Professor Dr. Johannes Becke

Israel and Middle East Studies
Office hours: by appointment
Tel.: (+49) (0) 6221 /54 192-61Fax.: (+49) (0) 6221 54 19 209
E-Mail: johannes.becke@hfjs.eu
Ben Gurion Chair for Israel and Middle East Studies
Please note:
Prof. Dr. Johannes Becke will take a research break in winter semester 2020/2021 and summer semester 2021. For office hours please register in advance at johannes.becke@hfjs.eu.
The interim professor is Dr. Lutz Fiedler.
(Contact: fiedlelu@hu-berlin)
Education
2013-2015 Israel Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford
2014 PhD dissertation, Department of Political and Social Science, Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin (Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies); Topic of PhD dissertation: Irredentism after Empire. The Postcolonial State Expansions of Syria, Morocco, and Israel
2008 MA Thesis, Institute of Political Science, Heidelberg University; research stays in Urbana-Champaign and Cairo
2001-2002: Civilian service in Israel with Action Reconciliation/Service for Peace
Scholarships
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Israel Institute
PhD scholarship, German National Academic Foundation
Graduate scholarship, German National Academic Foundation
Wafedin Scholarship, Egyptian Government
Research interests
Comparative perspectives on Jewish nationalism and Israeli statehood
History of science of Israel Studies in Germany
History of science of Israel Studies in the Arab world
List of publications (selection):
Becke, Johannes. “Towards A De-Occidentalist Perspective On Israel: The Case of The Occupation.” Journal of Israeli History 33, no. 1 (2014): 1–23.
Becke, Johannes. “Land and Redemption: The Zionist Project in Comparative Perspective.” Trumah 23 (2016): 1–13.
Becke, Johannes. “Exzeptionalismus und Allozionismus: Wie außergewöhnlich ist die israelische Besatzung?” Münchener Beiträge zur jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur 11, no. 1 (2017): 10–15.
Becke, Johannes. “Beyond Allozionism: Exceptionalizing and De-Exceptionalizing the Zionist Project.” Israel Studies 23, no. 2 (2018): 168–93.
Becke, Johannes. “Die Favela im Dschungel: Zur israelischen Selbstwahrnehmung als westliche Enklave.” In Jüdischer Almanach, edited by Gisela Dachs. Frankfurt: Jüdischer Verlag, 2018.
Becke, Johannes. “Historicizing the Settler-Colonial Paradigm (Forthcoming).” Medaon - Magazin Für Jüdisches Leben in Forschung Und Bildung 12, no. 22 (2018).
Becke, Johannes. “Die Ideologie des Berges: Paradoxien der israelischen Levantinisierung (Im Druck).” In Dialog und Konflikt – Das Dialogische Prinzip in Gesellschaft, Religion, Politik Und Philosophie (Martin-Buber-Studien Band 3), edited by Ursula Frost, Johannes Waßmer, and Hans-Joachim Werner. Lich: Edition AV, 2018.

