Gersten Family Professor of Political Science.

Ph.D.: Harvard University, 1973.

Hebrew University: Lecturer, 1972; Senior Lecturer, 1977; Associate Professor, 1997; Professor, 1998.

Other Appointments: Fellow: Center of Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University (1978); Visiting Professor: Duke University (1984-6); Harvard University (1986, 1990); Brown University (2008).

Memberships and Fellowships: International Association of Science Studies.

Research Interests: Comparative politics and democracies; modern political philosophy; sceince, technology and politics studies; cultural policy; culture and democracy.

Courses: http://www.huji.ac.il/cgi-bin/mm/new/data/ihoker/MOP-STAFF_COURSES?itz_hfix=n&sno=376211&Save_t=yaron+ezrahi

The Descent of Icarus: Science and the Transformation of Contemporary Democracy (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990).

"New History for a New Israel: Two Landmark Looks at a Sentimentalized Past," Foreign Affairs, 79(1), 2000.

Israel Towards a Constitutional Democracy (with M. Kremnitzer) (Jerusalem: Israeli Democracy Institute, 2001, in Hebrew).

Rubber Bullets: Power and Conscience in Modern Israel (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998).

"The Theatrics and Mechanics of Action: The Theater and the Machine as Political Metaphors," Social Research, 62(2), 1995.

Yaron Ezrahi, Everett Mendelsohn and Howard Segal (Editors). Technology, Pessimism, and Postmodernism (Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1995).

"Einstein's Unintended Legacy: The Critique of Common-Sense Realism and Post-Modern Politics", in: Galison, Holton & Schweber (eds.)  Einstein for the 21st Century: His Legacy in Science, Art, and Modern Culture (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008).