Research Fellows
2014-2015
Research Fellows
Prof. Luis Roniger is Reynolds Professor of Latin American Studies at Wake Forest University. A comparative political sociologist, Roniger's work focuses on the interface between politics, society and public culture. He has taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has been visiting professor at Carleton University, the University of Chicago and universities in Spain, Mexico and Argentina. He is on the international editorial board of several academic journals published in Mexico, Spain, the UK, Israel, Colombia and Argentina. Roniger has published numerous scholarly articles and books, among them Patrons, Clients and Friends (Cambridge University Press, 1984, with SN Eisenstadt); Democracy, Clientelism and Civil Society (with Ayse Günes-Ayata, 1992);The Legacy of Human Rights Violations in the Southern Cone (with Mario Sznajder, also in Portuguese and Spanish 2004 and 2005); Globality and Multiple Modernities (Sussex Academic Press, 2002, with Carlos Waisman); The Politics of Exile in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2009, with Mario Sznajder). Among his most recent works are: Transnational Politics in Central America (University Press of Florida, 2011); Exile and the Politics of Exclusion in the Americas, co-edited with James N. Green and Pablo Yankelevich (Sussex Academic Press in 2012); Shifting Frontiers of Citizenship in Latin America (co-edited with Sznajder and Carlos Forment, Brill, 2013). The book La política del destierro y el exilio en América Latina (co-written with Mario Sznajder, Fondo de Cultura Econímica, 2013) has been awarded the Arthur Whitaker Prize of the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies in 2014.
Davis Sheinin is Professor of History at Trent University (Canada) and a member of the Argentine National Academy of History, the Martin Institute for Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution (University of Idaho), and Eloisa Cartonera (Argentina). He is the author of Argentina and the United States: An Alliance Contained (University of Georgia Press, 2006), Consent of the Damned: Ordinary Argentinians in the Dirty War (University Press of Florida, 2012), and El boxeador incrédulo (Eloisa Cartonera, 2011). He is a past president of the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies.
Professor David Tal is the Yossi Harel chair in Israel Studies at University of Sussex, UK. 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. He recently edited a volume titled Israel Identities that was published by Routledge.
Prof. Elie Rekhess
Elie Rekhess is a scholar of political history of the Arabs in Israel; Islamic resurgence in Israel; the West Bank and Gaza and Palestinian affairs. He serves as Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University and as the head of the Konrad Adenauer Program for Jewish-Arab Cooperation at Tel Aviv University. He is also on the faculty of its Department of Middle Eastern History at Tel Aviv University. As of January 2009, he is the Crown Visiting Chair in Middle East Studies at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, affiliated with Department of History and the Center for Jewish Studies. As an expert on Arab society in Israel, Rekhess's knowledge covers the fields of Political Islam, Palestinian society and politics, the political history of the Arab minority in Israel, minorities and ethnicity in the Middle East, Israeli politics, and social and ethnic cleavages in Israel.
Dr. David Rathner
David Ratner received his Ph.d in sociology and anthropology from the Ben Gurion University in August 2013. His dissertation title is: " Black Music and the Construction of Identity among Young Israeli – Ethiopians". It deals with the ways young Israelis of Ethiopian origin use musical likes and dislikes as tools for positioning themselves in Israeli society. His current research project focuses on Biographical Narratives of Members of "Beta Israel" (Ethiopian Jews) Concerning their Lives in Ethiopia in the 60's - 90's. This project will address the issues of political consciousness, political debates and political activism of Ethiopian Jews during the turbulent 60's and 70's and until the early 90's, with the collapse of the Mengistu regime. David's research interests include the Ethiopian-Jewish community in Israel; the political history of Ethiopia; music and identity; race and racism in Israeli society
Dr. Phil C.W. Chan
Dr. Phil C.W. Chan is Research Fellow, S. Daniel Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies, Tel Aviv University, and Research Associate, Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. A lawyer by training (LL.B. (Hons), University of Hong Kong, 2002; LL.M., Durham, 2004; Ph.D., National University of Singapore, 2013), he has worked in Asia, Europe, North America and Australasia, including at Cambridge, St Andrews, Freiburg, Leuven, Toronto, Vanderbilt, the University of Hong Kong and the Australian National University, in Law, International Relations and Asian Studies. He is author of China, State Sovereignty and International Legal Order, over 30 refereed journal articles, and numerous encyclopedias, newspaper and online articles on China and Hong Kong. He is also Guest Editor of two refereed journal special double issues on human rights, both reprinted as books with Forewords by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and has delivered over 70 invited lectures, seminars and conference papers.
Junior Fellows
Dr. Lucy Rachel Nicholas
My research lies primarily in the fields of Neo-Latin and early modern History (with a particular focus on the Renaissance and the Reformation). A number of my projects are interdisciplinary in nature, involving the translation and historical assessment of Latin tracts written during the sixteenth century. I am particularly interested in the way academic and confessional identities overlapped and interacted during periods of intense religious change. My doctoral thesis (completed 2014) entailed a full review of the Latin theological works of the English humanist and classical scholar, Roger Ascham. Currently I am working on the Latin writings of Walter Haddon, another humanist of Tudor England, and the religious Latin works of Johannes Sturm, an important but neglected reformer in the European Reformation.
Mr. Ignacio Wilhelmi
Program in Peace Culture and Conflict Resolution. Mr. is working on his PhD research titled "Puertas a Tierra Santa: Interculturalidad en los puertos del levante medirerráneo según los viajeros judiós, cristianos y musulmanes del soglo XV y XVI"
Mrs. Laurie Lijndres
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