Prof. Orit Rozin holds the Ruhama Rosenberg Chair for the Study of Jewish History and is a faculty member in the Department of History of the Jewish People at Tel Aviv University. She also serves as the Vice Chair of the Israel Historical Society.

Her research explores the legal, cultural, and social history of Zionism and the State of Israel, with a particular focus on the history of emotions.

Prof. Rozin is the author of three acclaimed books:

-Duty and Love: Individualism and Collectivism in 1950s Israel (2008), which won the 2009 Yonatan Shapiro Prize from the Association for Israel Studies. Its English translation, The Rise of the Individual in 1950s Israel: A Challenge to Collectivism, was published by UPNE in 2011.

-A Home for All Jews: Citizenship, Rights and National Identity in the New Israeli State (2016), which was named runner-up for the 2018 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association for Jewish Studies.

-Emotions of Conflict, Israel 1949–1967 (2025), which received the Best Book Award from the European Association of Israel Studies, the Chaikin Institute Best Book Award (2025), and the Korenblat Best Book Award from the Cherrick Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2026).