Biography

Adina Bankier-Karp is a Lecturer in the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at Bar-Ilan University and Research Fellow at the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University. She holds a Ph.D. in Education from Monash University, where her dissertation on Jewish connectedness was awarded the Mollie Holman Medal for Thesis Excellence. Her research, spanning Australia, Israel, and the Anglosphere, explores Jewish identity, values formation, education, and communal thriving.

She is Principal Investigator of Gen26, Australia’s next major Jewish community survey, and lead researcher of the Hartman Values Development Study. She has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles and reports, including Mapping Identity 2025 and Australian Jews in the Shadow of War. In addition, she co-authored the Institute for Jewish Policy Research’s What Works report on Jewish identity outcomes.

Bankier-Karp serves as Assistant Editor of Contemporary Jewry and on the boards of the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry (ASSJ) and its Jews in Society book series. Methodologically, she combines survey design, quantitative and qualitative analyses. She is also deeply engaged in policy-relevant work, consulting with educators, philanthropists and community organisations on translating demographic findings into educational, cultural, and well-being interventions.