Masua Sagiv

2021–2025 Koret Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley; Senior Faculty, Shalom Hartman Institute; Researcher at the Menomadin Center for Jewish and Democratic Law, Bar-Ilan University Law Faculty

Dr. Masua Sagiv is the 2021-2025 Koret Assistant Professor of Jewish and Israel Studies at the Helen Diller Institute. Her scholarly work focuses on the development of contemporary Judaism in Israel, as a culture, religion, nationality, and as part of Israel’s identity as a Jewish and democratic state. Her research explores the role of law, state actors and civil society organizations in promoting social change across diverse issues: shared society, religion and gender, religion and state, and Jewish peoplehood. Prior to arriving in the Bay Area, Masua Sagiv was the Academic Director of the Menomadin Center for Jewish and Democratic Law at Bar-Ilan University. She earned her doctorate in law from Tel-Aviv University, where she wrote her dissertation on the topic of law and social change in the Halachic Feminist struggle in Israel.