Senior Scholars and Specialist - עברית

Jeff Birkenstein is a professor of English at Saint Martin’s University. He received his BA in English from the University of California Los Angeles; his MA in English from California State University, Long Beach; and his PhD in English from the University of Kentucky. A specialist in the short story genre, Jeff currently focuses his research on food, immigration, and exile in short stories. He was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship for his project “Short Stories, Food, and Exile in and beyond Israel.” This is his second Fulbright Scholar Award. In 2013, he taught at Petrozavodsk State University (Russia), and subsequently coedited (with Robert Hauhart, Saint Martin’s University) the collection Connections and Influence in the Russian and American Short Story (Lexington Books, 2021).

 

Jeff’s recent and forthcoming publications include:

Teaching Food and Literature. Edited Collection in Options for Teaching series. New York: MLA, forthcoming.

Significant Food and American Literature. Co-edited with Robert Hauhart. Athens: University of Georgia Press, forthcoming.

Food and the American Dream. Co-edited with Robert Hauhart. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2024.

Designing, Teaching, Leading, and Theorizing Out-of-the-Box Faculty-Led Student Travel. Co-edited with Irina Gendelman (Saint Martin’s University). Lexington Books, 2020.

Dr. Diana Berman is an associate professor of materials science and engineering at the University of North Texas. She received her PhD in physics from North Carolina State University in 2012. After graduating, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Argonne National Laboratory, at the Center for Nanoscale Materials, in Illinois. Her research interests are in the synthesis and characterization of nanostructures, surfaces, and interfaces of ceramic and carbon-based materials for precise control and improvement of their tribological properties and functionality. She has published more than seventy papers in peer-reviewed journals and two book chapters. She also holds ten patents (both US and international). Among her awards are: TechConnect Innovation Award, Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers Early Career Award, UNT Early Career Professorship Award, UNT Research and Creativity Award, and NSF Early Career Award. She was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award to support her work with researchers at Tel Aviv University, focusing on reversing the energy losses and damage to materials by incorporating self-adaptive protective coatings.

Diana’s publications include:

A. Macknojia, A. Ayyagari, D. Zambrano, A. Rozenkranz, E.V. Shevchenko, D. Berman*: "Superlubricity Induced by MXene MoS2 Nanocomposites on Rough Steel Surfaces under High Contact", ACS Nano (2023) https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.2c09640.

M. Marian, D. Berman*, D. Nečas, N. Emami, A. Ruggiero, A. Rosenkranz: "Roadmap for 2D materials in biotribological/biomedical applications - A review", Adv Coll Interf Science 307 (2022), 102747, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cis.2022.102747 .

D. Berman*, A. Erdemir: "Achieving Ultralow Friction and Wear by Tribocatalysis: Enabled by In-Operando Formation of Nanocarbon Films", invited review article, ACS Nano 15 (2021), 18865, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.1c08170 .

Eva Collakova is an associate professor in the School of Plant and Environmental Sciences at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). She received her BS in biochemistry from Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice, Slovakia, and her PhD in plant biology from Michigan State University. Her research focuses on investigating complex molecular interactions in algae and plants under climate change-related stresses and their combinations using multiomics approaches and developing novel analytical approaches for monitoring different combinations of climate change-related stresses in plants as part of digital agriculture. She was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship for her project designing resilient plants in Israel with digital agriculture.

Eva’s most recent publication is:

Tanniche, I., E. Collakova, C. Denbow, and R. S. Senger. “Characterizing Metabolic Stress-Induced Phenotypes of Synechocystis PCC6803 with Raman Spectroscopy.” PeerJ 8 (2020): e8535. doi: 10.7717/peerj.8535.

Brandon Gellis is an associate professor of visual communication design, co-director of the Center for Design Thinking, and an adjunct founding faculty fellow in the School of Computing, at the University of Wyoming. He earned a BA in American studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an MFA in emergent digital practices from the University of Denver.

Brandon was awarded the Fulbright Senior Scholar Award for his project “Visualized Culture Wars: A Photographic Ethnological Study of Street Art and Mark Making.” He will investigate how street art, graffiti, and mark making are critical, often temporal, responses to political, socioeconomic, and religious culture wars. He will be a visiting lecturer and will collaborate with scholars at Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art, and Tel Aviv University.

Brandon has exhibited and presented his scholarship both in the United States and internationally. He has received several solo and interdisciplinary grants and is a recipient of a 2022/23 UW Presidential Faculty Research Award.

Brandon’s recent and upcoming exhibitions include:

“Modes of Abstraction,” Sandbox Studios Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (solo)

“Two Zero Two One,” Tasmai, a Centre for Art & Culture, Pondicherry, India (collaboration)

“Stumbling Back,” TiNA Festival, Watt Space Gallery, Newcastle, Australia (two-person)

“innate confluences,” Jackson Center for Performing Arts, Jackson Hole, WY (solo)

“innate confluences,” Loveland Art Museum, Loveland, CO (solo)

Siegfried Glenzer was awarded a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Fellowship to pursue his project “High-Energy Proton Acceleration with High-Intensity Laser Beams” with Dr. Ishay Pomerantz at Tel Aviv University. Siegfried completed his PhD in physics at the Ruhr-Universität-Bochum, after which he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the United States. He is currently a professor of photon science at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and a professor, by courtesy, of mechanical engineering at Stanford University. Glenzer’s research spans the areas of laser fusion, laser particle acceleration, and X-ray interaction with matter. He recently collaborated on the successful demonstration of ignition and fusion gain from deuterium-tritium plasma at the National Ignition Facility. His work and publications can be found at: https://heds.slac.stanford.edu.

Yotam Haber received his undergraduate degree from Indiana University and his doctorate from Cornell University, both in music composition. Haber is an associate professor of composition at the UMKC Conservatory, and artistic director emeritus of MATA, a non-profit organization dedicated to commissioning and presenting new works by young composers from around the world.

Yotam was born in the Netherlands and grew up in Israel, Nigeria, and Milwaukee. He is a recipient of many awards, among them a 2022 commission from Chamber Music America, the 2022 Third Annual Henri Lazarof International Commission Prize, the 2021 Benjamin Hadley Danks Award in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the 2020 Azrieli Commission for Jewish Music, a 2017 Koussevitzky Commission for the Library of Congress, a 2013 Fromm Music Foundation commission, a 2013 NYFA award, the 2008 Rome Prize in Musical Composition, and a 2005 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. He has also received grants and fellowships from Civitella Ranieri, the MAP Fund, New Music USA, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Yaddo, Bogliasco, MacDowell, the Hermitage, ASCAP, the Copland House, the Aspen Music Festival, and Tanglewood. 

Daniel Klerman is the Edward G. Lewis chair of law and history at the University of Southern California (USC) Gould School of Law. Dan received his BA from Yale University and his JD and PhD in history from the University of Chicago. He clerked for the Honorable Richard A. Posner, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and for the Honorable John Paul Stevens, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. He has also taught at the University of Chicago Law School, Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School, the California Institute of Technology, Sichuan University, Tel Aviv University Law School, and the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya. Professor Klerman was copresident of the Society for Empirical Legal Studies in 2008/09. His current research focuses on civil procedure, comparative law, and empirical legal studies, and he hopes to commence research soon on immigration law and policy.

His recent publications include:

“Law Matters—Less Than We Thought,” Journal of Law, Economics & Organization 40 (forthcoming) (with Holger Spamann).

Yun-chien Chang, and Daniel Klerman. “Settlement Around the World: Settlement Rates in the Largest Economies.” Journal of Legal Analysis 14, no. 1 (2022): 80–175.

“Bias in Choice of Law: New Empirical and Experimental Evidence.” Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 179 (2023): 32–50.

David Opderbeck is a professor of law and co-director of the Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology and of the Institute for Privacy Protection at Seton Hall University Law School in New Jersey. David’s work focuses on technology policy, cybersecurity, privacy, and intellectual property. His most recent work on artificial intelligence law and policy includes papers on the prospect of artificial “rights” and the use of artificial intelligence in medical devices. He holds law degrees from New York University Law School and Seton Hall University Law School and a PhD from the University of Nottingham, along with the CIPP/US and CIPP/E certifications and a number of cybersecurity certifications. David is also an affiliated professor in the Department of Religion at Seton Hall. In addition to his traditional legal scholarship, David writes on the intersection of religious thought, law, technology, and economics. He teaches constitutional law and various courses on cybersecurity, privacy, and technology law and policy.

Yevgeniya was awarded the Fulbright Senior Scholar Award to pursue her research project “Israel, a Place of Migration and of Personal and Communal Passage as Expressed in Visual Art”. She will be developing a series of paintings addressing hybrid identity, cultural translation, ideas of home, exile and belonging and teaching in the MFA program at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design.

Yevgeniya holds a BA in Fine Arts, MS in Education from the University of Pennsylvania and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Currently she is a Critic at Rhode Island School of Design.

Yevgeniya has exhibited her work in several New York City galleries and internationally. She was a recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in 2021, Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019, the Pollock-Krasner grant and the Chinati Foundation Residency in 2018, and the Yaddo Residency in 2017. She received the Artadia Prize and was selected for the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program and the MacDowell Colony residency in 2015. In 2014 she was named the recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation’s Emerging Artist Prize. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times, LA Times, ArtForum, and Art in America. 

Yevgeniya’s recent exhibitions include:

“Invisible Line”, Station Gallery, Sydney, Australia  

“I Sit By The Window”, The Landing Gallery, Los Angeles, LA 

“Skirting Legibility”, Reyes Finn Gallery, Detroit, MI

“Seam, Scar, Sign”, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, NY 

“Parts of Speech”, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX

Andrea M. Berlin is the James R. Wiseman Chair in Classical Archaeology in the Program in Archaeology and the Department of Religion at Boston University. She received her BA in Classical and Near Eastern Studies with honors from the University of Michigan, her MA in Syro-Palestinian Archaeology from the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute, and her Ph.D. in Classical Art and Archaeology from the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on daily life in the Graeco-Roman East, where she has been excavating and leading field projects for over 40 years. Professor Berlin has published eight books and many dozens of articles and chapters. She was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship for her project “Beyond the Temple: Jewish Material Life from the Maccabees to the Revolt.” She uses archaeological remains to show how Palestinian Jews of all classes crafted a materialized religious identity in the first centuries BCE-CE, one that infused their homes with a newly sacralized sensibility, but also led to a heightened sense of nationalism, which fed the catastrophic decision to revolt against Rome.

Andrea’s recent publications include:

Andrea M. Berlin and Paul J. Kosmin, eds. The Middle Maccabees. Archaeology, History, and the Rise of the Hasmonean Kingdom. SBL Archaeology and Biblical Studies. SBL Press: Atlanta, 2021.

Andrea M. Berlin, “The Achaemenid-Ptolemaic Transition: The View from Southern Phoenicia,” in Sylvie Honigman, Christophe Nihan, and Oded Lipshits, eds. Times of Transition. Judea in the Early Hellenistic Period. Mosaics 1. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University Press and Eisenbrauns: University Park PA, 2021. Pp. 143-159.

Andrea M. Berlin, “Land/Homeland, Story/History: the Social Landscapes of the Southern Levant from Alexander to Augustus,” in A. Yasur-Landau, E. Cline, and Y. Rowan, eds. The Cambridge Social Archaeology of the Levant from Prehistory to the Present. Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. 410-437.

John Foggle was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award to teach medical students at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. In addition to his primary activity teaching a course, entitled “Wilderness, Disasters, and Global Health”, he will be teaching residents at Rambam Hospital.

Dr. Foggle is an emergency physician and educator with over 32 years of clinical experience, most recently for Brown Emergency Medicine, where he is an adjunct associate professor, and at Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC. He has provided medical care to an estimated 75,000 patients in his career.

He currently teaches at Brown and at the Netter School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University. His expertise is in medical simulation, wilderness medicine, disaster preparedness, trauma management, and international emergency medicine development. He worked as a consultant for the World Health Organization in Fiji and Tonga at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and has led simulated disaster management exercises in numerous places around the globe.

Rachel S. Harris is Associate Professor of Israeli Literature and Culture at the University of Illinois where she teaches in the Programs in Comparative and World Literature, and Jewish Culture & Society. Her current research explores the founding of Israeli cinema, the explosion in talent that took place in the first two decades, and the radical taboos that many of the early films depicted. Her project “With a Wider Lens: Rediscovering Lost Israeli Cinema 1948-1964” examines many newly available films thanks to recent restoration projects, and archival materials on their production, funding, censorship and reception.

She gained her doctorate from the University of Oxford (2009) and holds masters’ degrees from The School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London (2001) and The University of Edinburgh (2000).

Melissa Santala is an associate professor in the Materials Science program at Oregon State University. She received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. At Oregon State University, she leads a research group that uses transmission electron microscopy and complementary characterization techniques to study the atomic level-structure of oxide-metal interfaces, the thermodynamics and kinetics of crystallization of chalcogenide-based phase change materials used for memory devices, and the structure of advanced metal alloys. Her Fulbright grant will support collaborative studies with researchers at the Technion to better understand fundamental physical processes that affect the efficiency and environmental impact of important heterogeneous catalysts.

Dr Sherri Sheinfeld Gorin received a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem for 2022-2023 to conduct research on “Multi-level approaches to reducing Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccine Hesitancy in Israel.” Vaccine hesitancy is “the reluctance or refusal to vaccinate despite the availability of vaccines.” A professor of family medicine with a joint appointment in public health at the University of Michigan, a member of the Rogel Cancer Center, the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, and the Center for Global Health Equity, Dr. Sheinfeld Gorin has held positions of leadership in cancer prevention and control with an emphasis on health inequities over the past 25 years. She has published or presented over 250 scientific papers and three books, and has been on the faculty of the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine, and Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, a member of their cancer centers, as well as a senior advisor to the National Cancer Institute.  She is an invited member of multiple NIH study sections, and scientific advisory boards, and is a recipient of numerous other honors and awards.

Arthur Caplan was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship to teach and conduct research in environmental and resource economics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is an applied microeconomist who specializes in applying neoclassical theory, empirical modelling (i.e., econometrics), and numerical modelling to a variety of environmental and resource-management problems, such as mitigation of local air pollution, global externalities (e.g., climate change), water pollution, and more recently development of renewable energy sources (e.g., agrivoltaics, community solar, and electric vehicle charging infrastructure). He is currently a professor of economics in the Department of Applied Economics at Utah State University. He holds a BA in Economics and Communications from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, an MA in Agricultural Economics from Washington State University, and a PhD in Economics from the University of Oregon.

He is also working on an introductory textbook in the field of behavioral economics.

Arthur's recent publications include:

Caplan, Arthur J. and Ramjee Acharya (2019) “Optimal Vehicle Use in the Presence of Episodic Mobile-Source Air Pollution.” Resource and Energy Economics 57, 185-204.

Alan Castel is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He studies learning, memory, and aging, and is interested in how people can selectively remember important information. The title of his Fulbright Senior Scholar Award is “Curiosity as a Spark to Lifelong Learning: A Cross-Cultural Comparison” and will collaborate with Professor Vered Halamish and others at Bar-Ilan University. He received his PhD in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Toronto in 2004, did a fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis, and has been at UCLA since 2006. He lectures internationally to people of all ages, and has received several teaching awards. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Time Magazine. His recent book is entitled, Better with Age: The Psychology of Successful Aging. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and three children. 

Alan's recent publications include:

Siegel, A. L. M. & Castel, A. D. (2019). Age-related differences in metacognition for memory capacity and selectivity. Memory, 27, 1236-1249.

Jodi Magness is the Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received her BA in Archaeology and History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and her PhD in Classical Archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania. Magness is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Past President of the Archaeological Institute of America. Her research interests focus on Palestine in the Roman, Byzantine, and early Islamic periods, and Diaspora Judaism in the Roman world. Magness has published eleven books and dozens of articles in journals and edited volumes. Since 2011, she has directed excavations at Huqoq in Israel’s Galilee, which are bringing to light a Late Roman synagogue paved with stunning mosaics.

Magness was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship for her project, “Jerusalem Through the Ages”.

Jodi’s recent publications include:

Magness, J. (2021). The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, revised edition.

Magness, J. (2019). Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth, Princeton: Princeton University.

Lilianne Mujica-Parodi is Director of the Laboratory for Computational Neurodiagnostics, and a professor in Stony Brook University's Department of Biomedical Engineering. She also holds academic appointments in the Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology, Program in Neuroscience, and Departments of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Physics. Additionally, she is a research staff scientist and lecturer in the Department of Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School (Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging). Dr. Mujica-Parodi received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Georgetown University and Columbia University, respectively, studying Mathematical Logic and Foundations of Physics. After her PhD (Whiting Fellow), she completed an NIH Training Fellowship in Clinical Neuroscience at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. She was subsequently promoted to assistant professor there, where she performed research until being recruited by Stony Brook University. She is the recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Career Award, the White House’s Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering, and the Fulbright Senior Scholar Award for her project “From Cells to Populations: Organizing Principles Driving Resource Allocation Under Constraint”. Dr. Mujica-Parodi‘s research interests focus on the extension of control systems engineering and dynamical systems, to human neuroimaging, with neurodiagnostic applications to neurological and psychiatric disorders.

Dr. Mujica-Parodi will be working with Professor Nir Davidson in his lab at the Weizmann Institute of Science.

 

Lilianne's recent publications include:

Mujica-Parodi LR, Amgalan A, Sultan SF, Antal B, Sun X, Skiena S, Lithen A, Adra N, Ratai EM, Weistuch C, Govindarajan ST, Strey HH, Dill KA, Stufflebeam SM, Veech RL, Clarke K. Diet modulates brain network stability, a biomarker for brain aging, in young adults. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA. 2020 Mar 3. pii: 201913042. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1913042117. PMID: 32127481.

Masha Ryskin is an Associate Professor of Drawing at Rhode Island School of Design. She holds a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the University of Michigan.

Ryskin is a Russian-American artist whose work spans across drawing, painting, and printmaking, and deals with a sense of place and displacement, identity and memory. She was awarded the Fulbright Senior Scholar Award in Jerusalem to explore these issues through drawing and mixed media. She will also teach a course on visualization and conceptual implications of space at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design.

Ryskin is a recipient of a number of grants, including a previous Fulbright Fellowship to Norway, and Rhode Island Fellowship in Printmaking and Drawing. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times and Art New England. She was recently co-organizer and participant in the “Illustrating Mathematics” Symposium at the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics at Brown University. In addition to individual work, she maintains a robust interdisciplinary collaborative practice.

Masha's recent exhibitions include:

“Winding Roads and Tangled Journeys”, Candita Clayton Gallery, Pawtucket, RI (solo)

“New Optics”, The Painting Center, New York, NY

“Tangle of Time”, At Home Gallery, Samorin, Slovakia (collaborative)

Elise Zipkin is an Associate Professor at Michigan State University in the Department of Integrative Biology and the Director of the Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Program. She earned a BS in Mathematics from the University of Michigan, a MS in Natural Resources from Cornell University, and a PhD in Biology from the University of Maryland. Her research focuses on developing mathematical and statistical models to identify the climate and habitat variables that are responsible for ecological variations in species distributions and abundances. Professor Zipkin was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship to build statistical modeling capacity to assess and predict the effects of climate change on species in Israel. She will work with Tel Aviv University scientists to estimate and forecast the distributions of ecologically and economically important insect species using newly digitized records at the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History. She will also teach a series of statistical modeling workshops focusing on Bayesian inference for biology graduate students at Tel Aviv University.

Elise’s recent publications include:

Zipkin E.F., DiRenzo G.V., Ray J.M., Rossman S., and Lips K.R. 2020. Tropical snake diversity collapses after widespread amphibian loss. Science. 367: 814-816.

Saunders S.P., Ries L., Nepuane N., Ramírez M.I., García-Serrano E., Rendón-Salinas E., and Zipkin E.F. 2019. Multi-scale seasonal factors drive the size of winter monarch colonies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116: 8609-8614.

Yousef Abu Kwaik is the Bumgardner Professor of Molecular Microbial Pathogenesis at the University of Louisville College of Medicine. His research focuses on the molecular and biochemical mechanisms by which pathogenic bacteria evade the innate host defenses in order to survive and proliferate within host cells, leading to disease manifestation. He has published 130 papers in outstanding journals and edited three books. He is the founder and chief editor of the journal, “Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology”. He has mentored 15 Ph.D. students and 20 postdoctoral fellows. In recognition of his research innovation he received the University of Louisville Presidential Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Research and Creative Activity. 

Yousef’s recent publications include:

Best, A and Abu Kwaik, Y (2019).  Evasion of phagotrophic predation by protist hosts and innate immunity of metazoan hosts by Legionella pneumophilla. Cellular Microbiology. 2019;21:e12971. (DOI) - 10.1111/cmi.12971.

Von Dwingelo, Y., Chung, I., Price C. T., Li, L., Jones, S., Cygler, M., and Abu Kwaik, Y (2019). Interaction of the Ankyrin H Core Effector of Legionella with the Host LARP7 component of the 7SK snRNP complex. mBio 10:e01942-19. https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.01942-19.

Avner Cohen is a Professor at Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey in California. He is widely known for his path-breaking historical studies of the Israeli nuclear program. His current research explores the lives and times of the three founding fathers of the Israeli nuclear program in its formative years. He was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar fellowship for his project, “Atomic Biographies – The Lives of E.D. Bergman, I. Dostrovsky, and S. Freier.” He is a two-time winner of the MacArthur Foundation research and writing awards, in 1990 and 2004. He was also a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in 1997-98 and 2007-08, and a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC in 2008-09. Currently he is a Global Fellow with the Nuclear Proliferation International History Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center. While he maintains an on-going and broad interest in understanding the nuclear age as a whole, much of Cohen’s work has focused on Israel’s nuclear history against the broader domestic and external aspects of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Avner’s recent publications include:

Israël et la bombe: L'histoire du nucléaire israélien (Français). Editions Demi Lune, Paris. 623 pp. 2020 Revised, updated and expanded French edition of 1998. 

“SPECIAL SECTION: Nuclear Dimensions of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War,” Co-editor with Joshua Pollack, The Nonproliferation Review, Vol 25. No. 5-6, 2018

“Nuclear Norms in Global Governance: A Progressive Research Agenda,” Contemporary Security Policy, Guest Co-Editor with Maria Rost Rublee, Vol 30, No 3, July 2018

 

Alexei M. Sivertsev is a Professor in the DePaul University Department of Religious Studies. He received his B.A. from the Historical Archival Institute, Russia State University for the Humanities, and M.A. and Ph.D. in Hebrew and Judaic studies from New York University. His research focuses on the study of Jewish cultural dynamics in late antiquity. Sivertsev was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship for his project: “Urban Communities in Context: Reading Late Antique Synagogue Floors in Roman Palestine as Relational Models.” He will explore late antique synagogue floor mosaics in the Beth Shean area of Israel. The project is part of a broader attempt to understand how Jewish and Christian communities in urban settings described themselves in relation to a variety of symbolic markers, such as language, geography, chronology, and indicators of status.

Alexei’s recent publications include:

Sivertsev, A. (2011). Judaism and Imperial Ideology in Late Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Sivertsev, A., (2014). “Jerusalem Talmud Sanhedrin 2, 6 (20c): Solomon’s Dethronement and Roman Political Theory in Late Antiquity,” in Talmuda de-Eretz Israel: Archaeology and the Rabbis in Late Antique Palestine, ed. Steven Fine. Berlin: De Gruyter, 111-25.

Noga Vardi is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her Ph.D. from Cornell University (studying the escape system of cockroaches) and, prior to becoming a Research Professor at Upenn, she worked at the Technion on vision and stereopsis. Noga specializes in all aspects of retinal signal processing, but she is mainly known for deciphering the mechanisms that mediate light signaling in retinal bipolar cells. In 2020, she was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship to investigate the function of mitochondrial porins (VDACs) in photoreceptors.

Noga’s recent publications include:

Xu et al. 2016: The TRPM1 channel in ON-bipolar cells is gated by both the α and the βγ subunits of the G-protein G_o. Sci Rep. 17;6:20940.

Tummala et al. 2016: Lack of mGluR6-Related Cascade Elements leads to Retrograde Trans-synaptic Effects on Rod Photoreceptor Synapses via Matrix-associated Proteins. Eur J Neurosci. 2016  43(11):1509-22. 

Feng et al 2018: Lycium barbarum polysaccharides protect retina in rd1 mice during photoreceptors degeneration. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 1;59(1):597-611.

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Menachem Elimelech is the Roberto Goizueta Professor at the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at Yale University. His research focuses on membrane-based technologies at the water-energy nexus, materials for next-generation desalination and water purification membranes, and environmental applications of nanomaterials. Professor Elimelech was the recipient of numerous awards in recognition of his research contributions. Notable among these awards are the 2005 Clarke Prize for excellence in water research; election to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2006; Eni Prize for ‘Protection of the Environment’ in 2015; and election to the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2017. Professor Elimelech has advised 39 PhD students and 32 postdoctoral researchers, many of whom hold leading positions in academia and industry. In recognition of his excellence in teaching and mentoring, he received the Yale University Graduate Mentoring Award in 2004 and the Yale University Postdoctoral Mentoring Prize in 2012.

Menachem's recent publications include:

Yousefi, N., Lu, X., Elimelech, M., Tufenkji, N. Environmental performance of graphene-based 3D macrostructures, Nature nanotechnology, 14, pages107–119, 2019.

Mauter, M.S., Zucker, I., Perreault, F., Werber, J.R., Kim, J.H., Elimelech, M. The role of nanotechnology in tackling global water challenges, Nature Sustainability, 1, 166–175, 2018.

Joseph Galron-Goldschläger is an Associate Professor at The Ohio State University Libraries and is the Hebraica and Jewish Studies Librarian as well the German Language and Literature Librarian. He was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholarship Fellowship to pursue his project “Modern Hebrew Literature – a Bio-Bibliographic Lexicon” an online resource at: http:/go.osu.edu/hebrewlit. While in Israel he will explore deeply the Kressel biographical archive at the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem that includes ca. 10,000 letters and documents to and from Hebrew writers of the 1960s collected by G. Kressel for his Lexicon but not included in the printed edition. Newly discovered materials will be added to the online database and update entries as needed. He also would like to use the archives of the Gnazim Institute in Tel Aviv that is housing hundreds of personal archives of Hebrew authors from the nineteenth century to the present, and the Heksherim Institute in Beer Sheva that is the home of several archives of contemporary Hebrew authors (as Amos Oz, Nissim Aloni, David Schütz, and others) Joseph’s recent publications include: Personal bibliographies of Hebrew scholars as Professor Dan Miron (2007), Professor Nurit Govrin (2005), Professor Nathan Rotenstreich (2010), Professor Moshe Pelli (2017), Professor Dov Sadan (1986), Poet and playwright Nathan Alterman (1988- ), and more.

Philip Hopper is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Northern Iowa. He was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship to pursue his interest in vernacular archives with the Time Tunnel project at Beit Berl College. Related projects include Fortepan Hungary and Fortepan Iowa, which are designed to give artists and researchers a way to explore the commonalties of everyday life in a historical context. Other scholarly projects include Images of Conflict in the Public Sphere, which is a cross-cultural study of public image making related to conflict. He has published in journal articles, book chapters and gallery presentations. His teaching includes courses in digital media production, media criticism and a core writing class.

Philip’s recent publications include:

Hopper, P. Beyond the Wall in Dheisheh Camp: From Local to Transnational Image-Making, Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed Journal, Vol. 1, Article 7, 2016

Hopper, P. Nakba Day: The Ephemera of Martyrdom, Universitas: The University of Northern Iowa Journal of Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity, Volume 11, 2016

David Rumschitzki is Professor of Chemical Engineering at the City College of New York, a member of the PhD programs in Chemistry and Biology at the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York and an Adjunct Research Scientist at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. He was a warded a Fulbright Senior Scholar for a project entitled, “Theory & experiment for breast cancer dormancy & recurrence” at the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in collaboration with Professor Yuval Shaked. David holds a PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in the College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering Department. He has worked on reaction kinetics and used asymptotic analysis on interfacial stability problems. Recently he has turned his interests to problems in biology – theory and experiment, including early events in atherogenesis and more recently to a theory for how populations of tumors change in time and how tumors may reappear after long periods of apparent dormancy, with experiments on zebra¬fish melanoma. This project will test this theory on a well-known mouse breast cancer model.

David's recent publications include:

Toussaint, J., Raval, C. Nguyen, T., Fadaifard, H., Joshi, S., Wolberg, Quarfordt, S., G., Jan, K.M. and Rumschitzki, D.S., “Chronic hypertension increases aortic endothelial hydraulic conductivity by upregulating endothelial auqaporin-1 expression,” AJP Heart Circ., ajpheart 00651, 2017

Lesi, A., Heilmann, S., White, R.M. and Rumschitzki, D.S., “A model for the time rate of change of tumor populations with application to zebrafish melanoma”, in review., 2019

Adriana Brodsky is an Associate Professor of History at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. She was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship to pursue her project “Navigating Multiple Diasporas: Argentine Sephardi Youth at Home and in Israel, 1948-1976” at Tel Aviv University. The project follows young Sephardim who lived in the Jewish and Sephardi diasporas, creating strong ties to Argentina and learning political lessons that they applied to their Zionist work. When they migrated to Israel, they struggled to adapt to the circumstances, continued to feel like Argentines, and became identified as Latin Americans. The study reveals a reality that speaks to the modern condition, and underscores the role of youth in reconfigurations of ethnic, diasporic, and national identities.

Adriana’s recent publications include:

Sephardi, Jewish, Argentine: Community and National Identity, 1880-1960. Indiana University Press, 2016

"Belonging to Many Homes: Argentine Sephardi Youth in Buenos Aires and in Israel, 1956-1976." In Transnational Histories of Youth in the Twentieth Century, edited by Richard Jobs and David Pomfret, 213-235. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

"Argentine Sephardi Youth: Between Aliyah and Activism, 1960-1970." Journal of Jewish Identities 8, no. 2 (2015): 113-135.

Michael J. Broyde is a Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law and the Projects Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory. He was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship to pursue his project “Religious Arbitration in Diverse Western Democracies: Preserving Rights and Adding Values in a Pluralistic Democracy” at Hebrew University. His research will focus on regulating religious community in a way that encourages its modernization and discourages its radicalization. It will address one of the most serious challenges confronting every western democracy: preventing the rise of radical religion. Michael’s recent publications include: Sharia Tribunals, Rabbinical Courts, and Christian Panels: Religious Arbitration in America and the West. Oxford, 2017. He has published more than ten books and more than 150 articles on matters of law and religion, Jewish law, the impeachment process and other areas of comparative law.

Jennifer Irish is a Professor of Coastal Engineering at Virginia Tech. She was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship to pursue her project “Probabilistic Tsunami Hazard Assessment in the Context of Sustaining Israel’s Archaeological Sites and Coastal Infrastructure” at the University of Haifa. She strives to minimize the potential for a coastal hazard to become a disaster by advancing physical understanding of coastal inundation as well as advancing methods for quantifying the likelihood of coastal inundation. This project aims to quantitatively understand the danger tsunamis pose to Israel’s coast, namely by probabilistically quantifying the likelihood and magnitude of tsunami inundation using contemporary statistical approaches and ancient evidence of tsunamis.

Jennifer’s recent publications include:

Resio, D.T., Asher, T., Irish, J.L., The effects of natural structure on estimated tropical cyclone surge extremes, Natural Hazards, 88(3), 1609–1637, 2017

Yang, Y., Irish, J.L., Weiss, R., Impact of patchy vegetation on tsunami dynamics, Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering, 143(4), 04017005, 2017

Smallegan, S.M., Irish, J.L., van Dongeren, A.R., den Bieman, J.P., Morphological response of a sandy barrier island with a buried seawall during Hurricane Sandy, Coastal Engineering, 110, 102110, 2016.

 

Laura Kessler was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship to pursue her research project entitled “Family Equality in Plural Legal Systems: Achieving Equality Rights in Marriage and Divorce in Israel and the United States” at Haifa University. She will investigate strategies of lay advocates and civil rights lawyers working to achieve equal family rights, with an eye toward developing legal responses to conflicts between secular and religious norms relating to the family in divided societies. Kessler is a Professor of Law at the University of Utah. Her scholarly interests are the legal regulation of family, intimacy, and work. She teaches courses on family law, feminist jurisprudence, employment discrimination, and reproductive issues.

Laura's recent publications include:

Kessler, L. “Employment Discrimination and the Domino Effect.” Florida State Law Review 44, no. 4 (2018).

Kessler, L. “‘A Sordid Case’: Stump v. Sparkman, Judicial Immunity, and the Other Side of Reproductive Rights, Maryland Law Review 74, no. 4 (2015): 833-920.

Kessler, L. “New Frontiers in Family Law.” Transcending the Boundaries of Law: Generations of Feminism and Legal Theory. Ed. Martha Albertson Fineman. New York: Routledge (2011): 226-242.

Paul C. Light is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner School. He was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship to pursue his project “The Revolution in How to Innovate” at Ben Gurion University Israel. Light will continue his effort to develop a classification scheme for assessing recent efforts to accelerate social change. His argument is that there is not too little advice on how to ignite social entrepreneurship and innovation, but too much. His project is designed to bring greater clarity to the choice of interventions for enhancing social change.

Light’s recent publications include:

The Government-Industrial Complex (Oxford, 2018)

Driving Social Change (Wiley, 2011)

The Search for Social Entrepreneurship (Brookings, 2008)

A Government Ill-Executed: The Decline of the Federal Service and How to Reverse It (Harvard University Press, 2008)

Gregory S. Mahler is Academic Dean Emeritus and Research Professor of Political Science at Earlham College, in Richmond, Indiana. He has been involved in the study of Israeli politics since his Ph.D. dissertation work, which produced his first book The Knesset: Parliament in the Israeli Political System. Mahler recently completed twenty years serving as Academic Dean at Earlham College (Richmond, Indiana) and Kalamazoo College (Kalamazoo, Michigan). While serving as Chief Academic Officer at these institutions he continued to teach courses on Israeli politics. Mahler has served as President of the Israeli Studies Association, and has lectured widely on the topic of Israeli politics. He was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to pursue his project titled: “The Knesset and Palestine: The Role of Israel’s National Legislature in the Development of Policies of Occupation and Governance.”

Mahler's recent publications include:

Politics and Government in Israel: The Maturation of a Modern State (3rd Edition, Rowman and Littlefield, 2016)

The Arab-Israeli Conflict: An Introduction and Documentary Reader (2nd edition, Routledge, 2018).

Getachew Metaferia is Professor of Political Science at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. He was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship to teach African History and Contemporary Politics of Africa at Tel Aviv University and conduct research in the Bete Israel community. His research aims to explore the experience of the Ethiopian Jews in Israel, their current situation, and the vision they have for their country, Israel, and the country they left behind, Ethiopia.

Getachew’s recent publications include:

“Remembering the Victory of the Battle of Adwa: A Pan-African and Post-Independence African Perspective” in Olaywola Abegunrin, Africa: The State of the Continent Fifty Years after the Liberation. New York: Nova Publishers, 2014.

Ethiopia and the United States: History, Diplomacy, and Analysis, New York: Algora Publishing, 2009.

Israel E. Wachs is the G. Whitney Snyder Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Lehigh University of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA. He was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship to pursue the projects “Upgrading of Natural Gas to Value-Added Products” and “Catalyst for the Selective Catalytic Reduction of High Concentrations of NO for a Sustainable Carbon-free Nitrogen-based Synthetic Fuel.” Catalysts are materials that accelerate and control chemical reactions. His research aims to establish molecular level structure-performance relationship of catalysts that will guide the rational design of advanced catalysts. At the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel will try to better understand these catalytic processes.

Israel’s recent publications include:

“Nature of Active Sites and Surface Intermediates for SCR of NO with NH3 by Supported V2O5-WO3/TiO2 Catalysts,” M. Zhu, J.-K. Lai, U. Tumuluri, Z. Wu, I.E. Wachs, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 139 (2017) 15624–15627

“Identification and Regeneration of Molybdenum Oxide Nanostructures on Zeolites for Catalytic Conversion of Natural Gas to Liquids,” J. Gao, J.-M. Jehng, Y. Tang, I.E. Wachs and S.G. Podkolzin, Science 348 (2015) 686-690

Alex Kovner is a Professor of Physics at the University of Connecticut. He was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to pursue his project “Quasi Collectivity in proton-proton collisions at high energy” at the Ben Gurion University. His research aims to understand specific properties of strong interactions in high energy collisions. In particular he is interested in the question whether strong correlations between produced particles observed at Large Hadron Collider can be understood in terms of properties of the wave function of the colliding protons. This would indicate an interesting quasi collective structure of a proton wave function when probed at high energies. He will be working in collaboration with the BGU researchers to answer this question.

Alex’s recent publications include

Tolga Altinoluk, Nestor Armesto, Guillaume Beuf, Alex Kovner and Michael Lublinsky, “Quark correlations in the Color Glass Condensate: Pauli blocking and the ridge”,  Phys.Rev. D95 (2017) no.3, 034025

Alex Kovner, Eugene Levin and Michael Lublinsky, “QCD unitarity constraints on Reggeon Field Theory”, Journal of High Energy Physics 1608 (2016) 031

R. Amy Elman is Professor of Political Science at Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo MI.  She was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for her project “Contemporary Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism and the Politics of Pinkwashing” at Haifa University.  This project follows the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement’s efforts to discredit Israel’s adoption of progressive policies pertaining to lesbian and gay rights – efforts BDS insists serve as a smokescreen to conceal the human rights of Palestinians.  This perception has gained traction in the United States since 2010, when the concept of “pinkwashing” was first introduced by academics there.  What impact, if any, has BDS had within Israel on those committed to the adoption, maintenance and expansion of those rights?

Amy’s recent publications include

"Augmenting the European Union’s response to antisemitism,” The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, 2016, Vol. 10, No. 3

The European Union, Antisemitism and the Politics of Denial, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014

Anya Jones is an Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Maryland. She was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to pursue her project “Flow Physics and Control of Dynamic Stall in an Unsteady Freestream” at the Technion. The long-term goal of her research program is to enhance aircraft safety and broaden the operational envelope of wings and other lifting surfaces by better understanding the fundamental physics of force production in unsteady and separated flows. She applies experimental, analytical, and theoretical methods to canonical problems relevant to a variety of applications including fixed and rotary wing aircraft, bio-inspired fliers and swimmers, and wind and tidal turbines. At the Technion, she will be applying tools from fundamental aerodynamics to develop new physics-based low order models of unsteady aerodynamic forcing during dynamic stall and in gusty winds. She will then use these models to inform new flow control algorithms that can be used to regularize unsteady airloads.

Anya’s recent publications include

Jones, A. R., Medina, A., Spooner, S., and Mulleners, K. (2016). Characterizing a Burst Leading-Edge Vortex on a Rotating Flat Plate Wing. Experiments in Fluids, 57 (4), pp. 1-16. doi: 10.1007/s00348-016-2143-7

Lind, A. and Jones, A. R. (2016). Unsteady Airloads on Static Airfoils through High Angles of Attack and in Reverse Flow. Journal of Fluids and Structures, pp. 259-279. doi: 10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2016.03.005

Hodara, J., Lind, A., Jones, A. R., and Smith, M. (2016). Collaborative Investigation of the Aerodynamic Behavior of Airfoils in Reverse Flow. Journal of the American Helicopter Society, 61(3), pp. 1–15. doi: 10.4050/JAHS.61.032001

Lind, A. and Jones, A. R. (2016). Unsteady Aerodynamics of Reverse Flow Dynamic Stall on Oscillating Blade Sections. Physics of Fluids, 28(7). doi: 10.1063/1.4958334

Medina, A. and Jones, A. R. (2016). Leading-Edge Vortex Burst on a Low Aspect Ratio Rotating Flat Plate. Physical Review Fluids, 1, (4). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevFluids.1.044501

Jamie Kneitel is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at California State University, Sacramento. He was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to pursue the project “A Synthesis of Seasonal Wetland Ecology in Mediterranean Climate Regions” and taught the course “Community Metrics” at the University of Haifa. His research program focuses on understanding spatial and temporal patterns of biodiversity and ecosystem function in seasonal wetlands.

Jamie’s recent publications include:

Kneitel, J. M. 2016. Climate-driven habitat size determines the latitudinal gradient of diversity in California vernal pools. Ecology 97: 961-968.

Boix D., J. M. Kneitel, C. Duchet, B. J. Robson, L. Zúñiga, J. Day, S. Gascón, J. Sala, X. D. Quintana and L. Blaustein. 2016. Invertebrates of temporary ponds in Mediterranean climates. Invertebrates in Freshwater Wetlands. D. Batzer and D. Boix, editors. Springer Publishing.

Jay P. Singh, PhD, PhD is a Clinical Associate at the University of Pennsylvania. He was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to pursue his project “Exploring Forensic Risk Assessment Practices in Israel” at the University of Haifa. His research aims to survey the use and perceived utility of forensic risk assessment tools among psychologists, clinical criminologists, and social workers in the country. After serving as Senior Clinical Researcher in Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology for the Swiss Department of Justice (Zurich Canton), he founded the Global Institute of Forensic Research.

Jay’s recent publications include:
Singh, J. P., Bjorkly, S., & Fazel, S. (2016). International perspectives on violence risk assessment. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Dr. Maria Adelaida Restrepo is a Professor of Speech and Hearing Science at Arizona State University. She was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to pursue the project “The Effects of Response to Intervention in Language Minority Children in Israel”. Her research aims to understand how language minority children can benefit from a rich narrative language intervention and whether learning skills while receiving the language stimulation can help us differentiate children with significant learning disabilities from those with language differences. If so these programs can be implemented in preschools to help build language, at the same time they help us to better understand the learning capacity and needs of these children. Restrepo will be working at Bar Ilan University in Tel Aviv to adapt and implement this program in conjunction with Dr. Sharon Armon-Lotem.

Restrepo’s recent publications include

Kapantzogly, M. Fergadotis, F., Restrepo, M.A. (in press). Language Sample Analysis and

Elicitation-Technique Effects in Bilingual Children with and without Language Impairment. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research.

Restrepo, M.A. and Morgan, G., Thompson, M. (2013). Vocabulary intervention in bilingual preschoolers with language impairment.  Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 56, 748-765

 

 

 

Yasmine L. Kalkstein is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, NY.  She was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to pursue her project “Who Owns Birth? The Role of Birth Plans in the Birth Experience".   Her work explores the intersection of psychology, medicine, and mass communication.  Pregnancy and the birth experience is replete with medical decisions to be made; many women and their partners create birth plans to communicate their preferred decisions.  This is an implementation of the strong shared-decision-making movement in the medical world, where patients increasingly determine or participate in determining their own medical care.  Birth, however, offers a considerable amount of uncertainty, which means that the birth may not go according to the plan.  In her research, Yasmine and her Israeli collaborators at Ono Academic College will examine women’s experiences to relate birth plans to satisfaction with the medical system, perception of ownership over their own birth, and confidence and self-efficacy going into their second birth.

Yasmine’s recent related publications include:

Konheim-Kalkstein, Y.L., Kirk, C., Berish, K & Galotti, K. (2017). Owning the Birth Experience: What Factors Influence Women’s Vaginal Birth After Caesarean Decision?  Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology.

Konheim-Kalkstein, Y.L., Whyte, R., Stellmack, M.A., and Miron-Shatz, T. (2015). A content analysis of asynchronous online discussion boards: What are VBAC women seeking and sharing?" Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care, 42(3), 287-282.

Siona Benjamin is a painter originally from Bombay, now living in the U.S. Her work reflects her background of being brought up Jewish in a predominantly Hindu and Muslim India. In her paintings she combines the imagery of her past with the role she plays in America today, making a mosaic inspired by both Indian miniature paintings and Sephardic icons.
Siona obtained her first MFA in painting and a second MFA in Theater set design.
She has exhibited in the US, Europe and Asia.
Siona was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in 2010-11 for her art project titled: Faces: Weaving Indian Jewish Narratives. Research for this project was conducted in India. Her first exhibit was in 2013 at the Prince of Wales Museum in Mumbai, India and many exhibits were featured thereafter. Her second Fulbright fellowship was awarded in 2016-17 to go to Israel. 
Siona's work has been featured in: The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer,The Jewish Week in NYC and NJ, The Boston Globe, Art in America, Art New England, Art and Antiques, The Jerusalem Post, The Israel Times, Marg magazine and other publications.

Gaetan's research is titled "Collaborating with HUJI to Develop Their French Program, Especially French Canadian Studies", focusing on the 20^th and 21^st century French and Francophone Studies (especially French-Canadian).

He has a B.A. French Lit. & Education, Laval U., Quebec, Can. (1962, 1966, 1969); M.A. French Studies, Laval U. (1972); Ph.D., French Lit., EHESS & U. of Paris-VII, France. (1978). Director: Roland Barthes.

Gaetan is affiliated with -  2016: University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Board of Regents Humanities Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair & Professor of Francophone Studies. 2015: University of South Florida, Tampa, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, French and Francophone Studies.

Citations: 

La Grande Librairie, TV5 France, 04-2016; U. of Paris-Sorbonne, Conference  Érotisme et frontières dans la littérature française du XXe s. 04-2016; 2015

Gerald-Godin Prize for Literature, Trois-Rivières, Canada; Chevalier des Palmes Académiques, France; Gaëtan Brulotte ou la lucidité en partage: A 200p monograph by Margareta Gyurscik, U. of Timisoara, Romania, 2015 

David Dorais "Entre non-sens et langage" XYZ 123 Montreal, 2015; Philippe Bilger: “Qui est Gaëtan Brulotte?” www.philippebilger.com Paris, 07-2015 

Steven Urquhart (U. of Lethbridge) “La Contagion du réel (2014) de Gaëtan Brulotte: le dépassement maladif ou le refoulement corps/peau-réel”, ACSUS Conference, Las-Vegas, 10-16 2015; La Nouvelle québécoise book gift to new subscribers to French-Canadian journal XYZ, 2015-16.

Davida received a Fulbright award to research her project titled "Judaic Debates on the Nature of the Psalms: The Reception History of First-Person Psalms", that contributes to the history of Judaism by showing the key role of the psalms in the development of rival liturgies. She will analyze arguments about the nature of the psalms that religious leaders circulated in commentaries from late antiquity through the pre-modern era. She will focus on comparing annotations on first-person psalms that raise problems for emerging Judaic theologies and were ultimately omitted from Rabbinic liturgy. The Judaic debates have implications for how the liturgy shapes the relationship between worshipers and the divine and for whether there is a distinctively Jewish approach to the argument.

 

 

 

 

As a guest at Tel Aviv University’s S. Daniel Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies, Professor Matthias Lehmann will be working on a project entitled “Maurice de Hirsch and the Politics of Jewish Philanthropy.” The focus of his research is a biography of the nineteenth century Jewish banker, railroad entrepreneur and philanthropist Maurice de Hirsch. The biography will offer a fresh perspective on the ways in which Jews dealt with the demands of the modern nation state, and how they navigated a world transformed by the rise of modern capitalism. Educated at the University of Freiburg, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Free University of Berlin, and the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas in Madrid, Lehmann earned his Ph.D. in 2002. He is a professor of history and Teller Family Chair in Jewish history at the University of California, Irvine.

His publications include Emissaries from the Holy Land (Stanford University Press, 2014), Ladino Rabbinic Literature and Ottoman Sephardic Culture (Indiana University Press, 2005), and, together with John Efron and Steven Weitzman, The Jews: A History (a third edition, to be published by Routledge, is in preparation).

Erin's project title is "A Comparison of Three Psychoeducational Group Interventions for Israelis with Tinnitus". The purpose of this Fulbright research study is twofold: 1) to examine whether a 3-session group psycho-educational intervention is more effective in increasing adaptive coping strategies among Israelis with bothersome tinnitus than a wait-list control; and 2) to determine which of the three psycho-educational interventions (Coping Effectiveness Training-Tinnitus, cognitive-behavioral therapy, or Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) provided is more effective in facilitating adaptive coping strategies among Israelis with bothersome tinnitus. 

A recent publication citation;

Martz, E., & Livneh, H. (2015). Psychosocial Adaptation to Disability Within the Context of Positive Psychology: Findings from the Literature. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation (1), 4-12.

  

Gilliane's project title is "Reconstructing Neanderthal and Early Modern Human Behavior Through Stone Tool Residue Analysis". As such, she will be developing new methods of residue analysis and applying them to artifacts from key Paleolithic sites in Israel, while at the Weizmann Institute.

Gilliane is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota.  She is a Paleolithic archaeologist whose research focuses on reconstructing the behavior of hominins, particularly Neanderthals, through analysis of their stone tools.  Her current research focuses on developing a better understanding of stone tool use through identification of the microresidues that are sometimes preserved on the edges of these tools, using analytical chemistry.   

Recent publication: G. Monnier, T. Hauck, J. Feinberg, B. Luo, J.-M. Le Tensorer, & H. al Sakhel, 2013.  “A multi-analytical methodology of lithic residue analysis applied to Paleolithic tools from Hummal, Syria.”  Journal of Archaeological Science 40:3722-3739.

Laurie's project title at Tel Aviv University is Sociocultural Perspectives on Teaching and Learning Mathematics. 

Her Ph.D. is from Columbia University (Teachers College) in Mathematics Education and she also completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Laurie is an Associate Professor at the City University of New York (Brooklyn College), where she has been on the faculty since 2003.

Laurie is currently working on connecting theories about place and space to mathematics education. She has recently directed a project in which she utilized neo-geographical mapping tools for students to explore themes of spatial justice relevant to their city, from mathematical perspectives.

A recent publication on this topic is:

Rubel, L., Lim, V., Hall-Wieckert, M., & Sullivan, M. (2016). Teaching mathematics for spatial justice: an investigation of the lottery. Cognition & Instruction 34(1), 1-26.

Hanna's project title at the Technion will be is "Towards a Universal Picture of Phenotypic Variability in Microorganisms through Single-Cell Protein Dynamics". His current research is focused on living cells that differ from each other even when their genome is identical. These differences termed “non-genetic phenotypic variation”, appear to result from the complex dynamics underlying protein production in the cell. His research aims to understand how this dynamics lead to the observed variability among genetically identical cells.

A recent publication citation;

Naama Brenner, Charles M. Newman, Dino Osmanovic, Yitzhak Rabin, Hanna Salman, Daniel L. Stein

“Universal protein distributions in a model of cell growth and division”

Physical Review E, 92, 042713 (2015).

Professor Maeera Shreiber is a Fulbright senior scholar at the University of Haifa in the fields of literature and poetry. At the University of Utah, she is the director of the Religious Studies Program and an associate professor of English literature and Jewish studies. In Haifa, she is working on two projects: “Holy Envy: Modernism and the Poetics of the Judeo-Christian Borderline,” which examines how the porous relationship between these two world religions informs modernist aesthetics, and a coauthored, annotated anthology of contemporary Israeli poetry in English translation, designed to provide non-Hebrew speakers access to the rich array of liturgically inflected verse that makes up an important feature of contemporary Israeli literature.

Publication:

Singing in a Strange Land: A Jewish American Poetics (Stanford University Press, 2007)

Scott Bucking was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar fellowship to pursue his research titled Reimagining Byzantine Avdat: Landscape Archaeology and Patterns of Monastic Settlement in the Central Negev Desert. 

Dr. Bucking obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and is currently Associate Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Studies at DePaul University. Dr. Bucking specializes in late antique Egypt and Palestine with a particular emphasis on monastic communities.

 

Naomi Chesler was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar fellowship for her project on Novel Computational Models of the Lung Vasculature and Airways Validated with Experiments. 

Chesler obtained her BS in Engineering (General) from Swarthmore College, MS in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and PhD in Medical Engineering from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology.  She is Director of the Edwards Lifesciences Center for Advanced Cardiovascular Technology at the University of California, Irvine and Professor of Biomedical Engineering.  Her contributions to research are in two main areas: cardiovascular biomechanics and engineering education. Chesler was named recipient of the 2014 Diversity Award from the Biomedical Engineering Society. 

Dennis Coleman Jett was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar fellowship to teach a class titled the History of U.S. Foreign Policy. His research will focus on peacekeeping in the Middle East, and build on his first book titled “Why Peacekeeping Fails.”

Jett, a Professor of International Affairs and retired U.S. Ambassador, joined the Penn State School of International Affairs in 2008 after his career in the U.S. Foreign Service and eight years as the dean of the International Center at the University of Florida. In addition to his time as ambassador in Mozambique and Peru, his experience abroad includes tours in Argentina and Israel, and in Malawi and Liberia as deputy chief of mission. He also served as special assistant to the president and senior director for African Affairs on the National Security Council at the Carter Center in Atlanta.

Amber Gum was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar fellowship to pilot-test a behavioral intervention designed to benefit migrant home care workers and their care recipients. Dr. Gum will be affiliated with Bar-Ilan University, in the Louis and Gabi Weisfeld School of Social Work, where she will engage in research and training. Dr. Gum also will conduct training workshops on behavioral interventions and mentor graduate students. 

Evan Morris was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar fellowship to conduct research and teach next winter at Hadassah Hospital and Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Morris will lecture on “Imaging Drugs in the Brain,” based on a course he offers at Yale. The title of his Fellowship award is, “Imaging Drugs in the Brain; New Technologies for Imaging the Brain’s Response to Cigarette Smoking. He will work to establish the PET (positron emission tomography) imaging analysis technology he invented and currently employs at the Yale PET Center to study the brain’s response to smoking cigarettes.

Morris is co-director for imaging at the Yale PET Center. His work on the development of dopamine movies was funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Laurie Pearce was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar fellowship to research her project on Judeans and Arabians: Forging Identities in Exile. 

Laurie is a lecturer in Assyriology in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her primary research interests are the social and economic history of Babylonia in the late first millennium B.C.E.

Richard Robinson was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar fellowship to do research in the area of nanotechnology.

In fact, one of the first commercially successful nano-based products to emerge came from the very Hebrew University lab where Robinson will be doing research. 

Based at Cornell University, Robinson does a lot of work in materials, controlling their size, shape, composition and surfaces, and assembling the resulting building blocks into functional architectures. Among the applications Robinson’s lab is targeting are new materials for printable electronics and electrocatalysis. His group is also pioneering a new method to probe phonon transport in nanostructures.

Marc Schlossberg was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar fellowship to work with faculty at Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, where he will collaborate with colleagues in the institute’s Department of Architecture and Town Planning.

A professor in the Department of Planning, Public Policy and Management at UO, Schlossberg will use his Fulbright year to focus on sustainability and community quality of life, specifically how city design decisions influence active and sustainable modes of transportation such as walking and biking. His primary research focus will be to use the structure of Rethinking Streets, which he coauthored in 2014, to focus on recent street transformations in various Israeli cities. He plans to work with Technion’s VizLab to develop 3D immersive streetscapes with multiple bicycle infrastructure designs to explore street transformation possibilities. His secondary research will be to engage in a mapping project with GIS as a tool both for data gathering and for community capacity building and knowledge generation.

Along with teaching in PPPM, Schlossberg is co-director of the UO’s Sustainable Cities Initiative.

Anne Staples was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar fellowship to develop computer models for water flow through corals. Staples said to protect corals and preserve their role in the ecosystem, it’s vital to understand how they behave. 

Staples’ work in Israel will focus on understanding exactly how corals’ shapes affect the way water flows through them.

She will be collaborating with Uri Shavit, associate professor with the Environmental Fluid Dynamics Research Laboratory at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. 

The goal is to develop a computational model that will be accurate for a wide range of ocean conditions — far more than could ever be tested experimentally.

Professor Staples is an assistant professor of biomedical engineering and mechanics in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech.