Dr. Hagit Krik

Visiting Faculty Member

​Dr. Hagit Krik, a historian and educator, holds a doctorate from the Zvi Yavetz School of Historical Studies at Tel Aviv University. Her doctoral dissertation, “Colonial Lives in Palestine, 1920–1948: British Society and Culture in a Mandate Territory,” explores the social and cultural history of the British colonial community in Palestine during the British mandate. Her current research focuses on the history of British medical personnel in the Middle East during the interwar period. As a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, she participated in a research project of the European Research Council titled “A Regional History of Medicine in the Modern Middle East.” She also served as a visiting scholar at the Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine and Technology and at the Centre for Global History. Her upcoming book, A Corner in a Foreign Field: The British Community in Mandate Palestine, is scheduled for publication in the summer of 2024 by The Hebrew University Magnes Press. Hagit has extensive professional experience in training, group facilitation, content consulting, and pedagogical development. For many years, she has been active in the Mul Nevo Educational Center for Dialog, Remembrance, and Social Action. In this capacity, she has led delegations of youth on trips to Poland in the spirit of humanism, developed alternative Holocaust remembrance trips within Israel, and facilitates workshops on the topic of genocide, the Holocaust, and the culture of memory.​