News
My review of Rob Geist Pinfold’s Understanding Territorial Withdrawal is now available in early view at Middle East Policy.
A short article I wrote that explains the discourse of Israel’s “one-state reality” is now available from the Y & S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies at UCLA. “The ‘One-State Reality’ After October 7” in Currents: Briefs on Contemporary Israel, Issue 9, Spring 2024.
The Palestinians, Israel, and BDS: Strategies and Struggles in Wars of Position, coauthored with Ian Lustick in the Israel Studies Review.
About
I am currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Amherst College.
Previously, I taught at Wellesley, Bryn Mawr, and UCLA, and held a postdoctoral fellowship at UCLA’s Younes & Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies. I received a PhD in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2022.
My research and teaching interests span the Political Science subfields of comparative politics, international relations, and political theory, with a primary regional focus on the Middle East. I work on the politics of self-determination, nationalism and ethnic politics, peace and conflict studies, settler colonialism and indigenous politics, decolonization, and democratic theory. I also have interests in philosophy of the social sciences, methodology, and disciplinary histories.
Contact: nshils@amherst.edu