Ilan Troen
Degrees
University of Chicago, Ph.D.University of Chicago, M.A.
Brandeis University, B.A.
Expertise
Israel studies particularly Israeli social and political history; Modern social history; founding editor of the journal Israel Studies (Indiana University Press); transnational history comparative history.Profile
Continue to develop courses in Israel Studies from undergraduate to graduate level; continue to expand teaching of faculty across country and from abroad through the Brandeis University Summer Institute for Israel Studies that now conducts workshops outside the "summer"" I am engaged in new research on how different peoples claim land, a study that focuses on Israel but in a comparative perspective
Courses Taught
| NEJS | 145a | History of the State of Israel |
| NEJS | 185a | Conflict and Consensus in Israeli Society; Topics in Israeli Social History |
Awards and Honors
President, Association for Israel Studies (2015 - 2017)
Vice-President of the Association for Israel Studies (2013 - 2015)
Benjamin J. Shevach Memorial Award for Distinguished Achievement in Jewish Educational Leadership, from the Hebrew College (2012)
Scholarship
Troen, Ilan and Azaryahu, Maoz and Golan, Arnon. "Israel: Geography, Demography and Economy." Essential Israel: Essays for the 21st Century. Ed. Ilan Troen and Rachel Fish. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2016. 25. (forthcoming)
Troen, Ilan, Ilan Troen and Rachel Fish, ed. Essential Israel; Essays for the 21st Century. Bloomington. Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2016. (forthcoming)
Troen, Ilan. "Scenarios of the Future: Continuity and Change in a Century of Negotiating Imagination with Reality." Israel: New Insights and Scholarship. 2016 ed. Ed. Frederick Greenspahn2016. New York: New York University Press, 2016. 25. (forthcoming)
Troen,Ilan. "Zionist Settlement in the Land of Israel/Palestine." Essential Israel: Essays for the 21st Century. Ed. Ilan Troen and Rachel Fish. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2016. 20. (forthcoming)
Troen, Ilan, ed. Israel Studies. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 20 and 21 2016.
Troen, Ilan. "Secular Judaism in Israel." Society 23. 2 (2016): 153-162.
Troen, Ilan, ed. Israel Studies. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press,, 19:1, 19:2, 19:3 2015.
Troen, Ilan. "The Campaign to Boycott Israeli Universities; Historical and Ideological sources." The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel. Ed. Cary Nelson and Gabriel Noah Brahm. Chicago: Wayne State University and MLA Members for Scholars' Rights, 2015. 15.
Troen, Ilan. "The Israeli-Palestinian Relationship in Higher Education: Evidence from the field." The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel. Ed. Cary Nelson and Gabriel Noah Brahm. Chicago: Wayne State University and MLA Members for Scholars' Rights, 2015. 9.
Troen, Ilan/Rabineau, Shay. "Competing Concepts of Land in Eretz Israel." Israel Studies 19. 2 (2015): 25.
Troen, S. ILAN. "Multiple Modernities: A View from Jerusalem." Society 31. 2 (2014): 7.
Troen, S. Ilan Troen and Shay Rabineau. "Competing Concepts of Land in Eretz Israel." Israel Studies 19. 2 (2014): 25.
Troen, S. Ilan, ed. Zionism in the Twenty-First Century. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 19:2 2014.
Troen, S. Ilan. "Israeli Views of the Land of Israel/Palestine." Israel Studies 18. 2 (2014): 15.
Troen, S. Ilan. “Iytzuv Ha-hityashvut Ha-Tzionit; Dimyon ve-Tichnun Vi-Mivchan ha-Mitziyut. Kiryat Sde Boker: Ben-Gurion University Press, 2013.
Troen, Ilan and Maoz Azaryahu., ed. Tel-Aviv: The First Century; Visions, Designs and Actualities. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2012.
Troen, Ilan.. "Tel-Aviv Imagined and Realized; An Introductory Essay." Tel-Aviv: The First Century; Visions, Designs and Actualities. Ed. Troen, Ilan and Maoz Azaryahu. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2012. 25.
Rhona D. Seidelman, S. Ilan Troen, Shifra Shvarts,. "Healing" the bodies and souls of immigrant children: The Ringworm and Trachoma Institute, Sha'ar ha-Aliyah, 1952-1960." Journal of Israeli History 29. 2 (2011): 191-211.
Troen, Ilan., ed. Israel Studies. Indiana University Press, 16:1, 16:2, 16:3, 17:1 2011.
Troen, Ilan.. "Accommodation with the Arabs of Palestine." Journal of Sino-Western Communications, Special Issue on Jewish and Israel Studies in China 2. Spring (2011): 175-90.
Troen, Ilan.. "Development Towns in Israel." Development Towns. Ed. Zvi Zameret, Aviva Halamish, Ester Meir-Glitzenshteyn. Jerusalem: Yad Ben-Zvi, 2010. 19 - 37.
Troen, Ilan.. "Israel Studies." Israel Studies 15. 3 issues annually (2010): 600 pages.
Troen, Selwyn K. and Jacob Lassner (co-authors). Jews and Muslims in the Arab World; Haunted by Pasts Real and Imagined. Lanham and New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007.
Troen, Selwyn K.. "De-Judaizing the Homeland: Academic politics in rewriting the history of Palestine." Israel Affairs 13. 4 (2007): 872-884.
Troen, Selwyn K.. Imagining Zion: Dreams, Designs, and Realities in a Century of Jewish Settlement. Yale University Press, 2003.
Troen, Selwyn K., Moore, D.D.. Divergent Jewish Cultures: America and Israel. Yale University Press, 2001.
Troen, Selwyn K., ed. Jewish Centers and Peripheries; Europe between Aemrica and Israel Fifthy Years After World War II. Transaction: New Brunswick and London, 1999.
Troen, Selwyn K. and Noah Lucas, ed. Israel: The First Decade of Independence. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995.
Troen, S. Ilan and Klaus Bade, ed. Zuwanderung und Eingliederung von Deutschen und Juden aus der fruheren Sowjetunion in Deutschland und Israel. Bonn: Bundeszentrale dur politische Bildung, 1993.
Troen, Selwyn K. and Moshe Shemesh, ed. The Suez-Sinai Crisis 1956; Retrospective and Reappraisal. London and New York: Frank Cass and Columbia University Press, 1990.
Troen, Selwyn K. and Benjamin Pinkus, ed. Organizing Rescue: National Jewish Solidarity in the Modern Period. London: Frank Cass, 1988.
Troen, Selwyn K. and Glenn Holt, S. Thernstrom and T. Hareven. St. Louis. New York: Franklin Watts - New Viewpoints, 1977.
Troen, Selwyn K.. The Public and the Schools: Shaping the Saint Louis System 1838-1920. University of Missouri Press, 1975.