2021–2025 Koret Visiting Professor in Israel Studies at the Helen Diller Institute; Professor Emeritus at University of Haifa
Hanan Alexander is the 2021-2025 Koret Visiting Professor in Israel Studies at the Helen Diller Institute. He is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy of Education at the University of Haifa, where he was Dean of the Faculty of Education and Head of the Center for Jewish and Democratic Education. An Affiliated Professor (Professor Extra Numerum) at the University of Warsaw, he has taught at American Jewish University, UCLA, UC Berkeley, Graduate Theological Union; Jewish Theological Seminary, and Bar Ilan University, and was Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge. A past president of the Religious Education Association and past editor of Religious Education, Alexander has published more than 140 essays and 8 books. He will be teaching two courses in Spring 2025.
Courses:
Religion and Spirituality in Education: Israeli and American Cases (Education 150/JS122)
Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought: Faith, Culture, and Education (Jewish Studies)
