Recent Writing

“The Two-State Solution: Dead, and Buried?” in the Tel Aviv Review of Books Spring 2025 issue.

A review of Rob Geist Pinfold’s Understanding Territorial Withdrawal in Middle East Policy.

An article The ‘One-State Reality’ After October 7” in Currents: Briefs on Contemporary Israel, Issue 9, Spring 2024.

The Palestinians, Israel, and BDS: Strategies and Struggles in Wars of Position, coauthored with Ian Lustick in the Israel Studies Review.

About

I am currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Amherst College.

Previously, I taught at Wellesley, Bryn Mawr, and held a postdoctoral fellowship at UCLA. I received a PhD in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2022.

My research and teaching interests span the Political Science subfields of comparative politics, international relations, and political theory, with a primary regional focus on the Middle East.

Please email me for a copy of my cv.

Contact: nshils@amherst.edu