Olga Talal

Olga Talal is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto (as of July 2023). Dr. Talal is a political scientist focusing on ethnic and identity politics, public goods provision, and minority collective agency in multiethnic states. She integrates comparative nationalism studies and public administration approaches to investigate Israel’s complex relationship with the Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel, situating this research in a comparative perspective. 
After completing BA and MA at the University of Haifa, Israel, and PhD in political studies at Queen’s Univesity, she held a postdoctoral fellow position at the Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity at Queen’s. Dr. Talal is the deputy director of the Minority Institutions Database, a founding member of the Russian and East European Studies Network (REES) at Queen’s University and a research associate on a collaborative research project on ethnic minorities in diverse states: “Divided Cities” (Queen’s-McGill). Dr. Talal’s works have been published in Comparative Political Studies, Politics & Policy, and Nationalities Papers.