Courses Taught:
History Department, Tel-Aviv University
The Scientific Revolution: An Introduction (seminar, Fall 2024)
Methodological Seminar for MA Students (2024-25)
Global History of Early Modern Science (graduate seminar, Spring 2024) [with
Ori Sela, East Asian Studies, TAU]
Literature, Art, and Society in Old Regime France (undergraduate seminar, Fall
2021)
Astronomy and the World of Print in Early Modern Europe (graduate seminar,
Spring 2021)
Forms of Labor in Early Modern France (undergraduate seminar, Fall 2020, Fall
2023).
Versailles and Court Society (undergraduate seminar, Spring 2020)
The Visual Culture of Early Modern Science (graduate seminar, Fall 2019)
The French Revolution, with French Texts (graduate seminar, Spring 2019)
Descartes and Pascal: Philosophy, Science, and Religion in the Seventeenth
Century (seminar, Fall 2018).
Early Modern Empires: Between East and West (graduate seminar, Fall 2017)
[with Ori Sela, East Asian Studies, TAU]
Global History, 1300-1800 (lecture, Spring 2017 [with Gadi Algazi], Spring 2018).
Science and the Book in Early Modern Europe (graduate seminar, Spring 2017).
Early Modern Book Culture (undergraduate seminar, Fall 2016).
Introduction to the Study of History (Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Spring 2022, Fall 2023,
Spring 2025).
Classics of Pre-Modern Global History: McNeill, Hodgson, Braudel (graduate
seminar, Spring 2016).
Seventeenth-Century France (undergraduate seminar, Fall 2015).
Science, Knowledge and the State in Early Modern Europe (graduate seminar,
Spring 2015).
The French Revolution (seminar, Fall 2014; lecture, Spring 2019).
The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century (seminar, Spring 2014).
Introduction to Early Modern History (introductory exercise, Fall 2013, Spring
2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, fall 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2018, Fall
2018, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring
2024, Fall 2024).
Print, Books, and Writers in Early Modern Europe (seminar, Spring 2012).
Postoctral Fellows Supervised:
Yotam Tsal, “Art, Science, and Animal in Eighteenth-Century France.” [Dan David Society of Fellows, 2023-25]
Antoine Gallay, “Drawing and Engraving as Epistemic Practices (1600-1750).” [co-supervised with Shaul Katzir, Cohn Institute, 2021-22]
Graduate Students:
Oded Zrachia. “Imaginary Spaces: Père Daniel’s Voyage to the World of Descartes” (PhD in Progress, research proposal approved)
Yuval Givon. “Jesuit Communication Networks and the Global Ming-Qing Transition.” (PhD Dissertation, 2022; co-directed with Ori Sela, East Asian Studies).
Lia Agranov. “Terms for Describing the ‘Decemberist Revolt’ and Changes to the Political Language in Russia in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century” [MA Thesis, co-directed with Vera Kaplan, research proposal approved]
Harel Ziv. “Christian Theology in the Economic Thought of Josiah Tucker.” (MA Thesis, research proposal approved)
Joseph Eliav. “Works on a New Ancien régime: Three Texts at the Birth of Louis XIII and Richelieu’s Rule.” (MA Thesis, March 2025).
Yoav Levinson-Sela. “’From a Single Disruption Many More Follow’: The Organization of Knowledge and the Moral Critique of Scholarship at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century.” (MA Thesis, July 2024).
Michal Hirsch. “From Science to Device: Examination of a New Model for the Development of Science-based Technologies through the Early History of the Radio” (MA Thesis, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science, September 2023).
Guy Erez. “Farms, Animals, and Farm Animals: Perceptions of Animals in Sixteenth-Century French Agricultural Literature.” (MA Thesis, July 2022; co-directed with Gadi Algazi)
Oded Zrachia, "Suppose the Man in the Moone to be the Author: The Name of the Author in Seventeenth-Century Cosmic Voyages.” (MA Thesis, October 2020).
Nitzan Pozener, "A Social Education: Aspects of Social Capital in the Training of a Seventeenth-Century Merchant Apprentice." (MA Thesis, August 2020).
Ofer Rom. “Transformation of the British Cookbook, 1700-1850” (MA Thesis, research proposal approved; on break from active studies)
Yoni Yedidya, "'This Great Fire is Ordinarily Extinguished by Stupidity or by Death': Child Prodigies as ingenia praecocia, 1500-1800." (MA Thesis, October 2016).
Netta Green, "A Different Body of Knowledge: Women Writing on Nature in the French Enlightenment. " (MA Thesis, July, 2016).
Rachel Ben David, "Ethos auctorial et genre préfaciel au XVIIe siècle, de Louis Moréri à Pierre Bayle" (MA Thesis, January 2015 ; co-directed with Eran Dorfman, French Language and Literature).
