Board

Here you will find information about the EAIS Board!

Board

Marcela Menachem Zoufalá

Chairperson

Cultural anthropologist, lecturer, and researcher at the Centre for the Study of the Holocaust and Jewish Literature, Faculty of Arts, Charles University. In the field of Israel Studies, her research interests combine Mizrahi Studies, ethnicity, and gender. Recently, she has focused on Jewish-Muslim relations from a transurban comparative perspective.

marcela.zoufala@gmail.com

Timea Crofony

VICE-Chairperson

Sociocultural anthropologist and assistant professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University. Her research focuses on the intersections of gender, Jewish, and Israel studies.

timea.crofony@gmail.com

Olaf Glöckner

VICE-CHAIRPERSON

Olaf Glöckner, PhD, is Research Associate at the Moses Mendelssohn Centre for European-Jewish Studies in Potsdam (MMZ). He is also Lecturer at the Historical Institute and at the Department of Jewish Studies at Potsdam University. His main foci of research are on Jewish Migration, European Jewry after 1989/90, German-Israeli relations and modern anti-Semitism.

gloeckne@uni-potsdam.de

Karolina Zielińska

TREASURER

PhD in social sciences, lecturer and researcher at Vistula University. Specialising in international relations in the Middle East, her particular focus is on Israeli internal and external policies as well as Middle East regionalisation processes. Author of „Israeli development aid to Sub-Saharan Africa. Soft power and foreign policy” (Routledge 2021) and academic articles.

Adia Mendelson Maoz

Member

Professor of Israeli literature and culture in the Department of Literature, Language, and Arts at the Open University of Israel. Her research investigates the relationships between literature, ethics, politics, and culture through comparative approaches, focusing on multiculturalism and cultural diversity in Israel, representations of war and trauma, environmental and animal studies, and digital humanities projects mapping Israeli literature.

adiamen@openu.ac.il