Alexandra Kalev is a professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel-Aviv University, and the former Chair of that department. She studies organizations, work, law, inequality and diversity across national, organizational and economic contexts. Her book with Frank Dobbin, Getting to Diversity: What Works and What Doesn’t, was published in 2022 by Harvard University Press (Belknap), offering an evidence-based approach to managing diversity in corporations. She now examines diversity innovations in universities as well as faculty hiring, layoff and retirement dynamics across routine and crises periods.  In other research projects, Kalev studies age inequality at work, and the employment integration of Palestinians in Israel.

Kalev’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Edmond J. Safra Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, the Israeli Science Foundation, the Bi-National Science Foundation, and the Israeli Ministry of Science. Her work has been published in the American Sociological Review, the American Journal of Sociology, Administrative Science Quarterly, Law and Social Inquiry, Sociological Science, Work, Employment and Society and the Harvard Business Review among others and was covered extensively in popular media outlets such as the Economist, NewYork Times, and Washington Post. Her research article on restructuring and diversity, “Cracking the Glass Cages,” won the W. Richard Scott award of the American Sociological Association section on Organizations Occupations and Work. Kalev received the 2026 Landau Prize in the Sciences and Arts in the field of sociology.
Kalev is the chair-elect of the Israeli Sociological Association (to begin in September 2026). She is also a member of the Advisory Committee to the Israeli Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and since 2016 has been publishing annually the Israeli Diversity Index in collaboration with the Israeli EEOC and the Central Bureau of Statistics. Kalev was the editor of the leading Hebrew language journal, Israeli Sociology, between 2017 and 2022.

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