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George Quinn

FELLOW

Australian National University

George Quinn is a professor at the School of Culture, History & Language at the Australian National University.

His research focuses on the literature and popular culture of contemporary Java; patterns and sites of pilgrimmage in Java and Madura; and the Catholic Church in East Timor.

2018-2019 Fellow: New Directions in the Study of Javanese Literature

Hannah Kasher

FELLOW

Bar-Ilan University

Hannah Kasher is a Professor Emerita at the Department of Jewish Thought, at Bar-Ilan University.

She holds the Alter and Chaya Shneeweiss Chair in Jewish Philosophy and Ethics.

2018-2019 Fellow: The Reception and Impact of Aristotelian Logic in Medieval Jewish Culture

Charles Manekin

FELLOW

The University of Maryland

Charles Manekin is Professor of Philosophy at the Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Maryland.

He specializes in the history of philosophy, specifically medieval Jewish and Islamic philosophy. He is also interested in the history of science among Muslims and Jews. The focus of Manekin's research has been Aristotelian and humanist logic in Hebrew, the philosophy of Levi Gersonides, and the free will problem in Jewish philosophy.

2018-2019 Organizer: The Reception and Impact of Aristotelian Logic in Medieval Jewish Culture

Tsevi Mazeh

FELLOW

Tel Aviv University

Tsevi Mazeh is Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Tel Aviv University.

Throughout his career, he has functioned as both theorist and observer, and is a popular writer and public speaker on Astronomy, History of Science, and Science and Religion. Currently, Mazeh is leading an international effort to detect planets and brown-dwarfs by novel relativistic effects.

2018-2019 Organizer:Big Data and Planets

Debra Kaplan

FELLOW

Bar-Ilan University

Nancy K. Florida

FELLOW

University of Michigan

Cameron Andrew

FELLOW

University of St. Andrews

Stephan Wanderhorst

FELLOW

University of Vienna

Edward (Ted) Fram

FELLOW

Ben-Gurion University

Daniel Fabrycky

FELLOW

University of Chicago

Daniel Fabrycky is an Associate Professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the University of Chicago.

His research interests include:

Extrasolar planets - orbital mechanics; formation and dynamical evolution; observational techniques.
Binary and Variable stars - time-resolved photometric surveys; unsolved mysteries.

2018-2019 Fellow: Big Data and Planets

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Yehuda Halper

FELLOW

Bar-Ilan University

Yehuda Halper is a senior lecturer at the Department of Jewish Thought, at Bar-Ilan University.

His research examines topics at the intersections of philosophy and religion and of Judaism and Islam in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. He is particularly interested in the philosophical background underlying Zionist thought and the intellectual movements that drew from religious and philosophical sources to form the Zionist enterprise.

2018-2019 Organizer: The Reception and Impact of Aristotelian Logic in Medieval Jewish Culture