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Theodore Sasson is a senior researcher in the Israel-United States Research Program. He also serves as the Curt C. and Else Silberman Professor of Jewish Studies at Middlebury College in Vermont, USA.
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 essays have been published in Jewish Review of Books, Tablet Magazine, Foreign Policy, Times of Israel, 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 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.
