Schusterman Alumni

Where do our scholars and post-docs go when they complete their fellowship at the Schusterman Center?

guy abutbul

Guy Abutbul '11, Sociology

Guy successfully defended his dissertation, "The Production of Sephardic, Mixed and Ashkenazi Identities in the Israeli Middle Class," in the Fall of 2011. Guy is currently a lecturer in Sociology at Ben Gurion University of the Negev.

 

Michal Ben-Josef Hirsch

Michal Ben-Josef Hirsch, Politics and Heller School

Michal was a post-doc fellow with the Schusterman Center from 2010-2012. From 2012 she takes a position as adjunct faculty with the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis.

 

Ehud Eiran

Ehud Eiran '10, Politics

Ehud's dissertation "Settling to Win: Strategic Settlement Projects in Post Colonial Times" was successfully defended in 2010.  In 2012, he commenced an appointment as assistant professor at Haifa University. Click here for a Feb 2012  article in Foreign Affairs "What Happens After Israel Attacks Iran: Public Debate can Prevent a Strategic Disaster."

 

motti inbari

Motti Inbari '09-10, NEJS

Motti was the Center's first post-doc fellow and lectured at Brandeis on fundamentalism and Messianism. Currently he is assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Recently published by Cambridge University Press (2012) is his Messianic Religious Zionism Confronts Israeli Territorial Compromises.

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yuval jobani

Yuval Jobani '10-11, NEJS

Yuval was a post-doc fellow at Brandeis for the 2010-2011 academic year where he lectured on Jewish political thought. He now has a tenured position at Tel Aviv University.

 

randy geller

Randy Geller '11, NEJS

Randy successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on the Druze and other minorities in the Israel Defense Forces between 1948 and 1957. He is professorial lecturer at American University's department of History for the 2011-2012 academic year and will take a post-doc position at University of Texas, Austin for the 2012-2013 academic year. Click here for further details.

 

joseph ringel

Joseph Ringel '11, NEJS

Joseph successfully defended his dissertation at Brandeis' NEJS department in 2011. His dissertation title is "The Sephardic Rabbinate, Sephardic Yeshivot and the Shas Educational System." He was a post-doc fellow at Drew University for 2011-12 and is currently a post-doc fellow at the University of Maryland for the 2012-2013 academic year.