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Visiting Scholars

Visiting scholars hosted by the Schusterman Center, work on academic research projects and usually present their topic at the bi-monthly Scholars Seminar.

2011

Benyamin Neuberger, Professor of Political Science, The Open University of Israel
Professor Benyamin Neuberger holds BA and MA degrees in Political Science, Economics and African Studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a Ph.D. degree in Political Science from Columbia University. He is currently Professor of Political Science at the Open University of Israel. He has taught at Tel Aviv University, the University of Cape Town, University of Pennsylvania and Haverford College. In 2003–05 he was a Senior Associate Member of St. Antony’s College at Oxford University. He has published widely on Israeli and African politics, nationalism, ethnicity, democratic theory and religion and state. On the Stability of Israel's Democracy was the topic of Prof. Neuberger's Scholars Seminar.

2010

Aviva Halamish, Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies, The Open University of Israel

Professor Aviva Halamish is the president of the Association for Israel Studies and head of Modern History Studies at the Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies at the Open University of Israel. Her scholarship encompasses the history of Zionism, the State of Israel and the Kibbutz movement, Jewish immigration in the 20^th century, and illegal Jewish immigration to Mandate-era Palestine. She is a member Israel’s Ministry of Education Committee on History. From August 2005 through February 2006, she was a visiting professor at New York University and has taught at the University of Haifa and Bar Ilan University. She is an editorial board member for Iyunim Bitkumat Israel, and Ben Gurion Institute for the Research of Israel and Zionism Press, among others, and co-editor of Cathedra for the History of Eretz Israel and its Yishuv.In 2008 she won the Hecht Prize of the Herzl Institute for the Research and Study of Zionism for her book Be'merutz Kaful Neged Hazman (A Dual Race Against Time: Zionist Immigration Policy in the 1930s). Prof. Halamish's topic for the Scholars Seminar was Soviet Influence on Israeli Culture in the Early Years.