Ron Hassner

Chancellor’s Professor of Political Science; Helen Diller Family Chair in Israel Studies; Faculty Director, Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies, UC Berkeley

Ron Hassner is the Chancellor’s Professor of Political Science and the Helen Diller Family Chair in Israel Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the faculty director of the Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies and the editor of the Cornell University Press book series “Religion and Conflict.” Prof. Hassner studies the role of ideas, practices, and symbols in international security with particular attention to the relationship between religion and violence.