Tamar Hofnung

Hofnung is a political sociologist specializing in the politics shaping gender and racial equality policies in Israel and the United States. Before coming to UCLA, she had an appointment as the recipient of the Rothschild Postdoctoral Fellowship at UC Berkeley's Sociology Department. Hofnung received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, specializing in human rights through the joint program "Human Rights Under Pressure" with Freie Universität Berlin. Among other awards, she is the recipient of the Annenberg Foundation Prize of Excellence in American Studies and the Jacques Nass Political Economy Prize of Excellence.