Political Science, International Relations and Defense Studies
Hebrew University
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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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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
Tel Aviv University
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.
Department of Political Science
Academic Interests: International relations; comparative politics; diaspora politics
Bar Ilan University
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
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
Ben Gurion University
The Lynn and Lloyd Hurst Family Professor of Local Government;
Chair & Professor, Department of Politics and Government
Academic Interests: Public policy; Jews in American politics; ethnicity; immigration; American Israel relations
American Jewish Committee
Director of the Israeli office
Haifa University
Academic Interests: American Politics; Political Behavior; Campaigns and Elections; Public Opinion; Political Communication; The Presidency
Jaffa Strategic Instititue
Roni Bart
Academic Interests: Strategic U.S.-Israeli relations
Open University
Dr. Tal Tovy
Academic Interests: American military history and the Vietnam War
Jewish-American History
Tel Aviv University
Prof. Robert Rockaway
Department of Jewish History
Academic Interests: American Jewish history; American immigration and ethnic history
Hebrew University
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
The A. Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry
Academic Interests: American Jewry and politics
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
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
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
Bar Ilan University
Prof. Bat-Ami Zucker
General History Dept.
Academic Interests: Amercian Judaims; America and the Holocaust
Ben Gurion University
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
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.
American History
Hebrew University
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
Department of History
Department of American Studies
Academic Interests: European and American intellectual history in the 16th-18th centuries;Philosophy of history; English and American Puritanism; The "Great Awakening"
Haifa University
Department of Multidisciplinary Studies
Academic Interests: Feminist theory; 18th century women’s history; the history of wives; U.S. history – colonial and early Republic
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
Prof. Mechal Sobel
History Department
Prof. Haim Genizi
Professor Emeritus of American history, General history department
Dr. Penina Levi
General history department
Academic Interests: Women in organizations; Gender and alcoholism in American history; Alcoholics Anonymous; Al-Anon; The American Presidency
Tel Aviv University
Prof. Eyal Naveh
History department
Academic Interests: American History; Education
Dr. Michael Zakim
History department
Academic Interests: History of the United States; Gender; Economic History
Literature
Tel Aviv University
Department of English and American Studies
Academic Interests: The Interrelationship between Poetry and Popular Culture - performance, poetry, music; Victorian and Decadent Poetry, Modern Poetry
Department of English and American Studies
Academic Interests: American Literature and Ideology; Canadian Literature and Ideology; Literature and Religion; Literature and Ethics
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)
Chair
Department of English and American Studies
Academic 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
Department of English and American Studies
Academic Interests: American Literature; American Studies; African American Literature; Photography and Literature; Joyce Carol Oates
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
Hebrew University
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
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.
Dr. Anna Kventsel
English Department
Academic Interests: Victorian literature and culture; Anglo-American Modernism
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
Department of General and Comparative Literature (Emeritus)
Academic Interests: Contemporary American fiction; Contemporary Israeli fiction; Portraits and doubles in fiction
Department of American Studies
English Department
Academic Interests: American poetry; literary theory; religion and literature; feminist theory
Bar Ilan University
English Department
Academic Interests: American Literature; Cultural and Intellectual History; Ethnic literature and Culture; Jewish American Literature; Jewish Literary History
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
Ben Gurion University
Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics
Academic Interests: Interdisciplinary early American and U.S.
literature and culture; geographic and anthropological constructions
of native status and race; postcolonial approaches to U.S. culture
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
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
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;
and critical race studies
Haifa University
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
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
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
Department of English Language and Literature
Gender Studies
Academic Interests: American Literature; Black Studies; Jazz Aesthetics; Ethnicity, Multiculturalism, and Transnationalism; Theodor Adorno; Gender Studies; Popular Culture & Science Fiction
Dr. Miriam Sivan
Department of English Language and Literature
Academic Interests: Contemporary American Literature; Jewish American literature; literature of the Shoah
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
Beit Berl Academic College
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)
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
Al-Qasemi - Academic College of Education
Dr. Dalia Fadila
Academic Interests: Arab American literature; American literature
Theater Arts
Tel Aviv University
Department of Theatre Arts
Academic Interests: American drama; modern and contemporary British and European drama; feminist drama and theatre
Hebrew University
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
Art History
Tel Aviv University
Department of Art History
Academic Interests: Modern, Contemporary and Postmodern Art and Culture
Department of Art History
Academic Interests: Modern art
Department of Art History (Adjunct lecturer)
Academic Interests: American art
Hebrew University
Department of Art History
Academic Interests: Jewish American art
Haifa University
Department of Art History
Academic Interests: Art after World War II; Postmodernism
Ben Gurion University
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
Tel Aviv University
Department of Sociology and Antropology
Academic Interests: Stratification; Mobility; Work and Labor Markets; US postsecondary education system
Department of Labor Studies
Academic Interests: Organizational theory; Organizational culture; Sociology of work and occupations; Qualitative research methods; Organizational change
Department of Sociology and Antropology
Academic Interests: Work and Labor Markets; Stratification/Mobility; Migration and Immigration
Department of Sociology and Antropology
Academic Interests: Law and Society; Occupation/Profession; Sociological Theory; Voluntary Organizations; Globalization
Department of Sociology and Antropology
Academic Interests: Family; Work and Labor Markets; Sex and Gender
Hebrew University
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
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Academic Interests: Technology and Work Organization; the technical work force; technical sales work; interorganizational relations in high tech industry
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Academic Interests: Sociology of consumption; sociology of culture; social stratification and inequality; environmental sociology
Ben Gurion University
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.
Department of Sociology and Anthropology (Emeritus)
Academic Interests: Jewish American Identity; Urban Studies; Emigration from America
Law
Tel Aviv University
Faculty of Law
Academic Interests: Private Law Theory; American Legal History; History and Theory of Money; Contracts
Haifa University
Faculty of Law
Academic Interests: Federal Income tax; Federal Tax Policy; The Constitutional aspects of the National Economy
Haifa University
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
Ben Gurion University
Bar Ilan University
Department of Philosophy
Academic Interests: Contemporary analytic philosophy; contemporary philosophical pragmatism; social philosophy; practical ethics.
Department of Philosophy
Academic Interests: Philosophy of Time; Philosophy of Science; Realism - Antirealism; Pragmatism (especially William James and Nelson Goodman); Ordinary Language Philosophy
Hebrew University
Dept. of Communication & Journalism
Director, Smart Family Institute of Communications Department of American Studies
Academic 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.
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
Department of Communication
Academic Interests: Media and Religion; History of Popular Religion in America; Evangelical - Jewish relations in the US
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