Scholar-in-Residence
alubotzky@uh.edu

Biographical Summary

Dr. Asher Lubotzky is the Israel Institute Teaching Fellow and a Scholar in Residence in the Department of Political Science at the University of Houston. Dr. Lubotzky holds a PhD in History from Indiana University, an MA from Bar-Ilan University, and a BA from the University of Haifa.

Dr. Lubotzky’s scholarship focuses on Africa-Israel relations, past and present; Jews in Africa; and Israel’s foreign affairs and global image. He is currently working on a book entitled Before the Apartheid Analogy: South African Radicals and Israel/Palestine, 1940s-1970s. His work has also been published in Jewish Historical Studies, South African Historical Journal, The Journal of the Middle East and Africa, and Israel Studies, among others. He also publishes commentary and policy papers for various international venues, such as The Conversation, The Republic, and Strategic Assessment.   

At the University of Houston, Dr. Lubotzky has been teaching courses on intelligence analysis (POLS 4340), US-Israel relations (POLS 4396), comparative elections (POLS 3333), and geopolitics in Africa (POLS 3396).