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Michael Brenner is the Seymour and Lillian Abensohn Chair in Israel Studies and Director of Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s Center for Israel Studies. He received his PhD at Columbia University and taught previously at Indiana …
Dr. Guy Ziv is an associate professor in the School of International Service's U.S. Foreign Policy Program. He teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses on U.S. foreign policy, international neg…
Laura Katz Cutler is Managing Director of the Meltzer Schwartzberg Center for Israel Studies at Â鶹ÊÓƵ. A former commercial banker with Wells Fargo Bank, Ms. Cutler is a community activis…
Dan Arbell, a scholar-in-residence at the Center for Israeli Studies at Â鶹ÊÓƵ, is a 25 year veteran of the Israeli Foreign Service, serving in senior posts overseas in the UN, the US and Japan, and holdi…
Dr. Boaz Atzili is a political scientist who researches and teaches international politics. His interest is in international security with an emphasis on the politics of borders, borderlands and terri…
Dr. Elsana is an adjunct professor at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ. Prior, he served as a professor of Public International Law, International Human Rights Law, and International Humanitarian Law. Dr. Elsa…
Dr. Lauren B. Strauss is a professor of modern Jewish history, specializing in American Jewish cultural and political history. She has taught for twenty years at universities in the Washington, D.C. a…
My research interest is at the intersection of civil-military relations and comparative politics. My dissertation concerns civil-military relations in the context of democratic erosion, i.e. how do de…
Efrat Yerday is an activist, writer, poet, cultural entrapreneur. She's currently a visiting scholar at the Meltzer Schwartzberg Center for Israel Studies. She is the chair of Association of Ethiopian…
Professor Carmel teaches Information Technology (I.T.). He is currently working on a number of research areas: Digital identity; Crypto ethics; Future of work.
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Gershon Greenberg is the author of three definitive bibliographies of religious thought and the Holocaust, and numerous articles on German-Jewish philosophy, history of Jewish thought in America and r…
Alan M. Kraut is University Professor of History at Â鶹ÊÓƵ and a non-resident fellow of the Migration Policy Institute. Specializing in immigration and ethnic history and the history of m…
Lisa Leff is a historian of European and Jewish history, specializing in the history of Jews in France. She is the author of Sacred Bonds of Solidarity: The Rise of Jewish Internationalism in Nineteen…
Erez Naaman specializes in classical Arabic literature and culture. In addition, his research interests include the intellectual history of the premodern Islamic world. His scholarly work has focused …
Pamela S. Nadell holds the Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women's and Gender History and is Director of the Jewish Studies Program. A specialist in American Jewish history and women’s history, she teaches…
Saul Newman is the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education in the School of Public Affairs at Â鶹ÊÓƵ in Washington, DC. He received his PhD in 1989 from the Department of Politics, Pri…
Areas of Expertise: Water Politics of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Experiential Learning - Internships and Higher EducationThe focus of Dr. Jeffrey Sosland's teaching is international b…
Richard Breitman is the author or co-author of twelve books and many articles in German history, US history, and the Holocaust. His books The Architect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final Solution (New…
Myra Sklarew was educated at Tufts University and the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. She studied bacterial viruses and genetics at Cold Spring Harbor Biological Laboratory with Salvador…
Russell A. Stone has research and teaching interests that include development, public opinion, social change, Middle Eastern and Third World societies, and environmental sociology. He has published on…
Howard M. Wachtel received his Ph.D in Economics from the University of Michigan following on an MA from the University of Connecticut and an undergraduate degree from Temple University. He joined the…