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Supporting Collaborative Research

The UC Israel Initiative encourages research that crosses traditional academic boundaries. Faculty and students explore Israel and U.S.-Israel relations through historical, political, legal, social, cultural, scientific, and technological perspectives.

 

Research areas include:

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  • U.S.-Israel diplomacy and foreign policy
     

  • Security and international affairs
     

  • Comparative constitutionalism and international law
     

  • Migration, identity, and shared society
     

  • Environmental intelligence and sustainability
     

  • Business, innovation, and technology
     

  • Medicine, engineering, and computational science
     

  • Jewish history and American Jewish life
     

  • Film, music, literature, and visual culture
     

The initiative supports collaboration among faculty in History, Judaic Studies, Political Science, International Affairs, Business, Education, Film and Media Studies, Engineering, Medicine, Nursing, Music, and other fields.

Archival and Digital Research

Cincinnati offers exceptional resources for the study of Jewish and American Jewish history. The Klau Library and the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, located on the Hebrew Union College campus, house extensive collections of documents, books, photographs, recordings, manuscripts, and other primary materials.

 

These collections support:

  • Faculty and student research
     

  • Archival fellowships
     

  • Digital humanities projects
     

  • Research methods workshops
     

  • Classroom-to-collections learning
     

  • Public exhibitions and digital projects
     

The UC Israel Initiative connects students directly with primary sources and introduces them to the methods of historical and cultural research.

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