Hassner, Ron E.

Ron Hassner is an American political scientist and international relations scholar. He is a professor of political science at University of California, Berkeley. He holds a Chancellor's Chair in political science and is the Helen Diller Family Chair in Israel studies at Berkeley. Hassner's work focuses on religion and conflict, especially territorial disputes over sacred spaces. His research also encompasses religion in the military and the effectiveness of interrogational torture. He is a faculty director of the Helen Diller Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies at U.C. Berkeley. Hassner is a recipient of Berkeley's campus-wide Distinguished Teaching Award.