Koret Visiting Professor in Israel Studies at UC Berkeley (Fall 2023); Professor of Sociology, Former Chair, Department of Sociology & Anthropology
Larissa Remennick immigrated from Moscow to Israel in 1991 as a young social scientist and joined the academic faculty of Bar-Ilan University in 1994. At Bar-Ilan University, she became a professor and chaired the Department of Sociology and Anthropology for several terms. She dedicated her Israeli career to the study of the multiple aspects of the mass post-Soviet Jewish emigration and the resettlement experiences of Russian-speaking Jews in Israel and in the West. More generally, her expertise is in the sociology of international migration and immigrant integration in the host countries, the formation of global ethnic diasporas, and transnationalism. Her other line of work is in the sociology of women's health, sexuality, and reproduction. Professor Remennick has published over 150 articles and chapters in major academic journals and books. She is the author of Russian Jews on Three Continents: Identity, Integration, and Conflict (Transaction, 2007, 2012) that became a common reference in the fields of Jewish/Israeli studies, post-communist studies, and migration research.
