Games & Culture Lab, co-director
Steering Committee
In addition to co-directorship of the Games & Culture Lab, Shai Ginsburg was a member of the Steering Committee for the 2020-21 academic year in his capacity as chair of the Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies. Ginsburg's work focuses on Israel and its culture in its relation to Jewish nationalism and its variants. He is especially interested in the way works of culture shape the political imagination and vice versa, the engagement with politics shapes our perception of culture, society and history. In this context, he has written on Israeli and Jewish-international cinema, Hebrew literature, Israeli historiography and Jewish politics of the 19th and 20th century.