Dr. Nur Kassem was awarded a Fulbright Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to pursue her project, “Pathways to Resilience and Reconciliation: Intervention Content and Provider’s Social Identity,” with Dr. Rezarta Bilali at New York University (NYU). Her work focuses on developing intervention tools to foster resilience and promote equality across diverse social groups, particularly through empathy- and acknowledgment-based interventions in higher education.

Nur completed her PhD in psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she was affiliated with both the Social Cognitive Neuroscience Lab and the Psychology of Intergroup Conflict and Reconciliation Lab. During her doctoral studies, she received several honors, including the President's Scholarship for Excellence and Scientific Innovation (2024-2025). She was also a fellow of the Ariane de Rothschild Women's Doctoral Program for Outstanding Female Students (2020-2024) and the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace (2022-2025).

Nur’s publications include:

Kassem, N., Cohen-Eick, N., Halperin, E., & Perry, A. (2025). Bonding versus fragmentation: What shapes disadvantaged intragroup empathy in advantaged contexts? Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 28(1), 97–114.

Kassem, N., Nir, N., Perry, A., & Halperin, E. (2025). Intergroup emotions in intergroup conflicts: A power disparities perspective. In S. A. Samoilenko & S. Simmons (Eds.), The Handbook of Social and Political Conflict (pp. 31–45). Wiley-Blackwell.

Kassem, N., Rum, Y., & Perry, A. (2024). To feel and talk in a language of conflict: Distinct emotional experience and expression of bilinguals among disadvantaged minority members. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 45(8), 2992–3009.