Yaacov Yadgar’s research revolves around issues of political theology, nationalism, secularism, and tradition. His empirical work centres around Zionist ideology and Israeli theopolitics. His scholarship is multidisciplinary, encompassing, Jewish, political, cultural, religious, and media studies.

Professional Responsibilities

• Stanley Lewis Professor of Israel Studies
• OSGA Director of Research
• Director of OSGA's Middle East Studies unit.

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Before joining Oxford in 2017, Yaacov Yadgar taught at the Bar-Ilan University.

Dr. Hussam Hussein is a Fellow of the International Science Council, a senior researcher in environmental politics based in Jordan, and a research associate in international relations at the University of Oxford, having previously been a Fulford Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College and Oxford Martin Fellow.

Research

Comparative Politics and Government; Constitutions and Government; Democracy and Democratic Theory; Elections and electoral politics; Electoral systems; Institutions and organisations; Methods; Political Parties; Representation.

Research

Normative political theory, public policy and the history of political thought. I am particularly interested in egalitarianism and its application in policy, and in traditions of political and institutional thinking that are simultaneously anti-capitalist and opposed to authoritarian forms of socialism.

My research interests include:

Normative Political Economy, Democratic Theory, Constitutional Theory and Studies (UK and Comparative), Political Theory and/of Institutions, Varieties of Republicanism, Political Theory and/of Subcultures, Anarchism.

Professor Hall earned his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2008 and has held postdoctoral fellowships at Princeton and Harvard, as well as visiting scholar appointments at the Free University of Berlin, Tsinghua University in Beijing, and the University of Tokyo. Prior to joining the University of Oxford, Professor Hall held the position of Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Toronto (2010-2013).

I am a Professor of Comparative Politics and a Tutorial Fellow of St Hilda’s College. I am also affiliated with the Constitution Unit at University College London, where I am a Fellow. Currently, I serve as joint Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations (2020-24, together with Nicholas Owen), and as an Executive Editor of the British Journal of Political Science.