Research Fellows
2012-2013
Research Fellows
Dr. Basanta K. Sahu is Asst. Professor (Economics) at Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi, India. Now he is ICCR Chair Professor at Tel Aviv University, Israel where he teaches two courses on Indian Economy to graduate and under graduste students. Dr. Sahu is an expert in field based policy research and analysis in economics and social development issues and relating it with international trade. His major research areas include Risk Coping Analysis: (Household Risk Priority, Intra-household Risk Coping); Microfinance: (Microinsurance, Microfinance for Housing, Rural credit markets); Agriculture & Rural Livelihood Issues: (Agrarian constraints, Factor Markets, Drought and Food Insecurity, Non-farm Sector, Rural Employment & Migration); Regional Growth & Poverty Analysis: (Multi-dimensions of poverty) and Gender issues.
He is actively engaged in Management Development Programme & Consultancy in the areas of Economics; International Business; Agriculture; Gender & Social Sector Issues; Microfinance.
Dr. Sahu has worked with Indian Institute of Management; Institute of Economic Growth; NIPFP; BIRD (NABARD) and Sambalpur University. He has traveled number of countries in Asia, Africa and Europe to deliver lecture, teach, research and conduct training programme for senior executives.
In 2012 he was awarded with 'Platinum Jubilee Award' by the Governor of Odisha for his work on drought, poverty and backwardness in Odisha, India.
Jeffrey Lesser is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History at Emory University and Director of the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies. He's focusing on ethnicity, immigration and race, especially in Brazil. He's the author of numerous books and articles. While at The S. Daniel Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies, Prof. Lesser is researching the immigration to Brazil and Asian, Jewish and Arab diasporas in the Americas.
Dr. David Tal is the Kahanoff Chair in Israel Studies and a professor in the Department of History at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada since Summer 2009. He is also the Director of the Israel Studies program at University of Calgary. He is an expert in the diplomatic and military history of Israel as well as nuclear proliferation and disarmament. Professor Tal has published several books, including The American Nuclear Disarmament Dilemma, 1945-1963 (2008), War in Palestine, 1948: Strategy and Diplomacy (2004), The 1956 War: Collusion and Rivalry in the Middle East (2001- edited) and Israel's Conception of Current Security: Origins and Development 1949-1956 (1998). His articles have appeared in a variety of journals and at present he is working on a book on Israel Between Orient and Occident.
Junior Fellows:
Paulina is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. Her research examines the question of ontological security in international relations. She is focusing especially on security policy of Israel in the last decade, when Israel was facing lots of threats to its national identities as a Jewish, democratic and security-seeking state. She is an analyst on Middle Eastern affairs at the Civic Institute - political think-tank and a lecturer at the Collegium Civitas University where she is giving a lecture of Foreign and Security Policy of Israel.
As a junior fellow of the center Ori Rotlevy will work on his dissertation entitled "Orientation, Philosophy and Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project". The project investigates the analogy between orientation in space and orientation in thought in Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project. This interdisciplinary dissertation combines historical analysis of Benjamin's account of modern urban experience with the analysis of the form of his thought on a philosophical background including Kant and Heidegger. This method allows answering questions regarding the effect of modern urban experience on thought, and regarding the revolutionary potential "urbanized" thought might have.
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