Academic Council

Here you will find information about the EAIS Academic Council!

Academic Council

Colin Shindler

HONORARY PRESIDENT AND FOUNDING
CHAIR

Colin Shindler is Honorary President and Founding Chair of the EAIS. He is an emeritus professor at SOAS University of London and the author of eight books about Israeli history and politics.

Mohammad Darawshe

ACADEMIC COUNCIL MEMBER

Mohammad Darawshe is a leading expert on Jewish–Arab relations. Since 2014, he has served as Director of Equality and Shared Society at the Givat Haviva Educational Center. He is a Fellow of the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin, specializing in national minorities, and has been a faculty member at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Mohammad Darawshe has also served as a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and as a Visiting Scholar at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

Alain Dieckhoff

ACADEMIC COUNCIL MEMBER

Alain Dieckhoff is CNRS research professor at the Centre for International Studies, Sciences Po Paris. He holds degrees from the University of Paris 10-Nanterre and Sciences Po. He is co-founder of the Observatoire international du religieux and a member of the editorial boards of Politique et sociétés, Questions internationales and Journal of Modern Jewish Studies. He is an international fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of the Royal Society of Canada.

Joanna Dyduch

ACADEMIC COUNCIL MEMBER

Professor at the Jagiellonian University in the Institute of the Middle and Far East, head of its Department of Israel. She completed her PhD in political science from Wrocław University.

Sharon Pardo

ACADEMIC COUNCIL member

Prof. Sharon Pardo (Ph.D., Ghent University, Faculty of Political and Social Studies) is a Jean Monnet Chair ad personam in European Studies in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU). Pardo is the Chairperson of The Simone Veil Research Centre for Contemporary European Studies at BGU, and the President of the Israeli Association for International Studies.

Ilan Peleg

ACADEMIC COUNCIL MEMBER

Ilan Peleg is the former president of the Association for Israel Studies and the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the AIS’ scholarly journal. He is the author or editor of over 100 articles and 15 books, including Democratizing the Hegemonic State and Israel’s Palestinians: The Conflict Within. His interests include the Israeli Right, Arab-Israeli Relations, Israel’s Foreign Relations, US Foreign Policy, Ethnic Politics, Political Corruption and Populism.

Anders Persson

ACADEMIC COUNCIL MEMBER

Anders Persson’s research interest is the role of the European Union in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He has written three books about this topic, of which the latest is EU Diplomacy and the Israeli-Arab Conflict, 1967–2019 (Edinburgh 2020). He has also published peer-reviewed articles in journals such as „Journal of Common Market Studies”, „Mediterranean Politics”, „Journal of European Integration”, and „Middle East Critique”.

Avi Shilon

ACADEMIC COUNCIL MEMBER

Avi Shilon is a historian of modern Israel and Zionism. He is the author of Menachem Begin: A Life (Yale University Press, 2013); Ben Gurion: His Later Years in the Political Wilderness (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016); and The Decline of the Left-wing in Israel (I.B. Tauris 2021). Shilon is currently a senior lecturer at the Tel Hai Academic College in Israel.

Artur Skorek

ACADEMIC COUNCIL MEMBER

Adjunct professor at the Department of Israel Studies, Jagiellonian University in Krakow (UJ), a political scientist specializing in the political system of Israel and international relations in the Middle East. Served as the Chair of the EAIS.

David Tal

ACADEMIC COUNCIL MEMBER

Professor David Tal is the Yossi Harel Chair in Modern Israel Studies at the University of Sussex. Prior to that he was the Kahanoff Chair in Israel Studies at the University of Calgary. His main fields of expertise are Israel’s military and diplomatic history, Israel-US relationship and US disarmament policy. He authored more than 40 articles, five books and edited two.

Przemyslaw Turek

ACADEMIC COUNCIL member

Przemyslaw Turek PhD, Associate Professor at the Institute of the Middle and Far East of the Jagiellonian University, head of the Chair of North and Sub-Saharan Africa, a scholar of Oriental and Polish studies.

Alla Zakharchenko

ACADEMIC COUNCIL MEMBER

Alla Zakharchenko is Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations, Odessa Mechnikov National University, Ukraine. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Sciences from the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Kyiv (2006). She served as Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of Ukraine (2003-2015).

Jakub Katulski

Students’ representative

PhD student of history at the University of National Education Commission in Krakow, focusing on the perception of Israel, Palestinians and Jewish national identity among members of the Polish Jewish community. Journalist and columnist regularly cooperating with Polish media.

Katarzyna Schrager

Students’ representative

PhD candidate at the Faculty of Education, University of Warsaw specializing in intercultural competence, minority identities, and non-formal education. Her work focuses on Jewish communities in Europe, intercultural education, and dialogue, combining academic research with community-based educational practice.