People and Partnerships

Dr. Michael Freedman is an Assistant Professor in the School of Political Sciences at the University of Haifa. He is a co-founder of the Political Behaviour Lab and a member of the Haifa Data Science Research Center (DSRC).

Dr. Freedman received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2019. His research focuses on religion, conflict, and citizen-state interactions in Israel and the Muslim world, combining big data approaches with experiments and in-depth interviews.

Dr. Freedman's work has been published in leading journals including the American Sociological Review, Political Behavior, Political Science Research Methods, and the Journal of Conflict Resolution.

Dr. Freedman can be contacted at mrfreed@poli.haifa.ac.il or found on Twitter.