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MEI Scholar
Dr. Ilan Peleg
Adjunct Scholar  
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Experience

  • Charles A. Dana Professor of Government & Law at Lafayette College in Easton, PA, and a Professor of Israel Society at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College near Philadelphia.
  • Editor-in-Chief of Israel Studies Forum: An Interdisciplinary Journal (published by the Association for Israel Studies)
  • Past research affiliations include Harvard University, Oxford University (both St. Antony College and the Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies), Princeton University, and the University of Pennsylvania.
  • Authored numerous books, including a political biography of Prime Minister Menachem Begin, a book on human rights in the West Bank & Gaza (recipient of the Choice Award for Excellent Scholarship, 1996), and most recently Democratizing the Hegemonic State: Political Transformation in the Age of Identity (Cambridge University Press, 2007)

Education

  • Ph.D., Northwestern University, (1974)
  • M.A. Tel Aviv University, (1971), and Northwestern University, (1972)
  • B.A., Tel Aviv University, (1969)
 
  • Special Conference: Libya, Africa & the West
  • Special Conference: Iran on the Horizon