Oren Kroll-Zeldin

Oren Kroll-Zeldin holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology and Social Change from the California Institute of Integral Studies where he also received an MA in Cultural Anthropology and Social Transformation. He is the Assistant Director of the Swig Program in Jewish Studies and Social Justice where he teaches courses on Jewish culture, identity and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and also serves as the associate director of Hebrew San Francisco: Ulpan, a three-week intensive Hebrew language program offered each summer at USF. Additionally, he is the co-founder and lead curator of Mapping Jewish San Francisco, a new digital humanities project of the Swig Program in Jewish Studies and Social Justice that takes a collaborative approach to examining the complex history and unique religious, cultural, and political identity of the Jewish San Francisco Bay Area. In 2017, he received the USF Distinguished Adjunct Teaching Award.

Oren was previously the director of the Beyond Bridges: Israel-Palestine program with the Center for Global Education at USF and the Center for Transformative Education and has led numerous study trips to Israel/Palestine. He is an experienced facilitator for groups in conflict and was trained by the former director of the pre-eminent School for Peace in Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salaam (Oasis of Peace). His facilitation work brings together people from diverse backgrounds and focuses on issues relating to identity, power, privilege, conflict, and social justice. Oren's writing has appeared in numerous journals, books, and online publications including Jerusalem Quarterly, Tikkun, International Journal of Education for Social Justice, and +972 Magazine.

• Assistant Director, Swig Program in Jewish Studies and Social Justice

• PhD, Cultural Anthropology and Social Change, The California Institute of Integral Studies
• MA, Cultural Anthropology and Social Transformation, The California Institute of Integral Studies

• 2017 USF Distinguished Adjunct Teaching Award