Ariel Zellman has a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University in Chicago and is currently a joint post-doctoral fellow with the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations and the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace. He teaches in the International Relations department at the Hebrew University. His research examines the role of popular narratives of national identity and security in the protraction and resolution of international territorial conflict, particularly in Israel and the Balkans. His forthcoming article in Journal of Peace Research, “Framing consensus: Evaluating the narrative specificity of territorial indivisibility” uses experimental methods to investigate what normative beliefs guide variable Israeli perceptions of territorial indivisibility in Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, and the West Bank. His research at Davis focuses on the comparative cases of Serbian nationalist narratives regarding Kosovo, Bosnia, and Montenegro, and contemporary Russian interventionism in Ukraine and elsewhere.