Dr. Hadas Aron

Hadas Aron

Dr. Hadas Aron

B.S., M.S., Ph.D.

Program Coordinator for the International Politics Cohort

Assistant Professor of Political Science


School: Columbian College of Arts and Sciences

Department: Department of International Politics

Contact:

Academic Building & Post Hall 2100 Foxhall Road, NW Washington DC 20052

Dr. Hadas Aron was previously a faculty fellow at NYU's Center for European and Mediterranean Studies and a fellow at the Saltzman Institute for War and Peace at Columbia University. She earned her Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University in 2017. She currently researches nationalism, populism, international security, democratization and de-democratization, and political narratives with a regional focus on Europe and Israel. Dr. Aron teaches courses on European politics, nationalism, social movements and political protest, Mediterranean politics, and introductory courses in comparative politics and international relations. In addition to her scholarship, she also participates in policy debates in her blog, and other publications such as Duck of Minerva, the LSE USA blog, and Newsweek. Her work has been featured in the New York Times and Vox. 


B.S., Biology, Tel Aviv University, 2004

M.S., Ecology and Environmental Quality, Tel Aviv University, 2006

M.A., Columbia University, 2012

Ph.D., Political Science, Columbia University, 2017

Introduction to Comparative Politics Fall 2023

Introduction to International Relations Spring 2024

Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Identity in the Modern Era Spring 2024

“Protest at the Ballot Box: From Blank Vote to Populism” Collaboration with Chiara Superti Party Politics 2022

“Contesting the Nation: Contradicting National Narratives and the Jewish Settlements.” Nations and Nationalism 2019

“Post-Communist Germany: Comparing Eastern Germany and Central and Eastern Europe’s Political Development” (forthcoming in German Politics and Society)

"The International Politics of Illiberalism" Collaboration with Jack Snyder. Forthcoming 2023 in the Oxford Handbook of Illiberalism

"Beyond the End of History: Nationalism, Liberalism, and the War in Ukraine" Collaboration with Emily Holland IAI Commentaries 2022

“The Political Economy of Decision-Making in Radio Playlists," collaboration with Professor Gideon Doron; in edited volume - Poetry and Politics, Ed. Assaf Meydani and Nadir Tsur 2010 (Hebrew)

NYU Provost's GRI Fellowship Program, 2020

State of Israel, Ministry of Absorption, Returning Scientist Grant, 2018

Tel Aviv University Travel Grant 2018

Tel Aviv University Post Doctoral Scholarship 2017-2018

Columbia University GSAS Funding 2010-2017

Carnegie Corporation of New York Borderlands Project, Consultant 2017

Columbia University GSAS Teaching Scholars Program 2015-2016

Columbia University GSAS Conference Travel Grant 2015, 2016

Cordier Fellowship SIPA (Declined) 2015-2016

Academic Exchange (AE) Dissertation Fellowship for Israel Research 2014-2015

Harriman Institute PepsiCo Travel Grant 2014, 2015

Columbia PoliSci Department Dissertation Development Grant 2014

Saltzman Institute of War & Peace Studies, CQRM Award 2013

Tel Aviv University, Department of Microbiology Funding 2004-2006

Tel Aviv University Grant for a cancer related research project for outstanding students 2002

Affiliated Faculty, Global Women’s Institute, GW

Honors Program, GW

International Studies Association (ISA)

American Political Science Association (APSA)

APSA's Qualitative and Multi-Method Research and European Politics Sections

Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA)

Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN)

Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)

Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN)

German Studies Association (GSA)