Neil Rogachevsky is Assistant Professor of Humanities in the Hamilton Center. He previously taught at the Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University. His research concerns Israeli political thought and history, comparative constitutionalism, and Jewish history. With Dov Zigler, he is the co-author of Israel’s Declaration of Independence: The History and Political Theory of the Nation’s Founding Moment (Cambridge University Press, 2023), which won the Concordia University-Azrieli prize for Best Book in Israel Studies for 2023. His academic writing has also appeared in Israel Studies, The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, French History, and edited volumes on Michel Houellebecq’s political thought from Brill and diaspora politics in the United States from NYU Press. He has also written for the Wall Street Journal, Mosaic, Jewish Review of Books, Haaretz, American Affairs and other publications.

Rogachevsky’s current research concerns state formation, political rhetoric, and political development in early Israel, particularly focusing on constitutional questions and debates in the first years of statehood.