Ron E. Hassner is the Helen Diller Family Chair in Israel Studies at U.C. Berkeley. His publications focus on religion and conflict. He is the author of War on Sacred Grounds (Cornell University Press, 2009), Religion in the Military Worldwide (Cambridge University Press, 2013), Religion on the Battlefield (Cornell University Press, 2016), Anatomy of Torture (Cornell University Press, 2022) and other articles and book chapters. He is the editor of the Cornell book series "Religion and Conflict" and the editor in chief of the journal "Security Studies".
