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'''Galia Golan''' is professor in the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy of the [[Interdisciplinary Institute Herzliya]], where she specializes in issues related to globalization, international crises and current political issues. She came there from the [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]] where, as Darwin Professor of Soviet and East European Studies, she served as chair of the Department of Political Science, chair of the Lafer Center for Women’s Studies, and chair of the Mayrock Center for East European and Eurasian Studies. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Dr. Golan immigrated to Israel in 1966 and lived in Jerusalem until moving to Ra’anana in 1999. | |||
She is in the leadership of the [[Meretz Party]]. Golan has served as a consultant to the [[Israel Defense Forces]] on the status of women and to the [[Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs]] on Soviet and post-Soviet affairs. She signed the initial letter of support for [[J Street]] from Israeli citizens, and is founder-leader of Bat Shalom, the Israeli component of the Jerusalem Link – an Israeli-Palestinian Women’s Joint Venture for Peace, founded in 1994. | |||
A frequent radio and television commentator, Professor Golan was one of the founders of the Israel Women’s Network and presently is on the executive of the Israel Association for Feminist Research and Gender Studies and of the Israel Association for Women’s Health. Formerly on the Board of Directors of the Israel Museum, she is also a member of the Board of the Sharett Institute of Hadassah Hospital. A member of the government appointed public [Zameret] committee on religious-secular relations, she was appointed to the President’s Council on Religious-Secular Relations (Yahad). She is also on the board of Keshev, the Association for the Protection of Democracy in Israel. Dr. Golan was the recipient of the 1995 New Israel Fund Alice Shalvi Award for Women in Leadership and was awarded the Gleitsman Foundation Activist Prize in 1999. S She has been a visiting scholar at the [[Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars]] and at the [[Washington Institute for Near East Policy]] . She is an international fellow of the Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life of [[Brandeis University]] and has been a [[MacArthur Foundation]] and a [[Ford Foundation]] Fellow. | |||
Professor Golan received her B.A. from Brandeis Univeristy, M.A (equivalent). from the Sorbonne, and her PhD. From the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. | |||
Revision as of 02:37, 27 January 2011
Galia Golan is professor in the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy of the Interdisciplinary Institute Herzliya, where she specializes in issues related to globalization, international crises and current political issues. She came there from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where, as Darwin Professor of Soviet and East European Studies, she served as chair of the Department of Political Science, chair of the Lafer Center for Women’s Studies, and chair of the Mayrock Center for East European and Eurasian Studies. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Dr. Golan immigrated to Israel in 1966 and lived in Jerusalem until moving to Ra’anana in 1999.
She is in the leadership of the Meretz Party. Golan has served as a consultant to the Israel Defense Forces on the status of women and to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Soviet and post-Soviet affairs. She signed the initial letter of support for J Street from Israeli citizens, and is founder-leader of Bat Shalom, the Israeli component of the Jerusalem Link – an Israeli-Palestinian Women’s Joint Venture for Peace, founded in 1994.
A frequent radio and television commentator, Professor Golan was one of the founders of the Israel Women’s Network and presently is on the executive of the Israel Association for Feminist Research and Gender Studies and of the Israel Association for Women’s Health. Formerly on the Board of Directors of the Israel Museum, she is also a member of the Board of the Sharett Institute of Hadassah Hospital. A member of the government appointed public [Zameret] committee on religious-secular relations, she was appointed to the President’s Council on Religious-Secular Relations (Yahad). She is also on the board of Keshev, the Association for the Protection of Democracy in Israel. Dr. Golan was the recipient of the 1995 New Israel Fund Alice Shalvi Award for Women in Leadership and was awarded the Gleitsman Foundation Activist Prize in 1999. S She has been a visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy . She is an international fellow of the Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life of Brandeis University and has been a MacArthur Foundation and a Ford Foundation Fellow.
Professor Golan received her B.A. from Brandeis Univeristy, M.A (equivalent). from the Sorbonne, and her PhD. From the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.