AYELET HAREL
Ayelet Harel is a Professor of Political Science in Ben-Gurion University’s Conflict Management and Resolution Program, and the Department of Politics and Government. She is also serving as the vice-dean of the faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; in this role she is dedicated to promote research in BGU and especially young scholars.
Harel joined Ben-Gurion University’s senior faculty in 2013, after two years at UCLA. Her own research is located at the intersection of Politics, Conflict Studies and Feminist International Relations. Her book - Breaking the Binaries in Security Studies, Oxford University press, 2000, (co-authored with Daphna-Tekoah), was awarded ERGOMAS Guiseppe Caforio Book Award 2021, and received numerous favourable reviews.
Her current research further focuses on women and conflict; conflict and trauma; democracy in deeply divided societies; narratives of women in militaries worldwide; as well as agency among women in minority communities during intractable conflicts. She won several prizes of excellence in research and teaching including the Association of Israel Studies’ young scholar award and the Roth prize for “the inspiring professor”. Harel is a mother of three, a scholar and an activist.
