Nahshon Perez

Biography

Nahshon Perez (PhD) is a lecturer (U.S. assistant prof.) at the department of political studies, Bar Ilan University. After completing his PhD in political science at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (2007), he was a post-doctoral fellow and visiting assisting professor at the U. of Montreal (CREUM), U. Catholic of Louvain la Neuve (Hoover fellowship), University of California Los Angeles and Boston University. He Joined the political studies department at Bar Ilan in 2012, and in that year also won the prestigious European Union Marie Curie Re Integration research grant (2012-2016). He has published many articles in peer reviewed journals (including the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, CRISPP and others) on various problems of toleration and pluralism, and on issues of intergenerational justice. His first book, Freedom from Past Injustices, was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2012. His second book, Women of the Wall: Navigating Religion in Sacred Sites, (co-authored with Yuval Jobani), will be published by Oxford University Press in 2017. This is the first book-length academic research to be published on this important dispute over prayer arrangements at the Western Wall, providing a detailed examination, including social, legal and Halachic aspects of the struggle of the Women of the Wall, and placing it in comparative and theoretical contexts. The research project on the ‘Women of the Wall’ is supported by a research grant provided by the Israel Science Foundation (2015-18, with Yuval Jobani).

Research Interest

Specializes in the influence of religion on politics which he examines using both quantitative and qualitative methodology. Examining ideology in view of changing political realities and vice versa.