The International and Comparative Education program is excited to welcome Avner Rogel as a Visiting Scholar! He will be advised by Prof. Oren Pizmony-Levy.

Avner Rogel is a visiting scholar in the Department of International and Transcultural Studies and an affiliated researcher at the Global Observatory of LGBTQ+ Education and Advocacy. His research explores social change within formal and informal educational settings, emphasizing the roles of educators, activists, and youth as agents of transformation. Rogel earned his doctorate from the Seymour Fox School of Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. With support from the Spencer Foundation, his dissertation examined how queer pedagogies are enacted and embodied in various organizational contexts.

Rogel is the founding director of the Magnus Hirschfeld Research Institute, which focuses on issues pertinent to LGBTQ+ youth in Israel. He is also an active member of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), where he co-leads the Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Expression (SOGIE) special interest group. His article, "History of Exclusion: Queer Representation in Israeli High School Textbooks," is the first study on SOGIE issues to be published in Comparative Education Review. As a visiting scholar at Teachers College, Rogel will study the civic and school involvement of LGBTQ+ youth.