Yoram Hazony
Yoram Hazony is Provost and co-founder of the Shalem Center.
B.A., Princeton University Ph.D., Rutgers University
Among the founders of the Shalem Center, Dr. Yoram Hazony has served as president and senior fellow in the Department of Philosophy, Political Theory, and Religion. Currently, he is both the center’s provost and the director of its project in Jewish philosophical theology. Dr. Hazony is also a member of the Board of Advisors of the John Templeton Foundation. He holds a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Princeton and a Ph.D. in political theory from Rutgers University.
Dr. Hazony is the author of several books, including The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel’s Soul (Basic Books, 2000) and The Dawn: Political Teachings of the Book of Esther (Shalem Press, 2000). He is currently working on two books, The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2012); and Hume and the Science of Mind.
In addition, he writes a series of dispatches on philosophy, Judaism, Israel and higher education called Jerusalem Letters, and was awarded the American Jewish Press Association’s Simon Rockower Prize in the category of art criticism.
