CURRICULUM VITAE

 

 

EDUCATION  

 
1965-1969    Hebrew University, Jerusalem.  Bible and Sociology.

B. A. 1970

1969-1970    Hebrew University, Jerusalem.  Bible Department

Teaching Certificate 1971

1970-1974    Tel-Aviv University.  Department of Sociology

M. A. 1975

1977-1980    Tel-Aviv University.  Department of Sociology

Ph. D. 1981

 

Title of Master’s Thesis: The Editorial Staff of “Davar” between  Ideology and Politics (1925-1938)
 
Names of supervisors:  Professor Yonathan Shapiro and Dr. Abraham Cordova

 

Title of Doctoral dissertation: The Ethnic Lists to the Delegates’ Assembly and the Knesset

(1920-1977) – Ethnic Political Identity?

 
Names of supervisors:  Professor Yonathan Shapiro and Professor Rina Shapira

 

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

1968-1969    Department of Sociology Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Research Coordinator.

1972-1973    Department of Sociology Tel-Aviv University

Research Assistant.

1973-1977    Department of Sociology Tel-Aviv University

Teaching Assistant.

1978-1981    Department of Sociology Tel-Aviv University

Instructor

1981-1986    Department of Sociology Tel-Aviv University

Lecturer

1986-1997    Department of Sociology Tel Aviv University

Senior Lecturer

1993             Visiting Lecturer, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

1994-2005    Head, Politics and Society Program at the Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo

1994-1996    Research Fellow, Truman Institute.

1997-2008    Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University

Associate Professor

1998-2001    Head, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University

1999-2001    President of the Association of Israel Studies.

1996-2010    Academic Board of Tel Aviv-Jaffa Academic College.
1999-2003    Academic Board Tel Hai College
2004-2014    Head of the Civil Society forum, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.  
2008-2014    Professor of Sociology of Sociology and Anthropology,Tel Aviv University.
2009-2014    Head, Gender Studies Program
2009 —        Co-Director of WIPS – The Center for Advancement of Women in the Public Sphere,

Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.

2015 —        Professor Emerita of Sociology of Sociology and   Anthropology.

2017 —        Co- Director of Yodat  (She Knows)  Knowledge Center of Women and Gender.

 

Visiting Positions

 

1984-1985    Department of Sociology Boston College

1985 (Summer) Hoover Institution, Stanford

Visiting Scholar

1989-1990    Department of Sociology Boston College;

Visiting Scholar Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University

1996-1997    Visiting Scholar Harvard University, Center for Jewish Studies.
1996-1997    Visiting Research Associate Women’s Studies Program, Brandeis University.
2002-2003    Visiting Scholar, Department of Sociology, Graduate School City University of New York.
2003-2004    Research Associate and Visiting lecturer at Women’s Studies in Religion Program,

Harvard University.

 

 

 ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND GRANTS

 

1977              Research Grant of Women International Zionist Organization (WIZO) – Women’s Voluntary Organization.

1977              The Fund for the Encouragement of Research: Histadrut – The General Federation for Labour in Israel – Ethnic political organizations.

1977              The Institute for Social and Labor Research, Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Social Sciences – Ethnic political organizations.

1978              The United Funds (J. Apter Fund) – Ethnic political organizations.

1979              Israel Foundations Trustees – Ethnic political organizations.

1984              Research Grant of Mifal Ha’pais – Women in Local Politics

1985              Israel Foundation Trustees – Minor Parties.

1986              The Pinhas Sapir Center for Development – The Institutionalization of Political Parties in Israel: A Study of Herut and Labor Activists, with A. A. Zuckerman (Brown University) M. Shamir (Tel-Aviv University).

1986              The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies – Political Parties Activists in the Policy Process in Israel, with A. A. Zuckerman (Brown University), M. Shamir (Tel-Aviv University).

1986 – 1989  United States – Israel Binational Science Foundation – Culture and Cognition in America and Israel.  Study with W.A. Gamson (Boston College).

1987              The Pinhas Sapir Center for Development – Continuity and Change in Pattern of Policy: Jewish-Arab Relationship in Israel (1948-1987).

1988                The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies – Women in Local Politics in Israel.

1992              Lafer Center Fund for Women’s Study, Jerusalem.

1992              Deborah Netzer Fund for Women – Women in local politics.

1993              Deborah Netzer Fund for Women  – Israeli-Palestinian Women in Peace Organizations.

1993                Tami Steinmetz Center For Peace Research – Israeli-Palestinian Women in Peace Organizations.

1994              The Harry Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace – Israeli-Palestinian Women and Peace Organizations.

1994              Israel Foundation Trustees – Peace as a Passage to Public Sphere for Israeli-Palestinian Women.

1995                                                       The Golda Meir Institute – Israeli-Palestinian Women and Peace Organizations

1996 -1999   Ministry of Science and Technology  – Leadership or Alienation? Arab Women Professionals in Israeli Society

1997              Brandeis Women’s Studies Student-Scholar Partnership – Women, Religion and Politics in Israel.

1997-1999    The German Israel Foundation (GIF) – Victims and Survivors: Jewish Women Prisoners in Ravensbrück Concentration Camp.

1999              Yoran Schnitzer Fund – Social Networking among Jewish Prisoners in Ravensbrück Concentration Camp.

2001-2004    The German Israel Foundation (GIF) – Concentrationary Universe”: Victims, Victimizers and Survivor (With Dina Porat)

2000-2002    The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute research grant – Gender, Religion and Politics.

2003-2004     Colorado Scholar, Women’s Studies in Religion Program, Harvard University.

2004              ASA Ford Foundation International Scholar

2006              EUROMED Women’s Rights: Women’s Machinery and The Social Economic Standing of Women in Israel.

2007-2008    Dafna Fund and NCJW Research Grant: Women in Israeli Politics  (With Naomi Chazan, TA-Jaffo Academic College ).

2007-2009    Van Leer Jerusalem Institute research grant – Crossing Boundaries (With Adriana Kemp and Nissim Mizrahi )

2010-2011    US-Israel Binational Science Foundation – Destigmatization Behavior among Ethnic Groups in Israel  (With Nissim Mizrahi and Michel Lamont).

2015-2017  National Security Grant – Invisible Work (with Amit Kaplan and Naomi Chazan

2016              Inspiring Researcher Award of Tel Aviv University.

2016-2018    Ministry of Science and Technology – Making Women’s Invisible Work Visible: Removing Hidden Barriers to the Equitable Incorporation of Israeli Women into the Labor Market (with Amit Kaplan and Naomi Chazan).

2017 – 2019  Ministry of Science and Technology.  Head of  project development of Center for Israel National knowledge in  the Field of Gender and Women, cooperation of WIPS the Center of Van leer Jerusalem Institute, The Samuel Neaman Institute in the Technion, The Public Knowledge Workshop (‘Hasadna’)

2018              Laureate of Emet Prize

2022              AIS Life Achievement Award

 

EDITORIAL POSITIONS

 

1992 – 2014  Editorial Board of Megamot.

1996 – 2003  Editorial Board of Eshcholot, The Hebrew University Magness Press, Jerusalem.

1998 – 2007  International Editorial Board of Feminist Media Studies

1998 – 2007  Editorial Board of Hagar – International Social Science Herzog, Hanna, Kemp, Adriana and Grinberg, Lev.  (Guest Editors) 1999 –             Israeli Sociology – A Journal for the Study of Israeli Society Vol. 1 (2) (403 pp.).

2001 – 2005  Editor, Israeli Sociology – A Journal for the Study of Israeli Society

2001 –            Among the founder of Migdarim (Genders) Series of Hakibbutz Hameuchad, and on its Editorial Board its inception.

2003 – 2011  International Advisory Board of Gender & Society.

2003 – 2008   Editorial Board of Heksherei Eyun V’bikoret Series of Hakibbutz Hameuchad and Van Leer.

2006 – 2008   Civil Society and the Third Sector in Israel

2006- 2005   Review Board, International Journal of Politics Culture and Society (IJPCS).

2008 – 2014  Editorial Board of Theory and Criticism

2012-            Editorial Board of Studia Humana – Multi-disciplinary Quarterly Journal

2014-            Editorial Board of Migdar – Interdisciplinary Online Academic Journal of Gender and Feminism 

Presented numerous papers in scientific meeting

 

(Major) FORMAL ROLES IN PUBLIC ACTIVITY

 

1999 – 2004  Academic Board Tel Hai College.

1996-2010    Academic Board of Tel Aviv-Jaffa Academic College.

1999-2003    Ministry of Science and Technology National Committee On Social Science Research (Committee Chair 2001-2002).

2001               Representative of the Ministry of Science and Technology  in OECD

                        workshop on Reinventing the Social Sciences – Assessment and Prospects., Lisbon.

2000 – 2001  National Security Council Committee for Evaluating National-Civic Service.

2005-2007     The National Commission for the Examination of the    Structure of Government in Israel

                          established by the President of Israel.

2007                The IDF Commission for the Examination of Women’s Service

2007 —            Co-director and co-founder of WIPS – the Center for Advancement of Women in the Public Sphere

                          at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute

2008                Member of the Israeli Prize committee on Sociology

2008- 2015      Member of the Advisory Committee of the Authority for the Advancement of Women

                           (part of the Prime Minister’s Office). 

2013 – 2014    Member of the Ministry of Finance Committee for Integration of a Gender Perspective

                            in the State Budgetary Process (2013-2014).

2015 — 2020   Member of the Council for the Advancement of women in Academia, Technology and Education,

                           Ministry of Science and Technology.

2017 –2021    Chair of the Academia sub-committee of the Council for the Advancement of women, Ministry of Science and Technology.

2017  —            Co-director of Yodat (She Knows)  – Israel’s Gender Knowledge Center of Women and Gender.

2019 —            Member of ad-hock committee of Academy of the Hebrew Language –gender concepts