Researchers

Academic Research is a central focus at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace. Each year, over 70 researchers fill the halls of Truman studying the Middle East and different aspects of the Israeli Palestinian conflict. The Truman Institute supports not only veteran academics well known in their fields, but students working on their doctoral dissertation, and post-doctoral students working on new and innovative projects. Through the varied interests of our fellows, much of the work done here is multidisciplinary and even stretches across the traditional barriers of countries and regions to initiate and maintain contacts with other universities, similar institutes as well as individuals. See below a partial list of Truman fellows and researchers.

 

Research Fellows

Dr. Herfroy-Mischler at the Knesset  Dr. Alexandra Herfroy-Mischler

Research Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Journalism practices, transitional justice, conflict resolution, framing, Terror organization

a.mischler@mail.huji.ac.il

Amit sheniak  Dr. Amit Sheniak

Research fellow
Areas of Expertise: Science technology and society (STS), innovation processes of emerging/disruptive technologies, international relations and national security policies, cybersecurity

amitsheniak@gmail.com

Amnon  Cohen  Prof. Amnon Cohen

Research Fellow
Former Academic Director

amnonc@vms.huji.ac.il

Arie Arnon  Prof. Arie Arnon

Research Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Israeli-Palestinian political and Economic conflict; History of Macroeconomics; Monetary Theory and Central Banking; Peace economics

arnona@bgu.ac.il

Avraham  Sela  Prof. Avraham Sela

Research Fellow
Former Academic Committee Chairman
Areas of Expertise: Arab-Israeli war 1948; Narratives and apology in Israeli-Palestinian conflict; foreign fighters in comparative historical perspective; Palestinian Hamas

msavse@mscc.huji.ac.il

Aziz  Haidar  Prof. Aziz Haidar

Research Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Palestinian Arab society in Israel (society, economy, politics) and Israeli society, the Arab-Palestinian middle class in Israel

Read moreabout Aziz Haidar

mshaidar@mscc.huji.ac.il

Batia  Siebzehner  Dr. Batia Siebzehner

Research Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Religious transformation in Latin America, conversion to Islam, religious "return" in Judaism

msbatsib@mscc.huji.ac.il

  Prof. Camelia Suleiman

Research Fellow

Areas of Expertise: Islam and gender; language in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict;  Muslim poets

csuleima@msu.edu

Chen Bram  Dr. Chen Bram

Research Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Anthropology of ethnicity and collective identity, migration studies, intergroup relations, Israeli 'mixed' cities, central Eurasia

chen.bram@mail.huji.ac.il

  Prof. Christian Baden

Research Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Dynamics of public debates; consensus/dissensus formation; conflict narratives; news coverage of violent conflict

c.baden@mail.huji.ac.il

  Dr. Deby Babis

Research Fellow
Areas of Expertise:Migrant workers, onward migration, migration and social media, non profit organizations

deby.babis@gmail.com

Dikla Cohen  Dr. Dikla Cohen

Research Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Modern history of Egypt, Palestinian issue, Islamic Jihad in Palestine, Yom Kippur war, Terror organizations

diklaco10@gmail.com

  Dr. Fahima Abbas

Research Fellow

Areas of Expertise: Arab middle-class ,strategies for integration in urban spaces such as metropolitan structures and divided cities, spatial inequality, migration and commuting

fahamister@gmail.com

Gideon Remez  Mr. Gideon Remez

Research Fellow
Areas of Expertise: USSR/Russia in Middle East, USSR/Russia and Arab-Israeli Conflict, Cold War

remgin2000@yahoo.com

dr. giorae liraz photo  Dr. Giora Eliraz

Research Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Indonesia,  Malaysia,  foreign  policy, democracy, radicalization, political culture, Southeast Asia, Singapore

eliraz-g@bezeqint.net

Hagar Salamon  Prof. Hagar Salamon

Research Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Personal stories, ethnography, Israeli-Palestinian everyday relations, Israeli-Palestinian relations in material culture

mshaga@mscc.huji.ac.il

Henriette Dahan-Kalev  Dr. Henriette Dahan-Kalev

Research Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Democracy and Feminism in Israel, Political History of Mizrahim, Peace Activists in Israel-Palestine Conflict, Global climate crisis and ecofeminism

henms@bgu.ac.il

  Dr. Ibrahim Hazboun

Research Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Journalism, intergroup conflict, asymmetric conflict, social media and conflict resolution

Ibrahim.hazboun@mail.huji.ac.il 

Isabella Ginor  Dr. Isabella Ginor

Research Fellow
Areas of Expertise: USSR/Russia in Middle East, USSR/Russia and Arab-Israeli Conflict, Cold War

remgin2000@yahoo.com

Laila Abed - Rabho  Dr. Laila Abed - Rabho

Research Fellow

Areas of Expertise: Islam, gender, women rights, Palestine, history , justice 

labedrabho@gmail.com

Leonardo Senkman  Dr. Leonardo Senkman

Research Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Inter ethnic relations, religious conversion among non-Catholic minority groups

senkman@mscc.huji.ac.il

Limor Yehuda  Dr. Limor Yehuda

Research Fellow

Areas of Expertise:Peace; Ethno-national conflicts; Israeli Palestinian conflict; Democracy; Human rights; Power sharing; International law; Collective equality; Political justice; Nationalism; Northern Ireland; Bosnia; Cyprus
limor.yehuda7@gmail.com 

 

lior  Dr. Lior Lehrs

Research Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Peacemaking, diplomacy, mediation, foreign policy, North island, Foreign Policy, Israeli-palatine conflict

lior.lehrs@gmail.com

 Dr. Matthew Simonson

Research Fellow
Areas of Expertise:intergroup contact, cross-ethnic friendships, experiments, social networks, genocide, Balkans, Africa, statistics

matthew.simonson@mail.huji.ac.il

Mauricio  Dimant   Dr. Mauricio Dimant

Research Fellow
Latin American Studies, The Hebrew University
Areas of Expertise: Latin American contemporary political and ethnic history, Latin America and the Israeli-Palestinian dynamics, interregional Latin-Middle East exchanges, global south-south cooperation

mauricio.dimant@mail.huji.ac.il

  Dr. Maya de-Vries

Research Fellow

Areas of Expertise: Social media, Israeli -palestinian conflict, digital activism, inter group relations

maya.de-vries@mail.huji.ac.il

Menahem Merhavy  Dr. Menahem Merhavy

Research Fellow
Areas of Expertise:Iran, Islamic Republic, nationalism, Islamic movements

menahem.merhavy@mail.huji.ac.il

Moshe  Maoz  Prof. Moshe Maoz

Research Fellow
Former Academic Director
Areas of Expertise: Islam, The Middle East,The Abraham Accords,Hamas, Syria, Temple mount, minorities in the Middle east, Israeli-Palestine conflict

moshe.maoz@mail.huji.ac.il

Naomi  Chazan  Prof. Naomi Chazan

Research Fellow
Former Academic Director

nchazan@bezeqint.net

Nissim Otmazgin  Prof. Nissim Otmazgin

Dean, Faculty of Humanities
Professor, Department of Asian Studies, The Hebrew University
Member of the Israeli Young Academy of Science and Humanities
 

nissim.otmazgin@mail.huji.ac.il

  Dr. Oded Lowenheim

Research Fellow

Areas of Expertise: Autoethnography and international relations; emotions and security; critical security studies; the politics of today; deviance and punishment in world politics

Oded.lowenheim@mail.huji.ac.il

 Ofer Hadad

Research Fellow

Areas of expertise: News coverage, journalism, media in conflict; Journalism in conflict and war; dilemmas in news coverage in conflict and in war

 

Ola Nabwani  Ola Nabwani

Research Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Male participation in household duties, work family integration, working from home, Arab women's careers

ola.nabwani@gmail.com

Orna  Cohen  Dr. Orna Cohen

Research Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Arab citizens of Israel, Jewish-Arab relations in Israel, Arab politicians in Israel

msorna@mscc.huji.ac.il

Raphael  Israeli  Prof. Raphael Israeli

Research Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Islam: in history, in the Middle East, in the Far East and in the world of Terror

msraphi@mscc.huji.ac.il

Rawan Nasser  Rawan Nasser

Research Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Mental health among indigenous peoples, Nakba studies, historical and continuous trauma 

rawan.nasser@mail.huji.ac.il

  Prof. Raya Morag

Research Fellow

Areas of Expertise:Post-traumatic cinema and ethics; cinema, war, terror, genocide, femininity and masculinity; perpetrator trauma; Israeli and Palestinian second Intifada cinema

Ronni  Shaked  Dr. Ronni Shaked

Research Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Hamas, Palestinian society, Palestinian authority, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinian  terrorism, ethos of conflict of the Palestinian society,  holy places in conflict

ronni.shaked@gmail.com

  Dr. Samira Alayan

Research Fellow

Areas of Expertise: East Jerusalem community, education in East Jerusalem, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the curriculum, higher education opportunities for students in East Jerusalem

Samira.alayan@mail.huji.ac.il

  Dr. Shafiq Masalha

Research Fellow

Areas of Expertise: Arab-Jewish encounter in therapy, dynamics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in psychological terms, dilemmas and coping methods of lecturers with the entry of the political conflict in the lecture hall, parental competence: cultural aspects, empathy and brain activity in the Arab-Jewish encounter

drshafiq.m@gmail.com

Silvina  Schammah-Gesser  Dr. Silvina Schammah-Gesser

Research Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Visual culture of civil wars, Ethnic minorities and national identity in Latin America, Cultural production of Arab migrants to Latin America, Jewish narratives and Jewish presence in the Iberian Pensinsula

silvina.gesser@mail.huji.ac.il

Tajread Keadan  Dr. Tajread Keadan

Research Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Islamic studies, gender and Muslim law studies, multiculturalism

tajread.keadan@mail.huji.ac.il

  Prof. Tsfira Grebelsky Lichtman

Research Fellow

Areas of Expertise: Leadership; gender; conflict management; verbal/nonverbal communication; persuasion; negotiation

tsfira.grebelsky@mail.huji.ac.il

  Dr. Yiftach Ron

Research Fellow

Areas of Expertise: Psychology of intergroup conflict, narratives and life stories in conflicted societies, intergroup communication, peacebuilding and intergroup dialogue

yiftron@gmail.com

Yoram  Shani  Amb. (ret.) Yoram Shani

Coordinator of the Abba Eban Center
Ambassador (ret.) of Israel to Serbia and Macedonia
Areas of Expertise: Iran

shaniray@zahav.net.il

Yusri  Hazran  Dr. Yusri Hazran

Research Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Modern Lebanon, modern Syria, Middle Eastern minorities, Druze in the Middle East, Shia and Arab society in Israel, Hamas

yusri54@hotmail.com

  Dr. Yuval Benziman

Research Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Negotiation; Social perception of conflicts; narratives of societies in conflict

yuval.benziman@gmail.com

Zeev  Levin  Dr. Zeev Levin

Research Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Central Asia, Caucasus, USSR history, USSR-Russia in the Middle East, Jewish-Muslim interactions

levinzv@gmail.com

Zehavit Gross  Prof. Zehavit Gross

Research Fellow
Associate Professor, The Hebrew University

grossz@biu.ac.il

 

Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellows

 Ambreen Ben Shmuel  Ambreen Ben-Shmuel

Doctoral Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Gender, environment and peace organizations

ambreen.benshmuel@mail.huji.ac.il

 Bar Rapaport

Postdoctoral Fellow

Areas of Expertise: Cross-border cooperation in conflict zone, geopolitics of renewable energy, climate and sovereignty, integration of energy systems

Tal  Tal Orian Harel

Doctoral Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Social psychology of conflict, social media in conflict, political polarization

tal.harel2@mail.huji.ac.il

  Dr. Itschak Trachtingot

Postdoctoral Fellow

Areas of Expertise: Israeli-Arab conflict, ultra-Orthodox society in Israel, acculturation - psychology of groups, intercultural psychology

terach4@gmail.com

  Lee Aldar

Doctoral Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Political psychology, psychological interventions, intergroup conflict

lee.aldar@mail.huji.ac.il

 Dr. Liora Belford

Postdoctoral Fellow

Areas of Expertise: Jerusalem's social acoustics; Sound and listening as sensuous placemaking; Artistic research in conflict territories

liora.belford@mail.huji.ac.il

Maayan Partuch

Doctoral Fellow

Areas of Expertise:Judaism, Nom Orthodox Judaism, Identity, State and religion, Hegemony, Recognition, Dominant Idelogy, Marginalization

maayan.partuch@mail.huji.ac.il

 

  Netta Porzycki

Doctoral Fellow

Areas of Expertise: Labor economics, gender, East Jerusalem economy

netta.porzycki@mail.huji.ac.il

Nir Hasson  Nir Hasson

Doctoral Fellow
Areas of Expertise: East Jerusalem, informal spaces, divided cities, polarized cities, Israeli-Palestinian relations in Jerusalem.

nirhaaretz1@gmail.com

  Nimrod Nir

Doctoral Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Political Psychology, intergroup conflict, intergroup reconciliation

nimrod.nir-shalom@mail.huji.ac.il

  Inbal Moscovich

Doctoral Fellow

Areas of Expertise: Intercultural student cooperation within the academy, multicultural pedagogical teaching practices, readiness for outgroup social contact

Inbal.Moscovich@mail.huji.ac.il

  Paz Yaacov

Doctoral Fellow

Areas of Expertise: Urban identity, ethno-national tension, resilience in conflict, mixed cities in conflict

paz.yaacov@mail.huji.ac.il

Keren  Keren Winter Dinur

Doctoral Fellow
Areas of Expertise: Journalism practices, transitional justice, conflict resolution, framing, peace agreement

keren.dinur@mail.huji.ac.il

  Rony Ohad

Doctoral Fellow

Areas of Expertise: Site-specific performance in Jerusalem, political performance, theatre

rony.ohad@mail.huji.ac.il

  Dr. Roy Weintraub

Postdoctoral Fellow

Areas of Expertise: History education, historical thinking, historical ethical judgments, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

weintraub.roy@gmail.com

  Nur Kassem

Doctoral Fellow

Areas of Expertise: Palestinians in Israel, language in minority-majority relations, emotion, empathy, diversity

nur.kassem@mail.huji.ac.il