Yitzhak Hen#
| Membership Number: | 7389 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ISRAEL |
| Homepage(s): | https://yitzhakhen.huji.ac.il |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-0368-1756 |
| Publication Link: | https://yitzhakhen.huji.ac.il |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2018 Full Professor and Director of the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- 2007 - 2018 Full Professor - Ben Gurion University of the Negev
- 2012 - 2013 Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
- 2010 - 2012 Senior Fellow of the Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- 2007 - 2008 Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge
- 2003 - 2007 Associate Professor - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
- 2003 Senior Lecturer - Ben Gurion University of the Negev
- 2000 - 2001 Fellow in Residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences
- 2000 - 2003 Senior Lecturer - University of Haifa
- 1994 - 2000 Lecturer - University of Haifa
Fields of Scholarship
- Social, cultural and religious history of the late-antique and the early medieval West
- Latin palaeography and codicology
- Middle Ages in movies and TV adaptations
- Early Christian liturgy
- Early medieval Mediterranean
- Post-Roman Barbarian kingdoms of Western Europe and North Africa
Honours and Awards
- 2025 Corresponding member of the MGH
- 2022 Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, UK
- 2020 Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America
- 2008 Life Member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge
