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 to take up his position at Hertford and at the Faculty of History. He is the author of Status Interaction during the Reign of Louis XIV (Oxford, 2014) and of Writing Acts: The Power of Writing in the Ancien Régime (forthcoming, Oxford University Press). His articles have appeared in Past and Present, The Journal of Modern History, The English Historical Review, and The American Historical Review.
Undergraduate teaching
At Hertford, Giora teaches early modern history and coordinates the provision of the methodological module ‘Disciplines of History’.
Graduate teaching
Giora welcomes postgraduate students with interests in early modern history, including the history of writing, communication, media, and archives, symbolic interaction, material culture, social history, historical methodology, and early modern France and its colonies from the sixteenth century to the French Revolution.