Erica Weiss

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Education:

Ph.D., Anthropology, January 2011, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Dissertation: The Social Life of ‘Conscience’: Rhetoric, Sacrifice and Community among Israeli Conscientious Objectors

B.A. International Studies, 2004, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, Phi Beta Kappa


 

Employment:

Professor, Tel Aviv University 2024- present

Senior Lecturer, Tel Aviv University 2018-2024

Lecturer, Tel Aviv University    2013- 2018

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Tel Aviv University    2011-2012

 

Grants and Projects:

2024-2029 Israel Science Foundation, Principal Investigator, “Public Reason in Turbulent Times” (550,000 USD)

2023-2028 European Research Council, Consolidator Grant, Principal Investigator, “The Praxis of Coexistence” 2,000,000 Euros (2,165,000 USD), leading team of 7 post-PhD researchers in 6 countries (Turkey, Israel, Bosnia, Romania, France, England)

2023 Wenner Gren Workshop Grant, Public Life at the Edges of Europe, held in Marseille, June 2024 (20,000 USD)

2021-2023 Bridging Insights, Co-PI with Nissim Mizrachi, Research Grant, (100,000 USD)

2017-2021 Israel Science Foundation, Individual Research Grant, (150,000 USD)

2008-9 Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Award for Anthropological Fieldwork