Dr. Roni Hirsch
Dr. Roni Hirsch is a senior lecturer in the Division of Government and Political Theory at the School of Political Science, University of Haifa, and the division’s representative in the PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) program. She completed her PhD in 2017 in the Department of Political Science at UCLA, specializing in political theory and the history of science, and has been a visiting scholar at Duke University, Harvard University, Tel Aviv University and the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.
Her research addresses the politics of risk and how it is expressed in market design, corporate structure and protest movements, as well as the intellectual history of wages and profit. In 2023 she was awarded an ISF grant to study the concept of profit in the history of economics and its implications for inequality today.
Research interests: political theory, political economy, the history of economic thought and of capitalism, inequality and distributive justice, risk and financialization, social movements and environmental justice.
Email: rhirsch@poli.haifa.ac.il