Niza Yanay 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.