Dr. David Borabeck is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies. His research focuses on the relations between nationalism, colonialism, religion, and ethnicity. In his dissertation, written under the supervision of Prof. Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin and Dr. Menashe Anzi, Borabeck examined the unique role of religion in the solidification of the Jewish-Israeli national collective and Zionist nation-building.

Previously, Borabeck was a Doctorate fellow at the Centre for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters in Ben Gurion University and a postdoctoral fellow at the Haifa Laboratory for Religious Studies in Haifa University, Israel.