People

Current Fellows

Zohar Kampf

Zohar Kampf is a Professor of Language and Communication at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of two books and of more than 80 chapters and articles in leading discourse, communication, and international studies journals. His scholarly work aims to understand one of the most fundamental puzzles of human communication—the relationship between words and deeds. It concerns questions such as how speech acts construct our social realities under conditions of publicity and how mediated interactions can transform political processes. Since 2017 he has served as an associate editor for the Journal of Pragmatics.

Gadi Heimann

Gadi Heimann is an Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a diplomatic historian who specializes in Israeli foreign relations. He is the author of three books, "Franco-Israel Relations, 1958-1967", "Fear, Regret and Wishful Thinking: Why Leaders and Nations Choose War?", and "Israel's Path to Europe" (With Lior Herman), and published several articles and chapters in collected volumes. Is currently working on the interpersonal dimension of IR.

Roni Berkowitz

Roni Berkowitz
Ph.d. student
Roni
Berkowitz
Roni Berkowitz is a Ph.D. candidate at the Davis Graduate Program (TELEM) and the Asian Sphere Trans-Cultural Flows Program, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In her Ph.D. research, Roni is exploring the role of multinational companies in globalization processes and the translation of economic power into social effects.

Meital Viner

Ph.d. student Meital Vainer
Ph.d. student
Meital
Viner
Meital Viner Serdtse is a PhD student at the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations and the Department of International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In her Ph.D. project, Meital focuses on gendered aspects of interpersonal communication in diplomacy.

Amit Turgeman

M.A. student Amit Turgeman
M.A. student
Amit
Turgeman

Amit Turgeman is an M.A. student at the Smart Scholarship Program for advanced studies in communication at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In her current thesis project, Amit investigates the performance, functions, and aspects of success and failure of expressions of gratitude in diplomacy as both international & personal practice.Subjects of interest: State’s strategies, norms, and codes of behavior in the world system, personal communication strategies in diplomacy, and behaviors' effects on world public opinion.

Former Fellows