Theodore Sasson
Ted Sasson is the founding director of the Mandel Institute for Nonprofit Leadership and Director of Programs of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation. He is also a professor of Jewish Studies at Middlebury College where he teaches courses about Israeli politics and society and American Jewish life. Previously, Ted served as Senior Research Scientist at Brandeis University’s Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies, where he also held the title of Visiting Research Professor in the Sociology Department. Ted is author of The New American Zionism (NYU Press, 2014) and several previous books, as well as dozens of articles and research monographs in the fields of Israel Studies, diaspora 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. He is author most recently of review essays on Israeli perspectives on American Jewry, and Israeli perspectives on civil rights, democracy and Arab-Jewish relations. Ted previously 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.
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