Teaching

Graduate Students

PhD Students

  • Shihab Idrees. Parenting in Palestinian Society in Israel

  • Nisreen Mazzawi. The anthropology of Money in the West Bank, co-adviser with Galit Eilon

  • Guy Bruker, Israeli masculinty in different cultural arenas

  • Hawazen Younis, Palestinian Israeli career women (2021)

  • Rolly Rosen, Country, City, World: on globalization and ethnic identities in Haifa (2019)

  • Rula Mansour, An examination of Conflict Resolution practices in Arab Palestinian Evangelical Churches of Israel, Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, co-advisor with Yale Miroslav Wolf (2018)

  • Tal Shamour, Multi-dimensional melancholy on the city’s margins – ethnicity, space, and gender in the Tikva neighborhood (2016)

  • Tamar Kaneh-Shalit, Coaching as a key script for the worthy subject in 21st century Israel (2016), co-adviser with Tamar Katriel

  • Kareem Nasser, Increasing Family Involvement among People with Intellectual Disabilities in Residential Facilities within the Arab Society in Israel (2013), co-adviser with Dalia Sachs

MA Students

  • Yael Mekonen-Dego Travelling to Heal: Medical Pluralism among Ethiopian Jews Living in Israel (in progress)

  • Mor Gal Sexual morality and gender practices in Tantra workshops in Israel, co-adviser with Dalit Simchai (2020)

  • Edan Edut Indianism in Israel, co-adviser with Dalit Simchai (2020)

  • Zohar Efron Identity work among young Mizrahis in Israel (2019)

  • Yifat Ben Dror Lutreck, Veils in Movement: Modest fashion among Palestinian women. (2019)

  • Noa Hilman, African Asylum seekers in Israel (2017)

  • Nisreen Mazzawi, The Hakura (traditional garden), transformation of a cultural institution in the urban ecology of Nazareth (2016)

  • Falastin Hamdan, Divorce among Muslims in Israel from the perspective of women (2015)

  • Rolly Rosen, The peace dove in the front command room: Drawing and blurring national boundaries in Haifa (2011)

  • Yael Shostak-Pascal, Power for the Workers? The Union of Home-Based Early Childhood Caregivers in Israel (2011)

  • Ezat Abu-Zuluf, Druze women councilors’ perceived influence of their career on their familial relationships (2010), Oranim College

  • Sarah Atenas-Aaelion, ’Just like home’: paradoxes in women’s business operation in the Galilee Jewish B&B industry (2010)

  • Yaara Buksbaum, ’I want my place already’: The employment reality of low-income Jewish women in Israel (2010), won distinction by the Israeli Sociological Association

  • Chava Nishri, Indian food in Tel Aviv: labor relations in an ethnic restaurant (2009), won distinction by the Israeli Sociological Association

  • Tamar Kaneh-Shalit, Israeli Ethiopian-ness through the lens of the Israeli Ethiopian TV channel (2009)

  • Manal Shalabi, The politics of sexuality among Palestinian Israeli women (2009), Bar-Ilan University

  • Amit Rottman, What is good education? Practices of social class distinction in a private kindergarten (2009), won the best masters’ thesis award of the Israeli Anthropological Association

  • Guy Broker, Sex tourism of Israeli men in Thailand (2007)

  • Inbal Mamman Bar-Shai, Black music, resistance, and youth in Isreal (2007)

  • Anat Levi, Transnational motherhood among Philippina a migrant workers in Israel (2006)

  • Ma’ayan Agmon, The self: reformulation. Adult selfhood in Israeli society as observed in a rehabilitation center for young adult handicapped (2006), won the best masters’ thesis award of the Israeli Anthropological Association

  • Adi Romano, Drag in Israel (2004)

  • Amir Givol, The lives of out-of-the-closet homos in Haifa (2004)

  • Miryam Peleg-Koten, Becoming parents: Motherhood, fatherhood, and in between (2004)

Post Doctorate Students

  • Sarai Aharoni, Gender, security and ethics in asymmetrical warfare: The case of Israeli civilians (2015)

Courses Taught in Recent Years

Graduate

  • Anthropological Theory-advanced level

  • Ethics and Practice in Ethnographic Research

  • Feminist Anthropology

  • Cultural Translation

  • Doctoral Students’ Workshop

Undergraduate

  • Introduction to Anthropology

  • Anthropological Theory

  • Femininity and Masculinity in Middle Eastern Cultures

  • The Politics of Gender

  • Gender and Culture

  • Urban Anthropology

  • Inter-Cultural Encounters

  • Action Research

  • Weddings