Ayelet Harel is a Professor of Political Science in Ben-Gurion University’s Conflict Management and Resolution Program and the Department of Politics and Government. Her research is at the intersection of politics, conflict studies, and feminist international relations. Particularly, her research interests and publications focus on critical security studies; ethnic conflicts and democracy; minority rights; religion and politics; feminist theories; and women in the military. She won the 2017 Glatt teaching award for the 10 best professors at BGU and the 2021 Roth Prize for the most Inspiring Professor and was the recipient of the 2018 AIS and Israel Institute Young Scholar Award—this prize is given to researchers under the age of 45 who have made a unique and significant contribution to Israel Studies. Additionally, she was awarded ERGOMAS Guiseppe Caforio Book Award 2021 for her recent book published by Oxford University Press in 2020. Prof. Harel is the author of The Challenge of Democracy: Citizenship, Rights, and Ethnic Conflicts in India and Israel – 2013, Cambridge University Press, India and Foundation Books; Breaking the Binaries in Security Studies: A Gendered Analysis of Women in Combat, Oxford University Press, 2020 (with Shir Daphna-Tekoah); as well as dozens of articles in prestigious academic journals in her field.