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Prof. Asaf Levanon is an associate professor in the sociology department and the head of the Haifa Center on Politics of Inequality at the University of Haifa. His research agenda bridges two central yet distinct sociological research fields. First, he is a social stratification and mobility scholar specializing in comparative analysis of poverty, gender, and ethnic inequality. Second, he is a life-course scholar with expertise in the longitudinal analysis of the interplay between the family and work domains. Bringing these two streams of research together is the overarching question driving his work: how do institutions affect life-course outcomes? In addressing this question, he builds on a key intuition guiding life-course scholarship, which sees human action as dynamic, relational, and contextual. He is particularly interested in gaps across groups that emerge through the progression of individuals through multiple roles during the life course. Attuned to the relational aspect of human behavior, he also studies how relationships with kin and community shape decisions and outcomes of individuals across the life course. Inspired by stratification research, his work furthermore emphasizes that human action takes place in the context of a diverse set of opportunities and constraints shaped and regulated by the state.Â
Prof. Asaf Levanon is an associate professor in the sociology department and the head of the Haifa Center on Politics of Inequality at the University of Haifa. His research agenda bridges two central yet distinct sociological research fields. First, he is a social stratification and mobility scholar specializing in comparative analysis of poverty, gender, and ethnic inequality. Second, he is a life-course scholar with expertise in the longitudinal analysis of the interplay between the family and work domains. Bringing these two streams of research together is the overarching question driving his work: how do institutions affect life-course outcomes? In addressing this question, he builds on a key intuition guiding life-course scholarship, which sees human action as dynamic, relational, and contextual. He is particularly interested in gaps across groups that emerge through the progression of individuals through multiple roles during the life course. Attuned to the relational aspect of human behavior, he also studies how relationships with kin and community shape decisions and outcomes of individuals across the life course. Inspired by stratification research, his work furthermore emphasizes that human action takes place in the context of a diverse set of opportunities and constraints shaped and regulated by the state.Â
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