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I am Head of the Barak Leadership Center at Tel Aviv University and professor at the School of Political Science, Government and International Relations. I am head of the scientific Council of the Center for the Study of the United States at TAU. I have been a member of the Global Young Academy since 2019 and of the Scientific Council of the Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center. Additionally, I am a research fellow at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York. I was Chairperson of the Israel Young Academy from 2018-2019 and co-chaired the Israeli Cyber Forum at Columbia University, while teaching political science at Columbia from 2016-18. 

 

My broad research interests are in Comparative and American Politics, Politics of Sexuality and Gender, Judicial politics, pandemics and politics, and Cyber Security. My scholarship has appeared in over 50 peer reviewed publications in Regulation & Governance, Political Behavior, World Development, Demography, Public Administration, Journal of Public Policy, Comparative Political Studies, The Law & Society Review, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Political Studies, Judicature, and the Justice System Journal, among others. My third scholarly book was published with Cambridge in 2019 and focused on the Production of Reproductive Rights. My book about agenda setting on the Supreme Court of the United States was published in 2014 with Palgrave-MacMillan and my book about sexual minority rights in a comparative perspective was published with SUNY Press in 2016. My popular nonfiction book about Israeli parents in America was published in Hebrew in 2010 and was broadly covered by the media. My research has been covered in major public outlets as well, such as the Washington Post and Axios. 

 

I am the recipient of several grants and fellowships. In 2018, with colleagues from across the TAU campus, I co-lead a multidisciplinary team to win a grant of 1M New Israeli Shekels for 3 years from the US State Department and the Fulbright Program to found a new Center for the Study of the United States. In addition, I won the Marie Curie Grant, a Fulbright Doctoral Fellowship and the National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant. My work has been presented at the annual meetings of the American, European, Midwest, Southern and Western Political Science Associations and I have been invited to give talks in China, India, Norway and the United States. I have teaching experience at the graduate and undergraduate levels at Columbia University of New York, Tel Aviv University, Stony Brook University, SUNY Albany, Southwest University (Chongqing 西南大学) and the Open University.

 

I appear as an expert commentator on the Washington Post, WKGO San Francisco, Israeli TV Channels 11, 12, 13 & 14, Christian Science Monitor, ynet.co.il, Haaretz, Galatz Israeli Radio and Knesset TV Channel. Likewise, I am regularly engaged in community service on and off campus including giving talks to the general public, advising government and NGOs, being invited to give a commencement speech, and volunteering with individuals with disabilities. Prior to my academic career, I had been the founder and director of several social programs for youth of underprivileged background, including at Dor Shalom (Generation for Peace) and the Summer Youth University, and had had advanced training in clinical psychology.