Levin- Banchik new Israeli scholar in residence at SDSU
April 27, 2018
Professor Luba Levin-Banchik
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) –The Jewish Studies Program at San Diego State University has announced that Israeli political scientist, Dr. Luba Levin-Banchik, will be teaching courses in the History and Political Science Departments and will be in residence at SDSU for the 2018/19 academic year. Her residency is supported by a grant from the Murray Galinson San Diego Israel Initiative and by the Lipinsky Institute for Jewish Studies endowment.
Dr. Levin-Banchik is both a political scientist and historian, studying the evolution of conflict and peace in contemporary international relations of the Middle East. Her expertise is in the field of global and regional security, international crisis escalation and recurrence, domestic and transnational terrorism, cooperation and violence between rivalries, and nonstate actors. Her current project focuses on what enemies do when they are not fighting and how their respite hostility affects crisis escalation into severe violence and wars. Dr. Levin-Banchik research has been published in Terrorism and Political Violence, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, and Media, War & Conflict.
Dr. Levin-Banchik’s expertise also includes design, application and study of active learning in higher education. Her book, World Politics Simulations in a Global Information Age (University of Michigan Press, 2015), coauthored with Hemda Ben-Yehuda and Chanan Naveh, examines face-to-face and cyber simulations in social science courses. Her recent study on a simulation of an Israeli security crisis over Iranian Plane is forthcoming in the Journal of Political Science Education. Dr. Levin-Banchik is a co-founder of the World Politics Simulation project. She has been recently elected as a member-at-large of active learning in international affairs (ALIAS) section of International Studies Association for the 2018-2019 years.
Dr. Levin-Banchik is completing a two-year postdoctoral fellowship with Israel Institute at the University of Toronto and the University of California, Davis. She has taught political science and international relations at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, where she has developed online courses for undergraduate and graduate students. In 2017, Dr. Levin-Banchik has won Teaching with Impact Best Syllabus prize of Israel Institute for the course she developed on “Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Israel.”*
Preceding provided by SDSU’s Jewish Studies Program
