Visiting Professor

Current Visitors

Dr. Uri Ben-Eliezer

Dr. Uri Ben-Eliezer is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Haifa University. He is a political sociologist and writes about Israeli army and politics, peace and war in the Middle East, Israel's civil society and democracy. Ben-Eliezer was a Post-Doctorate in the Jewish Studies Program at Stanford University in 1988-1989; a fellow in the Jewish Studies Program and the Jackson School of International Studies in University of Washington, Seattle, in 1990, and again in 1995; as well as a fellow in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University in 2002.

Ben-Eliezer is the author of the following books: The Making of Israeli Militarism (Indiana University Press, 1998); Old Conflict, New War, Israel in the Second Intifada (forthcoming), and co-authored of In the Name of Security (with Majid Al-Hag, 2002). Among his recent articles are: "Multiculturalism and Everyday Cultural Racism: Second Generation of Ethiopian Jews in Israel’s Crisis of Modernization," Ethnic and Racial Studies, forthcoming; “The Battle over Our Homes”: Reconstructing/Deconstructing Sovereign Practices around Israel’s Separation Barrier on the West Bank," Israel Studies, 12/1, 2007 (with Yuval Feinstein); “Secret States in World Risk Society: Nuclear Secrecy and Opacity in the Israeli Vanunu Affair”, Social Movement Studies, 7/2, 2008 (forthcoming) (with Adriana Kemp). Postmodern Armies and the Question of Peace and War: The I.D.F. in the New Times,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 36/1, 2004: 49-70; “Becoming a Black Jew, Cultural Racism and Anti-Racism in Contemporary Israel, Social Identities, 10/2, 2004: 245-266.

Dr. Adriana Kemp

Dr. Adriana Kemp is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University and a fellow at the Van Leer Institute of Jerusalem. Her main research areas are on the sociology of migration and gender, labor migration and the politics of citizenship, globalization and urban sociology. Kemp was a visiting professor at the Department of Sociology, Columbia University in 2004. She is currently a fellow researcher in the Working Group on Immigration and Human Rights at the Minerva Center for Human Rights, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a staff member of the Refugee Rights Clinic at the Law Faculty, Tel Aviv University.

Kemp is the co-author of Foreigners and Workers: The Political Economy of Labor Migration in Israel (with Rebeca Raijman) (HaKibbutz Hameuchad Press and Van Leer Institute of Jerusalem, 2008) and the co-editor of Israelis in Conflict: Hegemonies, Identities, Challenges (Brighton: Sussex University Press, 2004) and Citizenship Gaps in Israel (Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 2008). Among her recent articles are: “Managing Migration, Reprioritizing National Citizenship: Undocumented Labor Migrants’ Children and Policy Reforms in Israel”, Theoretical Inquiries in Law 8(2), 2007 (pp. 663-691); "Globalization, Urban Economic Restructuring, and Gendered Socioeconomic Inequality: A Comparative Study of Tel Aviv and Haifa," Research in Urban Sociology Vol. 9;  "Fertile and Strangers: The Gendered Biopolitics of Israeli Labor Migration Programs” (forthcoming) in Y. Shenhav and Y. Yonna (Eds.) Race, Racialization and Racism; "Tel Aviv is Not Foreign to You: Urban Incorporation Policy on Labor Migrants in Israel," International Migration Review Vol. 38, 2004 (pp. 26-51); "International Migration, Domestic Work and Care Work: Undocumented Latina Migrants in Israel," Gender and Society Vol.17(5) 2003 (pp.727-749).

Dr. Kemp has been a member of the Steering Committee of Women Studies Forum at the Tel Aviv University since 2005 and the Faculty Link for the Hotline for Victims of Sexual Assault in campus. She has been recently recipient of theDeRoy Testamentary Foundation Certificate of Excellence in Education awarded by the NCJW (US National Council of Jewish Women) to scholars committed to the promotion of women and gender issues.

She is currently involved in a research on the role played by non governmental organizations in the promotion of " NGOs, Women and ´Welfare - to- Work´ Governance in Israel: A Sociological Analysis of an Emergent Field of Action," submitted to The Israel Science Foundation (The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities). In collaboration with Dr. Nitza Berkovitch, Ben Gurion University

Past Visitors

2007--Dr. Liora Lukitz

Dr. Lukitz receiver her PhD in 1988 from London School of Economics and Political Science on 'The History and Politics of Modern Iraq.' She was  a fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies  at Harvard from 1989 to 1993, as well as the Wiener School of Modern European Studies at the Tel Aviv University (on Theories on Nationalism)  and a H.F. Guggenheim Fellow  at the Guggenheim Foundation  in NYC (writing on  Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Islam in Iraq of the 1990s). She is currently a fellow at the Truman Institute  at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

She is the author of two books: Iraq: the Search for National Identity ( London, 1995) and A Quest in the Middle East: Gertrude Bell and the Making of Modern Iraq ( London, Ny 2006). She has also publlished articles  in political, historical, and literary journals and chapters in collective books.