Lihi Ben Shitrit

Lihi Ben Shitrit is Assistant Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia. She was a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Middle East Initiative (2018-19), the University of Pennsylvania's Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies (2017), and the Women's Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School (2013-14). She is the author of Righteous Transgressions: Women's Activism on the Israeli and Palestinian Religious Right (2015) and her current...See more

Lihi Ben Shitrit is Assistant Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia. She was a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Middle East Initiative (2018-19), the University of Pennsylvania's Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies (2017), and the Women's Studies in Religion Program at Harvard Divinity School (2013-14). She is the author of Righteous Transgressions: Women's Activism on the Israeli and Palestinian Religious Right (2015) and her current book project Women and the Holy City won the American Council of Learned Societies and the Luce Foundation's distinguished Religion, Public Affairs & Journalism Fellowship. See less