Professor Nimrod Luz is a Fulbright Visiting Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Indiana University South Bend for this school year. He is a lecturer at Western Galilee College, Acre, Israel, and an adjunct professor at Tel Aviv University.

He is one of 800 foreign faculty and administrators who are teaching and doing research in the United States this year as part of the Fulbright program.

As a cultural geographer and Middle Eastern scholar, he focuses on the study of urbanism and the cities of the Middle East. As of 2000, he was engaged in a project to examine the socio-spatial and political aspects of sacred Palestinian places as part of various transformations in Palestinian communities in Israel and against the backdrop of Islamic resurgence worldwide.

He received his doctorate and master's degree in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies and geography, and his bachelor’s degree in geography, history and archeology history from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.