Lafayette College invites applications for the tenure track faculty position starting July 1, 2021 - JEWISH STUDIES
Sonia Bloomfield
Dear AIS Members and Friends,
We are thrilled to announce that Ilan Peleg, former President of the AIS and the founding editor-in-chief of the Israel Studies Forum, the scholarly journal of the Association of Israel Studies (now known as the Israel Studies Review), is being honored by Lafayette College with the establishment of an endowed Chair in his (and Bob Weiner’s) name: the Robert Weiner and Ilan Peleg Chair in Jewish Studies. Ilan has made a tremendous impact on the students he’s mentored over 47 years, and in fact it was those students who raised $3 million for this endowed chair in his name. Ilan has not only served the AIS with distinction for several decades, but is the author or editor of thirteen books and ninety scholarly essays. Among Peleg’s books are Democratizing the Hegemonic State (2007), Israel’s Palestinians: The Conflict Within (co-authored with Dov Waxman, 2011), both published by Cambridge University Press, as well as a political biography of Menachem Begin, a book on worldwide censorship, an early book on Israel as a binational society (co-edited with Ofira Seliktar), and a volume on human rights in the West Bank and Gaza. I have had the pleasure of working with Ilan as co-editor of our most recent book, Continuity and Change in Political Culture: Israel and Beyond (a tribute to Myron Aronoff, eds. Yael Aronoff, Ilan Peleg, and Saliba Sarsar) and as a contributor to his edited book The Victimhood Discourse in Contemporary Israel. A scholar at Washington’s Middle East Institute and the Charles A. Dana Government and law professor at Lafayette College, Peleg held visiting positions at Harvard, Oxford, Princeton, and Penn; has appeared on CNN, Voice of America, and National Public Radio; and has delivered hundreds of lectures at academic, civic, and religious institutions.
Ilan Peleg shares that,
“My home institution, Lafayette College, has surprised me (and Bob Weiner) in establishing an endowed Chair
in Jewish Studies in our names. I was shocked (and humbled) to hear it but now, that it is a fact, I want to
make sure that the College gets the very best candidates. It is truly a great position: tenured, open rank, 90
minutes from NY & 60 minutes from Philly, good students, endowed position with research support, etc.
So, if you know of any potential candidate(s), please call their attention to the position ASAP. They should
write directly to Profs. Berkove & Ziolkowski, co-chairs of the search committee Given that my name is on this
endowed chair, my intention is to stay out of the selection process.
All the best,
Ilan”
Lafayette College invites applications for the tenure track faculty position starting July 1, 2021 (see link below if you are interested in applying).
https://careers.insidehighered.com/job/2097236/tenure-track-faculty-endowed-chair-of-jewish-studies/
We celebrate this well-deserved honor. Mazal Tov, Ilan!
Yael Aronoff
President, Association of Israel Studies