Dina Roginsky, Ph.D., has been a faculty member in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale University since 2010, where she teaches Hebrew language and culture. She holds an M.A. in Psychology, a doctorate in Sociology and Anthropology (Magna Cum Laude) and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at New York University. Prior to joining Yale, she taught at the University of Toronto.
Roginsky’s research focuses on the intersection of culture, history, politics, and performance. She has presented her work in Israel, Europe, Canada, and the U.S., and has published in the fields of Sociology, Folklore, Dance, Israel and Jewish Studies, as well as Pedagogy and Language Education. Roginsky is co-editor of the books Dance Discourse in Israel (Resling, 2009), Sara Levi-Tanai: A Life of Creation (Resling, 2015), and Moving through Conflict: Dance and Politics in Israel (Routledge, 2020). The latter presents pioneering research that explores encounters between Jews and Arabs through dance.
Her collaborative project with the Arabic Program at Yale, titled Hebrew and Arabic in Dialogue, explores linguistic and cultural contact between the groups and has been recognized as an innovative pedagogical initiative in U.S. higher education. In her current project, titled Bridging the Gap between Biblical Hebrew and Modern Hebrew, she applies a distinct Second Language Acquisition method to the teaching of Classical Hebrew at the undergraduate level.