Contributors for Homelands and Diasporas
Contributors for
HOMELANDS AND DIASPORAS
Lisa Anteby-Yemini received her B.A. in Anthropology from Brandeis University and her Ph.D. from the Sorbonne in Paris. Since 1997 she has been a CNRS researcher working at the French Research Center in Jerusalem, and also teaching at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Her research focuses on Ethiopian Jews in Israel as well as wider issues of migration, diaspora, and transnationalism.
Avner Ben-Amos is a historian of education, and Head, Department of Educational Policy and Management, School of Education, Tel Aviv University. He is the author of Funerals, Politics and Memory in Modern France 1789-1996, as well as articles on political rituals, civic education, and collective memory.
Efrat Ben-Ze'ev completed her doctorate at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, writing on the memories of Palestinian refugees. She currently holds a position at the Ruppin Academic Center, and is affiliated with the Truman Institute at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has published on Palestinian politics of taste and smell, on the intersection of Palestinian oral history and Israeli army documents, and on conflicts surrounding a museum exhibition in Jerusalem.
Ilana Bet-El is a political analyst specializing in conflict resolution. Currently based in Brussels, she worked for the United Nations in Bosnia during and after the war (1995-1997), and subsequently became Senior Advisor on the Balkans. She holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of London, and has lectured in history at Tel Aviv University. Her book Conscripts: Lost Legions of the Great War was published in 1999.
Jonathan Friedman is Directeur d'Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Lund, Sweden. He is the author of Cultural Identity and Global Process; Globalization, The State and Violence, and numerous articles on anthropological theory, globalization, and culture and the practices of identity.
Sari Hanafi has a Ph.D. in sociology from Ecole des Hautes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (1994). He is Director of Palestinian Refugee and Diaspora Centre, Shaml. His work has focused on economic sociology and network analysis among Palestinian refugees, relationships between diaspora and center, returnees, and the sociology of international relations.
Hanna Herzog is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University, and Head of the Society and Politics Program at the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo. Her books include Political Ethnicity: The Image and the Reality; Gendering Politics: Women in Israel and Sex, Gender and Politics: Women in Israel.
André Levy teaches anthropology in the Department of Behavioral Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His Ph.D. dissertation from the Hebrew University was titled "Jews Among Muslims: Perceptions and Reactions to the End of Casablancan Jewish History." His is the author of various book chapters and articles that deal with topics such as diasporas, identities, minority-majority relations, and pilgrimages.
Edna Lomsky-Feder is a senior Lecturer in the School of Education, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has conducted research on the war and military in Israel, and her publications include As If There Was No War: Life Stories of Israeli Soldiers, as well as many articles. She recently collaborated with Tamar Rapoport on a research project studying Russian-Jewish immigration in Israel.
Fran Markowitz teaches anthropology in the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She is the author of A Community in Spite of Itself and Coming of Age in Post-Soviet Russia, and is co-editor of Sex, Sexuality and the Anthropologist.
Susan Pattie is a Senior Research Fellow at University College, London. She received her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Michigan, and does research on Armenians and other diaspora peoples. Her book Faith in History: Armenians Rebuilding Community is based on fieldwork in Cyprus and London with Cypriot Armenians.
Tamar Rapoport is Associate Professor at the School of Education, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has conducted research on religiosity, gender and education, gender and social movements, and gender and knowledge. Her latest research project, conducted together with Edna Lomsky-Feder, concerned Russian-Jewish immigrants in Israel.
Efrat Rosen-Lapidot is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her current research deals with social and cultural characteristics of a Jewish-Tunisian community under the French Protectorate, and the dynamics of community revival after its dispersion.
Ida Simon-Barouh is a Social Anthropologist at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)—Laboratoire Asie du Sud-Est et Monde Austronesien (LASEMA-CNRS), Paris, and the Centre d'Etude et de Recherche sur les Relations Inter-Ethniques et les Minorités (CERIEM), Université de Haute Bretagne, Rennes. She is the author of Le Cambodge des Khmers Rouges: Chronique de la vie quotidienne, as well as articles on ethnicity and minorities in France and Cambodians at home and overseas, and is the editor of Migrations internationales et relations inter-ethniques.
Alex Weingrod is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Behavioral Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Among his publications are The Saint of Beersheba and Living Together Separately: Arabs and Jews in Contemporary Jerusalem.
Pnina Werbner is Professor of Social Anthropology at Keele University and is Research Administrator of the International Centre for Contemprary Cultural Research (ICCCR) at the Universities of Manchester and Keele. She is the author of "The Manchester Migration Trilogy," which includes The Migration Process: Capital, Gifts and Offerings Among British Pakistanis; Imagined Diasporas Among Manchester Muslims; and Pilgrims of Love: The Anthropology of a Global Sufi Cult.