CURRICULUM VITAE

Name: Raanan Rein.
Address: 47, Ha-Knesset St. Givataim 53465, Israel.
E-Mail: raanan@tauex.tau.ac.il
Place of Birth: Tel Aviv, Israel.
Date of Birth: June 17, 1960.
Family Status: Married, with two children.

University Studies:

Ph.D. History (Cum Laude), Tel Aviv University, 1991.
M.A. History, Tel Aviv University, 1988.
B.A. Political Science and History (Cum Laude), Tel Aviv University, 1986.

 

Work Experience:

2024-2025: Visiting Scholar, Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies, Brandeis University.

2023-: Member of the Scientific Council of the Asociación de Historiadores Latinoamericanistas Europeos (AHILA.eu)

2021-2026: Member of the Board of Directors of the Historical Society of Israel.

2023-2026: Member of the Academic Committee of the 24th International Commission of Historical Sciences  Congress in Jerusalem, July 26-31, 2026.

2023-2025: Data Privacy Officer, Tel Aviv University.

2023: Member of the Scientific Council of the Segundo Encuentro de Argentinistas Europeos, Universidad de Alcalá (Spain) and  Sorbonne Université.

2023-2024: Advisor on Global Engagement to Ruppin Acdemic Center’s  President.

2007-2024: Member, Board of Directors, ANU-Museum of the Jewish People (formerly Beit Hatfutsot), Tel Aviv.

2010-2023: Board Member, Institute of Advanced Studies, Tel Aviv University.

2022: Special Graduate Faculty, History Graduate Program, Trent University.

2022: Thematic Editor and Area Advisor, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History.

2022-: Member of the search committee for a new president to Sapir College, Israel.

2004-2022: Founder and Director, The S. Daniel Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies, Tel Aviv University.

​2007-2021: Member, Board of Directors, Tel Aviv University Press.

2012-2020: Vice President, Tel Aviv University.

2020: Chair, Forum of Vice Presidents for Global Engagement of all Israeli universities.

2015-: Member of the advisory board of the Centro de Documentación e Investigaciones acerca del Peronismo, Universidad Nacional de San Martin, Argentina.

2013-2016: Member of the International Committee, appointed by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sport, to evaluate centers of excellence in Spanish Universities.

2005-2009: Vice Rector, Tel Aviv University.

2004-2005: Member of the Board of Directors, Tel Aviv University.

2000-2004: Head, Sverdlin Institute for Latin American History and Culture, Tel Aviv University.

2001-: Full Professor, Department of History, Tel Aviv University.

1998-2001: Associate Professor, Department of History, Tel Aviv University.

2009: Member, Present Time Dimension Committee, Dan David Prize ($1,000,000).

2008-: Member of the Board of the Interdisciplinary Center of Judaic Studies, Rio de Janeiro Federal University.

2010: Chair, the Shalom Rosenfeld Press Award committee, Tel Aviv University

2007-2009: Chair, Board of Directors, School of Communications, Tel Aviv University.

2007-2012: Member, Academic Committee, The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism, Tel Aviv University.

2007: Member, Past Dimension Committee, Dan David Prize ($1,000,000).

2003-2005: Chairperson of the Teaching Policy Committee, Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University.

2002: Member of the Toledano Award Committee for research on Spanish Jewry.

2002: Member of the Academic Committee, V International Symposium, "América Latina y el Caribe. El desafío de desarrollo e integración en el nuevo milenio”, University of Buenos Aires, October 2002.

2000: Member of the Academic Committee, IV International Symposium "El Cono Sur, su inserción en el tercer milenio”, University of Buenos Aires, October 2000.

1996-1998: Senior Lecturer, Department of History, Tel Aviv University.

1992-1996: Lecturer, Department of History, Tel Aviv University.

1984-1987: Foreign News Editor, Hadashot daily newspaper (Hebrew, Tel Aviv).

1982-1984: Commentaries on foreign affairs, Al Hamishmar daily; member of the founding group of Hadashot daily newspaper.

1979-1982: Foreign News Editor, I.D.F. Radio Station.

During the 1980s I published hundreds of articles and reportages in a number of Israeli newspapers and magazines. Among them:

• "Menem Goes Out to the Balcony”, Hadashot, July 14 1989.

• "Hostility Towards Israel”, Davar, Feb. 9, 1988.

• "Everybody Calls Him Felipe”, Al Hamishmar, March 2, 1984.

• "Sicily and Socialism”, Migvan (Israel Labour Monthly), No. 83-84 (Dec. 1983), pp. 23-27.

• "The Unlit Side of the Chancellor”, Migvan (Israel Labour Monthly), No. 81-82 (July 1983), pp. 18-21.