Moshe Semyonov, PhD
Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Aviv
Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel

Tel: 972 (0) 3 640 6589
Fax: 972 (0) 3 640 9215
E-mail: moshes@post.tau.ac.il
Room: 406, Naftali Building
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Moshe Semyonov is the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Chair Professor of the Sociology of Labor at Tel Aviv University, where he teaches in the Department of Sociology and the Department of Labor Studies. He is also Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago and serves as the chair of the academic committee of the Institute for Immigration and Integration at Ruppin Academic Center. Semyonov received B.A (1972) and M.A. from Tel Aviv University (1975) and M.A. (1977) and PhD (1978) from State University of New York at Stony Brook. After completion of his PHD studies, and before joining Tel Aviv University in 1986, he had held academic appointments with the University of Nebraska at Lincoln (1978-1986) and University of Haifa, Israel (1980-1986). Since 1986 he also has had an appointment as Professor of Sociology in the University of Illinois at Chicago.
משה סמיונוב פרופסור לסוציולוגיה ולימודי עבודה בפקולטה למדעי החברה באוניברסיטת תל-אביב, מופקד על הקתדרה לסוציולוגיה של העבודה על שם ברנרד ואודרי רפופורט, ראש המכון האוניברסיטאי לדיפלומטיה ושיתוף פעולה אזורי.
סיים את לימודי הדוקטורט באוניברסיטת מדינת ניו-יורק בסטוני ברוק ב-1978. בין השנים 1998-2002 כהן כדקאן הפקולטה למדעי החברה. כמו כן, שימש בעבר כראש החוג לסוציולוגיה ואנתרופולוגיה, כראש המכון למחקר חברתי, וכראש המכון גולדה מאיר לחקר עבודה וחברה .

תחומי העניין והמחקר: ריבוד, מוביליות ואי-שוויון חברתי-כלכלי ותהליכי הגירה בפרספקטיבה השוואתית.

Moshe Semyonov is the past Dean of the Gershon H. Gordon Faculty of Social Sciences at Tel Aviv University (1998-2002). Other positions held at Tel Aviv University include: Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology (1990 – 1992); Director of the Institute of Social Research (1988-90); Director of the Golda Meir Institute for Labor and Social Research (1993-1998); Director of the University Institute for Diplomacy and Regional Cooperation (2005-2008). Between 2003 and 2005 he served as the Interim Head of the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Moshe Semyonov's research interests lie in the areas of comparative social stratification and mobility focusing on structural sources of social and economic inequalities, global labor migration and status of immigrants in host societies. His current research projects deal with the dynamics of ethnic, gender and socioeconomic inequality (mostly in the labor market), sources of wealth inequality, causes and consequences of global labor migration and discriminatory attitudes toward out-group populations and immigrants. Most of his research is carried out within a cross-national comparative framework.  
Moshe Semyonov serves on editorial boards of several sociological journals and on academic committees and boards of public and academic institutions. Throughout the years he has received research grants, awards and fellowships, including the Alon Fellowship and Kanter International Award. He is a member of the honorary SRA – Social Research association. He coauthored and edited three books, and published more than eighty research articles in sociological journals (including American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, European Sociological Review, Demography, International Migration Review, Sociological Methods and Research, Social Problems, Social Science Research).