Schusterman Center for Israel Studies

Gannit Ankori, Chair of Israeli Art in the Department of Fine Arts

• Breaking Boundaries in Contemporary Israeli Culture - Co-taught with Ilana Szobel, Assistant Professor on the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Chair in Hebrew Literature

• Moving Images: Israeli Video Art in Context

• Israeli Art and Visual Culture: Forging Identities Between East and West

• Art and Trauma: Israeli, Palestinian, Latin American and United States Art

Maoz Azaryahu, Visiting Faculty Anthropology/Schusterman Center

• Mythic Tel-Aviv

Uri Bialer, Visiting Faculty History/NEJS/Schusterman Center

• Israel's Foreign Policy

• Ideology and Society in Contemporary Israel: Major Controversies

Yoram Bilu, Visiting Faculty Anthropology/Schusterman Center

• The Sanctification of Space in Contemporary Israel

Esther Carmel-Hakim, Lecturer in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies

• Jewish Women in Pre-State Israel, 1882-1948

David Ellenson, Schusterman Center Director and Visiting Professor NEJS

• Modern Questions Jewish Answers: Modern Jewish Responsa Literature

• Jewish and Israeli History and Historiography

Michael Feige z"l, Visiting Faculty Anthropology/NEJS/Schusterman Center

• Digging for National Roots: The Politics of Israeli Archaeology

Rachel Fish, Associate Director and Lecturer in NEJS

• History of Israel

• Myra Kraft Seminar in Israel (Hornstein Program for Jewish Professional Development)

David Fisher, Visiting Lecturer in Film, Television & Interactive Media

• Israeli Documentary Film

Eric Fleisch, Lecturer in NEJS

• History of the State of Israel

ChaeRan Freeze, NEJS Professor

• Carnal Israel: Exploring Jewish Sexuality from Talmudic Times to the Present

Tuvia Friling, Visiting Faculty in NEJS and the Schusterman Center

• The Yishuv, the State of Israel and the Holocaust

Benjamin Gidron, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Hornstein Professional Jewish Leadership Program

• Topics in Sustainable Development

• The Third Sector in Society & Non Profit Organizations and Society

Rafi Grosglik, Visiting Lecturer in Anthropology

• Globalization and the Media: Israel as a Case Study

Michal Ben-Josef Hirsch, Schusterman Center and Politics Post-Doctoral Fellow

• U.S- Israeli Relations: Interests, Values, Lobbies, and the "Special Relationship"

• Transitional Justice and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Motti Inbari, Schusterman Center and NEJS Post-Doctoral Fellow

• Fundamentalism in a Comparative Perspective

• Messianism and the State of Israel

Yuval Jobani, Schusterman Center and NEJS Post-Doctoral Fellow

• Jewish Political Thought

Alexander Kaye, Karl, Harry, and Helen Stoll Assistant Professor of Israel Studies, Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies

• Legal Controversies in Israeli History

André Levy, Visiting Professor of Anthropology in the Schusterman Center

• Ethnicities in Israel

• Global, Transnational and Diasporic Communities

Emily McKee, Schusterman Center and Anthropology Post-Doctoral Fellow

• Peoples and Societies of Israel and the Middle East

• Environmental Anthropology of the Middle East

Yehudah Mirsky, Schusterman Center and NEJS Associate Professor

• Israel: Religion, State and Society

• Zionism, Israel and the Crises of Jewish Modernity

• Renaissance, Revolution, Redemption: Readings in Early Zionist Thought

• The World to Come: Jewish Messianism from Antiquity to Zionism

• Human Rights: Law, Politics, Theology

Hanna Naveh, Visiting Professor, Near Eastern and Judaic Studies

• Family Myths: Imagining the Family in Modern Hebrew Literature

• Heroes and Anti-Heroes in Modern Hebrew Literature

Liora Norwich, Israel Institute Post-doctoral Fellow, Politics

• Israeli Politics in a Comparative Perspective

• Social and Political Movements in Israel

Ari Ofengenden, NEJS and Hebrew Language Faculty

• Representing the Arab-Israeli Conflict (cinema)

Shay Rabineau, Israel Institute Post-doctoral Fellow, Schusterman Center

• History of the State of Israel

• Walking the Land: Hiking and Religious Pilgrimage in Israel/Palestine/TheHoly Land

Sharon Pucker Rivo, Associate Professor and Director, National Center for Jewish Film

• Jews on Screen: From "Cohen’s Fire Sale" to the Coen Brothers

Walker Robins, Post-Doctoral Fellow, 2017-2018

• Jerusalem: Holy and Contested

Ambassador Dennis Ross, Fred and Rita Richman Distinguished Visiting Professor

• The Arab-Israeli Conflict

Eugene Sheppard, Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History and Thought; Associate Director of the Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry

• The Modern Jewish Experience

• Major Trends in Modern Jewish Philosophy

• Trials of Truth, Power, and Justice

• Zionism and Its Critics: Contested Visions of Jewish Nationalism

• Seminar on Modern Jewish History and Historiography

• Secularization and its Discontents

Liron Shani, Post-doctoral Fellow in Anthropology

• The Politics of Nature: Environment, Agriculture and Society in Israel and the Middle East

• Contemporary Israeli Society: Identities and Dilemmas

Sammy Smooha, Schusterman Visiting Professor in Sociology

• Israeli Society

• Ethnic Relations

Asher Susser, Senior Fellow on the Myra and Robert Kraft Chair in Arab Politics

• Contemporary Politics in the Middle East

• Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinians: Between War and Peace

Ilana Szobel, Assistant Professor on the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Chair in Hebrew Literature

• (Re)Imagining Israel: Narrative, Identity, and Zionism in Hebrew Literature

• Representing the Holocaust in Hebrew Literature

• When a Man Loves a Woman: Love, Power, and Gender in Modern Hebrew Literature

• Promises and Fulfillment: Israeli Life in Hebrew Literature

• Line of Resistance: Israeli Women Writers on War and Peace

• Trauma and Violence in Israeli Literature and Film

• Minorities in Israeli Literature and Culture

• Israeli Literature and Film in Translation

Amber Taylor, Schusterman Center Scholar and NEJS doctoral candidate

• Divided Society, Divided Identity: Exploring the Experience of Minorities in Israel

Ilan Troen, Founding Director, Schusterman Center for Israel Studies

• Conflict and Controversies in Israeli History: graduate seminar

• Divergent Jewish Cultures: Israel and America

• History of the State of Israel, Zionism to the Present

• Topics in Israeli Social and Political History

• War and Peace in Israeli Thought and Praxis

• Middle East Studies

• Conflict and Consensus in Israeli Society: graduate seminar

Eva Bellin, Myra and Robert Kraft Professor of Arab Politics, Crown Center for Middle East Studies

•  Contemporary Politics in the Middle East

Shai Feldman, Director, Crown Center for Middle East Studies  

• Arms Control in the Middle East

• Conflict and Peacemaking in the Middle East

• The Middle East in International Relations

• Israel, Iran, the Bomb and Beyond: Nuclear Proliferation in the Middle East

• Middle East Crisis: Competing Explanations

Nader Habibi, Henry J. Leir Professor of the Economics of the Middle East; Fellow at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies; Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics

• The Economics of the Middle East

Banu Eligur, Madeleine Haas Russell Visiting Assistant Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies; Research Fellow at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies

•   Civil Society in the Middle East

•   Political Islam: Introduction to Islamist Social
 Movements in the Middle East

Avigdor Levy, Professor of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies;  Director of the Graduate Program in Middle East Studies, NEJS

• The Destruction of the Ottoman Empire, 1800-1923

• Jews in the World of Islam

• Religion and Society in the Modern Middle East

• The Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1800

• Seminar on States and Minorities in the Middle East

Hikmet Kocamener, Lecturer in Anthropology

• Secularism, Religion and Modernity

Kanan Makiya, Sylvia K. Hassenfeld Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

• Describing Cruelty

• The Monument and the City

• The Middle Eastern City: Intersections of Art, Literature and History

• Political Cultures of the Middle East

• War and Revolution in the Middle East

Yitzhak Nakash, Associate Professor of Modern Middle East Studies

• History and Memory of the Modern Middle East

• The Making of the Modern Middle East

• Political Cultures of the Middle East

Lawrence Rubin, Lecturer, Crown Center for Middle East Studies

• Contemporary Politics in the Middle East

Franck F. Salameh, Lecturer in Arabic

• Societies in Conflict: Exploring the Middle East through
 Authentic Materials

Cengiz Sisman, Near Eastern and Judaic Studies

• Political Islam

• Islam, the Middle East and the West

Nagmeh Sohrabi, NEJS; Associate Director of Research, Crown Center for Middle East Studies

• Modern Middle East through Art and Culture

• History of the Modern Middle East