Assistant professor of history and peace studies

403 Decio Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556

Phone: 574-631-8213
E-mail: Kaufman.15@nd.edu

Asher Kaufman (Ph.D. Brandeis University, 2000) joined the University of Notre Dame faculty in August 2005. Prior to that, he taught at Hebrew University, Jerusalem. From 2000 to 2004, he was a research fellow at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, and headed its Middle East Unit in 2004-05.

Kaufman is the author of Reviving Phoenicia: The Search for Identity in Lebanon (I.B. Tauris, 2004), a history of modern Lebanese national identity. He has also written articles on topics such as the evolution of Hizbullah (the Shi‘ite radical movement in Lebanon), Israeli policy in the Middle East, and various boundary disputes in the region. His current projects are a study on boundaries, territoriality and identities of the Syrian, Lebanese and Israeli shared borders; and a study of memory and forgetfulness as they relate to the Lebanese civil war and the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon.

Kaufman's recent publications include a book he co-edited with Elie Podeh, titled Arab-Jewish Relations: From Conflict to Reconciliation? (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2005).

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