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The Faculty of Humanities
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus
Jerusalem, 9190501

Department Head: Dr Claudia Kedar, claudia.kedar@mail.huji.ac.il

Department Advisor for BA Students: Dr Or Hasson, or.hasson@mail.huji.ac.il

Director of Literature MA Studies: Prof. Ruth Fine, ruth.fine@mail.huji.ac.il

Director of Historical MA Studies: Dr Claudia Kedar, claudia.kedar@mail.huji.ac.il

Department Advisors for PhD Students: Prof. Ruth Fine (Literature), Prof. Aldina Quintana (Languages and Linguistics) and Dr Claudia Kedar (History)

Students Exchange Advisor: Dr Or Hasson, or.hasson@mail.huji.ac.il

For administrative matters, please contact

Dina Belostotsky
dinab@savion.huji.ac.il
Tel. 02-5883616
Room: 45404
Office hours: Sun., Mon., Wed., Thur., 10:00-13:00.

Adjunct lecturers

Dr. Daniel Blaustein

02-6256399

daniel.blaustein@mail.huji.ac.il

Room: 46617 (Humanities)

Research Interests: Contemporary Latin American Literature and Literary Theory.

Born in Argentina, Daniel Blaustein has been living in Israel since 1987. He is a lecturer and researcher at the Department of Romance and Latin American Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he has taught, among others: “Main trends in Spanish Literature”, “Readings in Literary Criticism” and “Contemporary Latin American Fiction”. He is also lecturer in the Department of Literature, TelAvivUniversity. His main areas of interest include Literary Theories and Criticism and Contemporary Latin American Narrative. He has translated several books and articles on literary criticism and Jewish History.

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Dr. Mauricio Dimant

02-5882319

mauricio.dimant@mail.huji.ac.il

Room: 318 (Truman Institute)

Personal Website

Research Interests: Sociocultural shifts in Contemporary Latin American History, Tech Private technologies in Contemporary Latin America, Private sector and Diasporas; Latin America in Global History. His ongoing research delves into the contemporary technological history of Latin America, emphasizing an often-overlooked element: the market education strategies employed by foreign tech companies.

Mauricio Dimant was the Convener of the LATAM Innovation and Entrepreneurship Club at the Hebrew University, Coordinator of the Latin American Unit at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Academic Mentor for the Internship Undergraduate Program in Latin American Studies, and a Co-Coordinator of Latin American Studies at the 12th German-Israeli Frontiers of Humanities Symposium organized by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Co-Coordinator of Research at the European Association of Latin American History (AHILA), Member of the Academic Committee of the Pontifical Foundation Scholas Occurrentes (The Holly See), and Editing Assistant for Revista Política y Sociedad, Complutense University of Madrid.
His research has been published in Contemporary Jewry, Israel Studies, Bulletin of Latin American Research, Revista Mediterránea de Comunicación, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Horizontes Antropológicos, Zmanim: A Historical Quarterly, among others. He received the "Order of Educational and Cultural Merit Gabriela Mistral" by the Chilean government.

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Dr. Jorge Gordin

02-5883832

jorge.gordin@mail.huji.ac.il

Room 46608 (Hum.)

Research Interests: Comparative Politics and Political Economy of Latin America, Federalism and Decentralization, Political Representation, Institutional Design, Clientelism and Patronage, European Union-Latin American Relations.

Ph.D in Political Science (University of Pittsburgh). Jorge Gordin was the founding Executive Editor of Journal of Politics In Latin America (SAGE). He is the author of Institutional Innovation and the Steering of Conflicts in Latin America (with Lucio Renno, ECPR Press, 2017, paperback 2018). His research has been published in the European Journal of Political Research, Political Studies Review, Scandinavian Political Studies, Publius: Journal of Federalism, Regional and Federal Studies, Policy Studies, Journal of Policy History, among others. His article in the Journal of Public Policy was awarded (ex aequo) the 2007 AECPA (Asociación Española de Ciencia Política y de La Administración) prize for the best journal article.

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Dr. Jonathan Grossman

jonathan.grossman@mail.huji.ac.il

Room: The Jacob Robinson Institute for the History of Individual and Collective Rights (Faculty of Humanities).

Research Interests: Migration, Ethnicity, Race, and Diaspora in Latin America; The History of Israeli-Latin American Relations; The Jewish Diaspora in Latin America; Military Dictatorships in Latin America.

Dr. Ofek Kehila

ofek.kehila@mail.huji.ac.il

Room:

Research Interests: Spanish Golden Age Literature; Latin American Literature; Literary Theory; Rewriting; Empathy in Literature.

Ofek Kehila is an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies. He holds a PhD from the Hebrew University (2022) and was a postdoctoral fellow at Freie Universität Berlin (2023-2025). Ofek’s fields of expertise are Spanish Golden Age literature, Latin American literature, and the dialogue between these traditions. His book, La literatura como reescritura: el caso de Reinaldo Arenas, was published by De Gruyter (2024) and his articles were published in leading journals such as Hispanic Review, Atalanta, Iberoamericana, and Anales Cervantinos.

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