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ONE FOR THE BOOKS
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Professor Raphael Cohen Almagor (postdoctoral Rabin fellow, ’99,
politics, UCLA) has published: Cohen-Almagor, Raphael. Confronting
the Internet’s Dark Side: Moral and Social Responsibility on the Free
Highway. New York: Woodrow Wilson Center Press with Cambridge
University Press, 2015. The first book on social responsibility on the
Internet, this work aims to strike a balance between the free speech
principle and the responsibilities of the individual, corporation, state,
and the international community. Cohen-Almagor is also a participating
researcher in a 2013–2015 interdisciplinary Research Network grant
funded by the British Arts and Humanities Research Council on the
topic of “Crossing Over—New Narratives of Death.” Professor Cohen-
Almagor chairs the Politics Department and heads the Middle East
Study Group at the University of Hull (UK).
Professor Jacques Patrick Barber (PhD, ’89, clinical psychology,
University of Pennsylvania), dean and professor of psychology at
the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi
University, has published, along with Richard F. Summers: Summers,
Richard F., and Jacques Patrick Barber, eds. Practicing Psychodynamic
Therapy: A Casebook. New York: Guilford Press, 2015. Based on twelve
case studies, the book presents the psychodynamic therapy model
developed by Summers and Barber.
Dr. Liav Orgad (postdoctoral ISEF fellow, ’12, law, New York University)
is an assistant professor at IDC Radzyner School of Law, a Marie Curie
fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin, and a faculty fellow at the Edmond
J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. He has published:
Orgad, Liav. The Cultural Defense of Nations: A Liberal Theory of Majority
Rights. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. The first monograph to
examine the cultural rights of the majority and the policies that claim
to protect them, the book offers a comprehensive analysis of a key
issue in constitutional theory, national identity, and human rights.
Dr. Shakhar Rahav (PhD, ’98, East Asian studies, UC Berkeley),
lecturer in Asian studies at the University of Haifa, has published:
Rahav, Shakhar. The Rise of Political Intellectuals in Modern China: May
Fourth Societies and the Roots of Mass-Party Politics. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2015. The May Fourth Movement (1915–1923) is
widely considered a watershed in the history of modern China. This
book is the first in English to look at the movement, at this pivotal
time, in China’s most important hinterland city, Wuhan, and explains
its success in terms of social relations and social networks.
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Dr. Hagar Kotef (PhD, ’04, political philosophy/philosophy of law,
UC Berkeley) has published: Kotef, Hagar. Movement and the Ordering
of Freedom: On Liberal Governances of Mobility. Durham, NC: Duke
University Press, 2015. Her book investigates the roles of mobility and
immobility in the history of political thought and the structuring of
political spaces. Ranging from the writings of Locke, Hobbes, and Mill
to the sophisticated technologies of control that circumscribe the lives
of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, it shows how concepts
of freedom, security, and violence take form and find justification via
different and differentiated regimes of movement. Dr. Kotef is a senior
lecturer in political theory and comparative politics at the School of
Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
Professor Arie Rimmerman (PhD, ’79, social work, Adelphi University/
Brandeis University) has published: Rimmerman, Arie. Family Policy
and Disability. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. An
exploration of the status and scope of family policies related to
households of children with disabilities, the book provides an in-depth,
evidence-based review of legal, programmatic issues. It identifies and
continues the discussion regarding the critical role of family-centered
policies, as expressed in the United Nations Convention on the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), as well as the future
of family policy toward families of children with disabilities in a time
of economic crisis. Rimmerman is the Richard Crossman Professor of
Social Welfare & Social Planning at the School of Social Work at the
University of Haifa.