Jonathan Alschech, Ph.D., Ph.D.

Adjunct Assistant Professor
Contact

Email: jalschech@smith.edu 
 

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Education

Ph.D., University of Toronto 
Ph.D., Tel Aviv University

Biography

Jonathan Alschech holds a Ph.D. in social work from the University of Toronto, as well as a Ph.D. in history from Tel Aviv University, Israel. Alschech’s research interests and publications include critical quantitative analysis and social work research methodologies, the transformative memorialization of genocide and apartheid, racial, sexual and gender violence and inequality, and unstably-housed men’s experiences of fatherhood and precarious parental involvement. Alschech has practice experience with incarcerated men and Palestinian political prisoners in Israel, young men experiencing racial discrimination and violence in South Africa and street-involved youth and convicted sex offenders in Ontario, Canada.