Dr. Sara Yael Hirschhorn is currently Senior Researcher at the Comper Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism and Racism and Instructor at the Ruderman Program for American Jewish Studies at the University of Haifa.  She is also a Fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute, Jerusalem.  She was previously appointed as the Visiting Assistant Professor in Israel Studies at Northwestern University (2018-2022) and the University Research Lecturer in Israel Studies at the University of Oxford (2013-2018).  Her research, teaching, and public engagement activities focus on Diaspora-Israel relations, the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, and the Israeli Ultranationalist Movement.  Her first book, City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement (Harvard, 2017), was the winner of the 2018 Sami Rohr Prize in Jewish Literature Choice Award and a finalist for the 2017 National Jewish Book Award.  She is currently working on a new manuscript entitled “New Day in Babylon and Jerusalem: Zionism, Jewish Power, and Identity Politics Since 1967,” that will offer a transnational history of the post-Six Day War period.  Apart from her academic work, Dr. Hirschhorn is an internationally-recognized public speaker, writer, educator, media commentator, and consultant on contemporary Jewish/Israel affairs.  Follow her public work at sarahirschhorn1@X [formerly known as Twitter].