For the 2017-2018 academic year, I am a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Political Science Department at Tel Aviv University, and an Associate Research Scholar at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. I received by Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University in May 2017. I earned an M.A. from Columbia, an M.Sc and a B.Sc from Tel Aviv University.
I research populism, nationalism, international security, political narratives, and ethnic conflict with a regional focus on Eastern Europe, the United States and Israel. My book project, “Intimate Rivals or Enemies of the Nation: Radical Right Movements and Transformative Populism” explains the penetration of right wing populism into the mainstream and the variation in its transformative effect on political systems. Based on interviews and extensive archival work I show how long term center-periphery cleavages lead to the vulnerability of political system to penetration and transformation by radical populists.
I was a Senior LEAD Teaching Fellow at the Columbia University Center for Teaching and Learning (2015-2017) designing and leading workshops on inclusive teaching and reflective teaching practices. Among the courses I taught are an originally designed course on social movements, and intense International Relation summer course based on active learning assignments. She was also a teaching assistant at Columbia in multiple courses including the graduate seminar, International Relations Theories; Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe; Introduction to International Relations; Introduction to Comparative Politics; and Scope and Methods in Political Science.
I conducted field research in Central Europe and Israel and was a visiting scholar at the Central European University and The Hungarian Academy of Science (Fall 2014). I was a Senior LEAD Teaching Fellow at the Columbia University Center for Teaching and Learning (2015-2017)
My research was supported by The Harriman Institute for Russian Eurasia and East European Studies, Academic Exchange, and the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies.
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