COHEN-ALMAGOR, Prof. Raphael. BA (with distinction) (Tel Aviv), MA with distinction (Tel Aviv), DPhil (Oxford)

Chair in Politics Director of Undergraduate Studies (semester two only) Office: 299, Wilberforce Building   Tel:+44 (0) 1482 465024 Email: R.Cohen-Almagor@hull.ac.uk   Personal Website: http://www.hull.ac.uk/rca Personal Blog: http://almagor.blogspot.com/ Middle East Study Group

Raphael Cohen-Almagor received his D. Phil. in political theory from Oxford University (1991). In 1992-1995 he lectured at the Hebrew University Law Faculty. He has served in various organizations, including as Chairperson of "The Second Generation to the Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance" Organization in Israel (1985-1987); Founder and Director of the Medical Ethics Think-tank at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (1995-1998); member of the Israel Press Council (1997-2000), Chairperson of Library and Information Studies at the University of Haifa (2000-2003), and Founder and Director of the Center for Democratic Studies at the University of Haifa (2003-2007). Cohen-Almagor was Fulbright Visiting Professor at UCLA School of Law and Dept. of Communication (1999-2000), Visiting Professor at Johns Hopkins University (2003-2004), and Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2007-2008). Presently he is Chair in Politics and in 2008-2009 was (Acting) Deputy Dean for Research at FASS.

Recent Publications

Research Interests

• Freedom of expression
• Media ethics
• Medical ethics
• Multiculturalism
• Liberal democracy
• Media and terror
• Political extremism

Teaching Profiles

• Freedom of expression
• Media ethics
• In Internet's Way
• Introduction to Political Theory

Areas of PhD Supervision

• Legislative Approaches to Fertility Treatments in Liberal Democracies
• Human Cloning, Embryo Cloning, and Genetic Engineering
• The Internet in Service of Public Representatives
• Media Coverage of War