
Nili Alon Amit
Nili Alon Amit was a Visiting Research Scholar at the UCLA Nazarian Center for Israel Studies (2020-2022), a Visiting Assistant Professor at UCLA (2019-20), a Lecturer at Hakibutzim Academic College, and a Lecturer and Academic Advisor at Oranim Academic College. Her latest publication is, Happiness, Stability and Transcendence in Western Religion, Philosophy and Poetry (Cambridge Scholars, 2021), which includes primary sources on happiness in their original ancient languages, including Aramaic, Hebrew, Greek and Latin, along with their scholarly translations into English. She is also the editor and co-author of A Literary, Philosophical and Religious Journey into Well-Being: Fulfilled Lives (Cambridge Scholars, 2022). Dr. Alon Amit's areas of interest are philosophy, literature, and Israeli philosophy of education. Dr. Alon Amit received her Ph.D. from the University of Haifa in 2013. She has recently left academia to become the Associate Director of the Holocaust Education Center of StandWithUs.