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Israel Studies Centers and Chairs Israel Studies Centers and Chairs A Tentative Listing The following list represents a preliminary effort by an Association for Israel Studies (AIS) Task Force to identify centers, institutes, study programs, and chairs that focus on the academic study of modern Israel. It includes only institutions whose primary focus is on modern Israel, rather than on Jewish or Middle Eastern studies more broadly. It also excludes institutions or organizations that focus primarily on policy advocacy or public outreach rather than scholarly research and instruction. Because of definitional issues, it does not at this stage include endowed chairs within Israel. The task force wel- comes corrections or additions to the list. Please send them to [email protected]. Israel Studies Centers Goodman Institute for the Study of Zion- outside Israel ism and Israel, Brandeis University http://www.brandeis.edu/institutes/tauber Mailstop 075 Center for Israel and Jewish Studies, Waltham, MA 02454, USA Columbia University Tel: 781-736-2125 http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cijs Fax: 781-736-2070 1180 Amsterdam Avenue E-mail: [email protected] Fayerweather Hall, Room 151 Director: Prof. Ilan Troen New York, NY 10027, USA Tel: 212-854-2581 Institute for Israelology Fax: 212-854-2590 Free Theological Seminary E-mail: [email protected] Giessen, Germany Director: Prof. Yosef H. Yerushalmi Director: Prof. Berthold Schwartz Center for Israeli Studies, American Institute for the Study of Israel in the University Middle East, University of Denver http://www.american.edu/israelistudies http://www.du.edu/gsis/isime/ 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW 2201 S. Gaylord Street Washington, DC 20016-8029, USA Denver, CO 80208-2324, USA Tel: 202-885-3799 Tel: 303-871-3094 Fax: 202-885-3790 Fax: 303-871-2456 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Director: Prof. Howard Wachtel Director: Prof. Shaul Gabbay – 100 – Israel Studies Centers and Chairs | 101 Institute for the Study of Modern Israel, Moscow Institute for Israel and Middle Emory University Eastern Studies http://www.ismi.emory.edu Moscow, Russia 1256 Briarcliff Road President: Evgene Satanovsky Building A, Room 427N Atlanta, GA 30306, USA Taub Center for Israel Studies, New York Tel: 404-727-2798 University Fax: 404-727-2441 http://www.nyu.edu/fas/center/taub E-mail: [email protected] Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies Director: Prof. Kenneth W. Stein 51 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012-1075, USA Israel Studies Program, University Tel: 212-998-8980 of Calgary Fax: 212-995-4178 2500 University Drive NW E-mail: [email protected] Social Science Building, Room 538 Director: Prof. Ronald W. Zweig Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada Tel: 403-220-4097 E-mail: [email protected] Director: Dr. Shlomit Keren Israel Studies Program, University of California at Los Angeles http://international.ucla.edu/Israel UCLA International Institute 11355 Bunche Hall Los Angeles, CA 90095-1487, USA Tel: 310-206-8578 Fax: 310-206-3555 E-mail: [email protected] Israel Studies Project, City University of New York CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10016, USA Tel: 212-951-5146 E-mail: [email protected] Director: Prof. Mervin Verbit Modern Jewish and Israel Studies Program, BA Minor, California State University at Chico http://www.csuchico.edu/gisp/ip Office of International Programs Tehama Hall 211 Chico, CA 95929, USA Tel: 530-898- 4336 E-mail: [email protected] Coordinator: Prof. Samuel Edelman 102 | Israel Studies Centers and Chairs Endowed Chairs of Israel Kahanoff Chair of Israel Studies, Univer- Studies outside Israel sity of Calgary Prof. Alan Dowty Seymour and Lillian Abensohn Visiting 2500 University Drive NW Professor, American University Social Science Building, Room 732 Center for Israel Studies Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW Tel: 403-220-5502 Economics — Roper 105 E-mail: [email protected] Washington, DC 20016-8029, USA William Schatten Chair of Contemporary Tel: 202-885-3799 Middle Eastern History and Israeli Studies, Fax: 202-885-3790 Emory University E-mail: [email protected] Prof. Kenneth W. Stein Andrea and Charles Bronfman Chair of Department of History Israeli Studies, University of Toronto Atlanta, GA 30322, USA Prof. Emanuel Adler Tel: 404-727-2798 Department of Political Studies Fax: 404-727-2441 University College, 15 King’s College Circle E-mail: [email protected] Toronto ONT M5S 3H7, Canada Stoll Chair of Israel Studies, Brandeis Tel: 416-978-8131 University E-mail: [email protected] Prof. Ilan Troen Helen Diller Visiting Israeli Scholars Pro- Department of Near Eastern and Judaic gram, University of California, Berkeley Studies http://ias.Berkeley.edu/iasasp/cmes Waltham, MA 02454, USA 340 Stephens Hall Tel: 781-736-6220 Berkeley, CA 94720-2314 E-mail: [email protected] Tel: 510-642-8208 Taub Chair in Israel Studies, New York Fax: 510-643-3001 University E-mail: [email protected] Prof. Ronald Zweig Aaron and Cecile Goldman Visiting Israel Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies Professorship, Georgetown University 51 Washington Square South http://www.Georgetown.edu/departments/ New York, NY 10012-1075, USA government Tel: 212-998-9060 Department of Government Fax: 212-995-4178 37th and 10th Streets E-mail: [email protected] Washington, DC 20057, USA Tel: 202-687-5920 Fax: 202-687-5858 E-mail: [email protected] Israel Studies Lectureship, University of Manchester (projected) Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL, UK Tel: 0161-275-2000 Israel Studies Centers and Chairs | 103 Israel Studies Centers and Center for the Study of Bedouin Society Institutes in Israel and Culture, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Adva Center http://www.bgu.ac.il/bedouin http://www.adva.org Beer-Sheva 84105 PO Box 36529 Tel: 08-6472859 Tel Aviv 61364 Fax: 08-6461876 Tel: 03-5608871 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: 03-5602205 Director: Prof. Alean Al-Krenawi E-mail: [email protected] Center of International Communications Director: Barbara Swirski and Policy, Bar Ilan University Argov Center for the Study of Israel and http://www.biu.ac.il/faculty/LehmanWilzig the Jewish People, Bar Ilan University Ramat Gan 52900 http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/po/Argov/ Tel: 03-5317061 contact_English.htm Fax: 03-9234511 Department of Political Studies E-mail: [email protected] Ramat Gan 52900 Head: Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig Tel: 03-5318157, 03-5318578 Cherrick Center for the Study of Zion- Fax: 03-5353307 ism, the Yishuv, and the State of Israel, E-mail: [email protected] Hebrew University Director: Prof. Eliezer Don-Yehiya http://icj.huji.ac.il/cherrick/chenglish.htm Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem 91905 Bar Ilan University Tel: 02-5882867 http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa Fax: 02-5582986 Ramat Gan 52900 E-mail: [email protected] Tel: 03-5359198, 03-5318959 Director: Hagit Lavsky Fax: 03-5359195 Davis Institute for International Rela- E-mail: offi[email protected] tions, Hebrew University Director: Prof. Efraim Inbar http://micro5.mscc.huji.ac.il/~davis/ Ben-Gurion Research Center, Ben-Gur- Mount Scopus, Jerusalem 91905 ion University of the Negev Tel: 02-5882312 http://www.bgu.ac.il/Ben-Gurion/main.htm Fax: 02-5825534 Sde-Boker 84990 E-mail: [email protected] Tel: 07-6596936, 07-6596937 Director: Prof. Raymond Cohen Fax: 07-6596939 Falk Institute for Economic Research in E-mail: [email protected] Israel, Hebrew University Director: Dr. Tuvia Friling http://pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il/~msfalkin/ Burda Center for Innovative Communica- home-1.htm tions, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Department of Economics http://burdacenter.bgu.ac.il/ Mount Scopus, Jerusalem 91905 Beer-Sheva 84105 Tel: 02-5883167 Tel: 08-6477194 Fax: 02-5816071 Fax: 08-6472855 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Director: Prof. Victor Lavy Head: Prof. Dan Caspi 104 | Israel Studies Centers and Chairs Floersheimer Institute for Policy Studies Hubert H. Humphrey Institute for Social http://fips.org.il Research, Ben-Gurion University of the 9a Diskin Street Negev Jerusalem 96440 http://www.bgu.ac.il/humphrey/ Tel: 02-5666243 PO Box 653 Fax: 02-5666252 Beer-Sheva 84105 E-mail: office@fips.org.il Tel: 07-6461112 Fax: 07-6472938 Gilo Center for Citizenship, Democracy, E-mail: [email protected] and Civic Education, Hebrew University Director: Dr. Lev Grinberg http://www.gilocenter.huji.ac.il/ Mount Scopus, Jerusalem 91905 Israel Democracy Institute Tel: 02-5882267 http://www.idi.org.il/ Fax: 02-5881532 4 Pinsker Street E-mail: [email protected] Talbieh, Jerusalem 92228 Director: Prof. Dan Avnon Mailing address: PO Box 4702, Jerusalem 91046 Tel: 02-5300888 Global Research in International Affairs Fax: 02-5300837 Center, Interdisciplinary Center President: Prof. Arye Carmon http://gloria.idc.ac.il/ Herzliya 46150 Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Tel: 09-9602736 Information Fax: 09-9568605 http://www.ipcri.org E-mail: [email protected] PO Box 9321, Jerusalem 91092 Director: Prof. Barry Rubin Tel: 02-6769460 Fax: 02-6768011 Heksherim Center for the Study of Jewish E-mail: [email protected] and Israeli Literature and Culture, Ben- Directors: Dr. Gershon Baskin and Khaled Gurion University of the Negev Duzdar http://www.bgu.ac.il/heksherim/index1.html Beer-Sheva 84105 Israeli Institute for Economic and Social Tel: 08-6477548 Research E-mail: [email protected] http://www.iiesr.org.il Director: Prof. Yigal Schwartz 50 Reines Street Tel Aviv 64587 Chaim Herzog Center for Middle East Tel: 03-5271552 Studies and Diplomacy, Ben-Gurion Fax: 03-5271554 University of the Negev Chair: Dr. Roby Nathanson http://www.bgu.ac.il/chcenter/ Beer-Sheva 84105 Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, Tel Tel: 08-6472538 Aviv University Fax: 08-6472922 http://www.tau.ac.il/jcss/ E-mail: [email protected] Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978 Chair: Dr.
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