Visiting Faculty

Mor Shilon, Ph.D.

Mor Shilon earned her Ph.D. from the Technion Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, where she was awarded the Jacobs Scholarship for Academic Excellence. In her research, Mor investigates the relations between people and technology in complex urban settings. During her studies, she researched hi-tech development in weakened areas.  During her postdoctoral studies (2017-2019), she conducted a thorough study of the emergence of technological start-ups in the mixed region of Haifa and Nazareth where she worked with Next Generation Technologies (NGT) 3.

Email: mshilon@ucsd.edu

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Jay Rothman, Ph.D.

Jay Rothman is a Professor in the Graduate Program on Conflict Resolution and Negotiation at the Bar-Ilan University. He is co-editor of The International Journal of Conflict Engagement and Resolution (IJCER). He is the author/editor of four books, including Resolving Identity-Based Conflict: in Nations, Organizations and Communities (Wiley, 1997) and, From Identity-Based Conflict to Identity-Based Cooperation (Springer, 2012). He has published and taught extensively about Identity-Based Conflict, Creative Conflict Engagement, and Action-Evaluation. This year, as a visiting Associate Professor at the School of Global Policy and Strategy, he launching a new research project comparing “Multi-Track Diplomacy Past and Future in Jerusalem and Cyprus.”

Email: rothmanj@ucsd.edu

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Marik Shtern, Ph.D.

Dr. Marik Shtern is an political geographer, and currently a Post-doctoral student and a lecturer at the Urban Studies and Planning department at the University of California San Diego. Marik has an MA (with honors) in Geography from the Hebrew University and a PhD in Politics and Government from the Ben Gurion University. His fields of research are geographies of encounter in contested cities, urban geopolitics and Jewish-Arab spatial relations in Jerusalem and Israel. Marik published his research in leading journals in Urban Studies and as policy papers.  He lives in Encinitas, CA with his wife Chaya and their two boys – Michael and Avshalom  

Email: mashtern@ucsd.edu 

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Gilad Shtienberg, Ph.D.

Gilad Shtienberg received his Ph.D. in Coastal geomorphology with an emphasis on anthropogenic influences, University of Haifa, studies long-term climate change in Israel and neighboring lands as a model for more general issues of global environmental change. He specializes in the understanding theoretical and practical aspects of the landscape changes that occur in the dynamic environments of the coast zone. His recent projects focus on human settlement during the Biblical periods along Israel’s northern Mediterranean coast.

Research interests: Geoarchaeology, Palaeo-landscape reconstruction, Anthropogenic processes effecting soil and landscape, Shallow continental shelf morphology.

Email: gshtienb@campus.haifa.ac.il

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