Professor Giora Sternberg
Tutorial Fellow in History
Ellis-Barnard Fellow and Associate Professor of Early Modern History
Giora Sternberg began his academic studies at the Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Program for Outstanding Students at Tel Aviv University, where he completed a BSc in Computer Science and Humanities, and an MA in History. He then came to Oxford for a DPhil in History. Following three years at the Harvard Society of Fellows, he returned to Oxford in 2012 to take up his position at Hertford and at the Faculty of History. His current research project, ‘Writing Acts: The Power of Writing in the Ancien Régime’ is under contract with Oxford University Press.
Undergraduate teaching
Giora Sternberg teaches Early Modern History.
Graduate teaching
Giora Sternberg teaches Early Modern History.
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Research interests
See Faculty webpage for details.
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Publications
Journal articles
Forthcoming
- ‘Writing to Undo: Protestation as a Mode of Early Modern Resistance’, The American Historical Review
2020
- ‘The Monseigneur and the grands seigneurs: Questions of Priority in Early Modern France’, The English Historical Review, 135: 359–385
2013
- ‘Manipulating Information in the Ancien Régime: Ceremonial Records, Aristocratic Strategies, and the Limits of the State Perspective’, The Journal of Modern History, 85: 239–79
2009
- ‘Epistolary Ceremonial: Corresponding Status at the Time of Louis XIV’, Past & Present 204: 33–88
- ‘Are formules de politesse Always Polite? The Bauffremont-Villars Incident, Discursive Struggles and Social Tensions under the Ancien Régime’, Zeitsprünge 13: 219–34
2006
- ‘The Race for the Mantle: Dress and Status at the Court of Louis XIV’, Zmanim: A Historical Quarterly 95: 70-85
Book
- Status Interaction during the Reign of Louis XIV, 2014 (Past & Present Book Series, Oxford University Press; paperback edition 2016; shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society Gladstone Prize).