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Ofir Abu '13, Politics
Ofir has successfully defended his dissertation in the Politics Department, "State Response to Arab Protest, 1990-2001: The Role of Dissident Elites." He continues on to Ben Gurion University of the Negev for a Post-doctoral position in their Department of Public Policy and Administration.
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 '10-12, Politics and Heller School
Michal was a post-doc fellow with the Schusterman Center from 2010-2012. An active fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center, she was also offered an adjunct faculty position with the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis.
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."
Rachel Fish '13, NEJS
Rachel successfully defended her dissertation in 2013: "Configurations of Bi-Nationalism: The Transformation of Bi-nationalism in Palestine/Israel from the 1920s-Present." She is associate director of the Schusterman Center since 2011 and lectures in Brandeis' Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program.
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 held post-doc positions at American University and the University of Texas, Austin. In 2013 he was appointed the inaugural Les and Eva Erdi Lecturer in Israel and Middle East Studies at Monash University in Australia.
Sara Yael Hirschhorn '12-13, NEJS
Sarah was a post-doc fellow with the Schusterman Center in 2012-2013. As of fall 2013 she will be joining the faculty at the University of Oxford as the newly appointed Sidney Brichto Fellow in Israel Studies. It is a five-year position, cross-appointed with the Faculty of Oriental Studies and the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. She plans to complete a book manuscript based on her dissertation "City on a Hilltop: The Participation of Jewish-American Immigrants within the Israeli Settler Movement, 1967-1987,” and will be teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level as well as providing programming for the general public.
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 '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.
Emily McKee '12-13, Anthropology
Emily commences a tenure-track position in Fall '13 as assistant professor at Northern Illinois University, jointly appointed with the Department of Anthropology and the Institute for the Study of the Environment, Sustainability and Energy.
Joseph Ringel '11, NEJS
Joseph successfully defended his dissertation at Brandeis' NEJS department in 2011: "The Sephardic Rabbinate, Sephardic Yeshivot and the Shas Educational System." He was a post-doc fellow at Drew University for 2011-12 and currently holds a visiting professor position at the University of Maryland.
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