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Advisory
Committee | Affiliates | In-Residence Scholars
Faculty
and Staff 2007-2008
Russell
Stone, Director
rstone@american.edu
Adina Kanefield, Deputy Director
adina.kanefield@american.edu
Naomi Gale, Schusterman Visiting Professor
The Center for Israel Studies welcomes to American University
Schusterman Visiting Professor Naomi Gale. Gale has lived and studied in
both Australia and Israel, obtaining a PhD in Anthropology from the
University of Sydney, a law degree from The Inter-Disciplinary Center
Herzliya, and certification as a mediator for Alternate Dispute
Resolution (ADR). She has taught internationally, including courses on
Israeli society, history, political behavior, ethnicity, gender studies,
and other topics at Bar-Ilan University in Israel and Cambridge
University in England. Dr. Gale is the author of Violence Against Women:
A Normal or Deviant Behavior? and The Sephardim of Sydney: Coping with
Political and Social Pressures. As a visiting professor, she will teach
the History of Israel and Israeli Law and Legal System in the fall 2007
semester. In spring 2008, she will teach Israeli Politics, as well as
a course in the Washington College of Law on U.S. and Israeli Law. Dr.
Gale will provide expertise to the Center for Israel Studies, advise
students on research related to Israel Studies, and deliver lectures
throughout the campus and the community.
Calvin Goldscheider, Polinger Scholar in Residence
Dr. Calvin Goldscheider joined the American University faculty as a
Polinger Scholar in Residence in fall 2006 and returns this fall to
guide and mentor students, work with faculty, and advise the Center for
Israel Studies. In spring 2008, he will teach a new course entitled
Ethnicity and the State: Israel in Comparative Perspective. Dr.
Goldscheider is an internationally renowned scholar in Jewish Studies,
Israel Studies, sociology, and demography. He retired from a
distinguished career at Brown University, where he was Professor of
Sociology, Ungerleider Professor of Judaic Studies, and faculty
associate of the Population Studies and Training Center. He earned his
PhD at Brown University and was formerly professor of sociology and
demography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and chairman of its
Department of Demography. Goldscheider has also held faculty
appointments at the University of Southern California, the University of
California at Berkeley, and Brandeis University and was a senior
Fulbright research scholar and visiting professor at the Center for
Women's Studies at Stockholm University. Author or editor of 24 books,
he includes among his most recent publications Israel's
Changing Society (2002); Cultures and Conflict: The
Arab-Israeli Conflict (2002); and
Studying the Jewish Future (2004).
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Faculty Affiliates
Lynn
Addington, School of Public Affairs, Justice Law and Society
Richard Breitman, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
Frank DuBois, Kogod School of Business, International Business
Amos Golan, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics
Gershon Greenberg, College of Arts and Sciences, Philosophy and Religion
Jill Klein, Kogod School of Business, Executive in Residence
Saul Newman, School of Public Affairs, Government
Scott Parker, College of Arts and Sciences, Psychology
Naima Prevots, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Performing
Arts, Emeritus
David Rosenbloom, School of Public Affairs, Public Administration and
Policy
Jeffrey Sosland, Washington Semester
Lauren Strauss, College of Arts and Sciences, Jewish Studies Program
Marcela Sulak, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Literature
Peter
Weinberger,
School of International Service
Stanley Weiss, College of Arts and Sciences, Psychology
Michael Wenthe, College of Arts and Sciences, Literature
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Batsheva
Company
of Tel Aviv |
In-Residence
Israeli Scholars
The cornerstone
of the Center's programming is the presentation of famous Israeli
scholars, performers, artists, writers, dancers, etc. to our campus
and community. To date, we have had nine "in-residence" Israelis
participate as faculty members in providing master classes to our
students as well as presentations of their specialty to the campus
and community. This model provides the unique opportunity for our
students to learn not only from and with these scholars and experts
about their specialty, but also about life and living in Israel and
how that has shaped their work.
Our in-residence
Israeli Faculty has included:
- Nahum
Tevet, (Department of Art), artist/sculpture, exhibition of his
original installation in the Watkins Gallery, Arrangement of Six
Units (October 1998)
- David
Grossman, (Department of Literature), fiction reading and workshop
for students in Creative Writing (November 1998)
- Batsheva
Dance Company (Department of Performing Arts), two members of company
taught in dance program and student performance of "Ehad Mi
Yodea," from Anaphase (December 1998)
- Moshe
Dor (Jewish Studies), poet, instructor in course, "Voices of
Modern Jewish Literature" (Spring 1999)
- Pedro
Berliner (Environmental Studies), Blaustein Institute for Desert
Research, taught in environmental studies classes and public lecture,
"Agroforestry Systems in Arid Zones," (April 1999)
- Yakir
Plessner, (Department of Agricultural Economics), Hebrew University,
visiting professor (1998-1999)
- Yoram
Peri (School of International Service and College of Arts and Sciences),
Hebrew University, visiting scholar (2000-2001)
- Amir
Kolben (Department of Performing Arts), Director and Choreographer,
Kombina Dance Company, taught in dance program and directed student
performance of "So-Dom," from Kri-at Shma (April
2001)
- Ronni
Someck (Department
of Literature), poetry reading from The Fire Stays in Red and master
class for students in Creative Writing (September 2002)
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