ד"ר מריק שטרן

Dr. Marik Shtern is an urban-political geographer. He holds an MA (with honors) in Geography from the Hebrew University Jerusalem and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Ben-Gurion University. His postdoctoral research was carried out at UCSD, the Truman Institute, and the Hebrew University. His research focuses on cities in conflict and urban geographies of encounter, integrating urban sociology with political geography. He is currently the head of Urbanism, Space, and Society studies at the SCE Negev School of Architecture and an associate lecturer at Hebrew University. His research was published in leading journals in the fields of  urban studies and political geography