tried to emigrate to Israel since 1967, and were among the first “ refuseniks” – the only ones in Sochi, where they lived at the time. His wife, Greenfeld's maternal grandmother Emma, was arrested several months later as a “ wife of the enemy of the people” and spent ten years in the GULAG. Kirschenblat, a prominent biologist and a cousin of Yevgeny Primakov, a future Russian Prime Minister.
Kirschenblat, died in 1937 under torture during an interrogation by NKVD. Greenfeld's maternal grandfather, Mikhail D. His wife, Greenfeld's paternal grandmother, a physician, exiled from Leningrad to Central Russia, joined him there.
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This grandfather, Natan Grinfeld, was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet diplomat and movie producer, political prisoner in both Tsarist and Soviet Russia. They asked to be sent to the Far East to be near her father's parents: her paternal grandfather, in the GULAG in the Arctic since 1938 and just released, was there in exile. Both her parents (Vladimir/Ze’ev Grinfeld and Viktoria Kirshenblat) were physicians, educated in Leningrad, who worked in the first hospital opened in the port of Nakhodka. Liah Greenfeld was born in Vladivostok, USSR, in 1954. the political, the religious, the economic, the artistic, etc.) Greenfeld highlights the fact that an empirical study of humanity must necessarily be interdisciplinary.īest known for her trilogy on nationalism - Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity (Harvard University Press, 1992), The Spirit of Capitalism: Nationalism and Economic Growth (Harvard University Press, 2001) and Mind, Modernity, Madness: The Impact of Culture on Human Experience (Harvard University Press, 2013), Greenfeld has studied and written about the entire range of modern social reality, including art, literature, science, religion, love, mental illness, ideological politics, economic competition, and so on. Because our thought and action are rarely limited to one, conveniently isolated sphere of human existence but rather occur within the context of more than one area of our reality at the same time (e.g. Throughout her analyses, she emphasizes the empirical foundation of claims that she makes about human thought and action, underlining the importance of logical consistency between different sources of evidence as well as between the many interrelated hypotheses that come together to help us explain complex human phenomena. She has been called "the most iconoclastic" of contemporary sociologists and her approach represents the major alternative to the mainstream approaches in social science. Liah Greenfeld (born 1954) is an Israeli-American Russian-Jewish interdisciplinary scholar engaged in the scientific explanation of human social reality on various levels, beginning with the individual mind and ending with the level of civilization.
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