DR. DANIEL SCHWARTZ PROFESSIONAL

I have been honored with the awards of the Best Undergraduate Professor from the University of Chile and Best Full-Time Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and the Teaching Career Award. I teach undergraduate and graduate courses in data analysis and causal inference, managerial decision-making, behavioral economics, and behavioral finance. Before graduate school, I worked as a consultant in consumer behavior and sales force management topics using machine learning for projects in Latin America and the United States. I also worked as a Research Fellow at the Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania. in Behavioral Decision Research at Carnegie Mellon University. I rely on large field experiments and datasets to study applied problems in different domains such as energy and environmental behavior, financial decisions, healthy choices, consumer protection, and prosocial behavior. My research focuses on consumer behavior and behavioral economics to examine how people respond to economic incentives and information. Schwartz was in residence from January 1 to August 31, 2018.I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Chile and a researcher at the Institute of Complex Engineering Systems. Drawing on the Museum's resources, he sought to explain how Jews turned to the idea of the ghetto to make sense of the upsurge of antisemitism in the 1930s, assess the variety of rhetorical framings of the ghetto, and examine the beginning of the representation of the ghetto experience in Jewish historical memory.ĭr. Schwartz initiated research to discover to what extent inherited ideas about “ghettos,” derived from the Jewish historical experience, informed Jewish perceptions of their ghettoization under the Nazis. While in residence at the Mandel Center, Dr. Schwartz graduated from the University of New England College of. He has also been the recipient of several fellowships and awards throughout his career. Daniel Schwartz, DO is a Family Medicine specialist in Philadelphia, PA. Schwartz presented his paper, “The Ghetto in the Modern Jewish Imagination,” at a conference he co-organized at the Center for Jewish History in New York entitled The Ghetto and Beyond: Italian Jews in the Age of the Medici. Schwartz is the author of several book chapters, articles, and lectures. He currently has two books under contract, “Ghetto”: A History (Harvard University Press) and Spinoza in Modern Jewish Thought and Culture: A Reader (Brandeis University Press). Baron prize, awarded annually to the best first book in Jewish studies, and was also a National Jewish Book Award finalist in the category of history.

Schwartz is the author of The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image (Princeton, 2012), which was a co-winner of the American Academy for Jewish Research’s Salo W. He also has reading skills in Yiddish and Italian.ĭr. Schwartz is fluent in Hebrew, German, and French. Schwartz will be conducting research for his project “From Metaphor to Place: Jewish Perceptions of the 'Ghetto,' 1933-1953.”ĭr. As the Sosland Fellow, at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, Dr. He holds a PhD, MPhil, and MA in history from Columbia University in New York. Daniel Schwartz is currently Associate Professor of History at The George Washington University, District of Columbia, where he is also Director of the Judaic Studies Program.

DR. DANIEL SCHWARTZ PROFESSIONAL

“From Metaphor to Place: Jewish Perceptions of the 'Ghetto,' 1933-1953” Professional Backgroundĭr.

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