2017-2018 Guide to Experts - Israel Institute · This publication is designed as a “who’s who” guide to the Israel Institute’s cadre of scholars, researchers, and artists

2017-2018

Guide to Experts

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This publication is designed as a “who’s who” guide to the Israel Institute’s cadre of scholars,

researchers, and artists for the 2017-2018 academic year (AY 2017-2018). The guide, which

demonstrates the scope of talent of our affiliates, is a relevant tool for colleges and universities,

groups of students or young professionals, and organizations interested in hosting or otherwise

engaging experts on various topics related to modern Israel. It provides information on the

education, background, and areas of expertise of each affiliated scholar and artist, and also

indexes the experts by topic area and region.

Visiting faculty and scholars are drawn from respected Israeli colleges, universities, and research

institutions, as well as top American and European universities and research centers. Likewise, our

visiting Israeli artists, among them filmmakers, choreographers, musicians, and authors, represent

the best of Israel’s vibrant cultural scene. We hope that this guide will prove useful to you in

finding an expert who can share their unique knowledge and talents with your community.

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The Guide to Experts is also available on our website: Israelinstitute.org/experts

Contents

Indexes

Alphabetical .................................... 3

By Topic Area ..................................4

By Region ........................................ 5

Our Experts

Senior Faculty .................................6

Artists-in-Residence .................. 20

Researchers ...................................26

Emerging Scholars ..................... 30

Using the Guide to Experts

2017-2018 GUIDE TO EXPERTS 1

Our Campus PresenceIn AY 2017-2018, the Israel Institute is proud to support programs and scholars

at nearly 50 institutions across the United States and the world.

2 THE ISRAEL INSTITUTE

Alphabetical

Fahima Abbas .................................26Scott Abramson ............................. 33Safa Abu-Rabia ...............................30Hana Ajiashvili (S) ...........................24Tamar Arieli ........................................ 6Roy Assaf (F) ....................................20Rifat Azam ......................................... 6Gilat Bachar ..................................... 33Kathrin Bachleitner ........................ 33Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov ........................26Yossi Ben-Artzi (S) .............................7Guy Ben-Porat ..................................7Nir Bergman (F) ..............................20Gökhan Çinkara ............................. 33Ati Citron (F) .....................................21Katarzyna Czerwonogóra ............34Israel Doron ...................................... 8Omri Drumlevich (F) ......................21Morad Elsana .................................... 8Rachel Erdos (S) .............................24Zion Evrony ....................................... 9Evgeny Finkel ..................................26Michael Freedman .........................34Toby Greene ...................................30Julie Grimmeisen ...........................30

Rafi Grosglik ...................................... 9Ayelet Gundar-Goshen (S) .......... 25Victoria Hanna (F) .......................... 22Adi Hercowitz-Amir ......................30Or Honig .......................................... 10Roy Horovitz (S) ............................. 25Tamar Kay (F)................................... 23Aviv Kidron .......................................26Elyakim Kislev ................................. 27Ronald Krebs ................................... 27Ned Lazarus .................................... 10Lior Lehrs ..........................................31Asaf Levanon....................................11Geoffrey Levin ................................34Jamie Levin ......................................31Luba Levin-Banchik........................31Gershon Lewental ..........................11Lior Libman ......................................12Keir Lieber ........................................ 27Steven Lobell ..................................28Erez Maggor ....................................34Ronen Mandelkern ........................28Reda Mansour .................................12David Menashri (F) ..........................13Keren Mintz .....................................29

Benny Morris ....................................13Alona Nitzan-Shiftan ..................... 14David Ofek (F) .................................20Fania Oz-Salzberger (S) ................ 14Gangzheng She .............................. 35Noam Shoked ................................. 35Elad Popovich ..................................31Shay Rabineau .................................15Dan Rabinowitz ...............................15Stephen Ross ..................................29Aviad Rubin (F) ................................ 16Gil Rubin .......................................... 32Ziv Rubinovitz ................................. 16Eli Salzberger (S) ..............................17Tamir Sheafer ..................................29Yael Shenker .....................................17Yoram Shiftan (F) ............................ 18Or Sinai (F) ....................................... 23Udi Sommer .................................... 18Gayil Talshir (F) ................................ 19Astrid von Busekist Sadoun .........29Nechumi Yaffe ................................ 32Rami Zeedan ................................... 19Tanya Zion-Waldoks ..................... 32Ronit Ziv (F)...................................... 23

(F) connotes Fall Semester 2017. (S) connotes Spring Semester 2018.

INDEX


I N D E X

By Topic Area

Arts & CultureHana Ajiashvili (S) ...........................24Roy Assaf (F) ....................................20Nir Bergman (F) ..............................20Ati Citron (F) .....................................21Omri Drumlevich (F) ......................21Rachel Erdos (S) .............................24Ayelet Gundar-Goshen (S) .......... 25Victoria Hanna (F) .......................... 22Roy Horovitz (S) ............................. 25Tamar Kay (F)................................... 23David Ofek (F) .................................20Or Sinai (F) ....................................... 23Ronit Ziv (F)...................................... 23

Conflict ResolutionGuy Ben-Porat .................................7Ned Lazarus ................................... 10Lior Lehrs .........................................31Reda Mansour ................................12Nechumi Yaffe ............................... 32

Law & Legal TheoryRifat Azam ........................................ 6Gilat Bachar .................................... 33Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov .......................26Israel Doron ..................................... 8Morad Elsana ................................... 8Fania Oz-Salzberger (S) ............... 14Elad Popovich .................................31Stephen Ross .................................29Eli Salzberger (S) .............................17Udi Sommer ................................... 18Astrid von Busekist Sadoun ........29

Economy & SocietyFahima Abbas ................................26Tamar Arieli ....................................... 6Israel Doron ..................................... 8Rafi Grosglik ..................................... 9Adi Hercowitz-Amir .....................30Aviv Kidron ......................................26Elyakim Kislev ................................ 27Asaf Levanon ..................................11Erez Maggor ...................................34Ronen Mandelkern .......................28

Keren Mintz ....................................29Yoram Shiftan (F) ........................... 18

Geography & The EnvironmentTamar Arieli ....................................... 6Yossi Ben-Artzi (S) ............................7Alona Nitzan-Shiftan .................... 14Shay Rabineau ................................15Dan Rabinowitz ..............................15Noam Shoked ................................ 35

Language & LiteratureLior Libman .....................................12Reda Mansour ................................12Yael Shenker .................................... 17

Security & DefenseOr Honig ......................................... 10Ronald Krebs .................................. 27Jamie Levin .....................................31Keir Lieber ....................................... 27Steven Lobell .................................28

Communication & MediaTamir Sheafer .................................29

Politics & International RelationsKathrin Bachleitner ....................... 33Gökhan Çinkara ............................ 33Zion Evrony ...................................... 9Evgeny Finkel .................................26Michael Freedman ........................34Toby Greene ..................................30Or Honig ......................................... 10Ronald Krebs .................................. 27Lior Lehrs .........................................31Jamie Levin .....................................31Luba Levin-Banchik ......................31Keir Lieber ....................................... 27Steven Lobell .................................28Ronen Mandelkern .......................28Reda Mansour ................................12David Menashri (F) .........................13Fania Oz-Salzberger (S) ............... 14Gangzheng She ............................ 35Elad Popovich .................................31Aviad Rubin (F) ................................ 16

Ziv Rubinovitz ................................ 16Udi Sommer ................................... 18Gayil Talshir (F) ............................... 19Rami Zeedan .................................. 19

Israel & The Middle EastFahima Abbas ................................26Safa Abu-Rabia ..............................30Tamar Arieli ....................................... 6Yossi Ben-Artzi (S) ............................7Guy Ben-Porat .................................7Morad Elsana ................................... 8Zion Evrony ...................................... 9Toby Greene ..................................30Ned Lazarus ................................... 10Gershon Lewental .........................11Reda Mansour ................................12David Menashri (F) .........................13Benny Morris ...................................13Alona Nitzan-Shiftan .................... 14Shay Rabineau ................................15Dan Rabinowitz ..............................15Nechumi Yaffe ............................... 32

History & ReligionScott Abramson ............................ 33Safa Abu-Rabia ..............................30Guy Ben-Porat .................................7Julie Grimmeisen ..........................30Geoffrey Levin ...............................34Gershon Lewental .........................11David Menashri (F) .........................13Benny Morris ...................................13Fania Oz-Salzberger (S) ............... 14Aviad Rubin (F) ............................... 16Gil Rubin ......................................... 32Astrid von Busekist Sadoun ........29Nechumi Yaffe ............................... 32Rami Zeedan .................................. 19

Gender & Women’s StudiesSafa Abu-Rabia ..............................30Katarzyna Czerwonogóra ...........34Julie Grimmeisen ..........................30Asaf Levanon ..................................11Tanya Zion-Waldoks .................... 32


US/New EnglandSafa Abu-Rabia ...............................30Guy Ben-Porat ..................................7Rachel Erdos (S) .............................24Michael Freedman .........................34Tamar Kay (F)................................... 23Gangzheng She .............................. 35Gil Rubin .......................................... 32Or Sinai (F) ....................................... 23

US/Mid-AtlanticRoy Assaf (F) ....................................20Ati Citron (F) .....................................21Omri Drumlevich (F) ......................21Lior Lehrs ..........................................31Geoffrey Levin ................................34Lior Libman ......................................12Erez Maggor ....................................34Elad Popovich ..................................31Shay Rabineau .................................15Dan Rabinowitz ...............................15Stephen Ross ..................................29Udi Sommer .................................... 18Nechumi Yaffe ................................ 32

US/South-AtlanticZion Evrony ....................................... 9Evgeny Finkel ..................................26Or Honig .......................................... 10Ned Lazarus .................................... 10Keir Lieber ........................................ 27

Reda Mansour .................................12Benny Morris ....................................13Yael Shenker .....................................17

US/SouthHana Ajiashvili (S) ...........................24Yossi Ben-Artzi (S) .............................7Roy Horovitz (S) ............................. 25Gershon Lewental ..........................11

US/MidwestRifat Azam ......................................... 6Israel Doron ...................................... 8Ronald Krebs ................................... 27Alona Nitzan-Shiftan ..................... 14Yoram Shiftan (F) ............................ 18

US/WestScott Abramson ............................. 33Tamar Arieli ........................................ 6Gilat Bachar ..................................... 33Nir Bergman (F) ..............................20Morad Elsana .................................... 8Rafi Grosglik ...................................... 9Ayelet Gundar-Goshen (S) .......... 25Victoria Hanna (F) .......................... 22Adi Hercowitz-Amir ......................30Asaf Levanon....................................11Jamie Levin ......................................31Luba Levin-Banchik........................31Steven Lobell ..................................28

David Menashri (F) ..........................13David Ofek (F) .................................20Noam Shoked ................................. 35Ziv Rubinovitz ................................. 16Gayil Talshir (F) ................................ 19Rami Zeedan ................................... 19Ronit Ziv (F)...................................... 23

CanadaAviad Rubin (F) ................................ 16

EuropeKathrin Bachleitner ........................ 33Gökhan Çinkara ............................. 33Katarzyna Czerwonogóra ............34Julie Grimmeisen ...........................30Fania Oz-Salzberger (S) ................ 14Eli Salzberger (S) ..............................17Astrid von Busekist Sadoun ........ 29

IsraelFahima Abbas .................................26Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov ........................26Toby Greene ...................................30Aviv Kidron .......................................26Elyakim Kislev ................................. 27Ronen Mandelkern ........................28Keren Mintz .....................................29Tamir Sheafer ..................................29Tanya Zion-Waldoks ..................... 32

By Region

(F) connotes Fall Semester 2017. (S) connotes Spring Semester 2018.


SENIOR FACULTYTAMAR ARIELI, PH.D.

Visiting Professor at SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY San Diego, CA ♦ AY 2017-2018

Background and Education:Tamar Arieli heads the Conflict Management Program at the Tel-Hai College, Israel. She formerly served as a lecturer at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya and at Indiana University, Bloomington (2010-2011). Arieli’s academic background combines political geography and regional and urban planning with the study of conflict and cooperation. She analyzes economic, social, and environmental aspects of life in border and peripheral regions, where social and political conflict may compromise prospects of regional development and social integration. Her past research involved extensive field work in Israel, Jordan, the West Bank, and the Gaza strip as well as along the U.S.-Mexican border.

Publications include: “Borders, Conflict, and Security” (International Journal of Conflict Management, 2016); “Municipal Cross-Border Cooperation in the Post Conflict Environment: The Gulf of Aqaba” (Territory, Politics, Governance, 2016); “Policy Entrepreneurship in Post Conflict Borders: Conceptual Framework and the Israeli-Jordanian Experience” (Policy Sciences, 2013).

RIFAT AZAM, LL.D.

Visiting Professor at the WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW St. Louis, MO ♦ AY 2017-2018

Background and Education:Rifat Azam is an associate professor of law at the Radzyner School of Law in the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, where he researches and teaches in the fields of tax law and policy, international taxation, e-commerce, and human rights. Azam completed his studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Law in 2006 (LL.B., LL.M., LL.D.). He also clerked for Chief Justice Aharon Barak of the Israeli Supreme Court and served as legal assistant to the Chief Justice and the Supreme Court from 1997 through 2006. Last year, Azam was a visiting professor at Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law following a year at Columbia Law School as the Israel Institute Visiting Professor of Law. He has also performed research at Harvard Law School and the University of Michigan Law School.

Publications include: “Minimum Global Effective Corporate Tax Rate as General Anti-Avoidance Rule” (Columbia Journal of Tax Law, 2017); “Interpretation of Tax Law: The Role of Human Rights in the Supreme Court Jurisprudence” (Law & Business – IDC Law Review, 2014 – in Hebrew); International Taxation of E-Commerce (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Press, 2013 – in Hebrew).

Areas of Expertise: CONFLICT MANAGEMENT; REGIONAL PLANNING; BORDERS

Areas of Expertise: TAX LAW & POLICY; E-COMMERCE; HUMAN RIGHTS


GUY BEN-PORAT, PH.D.

Visiting Professor at BROWN UNIVERSITY Providence, RI ♦ AY 2017-2018

Background and Education:Guy Ben-Porat is an associate professor in the Department of Government and Politics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His work engages religion and politics, conflict resolution, and multicultural societies. Currently, he is co-writing a book on police and minorities in Israel. He has formerly been a visiting professor in the United States (University of California, Davis), France (Sciences Po), Canada (University of Ottawa) and Japan (Hitotsubashi University). Ben-Porat earned a Ph.D. in political science from Johns Hopkins University in 2001 and has worked at Ben-Gurion University ever since.

Publications include: Between State and Synagogue: The Secularization of Modern Israel (Cambridge University Press, 2013 – Winner of the Shapiro Best Book Award, Israel Studies Association, 2014, and the Israeli Political Science Association Best Book Award, 2014); Global Liberalism, Local Populism: Peace and Conflict in Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland (Syracuse University Press, 2006 – Winner of the Czempiel Prize, Frankfurt Peace Research Institute, 2008).

YOSSI BEN-ARTZI, PH.D.

Visiting Professor at THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN Austin, TX ♦ Spring 2018

Background and Education:A member of the Department of Israel Studies at the University of Haifa, Yossi Ben-Artzi specializes in the historical geography of Israel in modern times, the history of the city of Haifa, and heritage preservation. Ben-Artzi served as chairman of the Department of Israel Studies (1994-1998); dean of the Faculty of Humanities (2000-2004); and rector of the University of Haifa (2004-2010). Since 2012, he has also taught at the Israel National Defense College. Alongside his academic career, Ben-Artzi is active on the public level as chairman of the Municipal Street Names Committee, public representative on the municipal committee of Heritage Preservation, and chairman of the Advisory Forum for the Preservation of the Israel Authority of Antiquities. He is also one of the six original co-founders of the Euro-Mediterranean University (EMUNI), established in 2008. Ben-Artzi holds a Ph.D. from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Publications include: A Close-Remote Island: Rural Jewish Settlement in Cyprus 1883-1939 (Bar-Ilan University Press, 2015 – in Hebrew); Mount Carmel of Graf Von Mulinen (The Magnes Press, 2013 – Co-editor with Aharon Geva Kleinberger – in Hebrew).

Areas of Expertise: RELIGION; STATE; CONFLICT RESOLUTION

Areas of Expertise: HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; HISTORICAL SITES CONSERVATION


MORAD ELSANA, M.S.W., J.S.D.

Teaching Fellow at CALIFORNIA WESTERN SCHOOL OF LAW San Diego, CA ♦ AY 2017-2018

Background and Education:Morad Elsana most recently served as a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Maryland and, before that, as a professor of public international law, international human rights law, and international humanitarian law. Prior to his doctoral studies, he served as a senior staff attorney and director for Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights. He also worked as a legal advisor for Genesis, an Arab Jewish community advocacy organization in Israel. Throughout his career, he has received several prestigious fellowships such as the Fulbright Outreach award and the McGill University Middle East Program in Civil Society and Peace Building fellowship. Elsana holds a J.S.D. and LL.M. from the American University-WCL, an M.S.W. in Social Advocacy and Community Development from McGill University, and an LL.B. from Tel Aviv University.

Publications include: “The Recognition of Indigenous Peoples’ Land: Application of the Customary Land Rights on the Bedouin Case” (Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives, 2015); The Dispossession and Recognition of Indigenous Peoples’ Land Right: The Case of Bedouin in Israel (J.S.D. Dissertation, American University, Washington College of Law, 2013).

ISRAEL DORON, LL.M., PH.D.

Visiting Professor at the UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Chicago, IL ♦ AY 2017-2018

Background and Education:Israel (Issi) Doron, LL.B. (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel); LL.M. (Washington College of Law, Washington D.C., USA); Ph.D. (Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, ON., Canada). Doron heads the Research Center on Aging Studies at the University of Haifa, and is a former president of the Israeli Gerontological Society. He specializes in the fields of law and aging, social policy and aging, and human rights and ageism. He has written extensively on topics such as law and aging, and the human rights of older persons. Finally, Doron is also the founder of an Israeli NGO, The Law in the Service of the Elderly, which was involved in key strategic litigation regarding the rights of older persons in Israel.

Publications include: “The Debate Around the Need for an International Convention on the Rights of Older Persons” (The Gerontologist, 2010 – with Itai Apter); Beyond Elder Law: New Directions in Law and Aging (Springer, 2012 – Co-editor with Ann Soden); Theories on Law and Aging: The Jurisprudence of Elder Law (Springer, 2009 – Editor).

Areas of Expertise: HUMAN RIGHTS; INTERNATIONAL LAW

Areas of Expertise: AGING & THE LAW; HUMAN RIGHTS

S E N I O R FA C U LT Y


AMB. ZION EVRONY, PH.D.

Visiting Professor at THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA Washington, D.C. ♦ AY 2017-2018

Background and Education:Most recently serving as the Israeli ambassador to the Holy See (2012-2016), Zion Evrony has held several distinguished diplomatic positions in Israel and abroad, including serving as Israel’s ambassador to Ireland, as consul general in Houston, Texas, and as head of the Policy Planning Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Evrony frequently publishes and gives lectures on topics including the Middle East, Israel, the peace process, Jewish-Catholic dialogue, and Israel-Vatican relations. This is Evrony’s second year teaching at The Catholic University. He holds a Ph.D. in international relations from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Publications include: “What’s Next for Jewish Catholic Ties” (The Times of Israel, 2015); “The Menorah and the Cross” (The Times of Israel, 2013); Human Rights in International Relations (Open University Press, 2011); “From Ireland to Israel” (The New York Times, 2010).

RAFI GROSGLIK, PH.D.

Teaching Fellow at the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS Davis, CA ♦ AYs 2017-2020

Background and Education:Rafi Grosglik earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. After receiving his degree, he was a recipient of the Jonathan Shapiro post-doctoral fellowship at Tel Aviv University. He has also held a research fellowship with the Department of Sociology at Brandeis University and a teaching position at Boston University. His areas of interest include the sociology of food, globalization, consumption and popular culture, environmental sociology, and Israeli society. His articles on food and society in Israel were published in the Journal of Consumer Culture; Food, Culture & Society; and Israeli Sociology, among others. Additionally, he is a guest co-editor of special issues on food and power in the Middle East and the Mediterranean in Food, Culture & Society.

Publications include: Organic Food in Israel: Resistance, Assimilation, and Global Culture (Resling Publishing Press, 2017).

Areas of Expertise: HUMAN RIGHTS; CHRISTIAN-JEWISH RELATIONS

Areas of Expertise: SOCIOLOGY OF FOOD; GLOBALIZATION



OR HONIG, PH.D.

Visiting Professor at DUKE UNIVERSITY Durham, NC ♦ AY 2017-2018

Background and Education:Or Honig studies the security policies of Israel, the United States, and other Western nations in the modern age. The focus of his research is on the ways in which actors formulate their security strategies. His publications have covered diverse topics such as intelligence, propaganda, and counterterrorism. Since 2011, he has been an assistant professor of political science at Tel Aviv University. Prior to entering academia, he served as an officer in the I.D.F.’s Strategic Planning Division and was involved with several regional issues but, mainly, with the Palestinian issue during the Al-Aqsa Intifada. Honig received his Ph.D. in political science at the University of California, Los Angeles, after finishing his M.A. at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and his B.A. in Middle East studies at the University of Haifa.

Publications include: “A Fifth Wave of Terrorism? The Emergence of Terrorist Semi-States” (Terrorism and Political Violence, 2017 – with Ido Yahel); “Sitting on the Volcano: Lynching Attacks in the Zionist-Palestinian Conflict” (In Global Lynching and Collective Violence. Ed. Michael J. Pfeifer. University of Illinois Press, 2017 – with Shaiel Ben-Ephraim); “Realism or Radicalism: Explaining Autocratic Rulers’ Strategic Choices Following Military Defeats in the Middle East” (The Journal of the Middle East and Africa, 2015).

NED LAZARUS, PH.D.

Teaching Fellow at THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Washington, D.C. ♦ AYs 2017-2019

Background and Education:A conflict resolution scholar, practitioner, and evaluator, Ned Lazarus has conducted evaluative studies of Israeli-Palestinian peacebuilding initiatives on behalf of USAID, USIP, and the European Union. Ned has taught conflict resolution courses at George Mason University, Georgetown University, American University, the University of Malta, and the University of Massachusetts-Boston; his research has been published in Peace and Change, International Journal of Conflict Engagement and Resolution, Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, Palestine-Israel Journal, and Israel Studies Review. Before entering the academic field, Ned served as Middle East Program Director for Seeds of Peace, based in Jerusalem (1996-2004). Ned earned his doctorate from American University’s School of International Service in 2011.

Publications include: “A Future for Israeli-Palestinian Peacebuilding” (Fathom Journal, 2017); “Donor Policies and Power Asymmetry in Israeli/Palestinian Peacebuilding” (Peace and Change, 2016 – with Michael Gawerc); “Tracing the Impacts of a Generation of Israeli-Palestinian Intergroup Encounters” (International Journal of Conflict Engagement and Resolution, 2015 – with Karen Ross).

Areas of Expertise: SECURITY; CONFLICT; TERRORISM

Areas of Expertise: PEACE & CONFLICT STUDIES; ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT


GERSHON LEWENTAL, PH.D.

Teaching Fellow at THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA Norman, OK ♦ AY 2017-2018

Background and Education:Gershon Lewental is an Israel Institute teaching fellow in the Department of History and the College of International Studies at The University of Oklahoma. His courses at The University of Oklahoma include religion and minorities in Israel, the Arab-Israeli conflict, political Islam, religion and society in the Middle East, early Islamic empires, the history of Zionism, and Israeli society. He is preparing two book manuscripts, one on the interplay of religion, nationalism, and memory in the modern Middle East and the other on the role of narrative in early Islamic historiography. His dissertation, on the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah, the Arab-Islamic conquest of Iran, and changing perceptions of the engagement through time, received Brandeis University’s Glatzer Dissertation Prize and the Foundation of Iranian Studies’ Best Dissertation Award. He earned his B.A. (magna cum laude) from Cornell University and his Ph.D. in Middle Eastern history from Brandeis University.

Publications include: “’Saddam’s Qadisiyyah:’ Religion and History in the Service of State Ideology in Ba’thi Iraq” (Middle Eastern Studies, 2014).

ASAF LEVANON, PH.D.

Visiting Professor at STANFORD UNIVERSITY Stanford, CA ♦ AY 2017-2018

Background and Education:Asaf Levanon is a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Haifa. The main question driving his work is how institutions affect labor market behavior. Levanon’s work focuses on both the regulative and constitutive roles of social institutions, and draws on research focusing on the sociology of work, life-course research, economic sociology, demography, and social psychology. He is especially interested in the role that social policy plays in shaping ethnic, gender, and class inequality in the labor market. Current research interests include factors affecting the likelihood of poverty among workers, contextual variation in patterns of occupational sex segregation, and in the magnitude of motherhood wage penalty. Levanon earned a Ph.D. in sociology from Stanford University in 2010.

Publications include: “The Persistence of Extreme Gender Segregation in the 21st Century” (American Journal of Sociology, 2016 – with David B. Grusky); “The Impact of Spouses’ Relative Earnings on Career and Family Satisfaction” (Sex Roles, 2016 – with Pamela S. Tolbert and Ronit Waismel-Manor); “Who Succeeds as an Immigrant: Effects of Group Resources and Receiving Community Socioeconomic Conditions on Earnings Assimilation” (Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 2014).

Areas of Expertise: ISRAEL; BAHA’I FAITH; EARLY ISLAM

Areas of Expertise: SOCIOLOGY OF WORK; DEMOGRAPHY



AMB. REDA MANSOUR, PH.D.

Visiting Professor at EMORY UNIVERSITY Atlanta, GA ♦ AY 2017-2018

Background and Education:Reda Mansour is a former Israeli ambassador to both Brazil and Ecuador. Appointed at 35 years old, he was the youngest ambassador in Israel’s history as well as the first non-Jewish career diplomat. Early in his career as consul general of Israel to the U.S. Pacific Northwest, based in San Francisco, he used art and music to promote Arab-Jewish dialogue. Later, he also served in Atlanta, where he was chosen by his fellow consul generals from more than 50 countries to be the dean of the Atlanta Consular Corps. Mansour is also an accomplished author, who has published among his academic body of work four books of poetry as well as several short stories. His doctoral work from the University of Haifa focused on the intellectual history of modern Syria. He also holds an M.A. from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and speaks five languages.

Publications include: The Silence Between the Words (Consulate General of Israel to the Southeastern United States, 2009 – English translation); Tender Leaves of Conscience (Sa’ar Publishing, 2004 – in Hebrew); United Nations General Assembly Resolutions on the Middle East (Israeli Foreign Ministry, 1993 – Editor).

LIOR LIBMAN, PH.D.

Supported Faculty at BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY Binghamton, NY ♦ AY 2017-2018

Background and Education:Lior Libman is an assistant professor and associate director of the Center for Israel Studies at Binghamton University. She is a literary scholar and cultural historian specializing in the literature and cultural history of the kibbutz and Socialist-Zionism. Last spring (2017), she took a research leave at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, as a recipient of the Frankel Institute of Advanced Judaic Studies faculty fellowship to work on her project “Jews in Harness:” The Socialist-Zionist Labor Movement and Hasidism. She holds a Ph.D. in Hebrew literature from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2014), from which she also received a B.A. in history (2005, magna cum laude) and M.A. in cultural studies (2008, summa cum laude).

Publications include: State of Shock: The Kibbutz Traumatized, 1948–1954 (Forthcoming); “Hakibbutz Hameuchad’s ‘State of Shock,’ 1948-1954: Textual Expressions” (Iyunim Bitkumat Israel, 2012 – in Hebrew).

Areas of Expertise: PUBLIC DIPLOMACY; MINORITIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Areas of Expertise: HEBREW & KIBBUTZ LITERATURE


DAVID MENASHRI, PH.D.

Visiting Professor at the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES Los Angeles, CA ♦ Fall 2017

Background and Education:David Menashri, professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University, is a senior research fellow at the Alliance Center for Iranian Studies and the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University. He was previously an Israel Institute visiting professor at the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies in Winter and Spring 2015-2016. Menashri founded and was the first director of the Alliance Center for Iranian Studies, the first of its kind in Israel (2005-2010), and the first incumbent of the Parviz and Pouran Nazarian Chair for Modern Iranian Studies (1997-2011). He chaired the Department of Middle Eastern and African History (1996-2000) and was dean for Special Programs (2001-2010) at Tel Aviv University. Following his retirement from Tel Aviv University, he served as president of the College of Law in Ramat Gan, Israel (2011-2015). Menashri is also active in numerous NGOs, in Israel and abroad.

Publications include: Post-Revolutionary Politics in Iran: Religion, Society, and Power (Routledge, 2001); Revolution at a Crossroads: Iran’s Domestic Politics and Regional Ambitions (Policy Paper, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 1997); Education and the Making of Modern Iran (Cornell University Press, 1992).

BENNY MORRIS, PH.D.

Visiting Professor at GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Washington, D.C. ♦ AY 2017-2018

Background and Education:Benny Morris is a professor of history in the Middle East Studies Department at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Be’er Sheva, Israel. He began his career as a journalist, working as a correspondent at The Jerusalem Post for 12 years. When an assignment required research through the Israeli government archives, he turned his attention to the history of the 1948 war which, ultimately, marked the start of his career in academia. Morris is a leading member of the “New Historians,” a loosely defined group of Israeli historians who have challenged traditional versions of Israel’s early history. Morris’ work on the Arab-Israeli conflict has won praise and provoked criticism from both sides of the political spectrum. He received a B.A. in history from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a doctorate in modern European history from the University of Cambridge.

Publications include: One State, Two States: Resolving the Israel/Palestine Conflict (Yale University Press, 2009); Making Israel (University of Michigan Press, 2007); The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited (Cambridge University Press, 2004).

Areas of Expertise: POLITICS, RELIGION & SOCIETY OF MODERN IRAN

Areas of Expertise: ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT; ISRAEL; ZIONISM



ALONA NITZAN-SHIFTAN, PH.D.

Visiting Professor at the UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Chicago, IL ♦ AY 2017-2018

Background and Education:Alona Nitzan-Shiftan is an associate professor at the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology), where she heads the Architectural Heritage Research Center. She received her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and her work was sponsored by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA), UCLA/Getty (a cooperative effort between UCLA and the Getty Conservation Institute), and the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. Her research on the politics of architecture and heritage, architectural modernism, and critical historiography with a focus on Israel and the United States has been widely published. She was the first chair of the Architecture Program at the Technion, the president of the European Architectural History Network (EAHN), and the co-chair of its third thematic conference, Histories in Conflict. Her book Seizing Jerusalem: The Architectures of Unilateral Unification has been recently published by the University of Minnesota Press.

Publications include: Seizing Jerusalem: The Architectures of Unilateral Unification (University of Minnesota Press, 2017); Edut testimony series (AHRC Publishing, 2016 – Founder and Editor – in Hebrew); “On Concrete and Stone: Shifts and Conflicts in Israeli Architecture” (Traditional Dwelling and Settlement Review, 2009).

FANIA OZ-SALZBERGER, D.PHIL.

Visiting Professor at LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY Munich, Germany ♦ Spring 2018

Background and Education:Fania Oz-Salzberger is a professor of history at the Faculty of Law and the Center for German and European Studies, as well as the founding director of the Posen Research Forum for Political Thought, at the University of Haifa. From 2007 to 2012, she was the Leon Liberman Chair in Modern Israel Studies at the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilization, Monash University. Prior to that, from 2009 to 2010, she was a recipient of the Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellowship at the Center for Human Values at Princeton University. She has published numerous essays on the history of ideas and political thought, most recently on translation in the European Enlightenment, on the biblical sources of John Locke, and on languages and literacy in early modern Europe. She is also a member of the Israel Institute’s advisory board. She earned a B.A. and M.A., summa cum laude, from Tel Aviv University and a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford.

Publications include: Jews and Words (Yale University Press, 2014 – with Amos Oz); Israelis in Berlin (Jüdischer Verlag, 2001 – in German); Translating the Enlightenment: Scottish Civic Discourse in Eighteenth Century Germany (Clarendon Press, 1995).

Areas of Expertise: HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE, ART, CULTURE

Areas of Expertise: HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT; ISRAELI-EUROPEAN RELATIONS


DAN RABINOWITZ, PH.D.

Visiting Professor at COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY New York, NY ♦ AY 2017-2018

Background and Education:Dan Rabinowitz is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and head of the Porter School of Environmental Studies at Tel Aviv University. Rabinowitz is an advocate for a multi- and interdisciplinary approach to environmental studies. Along with dozens of academic articles, he published the first comprehensive book in Hebrew about global warming as well as a groundbreaking book about the Cross-Israel highway, a major electronic toll highway in Israel. Between 1997 and 2000, he served as chair of the Israeli Anthropological Association. In addition to his academic work, Rabinowitz is actively involved in third-sector organizations and maintains extensive contacts with environmental NGOs in Israel and around the world. He holds a Ph.D. in social anthropology from the University of Cambridge.

Publications include: “Response to Virginia Dominguez’s Preface: On Anthropology in Israel” (American Anthropologist, 2016); Driving Forces: The Trans-Israel Highway and Privatization of Civil Infrastructure in Israel (Hakibbutz Hameukhad and The Van-Leer Jerusalem Institute, 2010 – with Itai Vardi – in Hebrew); Here It Comes: How Do We Survive Climate Change? (Hakibbutz Hameukhad, 2009 – in Hebrew).

SHAY RABINEAU, PH.D.

Supported Faculty at BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY Binghamton, NY ♦ AY 2017-2018

Background and Education:Shay Rabineau is an assistant professor and associate director of the Center for Israel Studies at Binghamton University. His dissertation, “Marking and Mapping the Nation: The History of Israel’s Hiking Trail Network,” traced the development of the Labor Zionist culture of scouting and exploring Palestine during the late Ottoman and British Mandate periods, and examined the project of transforming the country’s unmarked paths into a modern system of hiking trails after the establishment of the State of Israel. He has also taught at Brandeis University and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Rabineau earned a Ph.D. in Near Eastern and Judaic studies from Brandeis University.

Publications include: “Competing Concepts of Land in Eretz Israel” (Israel Studies, 2014 – with Ilan Troen); “Hiking in Israel: Why Are These Trails Different?” (AJS Perspectives, 2014).

Areas of Expertise: ISRAELI SOCIETY; NATIONALISM; ENVIRONMENT

Areas of Expertise: MODERN ISRAEL HISTORY; GEOGRAPHY



ZIV RUBINOVITZ, PH.D.

Teaching Fellow at SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY Rohnert Park, CA ♦ AYs 2017-2020

Background and Education:Ziv Rubinovitz was most recently a lecturer with the Ginsburg Ingerman Overseas Student Program at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and a researcher at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center. He was also a visiting researcher at the Azrieli Institute for Israel Studies, Concordia University; a visiting professor at Emory University; a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics; a post-doc at the Davis Institute at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and has taught at the University of Haifa’s M.A. Program on Peace and Conflict Management. He is currently researching the rise and decline of the concept of autonomy for the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories from 1967 to 1982, and the role of U.S. guarantees to Israel in peace processes since 1967. Rubinovitz earned his Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Haifa.

Publications include: “The Rise of the Others: Can the U.S. Stay on Top?” (In Geopolitics and Great Powers: International Affairs in a Rebalancing World. Ed. Aharon Klieman. Springer International Publishing, 2015); “Blue and White ‘Black September:’ Israel’s Role in the Jordan Crisis in 1970” (International History Review, 2010); “The Stopping Power of Land: The Geopolitics of American Use of Force in the International Arena Since 1898” (APSA 2010 Annual Meeting Paper, 2010).

AVIAD RUBIN, PH.D.

Visiting Professor at the UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO Toronto, Canada ♦ Fall 2017

Background and Education:Aviad Rubin (Ph.D., McGill University) is a tenured senior lecturer (U.S. associate professor) in the School of Political Science at the University of Haifa as well as co-director of the Haifa Research Center for Maritime Strategy. He was the founding director of the University’s naval cadet program. This past year, he was the Israel Institute Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago. Rubin’s recent co-edited book (Lexington Books, 2016) compares different dimensions of the state-society relationships in Turkey and Israel, and his forthcoming authored book (University of Michigan Press) explores the influence of state policies towards religion in Israel and Turkey on democratic performance in both countries. Rubin has taught courses on religion and state in Israel and the Middle East, and on contemporary Turkish and Israeli politics.

Publications include: The Jarring Road to Inclusive Democracy: A Comparative Assessment of State-society Engagements in Israel and Turkey (Lexington Books, 2016 – Co-editor with Yusuf Sarfati); “The Israeli Elections of 2015: A Hobbesian Moment” (Israel Affairs, 2016 – with Doron Navot); “Cultural Nationalism and Liberal Values: An Elusive Synthesis” (International Political Science Review, 2015 – with Gal Gerson).

Areas of Expertise: FOREIGN POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES & ISRAEL

Areas of Expertise: RELIGION, NATIONALISM & LANGUAGE IN THE MIDDLE EAST


ELI SALZBERGER, LL.B., D.PHIL.

Visiting Professor at LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY Munich, Germany ♦ Spring 2018

Background and Education:Eli Salzberger is a professor of law at the University of Haifa Faculty of Law, and former dean of the faculty. Salzberger received his LL.B. from the Hebrew University Faculty of Law in 1987 and concomitantly obtained a B.A. in economics. Subsequently, he clerked for Justice Aharon Barak of the Israeli Supreme Court and for Deputy State Attorney Dorit Beinish. From 2008 to 2011, he served as president of the European Association for Law and Economics. Recently (2012), he led a team to win the competition for a new Minerva research center on the rule of law under extreme conditions. Salzberger’s research and teaching areas are legal theory and philosophy, economic analysis of law, legal ethics, intellectual property and cyberspace, and the Israeli Supreme Court. He has been a visiting professor at Princeton University, the University of Connecticut School of Law, UCLA Law School, and several European law schools including Humboldt University in Berlin, Hamburg, Utrecht, Torino, Aix-Marseilles, and St. Gallen. He also earned a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford.

Publications include: “The Rule of Law Under Extreme Conditions and International Law: A Law and Economics Perspective” (Mohr Siebeck, 2017); The Limits of Analysis: Intellectual Property in the Digital Age from a Law and Economics Perspective (Routledge-Cavendish, 2012 – with Niva Elkin-Koren).

YAEL SHENKER, PH.D.

Visiting Professor at the UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA Gainesville, FL ♦ AY 2017-2018

Background and Education:Yael Shenker is a senior lecturer in the Film Department at Sapir Academic College. She also teaches at the Sam Spiegel School of Film and Television in Jerusalem. Previously, she was an instructor in the Department of Hebrew Literature at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Michigan. Her research deals with the film and literature of religious communities in Israel. She earned her Ph.D. from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem with the dissertation topic: popular fiction by ultra-Orthodox women writers.

Publications include: “Choosing One’s Life: Identity-swapping Plots in Popular Fiction by Israeli Haredi Women” (Israel Studies, 2017); “The Colors of the Israeli Mirror” (Jewish Film & New Media: An International Journal, 2014 – with Omri Herzog); “Reading ‘The Time of Trimming’ under the Desk of Religious Zionism: Haim Be’er and National-Religious Identity” (Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture, 2014).

Areas of Expertise: LAW & POLITICAL THEORY; ISRAELI SUPREME COURT

Areas of Expertise: HEBREW LITERATURE & FILM; RELIGION IN ISRAEL



YORAM SHIFTAN, PH.D.

Visiting Professor at the UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO and NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Chicago, IL ♦ Fall 2017

Background and Education:Yoram Shiftan is a professor of civil and environmental engineering in the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology), and the previous head of the Transportation and Geo-Information Department. Shiftan teaches and conducts research in travel behavior with focuses on activity-based modeling and response to policies; the complex relationships between transport, the environment, and land use; transport economics; and project evaluation. Between 2001 and 2003, he was a visiting professor in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University, and, during the 2007-2008 academic year, he was a visiting professor at the University of Michigan and The Ohio State University. Shiftan received his Ph.D. in transportation systems from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Publications include: “Towards a More Equitable Distribution of Resources: Using Activity-Based Models and Subjective Well-Being Measures in Transport Project Evaluation” (Transportation Research, 2016 – with Bat-hen Nahmias-Biran); Securing Transportation Systems (Wiley, 2015 – Co-editor with Simon Hakim and Gila Albert).

UDI SOMMER, PH.D.

Visiting Professor at COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY New York, NY ♦ AY 2017-2018

Background and Education:Udi Sommer is an associate professor in the Political Science Department at Tel Aviv University as well as a member of the Israeli Young Academy for Science. He joined the faculty at Tel Aviv University in Fall 2010 after teaching at the University of Albany SUNY. Specializing in the analysis of political institutions and legal evolution, his research interests are in American and comparative politics, public law, and political methodology. In addition to conference participation, he regularly provides expert commentary for news media as well as gives talks to the general public. Sommer received his Ph.D. from Stony Brook University in 2007.

Publications include: Legal Path Dependence and the Long Arm of the Religious State: Sodomy Provisions and Gay Rights Across Nations and Over Time (SUNY Press, 2016); “Translating Justice: The International Organization of Constitutional Courts” (Law & Policy, 2016); A Supreme Agenda: Strategic Case Selection on the U.S. Supreme Court (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

Areas of Expertise: TRANSPORTATION; AIR QUALITY; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR

Areas of Expertise: AMERICAN & COMPARATIVE POLITICS


GAYIL TALSHIR, D.PHIL.

Visiting Professor at SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY San Jose, CA ♦ Fall 2017

Background and Education:Gayil Talshir’s research focuses are on democratic theory, the party system, and civil society. She also seeks to integrate her professional interests with practical applications to generate creative solutions to pressing social and environmental needs faced by both the Jewish community and the world at large. She is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she directs the University’s M.A. Program in Public Policy for top civil servants. During the 2009-2010 academic year, she was the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Visiting Professor of Israel Studies at The Arizona Center for Judaic Studies (The University of Arizona). Talshir received a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford.

Publications include: Taking Ideology Seriously: 21st Century Reconfigurations (Routledge, 2006 – with Mathew Humphrey and Michael Freeden); The Political Ideology of Green Parties: From Politics of Nature to Redefining the Nature of Politics 1972-2002 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002).

Areas of Expertise: POLITICAL IDEOLOGY; POLITICAL PARTIES

RAMI ZEEDAN, PH.D.

Visiting Professor at the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Berkeley, CA ♦ AY 2017-2018

Background and Education:Rami Zeedan is an interdisciplinary researcher in political science and history. His recent research ranges between urban affairs/local governments in cities, ethnic politics, public opinion, and Israel studies. Since 2014, he has held a two-year fellowship from the Council for Higher Education in Israel, during which he was a Taub-Schusterman post-doctoral fellow at New York University during AY 2014-2015 and a Fritz Thyssen post-doctoral research fellow with the Zentrum Moderner Orient (Germany) during AY 2015-2016. Zeedan has also taught at the Open University of Israel, New York University, and at the Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee. His teaching interests include: “Politics and Government in Israel;” “Research Methods in Political Sciences;” and “Introduction to Statistics.” He holds a Ph.D. in Israel studies from the University of Haifa.

Publications include: “Bigger, but not always Better: Size and Democracy in Israeli Amalgamated Local Governments” (Journal of Urban Affairs, 2017); “Causes of (and Solutions for?) Financial Crises in Local Governments: Insights from Local Arab Authorities in Israel” (Administration & Society, 2014 – with Eran Vigoda-Gadot and Yossi Ben-Artzi); Battalion of Arab- The History of the Minorities’ Unite in the IDF from 1948 to 1956 (Modan Publishing, 2015 – in Hebrew).

Areas of Expertise: POLITICS; RACE; ETHNICITY; MODERN ISRAEL; AMERICAN POLITICS


ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE

NIR BERGMAN and DAVID OFEK

Artists-in-Residence at SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY San Diego, CA August 25 – December 18, 2017

Background:Two of Israel’s most highly regarded filmmakers will be team teaching this fall. Bergman, a director, writer, and co-creator of BeTipul (In Treatment), the successful Israeli television series that inspired several international adaptations, has won many international awards for his feature films and television series. A documentarian, Ofek’s No. 17, featured in MoMA’s New Directors/New Films series, was screened in 80 international festivals. Other documentaries have tackled subjects as wide-ranging as home hospice care and the Israeli songwriter Eli Mohar.

ROY ASSAF

Artist-in-Residence at THE JULLIARD SCHOOL New York, NY October 6 – December 15, 2017

Background:Assaf is a leading Israeli choreographer of the younger generation, having received commissions from renowned companies including Benjamin Millepied’s Los Angeles Dance Project (LADP), the Royal Swedish Ballet, and the Batsheva Dance Company. Assaf first made his mark working with the internationally recognized dancer and choreographer Emanuel Gat, touring worldwide with him as both performer and choreographic assistant from 2004-2009.

Areas of Expertise: FILM

Areas of Expertise: DANCE; CHOREOGRAPHY

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ATI CITRON, PH.D.

Artist-in-Residence at STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY Stony Brook, NY August 23 – December 13, 2017

Background:Citron, one of Israel’s most versatile figures in theater, directs the sign language theater laboratory at the University of Haifa, where he was former chair of the theater department. He has staged works in many countries and been the artistic director of many festivals, from the Bat-Yam International Street Theater Festival to the Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre. He has also taught and lectured on professional academic training for medical clowns all over the world. Citron has a Ph.D. in performance studies from New York University.

OMRI DRUMLEVICH

Artist-in-Residence at PRINCETON UNIVERSITY Princeton, NJ September 8 – January 8, 2018

Background:Drumlevich performed in venues such as the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Kennedy Center, Palais Garnier opera house, and Mariinsky Theater as a member of the Batsheva Dance Company from 2012-2016. While in the company, he performed works by Ohad Naharin, Sharon Eyal, and Roy Assaf. He has choreographed works for Batsheva – The Young Ensemble and created multidisciplinary works at the Tel Aviv Museum and elsewhere. Drumlevich is a longtime teacher of Gaga, Naharin’s movement language, teaching in Tel Aviv and internationally.

Areas of Expertise: THEATER


From “It’s Not About Ebisu,” by the Ebisu Sign Language Theatre Laboratory.


VICTORIA HANNA

Artist-in-Residence at the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Berkeley, CA October 2 – December 20, 2017

Background:Public Radio International (PRI) calls Victoria Hanna the “freshest, edgiest, weirdest artist on the Israeli airwaves today.” The daughter of an Egyptian father, who was an Orthodox rabbi steeped in the world of Hebrew, and a Persian mother, Hanna has created her own sound by blending Middle Eastern music and rhythms with rap, hip-hop, and the inspiration of Hebrew and religious texts. Her performance piece of the Hebrew alphabet, Hosha’ana (Aleph-bet), which incorporated the Hebrew alphabet with prayer, became an instant classic. In May 2017, she released her first self-titled album.

Areas of Expertise: MUSIC

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From “It’s Not About Ebisu,” by the Ebisu Sign Language Theatre Laboratory. Conceived and directed by Ati Citron, in collaboration with the actors.


RONIT ZIV

Artist-in-Residence at POMONA COLLEGE and SCRIPPS COLLEGE Claremont, CA August 25 – December 22, 2017

Background:One of Israel’s most active choreographers, Ziv has performed and created work for dance and theater companies in Israel, Europe, and the former Soviet Union since 1999. An experienced teacher, she taught Batsheva – The Youth Ensemble for three years and currently teaches at the Maslool Professional School for Dance in Tel Aviv, a current focal point for contemporary dance, attracting students from around the world.

TAMAR KAY and OR SINAI

Visiting Artists October 15 – November 5, 2017

Background:In a special arrangement, filmmakers Tamar Kay and Or Sinai will visit several American campuses in the Northeast during a three-week tour. Tamar Kay’s first film, The Mute’s House, was one of 10 Academy Award nominations for Best Short Documentary this year. The film has also won many other awards in festivals from Europe to Israel to Australia. Her classmate at the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School, Or Sinai, was a winner this past June at the Cannes Film Festival for the Best Student Film, beating out more than 2,000 entries from 227 film schools around the world. Her film, Anna, stars Evgenia Dodina, one of Israel’s most revered actresses.


Areas of Expertise: FILM

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GADI DAGONFrom the solo performance, “French for Beginners.”


RACHEL ERDOS

Artist-in-Residence at BROWN UNIVERSITY Providence, RI January 19 – May 11, 2018

Background:Since the beginning of her career, Erdos has been receiving choreography commissions from dance companies in the United States, Israel, and countries throughout Europe and Africa. A recipient of many honors, in 2015, Erdos received the Independent Choreographer of the Year Award from the Ministry of Culture in Israel. Her work has been presented at the Kennedy Center, Washington D.C.; The Joyce Theater, New York; and the Royal Opera House, London, among other venues. She has taught in a variety of international settings, including the United States, England, China, Switzerland, and Senegal.

HANA AJIASHVILI

Artist-in-Residence at RICE UNIVERSITY Houston, TX January 5 – April 23, 2018

Background:Composer Hana Ajiashvili has received commissions from Israel’s leading new music group, the Meitar Ensemble; the Trio Musical, Madrid; Dresden Trumpet Nights; as well as many others. Her work is in the repertoire of Meitar and New York’s internationally-acclaimed new music ensemble Continuum. Among her many honors and awards, she received Israel’s Prime Minister’s Award for Composition in 2008. Initially trained in Moscow, she received a Ph.D. in composition from Bar-Ilan University.

Areas of Expertise: MUSIC

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AYELET GUNDAR-GOSHEN

Artist-in-Residence at SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY San Francisco, CA January 13 – May 18, 2018

Background:Gundar-Goshen is the author of Waking Lions, a fiction bestseller in Europe and Israel that was just released in the United States to outstanding reviews. The book has been adapted as an American television series and a film. Gundar-Goshen won the prestigious Sapir Prize for Debut Fiction in 2012, and her screenplays and writing for television have also won international recognition.

ROY HOROVITZ

Artist-in-Residence at THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN Austin, TX January 12 – May 7, 2018

Background:An actor, director, and dramaturge, Horovitz has been touring the world with Dan Clancy’s The Timekeepers for the past several years. He has directed on the stages of both the Cameri Theater of Tel Aviv and the Habima National Theater, two of Israel’s leading theaters, among others. Horovitz has taught theater at several institutions, including the University of Haifa, and has a regular spot on a radio broadcast, “Front Row,” which he also edits.

Areas of Expertise: LITERATURE

Areas of Expertise: THEATER


RESEARCHERSITTAI BAR-SIMAN-TOV, J.S.D.

Lecturer (Assistant Professor) BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY Ramat Gan, Israel ♦ Faculty of Law

Research Topic:Evgeny Finkel was awarded a research grant in support of a book project that will analyze the broader political and social issues of the creation of the State of Israel and Arab-Israeli violence from the perspectives of Holocaust survivors who fought in the 1948 war.

EVGENY FINKEL, PH.D.

Assistant Professor THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Washington, D.C. ♦ Department of Political

Science

Research Topic:Fahima Abbas was awarded a research grant to examine the participation of East Jerusalem’s middle class in Israel’s economy and society, and the significance of this participation.

FAHIMA ABBAS, PH.D.

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM ♦ The Harry S. Truman Research

Institute for the Advancement of Peace

Research Topic:Aviv Kidron, with Dr. Yvonne Kreis of Gutenberg University Mainz (Germany), aims to identify the causes for the low level of public trust in Israeli banks in Israel, discuss the implications, and make policy recommendations.

AVIV KIDRON, PH.D.

Lecturer (Assistant Professor) MAX STERN ACADEMIC COLLEGE OF EMEK YEZREEL Jezreel Valley, Israel ♦ Department of Human

Services

Areas of Expertise: POLITICAL VIOLENCE; GENOCIDE

Areas of Expertise: CONSTITUTIONAL LAW & THEORY; THE LEGISLATIVE PROCESS

Areas of Expertise: ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Areas of Expertise: GEOGRAPHY; URBAN PLANNING; ISRAELI-ARAB SOCIETY

Research Topic:Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov’s study seeks to determine whether, to what extent, and in what ways considerations of constitutional rights figured into the Knesset’s legislative debates on the “Prevention of Infiltration” law, as well as whether and how the judicial interventions changed successive Knesset constitutional debates on the law.


RONALD KREBS, PH.D.

Professor UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, TWIN CITIES Minneapolis, MN ♦ Department of Political

Science

Research Topic:Ronald Krebs will use his research grant to, ultimately, advance a new argument about how and when insecurity and warfare affect liberal-democratic politics. Using Israel as the primary case study, he will analyze the ebb and flow of democratic contestation in Israel throughout its history in an effort to determine violent conflict’s impact on liberal democracy.

Research Topic:Elyakim Kislev received a research grant to continue his studies on effective ways to integrate young Arab-Israelis into science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields (STEM) and close the gaps in participation and performance vis-à-vis other groups.

ELYAKIM KISLEV, PH.D.

Assistant Professor THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM ♦ Federmann School of Public

Policy and Government

Research Topic:Keir Lieber, with Dr. Daryl Press of Dartmouth College, will conduct the first detailed public analysis of nuclear deterrence requirements for Israel and, ultimately, create a framework that Israelis can use to advocate for or criticize different deterrent doctrines without admitting the existence of their own force and violating Israeli national security law.

KEIR LIEBER, PH.D.

Associate Professor GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Washington, D.C. ♦ Edmund A. Walsh School

of Foreign Service and Department of Government

Areas of Expertise: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORY; WAR & SECURITY STUDIES

Areas of Expertise: EDUCATION, IMMIGRATION & FAMILY POLICY; MINORITIES

Areas of Expertise: WAR; NUCLEAR DETERRENCE & STRATEGY


STEVEN LOBELL, PH.D.

Professor UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES Los Angeles, CA ♦ Department of Political

Science

Areas of Expertise: INTERNATIONAL SECURITY; GREAT POWERS

Research Topic:Steven Lobell was awarded a research grant to assess the efficacy of military force to delay or remove nuclear weapons threats, through interviews in Israel of the foreign policy executive and other experts involved in the decision to strike Iraq’s nuclear program.

Research Topic:In the wake of social protests that swept Israel during the summer of 2011, Ronen Mandelkern’s project asks: What changes in Israeli economic policy took place following the 2011 protests? In which policy domains did the changes take place? Since 2011, are the changes that took place counter pre-protest trends or something else?

RONEN MANDELKERN, PH.D.

Lecturer (Assistant Professor) TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY Tel Aviv, Israel ♦ Department of Political

Science

Areas of Expertise: COMPARATIVE & INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY; ISRAELI POLITICS

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KEREN MINTZ, PH.D.

Research Associate UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA Haifa, Israel ♦ Department of Psychology

Research Topic:Tamir Sheafer, with Dr. Shaul Shenhav also of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, aims to capture and analyze in real time, or close to real time, the media coverage of Israel around the world. The project is motivated by an attempt to integrate topic modeling, monitoring systems, and discourse analysis to the study of public diplomacy.

TAMIR SHEAFER, PH.D.

Professor THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM ♦ Departments of Political

Science and Communication

Areas of Expertise: EDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY

Areas of Expertise: POLITICAL BEHAVIOR & COMMUNICATION; MEDIA EFFECTS

Research Topic:Keren Mintz, with Dr. Jenny Kurman of the University of Haifa, will adopt a cross-cultural perspective to examine the psychological factors that serve as facilitators of and barriers to waste reduction and recycling behaviors in Israel.

Research Topic:Astrid von Busekist Sadoun will use her grant to, ultimately, advance research for her book project comparing different countries/legal systems and the public debates around binding religious commitments. In Israel, she will conduct interviews with get (divorce) lawyers, judges, rabbis, and agunot (women who are “chained” to their marriage).

ASTRID von BUSEKIST SADOUN, PH.D.

Professor SCIENCES PO PARIS Paris, France ♦ Department of Political

Science

Research Topic:Stephen Ross will use his grant to facilitate a comparative study between Israeli constitutional law and constitutional law in other countries, particularly Australia, Canada, South Africa, and the United States, in an effort to integrate Israeli constitutional law into a multi-national comparative framework.

STEPHEN ROSS, J.D.

Professor of Law THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY University Park, PA ♦ The Dickinson School of Law

Areas of Expertise: BOUNDARIES; LEGAL PLURALISM; ETHICS; POLITICS

Areas of Expertise: COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW; SPORTS LAW


EMERGING SCHOLARSTOBY GREENE, PH.D.

Post-Doctoral Fellow THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM ♦ Leonard Davis Institute for

International Relations

Background and Education:Julie Grimmeisen earned a Ph.D. in modern Jewish history at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich. Specializing in Israeli history and gender studies, her recent publications include: “The Middle East Conflict from a Gender Perspective” (Trumah, Special Issue on Israel Studies in Germany, 2016) and “Halutza or Beauty Queen? National Images of Women in Early Israeli Society” (Israel Studies, 2015).

JULIE GRIMMEISEN, PH.D.

Post-Doctoral Fellow LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY Munich, Germany ♦ The Center for Israel Studies

Background and Education:Safa Abu-Rabia is a historical anthropologist of culture, gender, and space. Her research focuses on the construction of the historical discourse among Bedouin Arabs in the Negev and the link between identity, space, and gender. Abu-Rabia earned a Ph.D. in Middle East studies from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

SAFA ABU-RABIA, PH.D.

Post-Doctoral Fellow HARVARD UNIVERSITY Cambridge, MA ♦ Department of Anthropology

ADI HERCOWITZ-AMIR, PH.D.

Post-Doctoral Fellow UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO San Diego, CA ♦ Department of Sociology

Areas of Expertise: JEWISH & ISLAMIC STUDIES; ISRAELI HISTORY; GENDER

Areas of Expertise: FOREIGN POLICY ANALYSIS; ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT

Areas of Expertise: PUBLIC OPINION; PUBLIC POLICY; MINORITIES

Areas of Expertise: GENDER; BEDOUIN ARABS IN THE NEGEV; ORAL HISTORY

Background and Education:Toby Greene is a political analyst, writer, and lecturer specializing in Israel, the Middle East, and Israel’s international relations. In addition to his fellowship, he is also a senior research associate for Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre (BICOM), and contributing editor for BICOM’s journal Fathom. Greene holds a Ph.D. in politics and Middle East studies from University College London.

Background and Education:A sociologist specializing in the study of attitudes and policy formation toward immigrant out-groups, Adi Hercowitz-Amir recently earned a Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Haifa.

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JAMIE LEVIN, PH.D.

Post-Doctoral Fellow UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON Seattle, Washington ♦ Department of Political

Science

Background and Education:Prior to her post-doctoral position, Luba Levin-Banchik was an instructor of international relations at Bar-Ilan University. She has received numerous academic awards and honors, including the President’s Doctoral Fellowship of Excellence and the Rector Prize for Excellence in Ph.D. Studies. She earned a Ph.D. in international relations from Bar-Ilan University.

LUBA LEVIN-BANCHIK, PH.D.

Post-Doctoral Fellow UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS Davis, CA ♦ Department of Political

Science

Background and Education:Lior Lehrs is an international relations scholar whose areas of research include the theory and history of conflict resolution, diplomacy, and negotiations. He focuses on the Israeli-Arab and Northern Ireland conflicts, unofficial diplomacy, and Jerusalem in the Israeli-Palestinian context. He earned a Ph.D. in international relations from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

LIOR LEHRS, PH.D.

Post-Doctoral Fellow NEW YORK UNIVERSITY New York, NY ♦ Skirball Department of Hebrew

and Judaic Studies

ELAD POPOVICH, PH.D.

Post-Doctoral Fellow COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY New York, NY ♦ Saltzman Institute of

War and Peace Studies (School of International and Public Affairs)

Areas of Expertise: ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT; VIOLENCE; DIPLOMACY

Areas of Expertise: CONFLICT RESOLUTION; PEACEMAKING; WEAPONS PROLIFERATION

Areas of Expertise: ASYMMETRIC CONFLICT; INTERNATIONAL & ISRAELI LAW

Areas of Expertise: CONFLICT RESOLUTION; DIPLOMACY

Background and Education:Jamie Levin’s research lies at the intersection of international peacemaking and the use of force in international relations. He earned a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Toronto, where he studied the role of weapons in the resolution of civil wars.

Background and Education:In addition to his fellowship, Elad Popovich is also an attorney-at-law and serves as a representative to the United Nations for The International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists (IAJLJ) as well as the Israel Bar Association’s military and security national committee. Popovich earned a Ph.D. in political science and international relations from the University of Haifa.


NECHUMI YAFFE, PH.D.

Post-Doctoral Fellow PRINCETON UNIVERSITY Princeton, NJ ♦ Sociology Department

Background and Education:Tanya Zion-Waldoks’ research investigates the intersection of religion, gender, and politics in modern Israel. She is also a feminist activist who has initiated and led a series of innovative projects on Orthodox LGBT, agunah rights, human trafficking, crafting Jewish rituals, as well as community building and social justice. She earned a Ph.D. from Bar-Ilan University’s Gender Studies Program.

TANYA ZION-WALDOKS, PH.D.

Post-Doctoral Fellow BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY Be’er Sheva, Israel ♦ The Ben-Gurion Research

Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism

Background and Education:Gil Rubin recently earned a Ph.D. in modern Jewish history from Columbia University, where he wrote his dissertation titled, “The Future of the Jews: Planning for the Postwar Jewish World, 1939-1946.” His main research interests include the history of minority rights and human rights, the history of Zionism and the State of Israel, and Jewish politics in the 19th and 20th centuries.

GIL RUBIN, PH.D.

Post-Doctoral Fellow HARVARD UNIVERSITY Cambridge, MA ♦ Center for Jewish Studies

Areas of Expertise: GENDER STUDIES; RELIGION

Areas of Expertise: POVERTY; ULTRA-ORTHODOX (HAREDIM) IN ISRAEL

Areas of Expertise: MODERN JEWISH HISTORY; EUROPEAN & MIDDLE EASTERN POLITICS

E M E R G I N G S C H O L A R S

Background and Education:Nechumi Yaffe’s research examines poverty in Israel’s ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) community in Israel. Additionally, she studies the change in Haredi attitudes toward secular Jews. Additionally, she takes part in a dialogue group of left-wing leaders and ultra-Orthodox rabbis to build bridges between the two disparate groups. She recently earned a Ph.D. from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.


GILAT BACHAR

J.S.D. Candidate STANFORD UNIVERSITY Stanford, CA ♦ Stanford Law School

Dissertation: Studies how interpretations of history determine diplomacy, using diplomatic relations between Austria and Israel as a case study

KATHRIN BACHLEITNER

D.Phil. Candidate UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD Oxford, United Kingdom ♦ Department of Politics and

International Relations

Dissertation Title: The History of the Maronites in Israel: Between the Jewish State and the Palestinian Cause

SCOTT ABRAMSON

Ph.D. Candidate UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES Los Angeles, CA ♦ Department of Near Eastern

Languages and Cultures

GÖKHAN ÇINKARA

Ph.D. Candidate ANKARA UNIVERSITY Ankara, Turkey ♦ Faculty of Political Science

Areas of Expertise: MIDDLE EASTERN POLITICS; EUROPEAN DIPLOMACY; COLLECTIVE MEMORY

Areas of Expertise: TORT LAW; DISPUTE RESOLUTION; CIVIL PROCEDURE

Areas of Expertise: NATIONALISM; POLITICAL PARTIES; COMPARATIVE POLITICS

Areas of Expertise: ISRAELI & MODERN LEVANTINE HISTORY

Dissertation: Examines the unique legal mechanism by which Palestinian civilians bring claims for damages before Israeli civil courts

Dissertation: Examines Israel’s Labor Party as an embodiment of the concepts of state, democracy, and class

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MICHAEL FREEDMAN

Ph.D. Candidate MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Cambridge, MA ♦ Department of Political

Science

Dissertation Title: Another Nation: Israel, American Jews, and Palestinian Rights, 1949-1977

GEOFFREY LEVIN

Ph.D. Candidate NEW YORK UNIVERSITY New York, NY ♦ Department of History

Dissertation Title: Transnational Paths of Emancipation of Zionist Women: Strategies, Biographies, and Discourses

KATARZYNA CZERWONOGÓRA

Ph.D. Candidate VIADRINA EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY Frankfurt, Germany ♦ Faculty of Social and Cultural

Sciences

EREZ MAGGOR

Ph.D. Candidate NEW YORK UNIVERSITY New York, NY ♦ Department of Sociology

Areas of Expertise: MODERN ISRAELI HISTORY; U.S.-MIDDLE EAST RELATIONS

Areas of Expertise: COMPARATIVE POLITICS; POLITICAL BEHAVIOR & METHODOLOGY

Areas of Expertise: POLITICAL ECONOMY; HISTORICAL & COMPARATIVE SOCIOLOGY

Areas of Expertise: CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY; GENDER STUDIES; NARRATIVE ANALYSIS

Dissertation Title: The Politics of Compromise: Evidence from Religious Leaders in Israel

Dissertation: Examines the state institutions and political conditions responsible for the emergence of Israel’s thriving high-tech industry

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NOAM SHOKED

Ph.D. Candidate UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Berkeley, CA ♦ Department of Architecture

Dissertation: Examines the Arab-Israeli conflict during the Cold War and China’s role during those years

GANGZHENG SHE

Ph.D. Candidate BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY Waltham, MA ♦ Department of Near Eastern

and Judaic Studies

Areas of Expertise: HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE & URBANISM; COMMUNAL SETTLEMENTS

Areas of Expertise: MODERN ISRAEL STUDIES; COLD WAR INTERNATIONAL HISTORY

Dissertation: Studies the planning and evolution of West Bank settlements from 1967 to the present

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