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Dr. Sivan Lerer is a researcher at the Chair in Baha’i Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she previously earned her PhD in Comparative Religion. Her primary research interests include the early history of the Babi-Baha’i religion, Babi-Baha’i exegesis, and the social aspects of the Baha'i Faith, including the interplay between scripture, literature, and history.
She has been teaching courses on the history of the Baha'i Faith at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for over a decade. Her PhD thesis was written under the supervision of Prof. Moshe Sharon and dealt with the "dialogue" between the Shaykhi leader Karim Khan Kirmani and the Bab.
As part of the "Digital Humanities" movement and the effort to make academic knowledge and research more accessible to the general public, Sivan's students have written more than 80 articles on the Hebrew Wikipedia (and several in other languages) dealing with Baha'i subjects.
Sivan is also the executive editor of the Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam international journal published by the Max Schloessinger Memorial Foundation.