Center Staff
S. Ilan Troen '63
Director and Stoll Family Chair in Israel Studies
Ilan Troen is director of the Schusterman Center and is the Stoll Family Chair in Israel Studies. Before joining Brandeis, he served as director of the Ben-Gurion Research Institute and Archives in Sede Boker, Israel, and dean of the faculty of humanities and social sciences at Ben-Gurion University.
He has authored or edited 11 books in American, Jewish and Israeli history. He is also the founding editor of Israel Studies (Indiana University Press), an international journal that publishes three issues annually on behalf of Brandeis and Ben-Gurion University.
His most recent book publications include Jewish Centers and Peripheries: European Jewry Between America and Israel 50 Years after World War II (1998); The Americanization of Israel (2001), with Glenda Abramson; Divergent Jewish Cultures: Israel and America (2001), with Deborah Dash-Moore; Imagining Zion: Dreams, Designs and Realities in a Century of Jewish Settlement (2003); and, with Jacob Lassner, Jews and Muslims in the Arab World; Haunted by Pasts Real and Imagined (2007).
Sylvia Fuks Fried
Director of Publications
Sylvia Fuks Fried is the Schusterman Center’s director of publications. She also serves as the executive director of the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry and is associate editor of the Tauber Series with Brandeis University Press/UPNE.
Stephanie Gerber Wilson, PhD'07
Assistant Director
Stephanie Gerber Wilson is the assistant director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies. Before joining the Schusterman Center, she worked for six years at Brandeis’ International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life, where she managed Brandeis’ partnership with Al-Quds University. Wilson holds a Ph.D. in Israel studies from Brandeis University. Her dissertation was entitled "Cultural Citadel: Creating Jerusalem’s Tower of David Museum."
Rachel Litcofsky
Program Administrator
Rachel Litcofsky is the program administrator of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies. Before arriving at Brandeis, she worked in the office of national public affairs at Hebrew Union College and served as a public-relations executive at several firms in New York.
Anina Selve
Program Coordinator
Anina Selve is program coordinator at the Schusterman Center. She lived in Israel for 17 years where she managed marketing communications at the high-tech company, Gilat Satellite Networks. She then lived in England where she taught at Maidenhead Synagogue religious school.