Resume

Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel-Aviv University (TAU).

Visiting professorships: Columbia University, CUNY’s Graduate Center, Princeton, NYU, University of Toronto, CEU.

 

2013-2017: Head of The Porter School of Environmental Studies, TAU

2013-2017: Chair, Capsula – Institute for Innovation in Transportation, TAU                       

2012-2016: Head, Admissions and Teaching Committee, Faculty of Social Sciences, TAU

1996-2000: President, Israeli Anthropological association.

Published books with Cambridge University Press, University of California at Berkeley Press, Ashgate and leading Israeli publishers.

Articles in leading scholarly journals including: American Ethnologist, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, American Anthropologist, Current Anthropology, Critical Inquiry, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Annual Review of Anthropology, Environmental Justice and more. 2012-2017: Editor in chief, Israeli Sociology.

Ca. 300 Op-Ed pieces in Haaretz. A frequent guest on TV and Radio shows.

Civil Society engagements include:

Chairman of Greenpeace Mediterranean, 1998-2004.

Chairman of Life and Environment (umbrella organization of Israeli Environmental NGO’s), 2004-2006.

Vice Chairman, Greenpeace UK, 2006-2014.

Currently Chairman of the Israeli Association for Environmental Justice.

2010: awarded the Pratt Prize for outstanding contribution to media coverage of environmental issues.

June 2016: awarded the Green Globe Award for life long environmental leadership.