Consortium for the Teaching of Hebrew Language and Culture

Dr. Liram Koblentz-Stenzler is a scholar and practitioner with a wealth of experience in the fields of counterstrokes, antisemitism, and global far-right extremism. She is a senior researcher and head of the Antisemitism & Global Far-Right Extremism desk at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT), as well as an adjunct lecturer at Reichman University, and a former Visiting Fellow at Yale University. 

She holds a Ph.D. from the Political Science Department at Tel Aviv University. Her research focuses on democratic states facing terror or guerrilla activities. She is the co-author of the book "Israel's Targeted Killing Policy: Moral, Ethical & Operational Dilemmas" with Prof. Boaz Ganor.

She advises security agencies, organizations, and communities to understand the language, connections, and action patterns of extremist right-wing individuals in real-time, aiming to prevent acts of terrorism, incitement, and antisemitism. As a visiting Scholar at Brandeis University, she will take part in Consortium research on the topic of antisemitism.

Tamar Mayer is the Robert R. Churchill Professor Emerita of Geosciences at Middlebury College, in VT. She is a feminist political geographer and the past director (2012-2020) of both the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs and the Program in International and Global Studies at Middlebury College, in VT.

For more than a decade she also directed the Program in Modern Hebrew and Israeli Society. Her research interests lie in the interplay among nationalism, homeland, and memory, with a special focus on stateless ethnic nations, specifically Jews pre-statehood, Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, and the Uighurs in Xinjiang, China. She is the editor or co-editor of seven books that focus on different dimensions of international and global crises, the most recent of which is Displacement, Belonging and Migrant Agency in the Face of Power (Routledge 2022). As a visiting Scholar at Brandeis University, she will take part in Consortium research on the topic of antisemitism.