Orsolya Plesz

Subjects: Area Studies, Politics
Division: Social Sciences
Position: Mentor, Module leader
Years: 2019-2020, 2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-2023

Orsolya graduated at the University of Manchester with a BA in Middle Eastern Studies and Modern Hebrew. Part of her undergraduate studies she lived in Israel while studying at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem both in English and Hebrew. In 2019 she completed her MSc in Conflict Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her thesis analysed how Palestinian nonviolent movements were interpreted in the Israeli media between 2005 to 2015. She works as a Programme Officer at the Tom Lantos Institute on the Jewish Life and Antisemitism Programme. In her free time, she enjoys running, hiking and trying dog sports.