Visiting Faculty

Hanan Alexander

Education
2022–2024 Koret Visiting Professor in Israel Studies
Professor of Philosophy of Education, University of Haifa

Hanan Alexander is Professor 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...

Eran Kaplan

History
Helen Diller Institute Visiting Professor (Fall 2023); Richard and Rhoda Goldman Professor in Israel Studies, Department of Jewish Studies, San Francisco State University

Dr. Eran Kaplan is the Rhoda and Richard Goldman Professor in Israel Studies at San Francisco State University, where he teaches courses on Modern Israel, the Arab-Israeli Conflict, Israeli Cinema, Modern Hebrew Culture and on the History of Jerusalem. He has a B.A. from Tel Aviv University and a PhD in Modern Jewish History from Brandeis University. Dr. Kaplan is the author of The Jewish...

Daniel Levy

Psychology & Neuroscience
2022–2023 Helen Diller Institute Visiting Professor
Associate Professor, Former Dean, Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology, Reichman University

Daniel A. Levy is an Associate Professor and Academic Director of the International Program at the Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology at Reichman University – The Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel. He investigates the processes and brain substrates of human memory and attention, how brain damage and neurological illness affect those cognitive abilities, and how they might be improved by physiological and behavioral interventions. He is...

Shirlee Lichtman Sadot

Economics
Israel Institute Visiting Professor (2023–2024); Senior Lecturer, Economics Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Dr. Shirlee Lichtman-Sadot is a Senior Lecturer in the Economics Department at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Her research focuses on applied microeconomics for which she evaluates policy-relevant questions using large datasets (“big data”) and econometric methods. Her research fields include labor, education, gender and family, and health economics. Dr. Lichtman-Sadot published works and working papers deal with a wide variety of topics that...

Larissa Remennick

Sociology
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-...

Masua Sagiv

Legal Studies
Koret Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley (2021–2024); Shalom Hartman Institute Scholar-in-Residence; Researcher at the Menomadin Center for Jewish and Democratic Law, Bar-Ilan University Law Faculty

Dr. Masua Sagiv is the Koret Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley and a Scholar in Residence of the Shalom Hartman Institute based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Masua’s scholarly work focuses on the development of contemporary Judaism in Israel, as a culture, religion, nationality, and as...