Yael A. Sternhell

Yael A. Sternhell is an associate professor of history and American Studies at Tel Aviv University, specializing in the history of the long Civil War era. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton in 2008, after which she returned to her native Israel and joined the faculty at Tel Aviv in 2011. Her first book, Routes of War: The World of Movement in the Confederate South came out with Harvard University Press in 2012 and was a co-winner of the Francis B. Simkins Award from the Southern Historical Association, a runner-up for the Lincoln Prize, and a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. Her second book, entitled War on Record: The Archive and the Afterlife of the Civil War came out with Yale University Press in 2023. An article with some of project’s findings appeared in the Journal of American History in March 2016 and won the Binkley-Stephenson Award from the Organization of American Historians. She has been a visiting fellow at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton (2015-2016) and the Berlin Institute for Advanced Studies (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 2020-2021). Sternhell is a regular contributor on U.S. politics to Ha’aretz and is a proud board member of the New Israel Fund, the country’s leading human rights and social justice organization.