Dr. Timea Spitka, Leonard Davis Post-doctoral Fellow in Gender    

Dr. Timea Spitka received her PhD from Ben Gurion University with a focus on intervention in violent conflicts and her MA from University of Toronto in Russian and East European Studies. Her research has focused on conflict resolution, international mediation, group identity, gender and intervention in violent conflicts. Her book, International Intervention, Identity and Conflict Transformation: Bridges and Walls between Groups will be published by Routledge in 2015. Dr. Spitka has taught classes in International Mediation, Conflict Resolution and American Foreign Policy. She has also worked for several international organizations including for the United Nations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as a Gender Advisor for Oxfam and a journalist. As the Sophie Davis Postdoctoral Fellow,Dr. Spitka is the coordinator of the Forum on Gender, International Conflict Resolution and Peace.