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    Theodore Sasson joined INSS in 2024 as the Ruderman Family Foundation Scholar in Residence in the Israel-United States Research Program with a special focus on the American Jewish community. He is a full professor at Middlebury College in Vermont, USA, where he directs the program in Jewish Studies, and a faculty member at the Mandel Institute for Nonprofit Leadership.

    Professor Sasson is the author of The New American Zionism (NYU Press, 2014) and several previous books, as well as dozens of scholarly articles and research monographs in the fields of diaspora studies, Israel studies, heritage tourism, demography, and the sociology of crime and punishment. His short essays have been published in the Jewish Review of Books, Tablet Magazine, The Forward, The Jerusalem Post, and other periodicals.

    In the past, Professor Sasson served as Director of Programs of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation; founding director of the Mandel Institute for Nonprofit Leadership; and Senior Scientist at Brandeis University’s Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies, where he also held the title of Research Professor in the Sociology Department. He also served as chair of the social science division of the Association for Jewish Studies and on the boards of the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry and the Association for Israel Studies. He earned his B.A. at Brandeis University and his Ph.D. in sociology at Boston College.

    Theodore  Sasson
    Theodore Sasson
    Ruderman Family Foundation Scholar in Residence
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