Affiliated Faculty

Dr. Uri Mor

In his research Uri focuses on Classical Hebrew and Aramaic, in particular Rabbinic Hebrew, Judean Hebrew and Aramaic, and Second Temple Hebrew, and also on Modern Hebrew and its emergence. His work integrates linguistic, philological, and sociolinguistic methods in order to characterize different speech communities, contact situations, and corpora of Hebrew and Aramaic, and to explore the ties between language, nationality, normativity, gender, geography, and culture.

Essays related to gender (Hebrew):

Haaretz (1); Haaretz (2); Haaretz (3); The Aguda

Email: moru@bgu.ac.il

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Halleli Pinson is a sociologist of education in the department Of Education. Her research and teaching interests include: sociology of school curriculum with a special focus on citizenship education in conflict-ridden societies; education policy and different expressions of social inequalities in education with specific emphasis on minority education and gender; and education and the impact of globalization and migration.  She situates her research within the critical school in social science especially with post-structuralist and feminist research paradigms.

Email: halleli@bgu.ac.il

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Dr. Hamutal Tsamir teaches modern Hebrew literature in the Department of Hebrew Literature at Ben Gurion University. Her main fields of research are Hebrew poetry from the combined perspectives of gender and nationalism/Zionism/Judaism; literary history; gender and feminist theory.

Her first book, "In The Name of the Land: Nationalism, Subjectivity and Gender in the Poetry of the 1950s-1960s," offers a critical historical and political analysis of the poetry of the "Statehood Generation," and of the great women's poetry which emerged in these years - of Dahlia Ravikovitch, Yonah Wallach, Zelda Schneorsohn, Dalia Hertz and Esther Raab. She is currently writing a book which offers a proposal (an outline) for a gendered literary history of modern Hebrew literature: it will include a theoretical introduction and a gender analysis of several episodes in the history of Hebrew literature, from the 1860s to the 1960s. 

Email: htsamir@bgu.ac.il

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Dr. Leeat Granek is a lecturer at the department of Public health and at the Gerontology and the Study of Aging Program. Her research interests include: women's mental and physical health; qualitative research methods; grief and Loss; psycho-oncology; mental Health; and qualitative methods.

Email: granek@bgu.ac.il

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Dr. Maya Lavie-Ajay is an Academic Coordinator at the Israeli Center for Qualitative Research of People and Societies, a lecturer at the Spitzer Department of Social Work, and a researcher at the department of Public Health. Her research interests include: Psychology of Health and Illness; Sexual Health; Health services inequality; Experiences of health and illness; Chronic Pain; Social Representations​

Email: laviema@bgu.ac.il

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Prof. Michal Krumer-Nevo is a faculty member at the Spitzer Department of Social Work at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and the director of the Israeli Center for Qualitative Research of People and Societies. 

Inspired by constructivist, feminist and critical theories, Krumer-Nevo’s research focuses on poverty and marginalization as lived experience and as social construct, and on the place of poverty in the profession of social work.

The aim of her research is to contribute to social justice through the exposure of the mechanisms of marginalization, Othering and social distancing, which shape and bolster social hierarchies and inequality along the lines of the intersection of gender, ethnicity and class. Acknowledging and exploring the social structure enabling and determining poverty and marginalization the one hand, and the agency, knowledges, theories and attitudes of women, men and youth living in poverty on the other, her work intends to enhance innovative social work practice and policy.

Email: kmichal@bgu.ac.il

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Dr. Nitza Berkovitch is a senior lecturer at the Department of Sociology & Anthropology. Her research areas include: globalization, human rights, transnational women's movements, citizenship, civil society and gender. Her current project explores the emerging field of "economic empowerment of women" in order to understand the new logic of welfare governance and the changing relations among civil society, the state and the business sector. She published the book From Motherhood to Citizenship: Women's Rights and International Organizations (1999), and co-edited Women of the South: Space Periphery and Gender (2005) (in Hebrew) and In/Equality (2006) (in Hebrew). She is on the editorial board of Social Politics: International Studies of Gender, State and Society. In addition, Doctor Berkovitch is the chair of The Association for the Promotion of Higher Education of Bedouin Women; a board member of Adva Center and a member of the Academic Consulting Committee for the National Authority for the Promotion of the Status of Women.

Email: nberko@bgu.ac.il

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Prof. Niza Yanay is an associate professor at the Department of Sociology & Anthropology. She teaches at Ben Gurion University since 1990; first in the Dept. of Behavioral Sciences and from 2007 in the Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology. She writes on national conflicts, prejudice and stereotypes, feminist theory, psychoanalysis, culture and identity, discourse and subjectivity and the sociology of emotions. She is the recipient of the Laurance S. Rokefeller Fellowship, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University, and a former member of the Institute for Advanced Study, the School of Social Sciences, Princeton, N.J. Her book The Ideology of Hatred: The Psychic Power of Discourse came out in 2012 by Fordham University Press.

Email : niza@bgu.ac.il

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Prof. Pnina Motzafi-Haller is an associate professor at the Bona Terra Department of Man in the Desert, Sede Boqer Campus. Her research interests include: desert ethnographies (in the Israeli Negev, in African desert regions, and in Rajasthan, India); international development (A critical perspective with particular attention to the way gender is introduced into the "development" process); non-western (postcolonial) feminist theories; social inequality (the intersections of class, gender, ethnicity and sexual identity); the Politics of Identities; and social space. 

Email: pninamh@gmail.com

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Dr. Sara Helman is a senior lecturer at the Department of Sociology & Anthropology. She is a political sociologist interested in the sociology of citizenship, social movements and the state. Her research projects have centered in the ways in which citizenship regimes and the identities they constitute are challenged and resignified by social movements. Within this broad area she have investigated the emergence of conscientious objection to war and military service, and developed a sociology of conscientious objection; women's peace movements and the ways they challenge the social and gender order of Israel, as well as the ways in which citizenship, ethnicity and nationalism are redefined by ethnic-religious movements.

She have expanded her interest in the sociology of citizenship to the changing configuration of the Israeli welfare state. Within this project she is especially interested in the role of ideas in the initiation of institutional change, especially in the goals of the welfare state and on the ways in which neo-liberal ideas and practices are reconfiguring social citizenship and the gender social rights of citizenship.

Email : sarith@bgu.ac.il

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Dr. Shira Stav is a Lecturer at the Hebrew Literature Department.

Email: stavsh@.bgu.ac.il

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