2023-2024
Dr. Yael Cohen Rimer – PhD in Constitutional analysis of income presumptions in welfare law from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Her postdoctoral project focuses on: "Transitional Justice in Child Protection Law".
2022-2023
Dr. Michal Huss – PhD in The Spatiality of Transcultural Activism from Girton College, University of Cambridge, UK. Her postdoctoral project focuses on: "Pre-Transitional Justice Through the Built Environment".
2021-2022
Dr. Ayala Hendin – PhD in Politics and Government from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Her postdoctoral project focuses on: "The Right of Higher Education: Trapped between Citizenship and Nationalism".
2020-2021
Dr. Irit Ballas – PhD in Sociology from Tel-Aviv University. Her postdoctoral project focused on aspects of evidence, confessions and narrative in security trials in Israel.
2019-2020
Dr. Jeremie Bracka – PhD in Human Rights Law and Transitional Justice from Tel-Aviv University. His postdoctoral project focused on the role of joint-memorialization in transitional justice.
2018-2019
Dr. Lior Erez – PhD in Political Theory from University College London. His postdoctoral project at the Minerva Center focused on: “The Normative Case Against Citizenship for Sale”. Lior was an HR-UP (Human Rights Under Pressure) Post-doctoral Fellow at the Center.
2017-2018
Dr. Nimrod Kovner - PhD in Government from London School of Economics. His postdoctoral research focused on “Rights, Risk, and Vaccination Ethics”.
2016 - 2017
Dr. Ebtesam Barakat – PhD in Gender Studies from Bar Ilan University. Her post-doctoral research focused on the ways educated Druze women succeed in coping with and shattering the intersecting barriers to their integration and professional advancement in the main labor market.
2015 - 2016
Dr. Yael Litmanovich- PhD in Social Policy and Intervention from Oxford University. Her postdoctoral research at the Minerva Center focused on protest policing in Israel, and more generally advancing democratic policing and reducing misuse of force.
2014 - 2015
Dr. Noam Peleg- PhD from University College London. His postdoctoral research focused on how the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child’s conceptions of ‘the child’ and childhood influence and shape the implementation of the Convention in various local contexts, with respect to children with diverse personal characteristics (ethnicity, religion, class, gender, sexuality) and/or who come from different social, religion or economic backgrounds.
2013 - 2014
Dr. Nelly Kfir- PhD in Anthropology and Sociology from Tel Aviv University. Dr. Kfir's study focused on the anthropology of human rights and considered the “social life” (Wilson, 1997) of labor migrants’ rights in two nominally “non-immigration” countries: Israel and Singapore. It focused on the role of NGOs and migrants in giving life to rights in these countries. Nelly's areas of research include: migration, human rights, civil society and NGOs.
2012 - 2013
Dr. Shiri Regev-Messalem- PhD from Stanford University Law School. Her research focused on a bottom up qualitative approach surveyings the responses of marginalized populations, especially Israeli Arab, ultra-orthodox and poor women, to welfare policies conducted in Israel today.
2011 - 2012
Dr. Ruthie Ginsburg- PhD in Hermaneutics from Bar-Ilan University. Her research focused on the relations between cultural practices such as art, dance or even religious ceremonies, to society narratives and memory.
2010 - 2011
Dr. Einat Albin- PhD in Law from Oxford University in 2010. Her research focused on prejudice, racism and discrimination in the Israeli construction workers sector.
2009 - 2010
Dr. Meital Pinto- PhD in law from the University of Toronto. Her research, "a new perspective on the rights of minorities within minorities", dealt with examining the rights of minorities within minorities in multicultural societies and to distinguish between cases in which their claim should be perceived in terms of their rights to equality, and cases in which their claim should be perceived in terms of their right to culture – the same culture that majority members within their minority group aim to protect and preserve. Such a conclusion should be drawn if we pay careful attention to the concept of group rights.
2008 - 2009
Dr. Yaël Ronen- PhD in law from Cambridge University. Her research, "Genocide, Media, and International Law", aimed to examine the role of mass media with respect to genocide and other ethnic-hatred related phenomena regulated by international law, focusing on the prohibition on incitement to genocide from both an international criminal law and an international human rights law perspective.
2007- 2008
Dr. Nir Halevy- PhD in Psychology and Business Management from the Hebrew University. His research consisted of four projects, which used empirical experiments to explore the relations between groups and individuals as well as inter-group relations.
2006 - 2007
Dr. Yousef Jabareen- PhD in law from Georgetown University, Washington, DC. His research focused on the issue of equal employment opportunities from a comparative perspective, discussing lessons from America to Israel.
2005 - 2006
Dr. Anat Gesser-Edelsburg- PhD in Theatre Arts from Tel Aviv University. Her research focused on: "Encouraging tolerance and confronting hatred and racism among youth through theater: Are educational plays an important and effective tool?" and she presented her findings at the Minerva Biennial Conference in December 2006.
Dr. Sophie Walsh- PhD in Psychology from Bar Ilan University. Her research focused on: "The experience of the 'other': Individual differences in the experience of prejudice, discrimination and racism among young immigrant adults and their association with positive and negative adaptation".