Personal Details


• Date of Birth: 1954
  
  
• Place: Haifa, Israel
  
  
• Lives in Tel-Aviv
  
  
• Married, 3 children
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Academic Positions
  
  
• 2000 - Senior Lecturer, Tel-Aviv University, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology
  
  
• 1991-2000 - Lecturer and Senior Lecturer, Hebrew University, Department of Sociology and anthropology
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Academic Experience
  
  
• 1998-2001: President, Israeli Anthropological Association.
  
  
• 1993-1998: Board Member, Israeli Anthropological Association.
  
  
• 1995 - Member, International Scientific Board, Mediterranean Social Science (MESS), Institute of Humanities, Ljubljana University.
  
  
• 1999-2000: Co-Chair, program committee, Association of Israel Studies.
  
  
• 1995 - Member of Editorial board, Teorya Uvikoret (Theory and Criticism).
  
  
• Spring 2002: Visiting Professor, University of Toronto.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Academic Education
  
  
• 1979-1982: B.A in Human Environmental Studies, King's College London
  
  
• 1982-1983: M.Phil in Social Anthropology, Cambridge University (Pembroke College).
  Master's thesis: Relations Between the Jebaliya Bedouins and the Greek-Orthodox Monastery of St. Catherine, South Sinai. Supervisor: Prof. Jack Goody.
  
  
• 1988-1990: PhD in Social Anthropology, Cambridge University (Pembroke College).
  Doctoral dissertation: Relations Between Arabs and Jews in the Mixed Town of Natzerat Illit, Northern Israel. Supervisor: Prof. Ernest Gellner.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Areas of Interest
  
  
• Ethnicity and Nationalism
  
• Environment and Society
  
• Globalization and transnationalism
  
• Identity
  
• Ethnography
  
• Housing and housing co-operatives
  
• Palestinians
  
• The Palestinian Citizens of Israel
  
• Islamic movement
  
• Israeli society
  
• Middle East Politics
  
• Bedouins
  
• Nazareth
  
• Sinai
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Grants and Awards
  
  
• 2003 New Century Scholars Program, Fulbright Foundation.
  
  
• 2002 Research Grant, The Porter School of Environmental Studies.
  
  
• 1995-7 Research grant, Ministry of Science, Jerusalem.
  
  
• 1993-4 Research grant, the Centre for the Study of Arab Society in Israel, Bet Berl, Israel.
  
  
• 1994-5 Research grant, CONANIMA, Zurich.
  
  
• 1992-3 Research grant, the Van-Leer Jerusalem Foundation.
  
  
• 1992-3 Research grant, Sikuy, Jerusalem.
  
  
• 1991-3 Research grant, The Truman Institute, Jerusalem.
  
  
• 1990-1 Post-Doctoral research fellowship, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
  
  
• 1990 William Wyse (Trinity College Cambridge) Studentship.
  
  
• 1989-90 CONANIMA (Zurich) PhD Scholarship.
  
  
• 1989-90 AVY Foundation (Geneva) Fellowship.
  
  
• 1990 Marcus Sieff Foundation (London) grant.
  
  
• 1988-90 Merchant-Taylor Fund (Pembroke College Cambridge) scholarship award.
  
  
• 1983 William Wyse research award (Cambridge).
  
  
• 1983 Merchant-Taylor Fund (Pembroke College, Cambridge) research award.
  
  
• 1982-3 Bnei-Brit (London) scholarship.
  
  
• 1979-82 SPNI higher education scholarship.
  
  
• 1977-9 SPNI research grant for ethnographic fieldwork in Sinai.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Non-Academic Positions, Full-time
  
  
• 1985-1987 Researcher, Van-Leer Jerusalem Foundation.
  
  
• 1983-1985 Director of Publications, The Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel.
  
  
• 1975-1979 Instructor and Chief Instructor, Zukey David Field Study Center, Sinai.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Courses Taught - 2002/3 - Tel-Aviv University
  
  
• At the department of Sociology and Anthropology:
  • Undergraduate:
    • The Israeli Condominium: Sociological and Ethnographic Aspects (research seminar 1041378301). Note: course website available through virtual.tau.ac.il.*
    • Sociological and Ethnographic aspects of Globalization and Transnationalism (1041355001). Note: course website available through virtual.tau.ac.il.*
  • Gaduate:
    • Writing, Representation and the Post-Modern Dilemma in Anthropology (seminar 1041448001).
    • Advanced Theory: Anthropological thought between Modernism and Post-Modernism (1041426201).
    • Ph.D Thesis Seminar (co-teacher, with Yossi Shavit, 1041500001).
  
  
• At the Faculty of Law:
  • Anthropology and Law (introductory course, undergraduate). Note: course website available through virtual.tau.ac.il.*
  
  
  Additional Courses taught in 2001/2:
  
  
• National soil, Private Property: The Palestinian Citizens in the Land regime of Israel. Note: course website available through virtual.tau.ac.il.*
• M.A Thesis Seminar (co-teacher, with Ronen Shamir).
  
  * Note on access to course sites on Virtual.tau (Tel-Aviv University e-learning envelope):
  Access to the course sites is normally restricted to students enrolled for the course. For special authorization to view the site please email msdan@post.tau.ac.il or call (+) 972 3 6408943.