Jonathan Aaron Boyarin is an American anthropologist whose work centers on Jewish communities and on the dynamics of Jewish culture, memory and identity.
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Jonathan Boyarin's brother, Daniel Boyarin, is a well-known scholar, and the two have written together.
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Jonathan Boyarin has taught at Cornell University, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, University of Kansas, Dartmouth College, and The New School.
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Jonathan Boyarin is the founding co-editor of the journal Critical Research on Religion.
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In 2016, Jonathan Boyarin was elected a Fellow of the Academy for Jewish Research.
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Jonathan Boyarin has investigated Jewish culture in a range of ethnographic projects set in Paris, Jerusalem, and the Lower East Side of New York City.
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Jonathan Boyarin has extended these interests into comparative work on diaspora, the politics of time and space, and the ethnography of reading.
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Jonathan Boyarin has conducted fieldwork in cities where those "Jews and others" live, including Paris, Jerusalem, and New York's Lower East Side.
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In 2022 and 2023, Jonathan Boyarin co-led workshops on "Jews and Black Theory" at Cornell University, precursors to a May 2024 academic conference by the same name at Harvard.
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Jonathan Boyarin edited an influential set of essays published in 1993 titled, The Ethnography of Reading, exploring how people read and talk about reading.
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Jonathan Boyarin relates the multivocality of the texts to the "dialogic" speech events in which students intermingle mass culture and vocabulary with sacred speech as a way of negotiating their own relationship to these highly authoritative texts.