Dr. Emma Gashinsky is a contemporary art scholar and a faculty member at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, where she has led the master's Program in Dance since 2022.

Her research focuses on performative and visual (re)presentations of Israeli and Jewish identity, migration, and multiculturalism. Emma served as the Levin Foundation Curator of Israeli Art (2015-2018) and has taught at various academic institutions, including The Hebrew University, Indiana University, and Ben Gurion University.

She completed her Ph.D. at Ben-Gurion University (2018) and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University (2020). 

Selected Publications:

Gashinsky, Emma, "Visualizing Kabbalistic Secrets," Mabatim - Journal of Visual Culture 3 (July 2024), pp. 175-203 [Hebrew], 

------------ and Michelle Ortega eds., Like Waves Through Flesh, Arts by the People, in collaboration with The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, First Edition, New Jersey, 2024.

------------ and Tehila Sade, Guest eds., Special Issue "Renegotiating Identity, Reenacting History – 21st Century Art in Israel", Arts, 2023, online, MDPI

------------, "An Aesthetic Pattern of Nonbelonging—Immigration and Identity in Contemporary Israeli Art," Arts 8, no. 4: 157 (November 2019)

-----------, "Henry Shelesnyak – Between American and Israeli Art," vols. 1-2, Ph.D. Diss., Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 2018.

------------, “Landmarks of Identity,” in: Emma Gashinsky ed., Israel: Land and Identity- Artworks from the Levin Collection, Jerusalem, Exh. Cat., Vienna and Jerusalem: The Levin Foundation, 2015, 8–20.

-----------, “A Split Identity – The Uncanny in Michael Sgan-Cohen’s Art,” History and Theory no. 27 (March 2013), 

Cooper, Marilyn (ed.), with Emma Gashinsky, Amitai Mendelsohn and Dalit Matetyahu, “Seven Decades of Israeli Art – A Moment Symposium,” Moment Magazine – Digital Edition (May-June 2018),