Senior Lecturer
ראש תכנית-חבר/ת סגל אקדמי בכיר
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Gender Studies Program
Dr. SARAI AHARONI
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Dr. Sarai B. Aharoni is a senior lecturer and Head of the Gender Studies Program at Ben-Gurion University, and a leading feminist scholar in the fields of Feminist IR with an emphasis on Women, Peace and Security (WPS). A historian by training (B.A. and M.A. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem), she completed her Ph.D. in Gender Studies at Bar-Ilan University (2009) studying the patterns of Israeli women?s inclusion in the Oslo Accords in the 1990s. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute at the Hebrew University, the Center for Peace Education Research at the University of Haifa, and a visiting lecturer at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her main research interests include: women?s participation in peace and diplomacy, gender and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, sexual violence in war, feminist theories of security and international relations, the development of mechanisms for advancing women and gender in Israel, and feminist community archives as a source of political knowledge. Sarai is one of the founders of the Haifa Feminist Research Center and the Feminist Archive, and also engages in documenting gender-based violence, including in the context of the October 7th Hamas attack. Her articles have been published in leading international journals in the fields of international relations, gender, and security. Currently, she is conducting a research project funded by the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) on "The Abraham Accords (2020): Descriptive, Substantive and Symbolic Aspects of Women?s Participation in Peace Negotiations"The University bears no responsibility for the content displayed on this page or on any other faculty members’ pages. Full responsibility for the content rests solely with the faculty members themselves, who independently update and manage the information on their pages
