About the Department

Ofrit Liviatan is a lecturer at the Department of Government, and an associate of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Dr. Liviatan received her PhD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Her research focuses on the constitutional relationship between religion and state, studying comparatively the role of legal systems in religion-based tensions, and the impact of different constitutional regimes on religious freedom and the accommodation of diversity. In the ’09-'10 academic year Dr. Liviatan will be teaching a Junior Seminar and a Freshman Seminar on Comparative Law and Religion. In addition, Dr. Liviatan will continue to co-chair Weatherhead’s Religion and Politics Seminar.