Eran Shalev is a historian of the early United States at the University of Haifa, Israel. He is the author of three books: Rome Reborn on Western Shores: Historical Imagination and the Creation of the American Republic (University of Virginia Press, 2009); American Zion: The Bible as a Political Text from the Revolution to the Civil War (Yale University Press, 2012); and The Star-Spangled Republic: Political Astronomy in the Age of the New American Constellation (2024).