Ayala Hendin

Israel Institute Postdoctoral Research Associate and Teaching Fellow
Ph.D., Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
research interests:
  • Social policy * Higher education * Diversity * Equity and equality * Citizenship
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    • MSC 1121-107-113
    • Washington University
    • One Brookings Drive
    • St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
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    Ayala Hendin (PhD) is an Israel Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis, passionate about connecting research, policy, and practice. She teaches and conducts research on Israeli politics, policy, and society, specifically within the higher education system.

    Currently, she is engaged in two main research projects: one on higher education policies toward ethnic, national, and religious minorities; and another on the impacts of October 7th and the subsequent war on the Israeli higher education internationalization agenda.

    Hendin held a previous fellowship at the Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2021/22) after completing her PhD at Ben-Gurion University in the Negev (2021).

    Recent publications:

    1. Hendin, A. (2024). Economic inclusion and ethnonational exclusion of Arabs in Israeli higher education: two tales of one policy. Studies in Higher Education, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2024.2402545
    2. Hendin, A. (2023). Separate But Equal? Diversity Policy Narratives in Israeli Higher Education. High Educ Policy 36, 826–846. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41307-022-00291-z