American Studies Scholars in Israel
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Political Science, International Relations and Defense Studies
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Hebrew University
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nkochavi@mscc.huji.ac.il International Relations Department
Academic Interests: International History; History and Historiography of American Foreign Relations; the History of U.S.-China and U.S.-Israeli relations
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msmpomer@mscc.huji.ac.il International Relations Department
Academic Interests: The American tradition in foreign policy; the United States and International Law; the United States and international adjudication; the law of U.S. foreign relations; the United States and multilateralism; the United States and the legal regulation of the use of force; the Wilsonian legacy in American foreign policy
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Tel Aviv University
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Adjunct Prof, Security Studies Program, TAU and Senior Fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Academic Interests: US Foreign and defense policy, especially in Middle-East; US-Israeli relations; Israeli national security policy and decision making.
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Department of Political Science
Academic Interests: International relations; comparative politics; diaspora politics
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Bar Ilan University
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Department of Political Studies & The BESA Center for Strategic Studies
Academic Interests: American-Israeli relations; US policy in the Middle East; US government and foreign policy; American media and public opinion
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Senior lecturer in the Dept of Political Studies at Bar Ilan and a research associate at BESA
Academic Interests: U.S. foreign policy, especially U.S.-Israeli relations
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Ben Gurion University
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The Lynn and Lloyd Hurst Family Professor of Local Government;
Chair & Professor, Department of Politics and GovernmentAcademic Interests: Public policy; Jews in American politics; ethnicity; immigration; American Israel relations
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American Jewish Committee
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Director of the Israeli office
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Haifa University
- wisrael@poli.haifa.ac.il
Academic Interests: American Politics; Political Behavior; Campaigns and Elections; Public Opinion; Political Communication; The Presidency
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Jaffa Strategic Instititue
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Roni Bart
Academic Interests: Strategic U.S.-Israeli relations
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Open University
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Dr. Tal Tovy
Academic Interests: American military history and the Vietnam War
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Jewish-American History
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Tel Aviv University
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Prof. Robert Rockaway
Department of Jewish History
Academic Interests: American Jewish history; American immigration and ethnic history
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Hebrew University
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Melton Center for Jewish Education (Emeritus)
Academic Interests: Sociology of American Jewry; Jewish Identity in the UK; the U.S. National Jewish Population Study 2000-01; building Jewish community; Jewish communal policy; survey research; American Jewish relationship with Israel
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The A. Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry
Academic Interests: American Jewry and politics
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Department of American Studies (Emeritus)
Academic Interests: Public Culture of American Ethnic Groups; Bi-culturalism in American Jewish Life; Three Generations of American Zionists and their Promised Lands
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The A. Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry
Stephen S. Wise Chair in American Jewish History and Institutions
Academic Interests: Jewish cultural and intellectual history; American Jewish immigration History; Capitalism, liberalism, and American Jews; American Jewish labor history; Yiddish culture in America; ethnic studies; Russian Jewish history
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The A. Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry
Academic Interests: demography of American Jews; Jews internal migration in the U.S.; immigration to Israel; Jewish identification; intermarriage; American Jews-Israel relationships
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Bar Ilan University
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Prof. Bat-Ami Zucker
General History Dept.
Academic Interests: Amercian Judaims; America and the Holocaust
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Ben Gurion University
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Prof. Allon Gal
History of the Jewish People Department (Emeritus)
Ben-Gurion Institute for the Study of Israel & Zionism Co-director, Center for North American Jewry -
Department of Jewish History
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Ben-Gurion Research Institute
Academic Interests: Comparative studies on Israeli and American-Jewish copings with the Holocaust; comparative research on Israeli and American-Jewish Zionist advocacies (1930s-1940s); American Reform Judaism and the Holocaust; the Hasidic Movement and the Holocaust.
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American History
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Hebrew University
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Professor Emeritus, American Studies Department
Academic Interests:
The principle of separation of powers and the U.S; Constitution; The U.S. Bill of Rights; U.S.-Israel relations
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Department of History
Department of American StudiesAcademic Interests: European and American intellectual history in the 16th-18th centuries;Philosophy of history; English and American Puritanism; The "Great Awakening"
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Haifa University
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Department of Multidisciplinary Studies
Academic Interests: Feminist theory; 18th century women’s history; the history of wives; U.S. history – colonial and early Republic
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History Department
Academic Interests: Colonial British North America and the Early American Republic, intellectual history; Currently writing manuscript on the influences of Rome on American republicanism
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Prof. Mechal Sobel
History Department
- Bar Ilan University
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Prof. Haim Genizi
Professor Emeritus of American history, General history department
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Dr. Penina Levi
General history department
Academic Interests: Women in organizations; Gender and alcoholism in American history; Alcoholics Anonymous; Al-Anon; The American Presidency
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Tel Aviv University
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Prof. Eyal Naveh
History department
Academic Interests: American History; Education
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Dr. Michael Zakim
History department
Academic Interests: History of the United States; Gender; Economic History
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Literature
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Tel Aviv University
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Department of English and American Studies
Academic Interests: The Interrelationship between Poetry and Popular Culture - performance, poetry, music; Victorian and Decadent Poetry, Modern Poetry
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Department of English and American Studies
Academic Interests: American Literature and Ideology; Canadian Literature and Ideology; Literature and Religion; Literature and Ethics
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Miriam B. Mandel
Department of English and American Studies
Academic Interests: Twentieth century American literature, with focus on Hemingway and Fitzgerald; the Short Story; Translation; Textual Editing; Liminality (the Madrid School of Liminality)
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Chair
Department of English and American StudiesAcademic Interests: 19th Century American Literature, Culture, and Society; Transnationalism in American Studies; Gender Studies; Cultural Theory and Studies; Theories of Modernity and Secularization; US and the Middle East in the 19th and early 20th centuries
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Department of English and American Studies
Academic Interests: American Literature; American Studies; African American Literature; Photography and Literature; Joyce Carol Oates
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Department of English and American Studies
Samuel L. and Perry Haber Chair on the Study of the Jewish Experience in the United States
Academic Interests: Modern British and American Literature; Jewish American Literaturel; Literature and Ethnicity; Urban Literature; Modern Jewish Writing; Modern Yiddish Literature and Culture
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Hebrew University
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English Department (Emeritus)
Academic Interests: American modernism; (in particular Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound) and contemporary American poetry after World War II
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Department of American Studies
English Department
Academic Interests: History and American fiction; African American and American Jewish fiction; the Holocaust in modern literature; literary theory.
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Dr. Anna Kventsel
English Department
Academic Interests: Victorian literature and culture; Anglo-American Modernism
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Department of General and Comparative Literature
Academic Interests: American and Hebrew literature; Biblical literature; The bible as cultural text; Nation and narration; Literature and History; Feminist theory
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Department of General and Comparative Literature (Emeritus)
Academic Interests: Contemporary American fiction; Contemporary Israeli fiction; Portraits and doubles in fiction
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Department of American Studies
English Department
Academic Interests: American poetry; literary theory; religion and literature; feminist theory
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Bar Ilan University
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English Department
Academic Interests: American Literature; Cultural and Intellectual History; Ethnic literature and Culture; Jewish American Literature; Jewish Literary History
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English Department
Academic Interests: Modern and Postmodern American Literature; Henry James, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Gertrude Stein; Literary and Interdisciplinary Theory; History of Literary Criticism
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Ben Gurion University
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Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics
Academic Interests: Interdisciplinary early American and U.S.
literature and culture; geographic and anthropological constructions
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Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics
Academic Interests: Jewish and other ethnic American literatures; gender theory and cultural studies; autobiography; narratives of identity formation more broadly construed
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Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics
Academic Interests: Nineteenth and twentieth-century American fiction; book history; reading practices; theories of reading; narrative rhetoric; profession of authorship; cultures of literacy; racial politics
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Dr. Catherine Rottenberg
Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics
Academic Interests: Twentieth-century African- and Jewish-American
literature; "passing" narratives; representations of "Americanness" and
urban space in multi-ethnic literature; feminist and postcolonial theory;
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Haifa University
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Dr. Lyn Barzilai
Department of English Language and Literature
Academic Interests: George Oppen's poetry; the use of myth in contemporary poetry; African American writers such as Rita Dove and Langston Hughes; Margaret Atwood's work, particularly her poetry
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Professor William Freedman
Department of English Language and Literature (Emeritus)
Academic Interests: Modern and Contemporary American Poetry, particularly women's poetry since 1950; 19th century American fiction: Poe, Hawthorne and Melville; Jewish American fiction: Malamud, Bellow, Roth and Henry Roth
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Dr. Bennett Kravitz
Department of English Language and Literature
Academic Interests: American literature; African-American literature; popular culture; diseases and syndromes in literature and film
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Department of English Language and Literature
Gender StudiesAcademic Interests: American Literature; Black Studies; Jazz Aesthetics; Ethnicity, Multiculturalism, and Transnationalism; Theodor Adorno; Gender Studies; Popular Culture & Science Fiction
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Dr. Miriam Sivan
Department of English Language and Literature
Academic Interests: Contemporary American Literature; Jewish American literature; literature of the Shoah
- Oranim College
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Department of English Language and Literature
Bar-Ilan University (MA Shaindy Rudoff Creative Writing Program)
Academic Interests: The place of place in American Poetry (Whitman, Olson, Reznikoff, Niedecker, Howe, Harjo); Experimental American Poetics; The Rewriting of Classical Myths in Women's Poetry; Emily Dickinson - Poetic Foremother and Postmodernist; African-American Poetry
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Beit Berl Academic College
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English Department
Academic Interests: Postcolonial literature; identity formation and subject position in colonized and settler societies, e.g. early American Colonial writing, slave narratives, Rap. Non-native English-speakers (NNES); Non-native English-speaking teachers (NNEST); English language teaching (ELT)
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Department of Humanities and Arts
Academic Interests: 19th and 20th Century American Literature (including Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Twain, Glaspell and Djuna Barnes); History of Drama; 14th through 20th Century British Literature
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Al-Qasemi - Academic College of Education
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Dr. Dalia Fadila
Academic Interests: Arab American literature; American literature
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Theater Arts
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Tel Aviv University
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Department of Theatre Arts
Academic Interests: American drama; modern and contemporary British and European drama; feminist drama and theatre
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Hebrew University
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Department of Theatre Studies
Academic Interests: Radical American Theatre; The American Dramaic 'Canon'; Jewish-American Theatre; Robert Wilson, the Director as Magician; Jewish Cultural Markings in German and American Theatre
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Art History
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Tel Aviv University
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Department of Art History
Academic Interests: Modern, Contemporary and Postmodern Art and Culture
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Department of Art History
Academic Interests: Modern art
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Department of Art History (Adjunct lecturer)
Academic Interests: American art
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Hebrew University
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Department of Art History
Academic Interests: Jewish American art
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Haifa University
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Department of Art History
Academic Interests: Art after World War II; Postmodernism
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Ben Gurion University
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Prof. Haim Finkelstein
Chairman
Department of the Arts
Academic Interests: Modern art; science fiction illustration in the first half of the 20th century; popular art; the relationship between art and literature
- Sociology and Anthropology
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Tel Aviv University
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Department of Sociology and Antropology
Academic Interests: Stratification; Mobility; Work and Labor Markets; US postsecondary education system
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Department of Labor Studies
Academic Interests: Organizational theory; Organizational culture; Sociology of work and occupations; Qualitative research methods; Organizational change
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Department of Sociology and Antropology
Academic Interests: Work and Labor Markets; Stratification/Mobility; Migration and Immigration
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Department of Sociology and Antropology
Academic Interests: Law and Society; Occupation/Profession; Sociological Theory; Voluntary Organizations; Globalization
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Department of Sociology and Antropology
Academic Interests: Family; Work and Labor Markets; Sex and Gender
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Hebrew University
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Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Academic Interests: The Role of Culture in Social Action; The History of Emotional Life; The Impact of Knowledge Systems on Emotions; Cultural Critique applied to Art and Popular Culture; The role of technology in social and cultural change; Consumer Society and media culture; The Moral meaning of Modernity; The Impact of Capitalism on The Cultural Sphere
- Haifa University
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Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Academic Interests: Technology and Work Organization; the technical work force; technical sales work; interorganizational relations in high tech industry
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Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Academic Interests: Sociology of consumption; sociology of culture; social stratification and inequality; environmental sociology
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Ben Gurion University
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Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Academic Interests: Religion in the United States, especially Judaism; sociology of cinema, especially representations of social class in American cinema.
- Bar Ilan University
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Department of Sociology and Anthropology (Emeritus)
Academic Interests: Jewish American Identity; Urban Studies; Emigration from America
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Law
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Tel Aviv University
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Faculty of Law
Academic Interests: Private Law Theory; American Legal History; History and Theory of Money; Contracts
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Haifa University
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Faculty of Law
Academic Interests: Federal Income tax; Federal Tax Policy; The Constitutional aspects of the National Economy
- Philosophy
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Haifa University
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Dr. Dan Nesher
Department of Philosophy
Academic Interests: Philosophy of language, mind; epistemology; the epistemology of art and literature;the philosophy of Charles S. Peirce
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Ben Gurion University
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Bar Ilan University
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Department of Philosophy
Academic Interests: Contemporary analytic philosophy; contemporary philosophical pragmatism; social philosophy; practical ethics.
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Department of Philosophy
Academic Interests: Philosophy of Time; Philosophy of Science; Realism - Antirealism; Pragmatism (especially William James and Nelson Goodman); Ordinary Language Philosophy
- Communication
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Hebrew University
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Dept. of Communication & Journalism
Director, Smart Family Institute of Communications Department of American StudiesAcademic Interests: Communication technologies; old and new; Communications in history and the history of communications; Communications in Jewish civilization: past and present; American history in the 19th century; American Jewish history.
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Dept. of Communication & Journalism
Academic Interests: Encoding and decoding of television news and fiction; Soap opera in cross-cultural perspective; The practices of news genres; news, talkshows, media events, disaster marathons; Journalistic norms and ethics
- Haifa University
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Department of Communication
Academic Interests: Media and Religion; History of Popular Religion in America; Evangelical - Jewish relations in the US