Deputy director of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute; a senior research fellow; the director of the Sacredness, Religion, and Secularization Theme; the director of the Intellectual Journeys project; and the co-director of the Intellectual Incubator for Documentary Filmmaking. Her research interests include religion, secularization, and secularism today and in historical and comparative perspectives; contemporary historical methodology and thinking; memory and the formation of religious and political identities; and the connection between research and creativity. Her current research deals with processes of secularization and religionization in various societies. In 2015, a book she edited, Secularization and Secularism: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, was published by the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and Hakibbutz Hameuchad