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Joshua Shanes
Joshua Shanes earned his BA from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and his MA and PhD in European Jewish History from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he wrote a dissertation entitled National Regeneration in the Diaspora: Nationalism, Politics and Jewish Identity in Late Habsburg Galicia, 1883-1914. Dr. Shanes also studied at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Vienna and has taught at the University of Illinois and the University of Wisconsin. He is the recipient of a number of prestigious fellowships, including the National Foundation for Jewish Studies Fellowship, the Fulbright Fellowship, and the Jacob Javits Fellowship.