CV

Education

 

 

Ph.D., Political Science, Columbia University, May 2006

 

M.Phil., Political Science, Columbia University, February 2004

 

M.A., Philosophy, magna cum laude, Tel-Aviv University, July 2000

 

B.A., History and Philosophy, Tel-Aviv University, June 1997

 

 

 

Teaching and Academic Positions

 

 

 

2020-2024          Head, School of Political Science, Government and International Affairs, Tel Aviv University 

 

2019-present      Associate Professor, School of Political Science, Government and International Affairs, Tel Aviv University 

 

2013-2019          Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Tel Aviv University

 

2015-2016          Visiting Scholar, Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA

 

2014                   Convener of research group on Constitutionalism and Religion, Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld University, Germany

 

2007-2013          Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Tel-Aviv University

 

2010-2011          Visiting Fellow, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton University

 

2006-2007          Associate Director, The School of Educational Leadership, Mandel Leadership Institute, Jerusalem

 

2003-2004          Adjunct Professor, School of Continuing Education, Columbia University.

 

2002-2005          Teaching Fellow/Preceptor, Department of Political Science, Columbia University.

 

2004-2006          Teaching Fellow, Department of Political Science, Barnard College.

 

1998-2000          Co-Director, Senior Civil Service Program, Mandel Leadership Institute, Jerusalem

 

 

 

Research Grants

 

Israel Science Foundation, research grant on “International Constitutional Advising.” PI.  2020-2025

 

Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Workshop Grant on “Justice, Responsibility and Labor Rights in the Global Era.” 2018.

 

The Edmund Safra Center for Ethics, Tel Aviv University, research grant on the New Science of Constitution Making. PI. August 2016-2018.

 

Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZIF), Bielefeld University, Germany. Convener of a research group on “Balancing Religious Accommodation and Human Rights in Constitutional Settings.” PI. 2014-2015. With Mirjam Künkler, Princeton University, and Shylashri Shankar, CPR, New Delhi.

 

Rockefeller Foundation, funding to organize a workshop on “Constitution Writing, Human Rights, and Religion” at the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio, Italy, July 2012. With Asli Bali, UCLA law school.

 

The Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University, Co-Sponsoring research meeting on Religion, Law and Democracy, May 2011. With Mirjam Künkler, Princeton University.

 

Israel Science Foundation, Workshop Grant. Global Justice and International Labor Law. PI. February 2011. With Faina Milman-Sivan, Haifa University Law School.

 

Princeton University. Visiting Fellowship. Luce Project on Migration, Participation, and Democratic Governance in the U.S., Europe, and the Muslim World, 2010-2011.

 

Israel Science Foundation. Research project on Global Justice and Global Governance: Theoretical and Empirical Aspects, The Case of International Labor Law. PI. 2009-2012. With Faina Milman-Sivan, Haifa University Law School and Yossi Dahan, College of Law and Business.

 

The Center for Absorption in Science, Ministry of Immigration Absorption, November 2007.

 

Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant, European Union. PI. October 2007-2009.

 

Tel Aviv University, Vice-President Foundation, October 2007.

 

Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, September 2005 – May 2006.

 

Teaching Fellowship/Faculty Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, January 2002 – June 2005.

 

Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Summer Fellowship for Outstanding Academic Record, Summer 2003 + summer 2005.

 

Columbia University Conflict Resolution Network, Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Research Award, March 2003.

 

Mandel Foundation, Ph.D. Scholarship, 2001.

 

 

 

International Workshops/Conferences – Director/Organizer

 

 

Organizer of International Workshop on Justice and Labor Rights in the Global Era, June 2019 (with Faina Milman Sivan and Yossi Dahan).

 

Organizer of symposion on Inclusiveness, Representation, and Religious Accommodation in Constitutions and Constitutionalism, Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld University, Germany, July 2015. With Mirjam Künkler (Princeton) and Shylashri Shankar (CPR, New Delhi).

 

Organizer of workshop on Boundary Making in the Constitution: Balancing Religious Freedom and Human Rights, Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld University, Germany, August 2014. With Mirjam Künkler (Princeton) and Shylashri Shankar (CPR, New Delhi).

 

Organizer of international workshop on Constitution Writing and Religion, Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld University, Germany. June 2014. With Aslı Bali (UCLA).

 

Organizer of international workshop on Constitution Writing, Human Rights and Religion, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy, July 2012. With Aslı Bali (UCLA).

 

Organizer of international workshop on Global Justice and International Labor, Haifa University, January 2012. With Yossi Dahan (College of Law and Business) and Faina Milman-Sivan (Haifa University Law faculty).

 

Organizer of an international workshop on Constitutions and Democracy in Divided Societies, Tel Aviv University, January 2010. With Anal Jamal (TAU).

 

Director of international workshop on Comparative Perspectives on Critical Junctures in Democratic Religion-State Relations, Bogazici University, Istanbul, September 2009. With Murat Akan (Bogazici) and Mirjam Künkler (Princeton).

 

Director of international workshop on Law, Religion and Democracy at the The 10th Mediterranean Research Meeting, European University Institute, Florence, March 2009. With Mirjam Künkler (Princeton).

 

 

 

Complete CV available upon request