Liah Greenfeld

Who is Liah Greenfeld?

Liah Greenfeld is University Professor and Professor of Sociology, Political Science and Anthropology at Boston University. She is also Distinguished Adjunct Professor at Lingnan University, Hong Kong.

Greenfeld has published on the topics of art, economics, history, language, literature, philosophy, politics, religion and science. Her work investigates the cultures of England/Britain, France, Germany, Israel, China, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia/Soviet Union, and the United States.

Greenfeld received her doctoral degree from the department of sociology and anthropology of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1982. That fall she assumed her first teaching position in the United States as a post-doctoral instructor at the University of Chicago. She held positions of Assistant and the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Social Sciences at Harvard between 1985 and 1994, and in 1994 joined Boston University as a University Professor and Professor of Political Science and Sociology. At various periods, she has also held visiting positions at RPI, MIT, and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Greenfeld has been a recipient of the UAB Ireland Distinguished Visiting Scholar Award, fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, New Jersey, the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, D.C., the Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem, Israel, and grants from Mellon, Olin, Earhart, The National Council for Soviet & East European Research, and The German Marshall Fund of the United States.