Curriculum Vitae
Eitan Y. Alimi
1. PERSONAL DETAILS
Date of Birth: December, 1969
Country of Birth: Israel
Identity Number: 02430541-9
Nationality: Israeli and French
Phone Number (H): 0546323251
Phone Number (W): 02-5881115
Email: eitan.alimi@mail.huji.ac.il
Personal Homepage: https://sites.google.com/mail.huji.ac.il/eitan-alimi-personal-webpage/bio
2. HIGHER EDUCATION
1993-1996 BA, Tel-Aviv University, Political Science and General History
1997-2000 MA, Hebrew University, Political Science and International Relations [graduated with distinction]
2001-2004 Ph.D., Boston College, Sociology [Specialization: Social Movements and Conflict Processes]
3. Appointments at the Hebrew University
2007 - Lecturer. Faculty: Social Sciences. Department: Political Science.
2017 - Transition to the Sociology and Anthropology Department
2012 - Senior Lecturer. Tenured: Social Sciences. Department: Political Science.
2015 - Associate Professor. Tenured: Social Science. Department: Political Science.
4. ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS/TASKS AT THE HEBREW University
2007-2008 The Israeli Political Science Association - Department Representative
2007-2011 Founder and moderator of the Work-in-Progress Forum of the Department of Political Science, Hebrew University
2009 - 2015 Teacher--Student Forum - Department Representative
2010 - 2011 Faculty Ethics Committee - Department Representative
Academic consultant for MA track on political violence and terrorism - Rothberg International School
2011 - 2016 Head of MA program on Democracy and Politics in Israel
2011 - Member of Shaine Center academic advisory board
2015 - 2018 Designer and developer of the international BA program: Interdisciplinary Israel Studies
2017 - 2017 Head of department chair search committee
2018 - The Israeli Sociology Association – Department Representative
2018 - 2019 Department Representative in the Hebrew University Libraries Committee
2019 - Graduate Consultant (including member of the Department Teaching Committee, and [for 2018] the Social Science Faculty teaching Committee)
2021 - Department representative in the Authority for Research Students plenum
2023 - Department Chair
5. SERVICE IN OTHER ACADEMIC AND RESEACH INSTITUTIONS
1999-2001 Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Research Associate
2004-2005 Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Research Associate
Hebrew University, Department of Political Science, Adjunct
2005-2006 Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Lauder School of Governance, Adjunct
Ben Gurion University, Department of Politics and Governance, Adjunct
Hebrew University, Department of Political Science, Adjunct
2006-2007 Hebrew University, Department of Political Science, Adjunct
Haifa University, School of Political Science, Adjunct
6. OTHER ACTIVITY and awards
Awards
2008 - Book award of the Israeli Political Science Association for outstanding book in English on Israeli Politics [book title: Israeli Politics and the First Palestinian Intifada: Political Opportunities, Framing Processes, and Contentious Politics]
2012 - Outstanding article award of Research in Social Movements, Conflict, and Change for Eitan Alimi and Liora Norwich’s Learning from Failures: Why and How Scale Shift failed to Launch – Evidence from the Case of the Israeli-Arab Land Day]
Achievements
2012 - 2013 Excellent Teacher Rating, Department of Political Science.
2016 Author-Meets-Critics: The Dynamics of Radicalization, Panel organized by Mario Diani, ECPR Annual Meeting (Prague, September 2016)
2018 - 2019 Excellent Teacher Rating, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
2021 – 2022 Excellent Teacher Rating, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of the Social Sciences
Editorial Board Member
Journals:
2008 - 2011 Civil Society and the Third Sector in Israel
2012 - Mobilization
2020 - Research in Social Movements, Conflicts, and Change
Books:
2019 - McGill-Queen’s University Press (Protest, Power, and Resistance)
Article Reviewer: American Sociological Review; British Journal of Political Science; Political Studies; Social Forces; Political Psychology; Terrorism and Political Violence; Comparative Politics; Comparative Political Studies; Journal of Conflict Resolution; Mobilization; Social Movement Studies; International Studies Quarterly; European Political Science Review; Media, Conflict, and War; Research in Social Movements, Conflict, and Change; Conflict and Communication; International Journal of Press and Politics; International Journal of Conflict and Violence; Qualitative Sociology; Civil Society and the Third Sector in Israel [in Hebrew]; Politika [in Hebrew]; Canadian Review of Sociology; Social Problems; Sociological Forum; Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression; Socious; Perspectives on Terrorism; Sociological Science; International Journal of Comparative Sociology; Journal of Strategic Studies; Critical Studies in Terrorism; Conflict Management and Peace Science;
Book Reviewer: International Journal of Middle East Studies; Collective Behavior Social Movements Critical Mass Bulletin; Research in Political History [Italian]; Mobilization; Ashgate; Megamot [Hebrew]
Prospectus Referee: Oxford University Press
Cambridge University Press
Ashgate
Routledge
Palgrave
Grant Proposal Referee: Israeli Ministry of Science
Austrian Science Foundation
Carleton College internal grant
Hadasa College internal grant
Israel Science Foundation (ISF) (multiple times)
US National Science Foundation (NSF)
US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF)
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
Promotion Evaluator: United States Military Academy at West Point
University of Pittsburgh
University of Haifa
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis The Hebrew University
Hadasa College
7. MEMBERSHIP IN A PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION
Movement and Media Research & Action Project, Boston College
American Sociological Association
Sections: Collective Behavior and Social movements
Section: Peace, War, and Social Conflict
American Political Science Association
(Section: Conflict Processes; Comparative Politics)
Israeli Political Science Association
The Movement and Media Research & Action Project
Middle East Sociology Working Group
ECPR Standing Group on Political Violence
Canadian Sociological Association Working Group on Relational Sociology
Israeli Sociological Association, Political Sociology Community (Initiator and Co-Chair)
American Sociological Association, Council Member of the Peace, War, and Social Conflict Section
8. RESEARCH GRANTS
* Competitive Internal Grant
** Competitive External/International Grant
2008-2009 * Levi Eshkol Institute for Social, Economic and Political Research in Israel, "The Dynamics of Radicalization: The Struggle against the Disengagement Plan", $3,000.
2008-2009 * Cherrick Center for the Study of Zionism, the Yeshuv and the State of Israel, "The Dynamics of Radicalization: From the Politics of Disengagmenet to Disengagement Politics", $1,500.
2009-2010 * Levi Eshkol Institute for Social, Economic and Political Research in Israel, "Propelling and Impeding Mechanisms of Political Radicalization: The Case of the Gaza Pullout", $2,000.
2010-2012 ** U.S. - National Science Foundation (NSF), Media Coverage and the Dynamics of Ethno-National Contention in Deeply Divided Societies", Gregory Maney [$43,000] and Eitan Alimi [$66,000] (Criterion for allocation of funding: amount of data to be collected).
2011-2012 * Levi Eshkol Institute for Social, Economic and Political Research in Israel, "Disengagement Politics: A relational Approach to Political Radicalization", $1,500.
2011-2013 * The Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations, “Process Tracing Al Qaeda: An Integrative Approach for Studying Radicalization”, $11,200.
2012-2013 ISF High Evaluation Advancement Grant from the Hebrew University R&D Authority (Application: “Media Coverage and the Dynamics of Ethno-National Contention in Deeply Divided Societies”), $10,000.
2013-2014 ** U.S. - National Science Foundation (NSF), supplemental grant, “Media Coverage and the Dynamics of Ethno-National Contention in Deeply Divided Societies”, Gregory Maney [$10,000] and Eitan Alimi [$10,000]
2014-2016 ** Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Media Coverage and the Dynamics of Ethno-National Contention in Deeply Divided Societies", $48,500 (170,000 NIS – 85,000 per year)
2020 – 2020* Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace research grant: “Event and Peace in Israel-Palestine and Northern Ireland” [$5,000]
9. TEACHING AT THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY
A. Supervision of Master's and Doctoral Degree Students
Master degree students:
2009 -2010 Nigmi Ali
2010 -2011 Oded Lakatosh-Peled
2010 -2011 Yedidya Hazani
2011 -2013 Alon Burstein
2014 -2015 Perle Nicolle
2019 - 2021 Ariel Gefen
2019 - 2022 Tamar Vinograd
2020 - 2022 Sagiv Michaeli
Doctoral degree students:
2008 - 2014 Liora Norwich, co-supervisor with Prof. Menachem Hofnung, Minority Nationalist Mobilization in Deeply-divided Societies: A Case Comparison of the Quebecois and Arab-Israelis
2015 - 2021 Alon Burstein, supervisor, Terrorizing God’s Enemies: The Influence of Religion on Terror Group Activity (Awardee of President Fellowship)
2017 - Perle Nicolle, supervisor, Dynamics of Disengagement in Jewish Leftwing and Rightwing Radical Discourse and Action since the Gaza Pullout (Awardee of President Fellowship, Azrieli Fellowship, President of Israel Fellowship)
Ph.D. committee member:
2010 - 2014 Shomron Moyal, committee member, supervisor Prof. David Weisburd, Specific Legitimacy, General Legitimacy, and Support for Political Violence
2010 - 2014 Hadas Eyal, committee member, Supervisor Prof. Gadi Wolfsfeld, Searching for a Leg-Up: Political movements, Digital Fit and Success in Competitive Political Communication Arenas
2011 - 2015 Gali Perry, committee member, supervisor Prof. David Weisburd, Political Protesters’ Evaluations of Police Legitimacy in Israel
2012 - 2017 Hagar Hazaz-Berger, committee member, supervisor Prof. Gad Yair, Multitopia Rothschild: Thoughts on Postmodern Identity in a Space of Wondering
2016 - 2020 Yair Yassan, committee member, supervisor Prof. Guy Ben Porat, Political Violence towards the State and its Agents
2015 – 2019 Yehuda Magid, committee member, Supervisor Karen Rasler,
Explaining the Occurrence and Dynamics of Dominant Group Violence
Ph.D. Defense Committee:
2015 - 2016 Marion Lecoquierre, committee member, supervisor Prof. Donatella della Porta, Social Movements and Space: Contention in Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan
B. Post-Doctoral Fellows and Visitors
2008-2009 Dr. Chares Demetriou [Post-Doc Fellow]
Resulting publications:
Demetriou, Chares. (2009) "The Realist Approach to Explanatory Mechanisms in Social Science," Philosophy of the Social Sciences (39)3: 440-462.
Demetriou, Chares. (2012) "Political Radicalization and Anti-Colonial Violence in Palestine, Ireland, and Cyprus," Social Science History 36(3): 392:420.
2018 – 2019 Associate Professor Peter Funke, Visiting Scholar (School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies, University of South Florida).
2021 – 2022 Ph.D. Candidate, Federica Stagni, Visiting Scholar (Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence)
2021 – 2023 Prof. Eva Walther, University of Trier
C. Courses Taught in the Last Five Years
Bachelor's degree courses:
Political Terrorism
The Quest for Social Justice
Research Methods A'
Research Methods B' [SPSS/NARRALIZER and Basic Statistics]
Social Movements, Protest and Political Violence
Honored Students Workshop on Institutional and non-Institutional Politics
Historical Introduction to Contemporary Politics
The Politics of Disengagement
State and Society in Comparative Historical Context
Master's degree courses:
Approaches and Theories in the Study of Social Conflict
The Struggle for Seattle: Transnational Social Movements
Approaches and Theories in the Study of Political Terrorism
Politics and Democracy in Israel
Challenged Democracy: Cleavages and Conflict in Israel
List of Publications
Doctoral Dissertation:
The 1987 Palestinian Intifada – Cracks in the Israeli Second Republic, Advisor: William A. Gamson, April 2004. [Published as a book by Routledge. See item #3]
BOOKS:
2. Ezrachi, Y.PI, Kremnitzer, M.PI, with Cohen, M., and Alimi, Eitan Y.S (2001). Israel: Toward a Constitutional Democracy. Jerusalem: Israel Democracy Institute. (Hebrew).
Eitan Y. Alimi. (2007). Israeli Politics and the First Palestinian Intifada: Political Opportunities, Framing Processes, and Contentious Politics. London and New York: Routledge.
Eitan Y. Alimi. (2013). Between Engagement Politics and Disengagement Politics: The Settlers’ Struggle against the Disengagement Plan and its Consequence. Tel Aviv: Resling. (Hebrew).
Eitan Y. Alimi,PI Lorenzo Bosi,PI and Chares Demetriou.PI (2015). The Dynamics of Radicalization – A Relational and Comparative Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press.
EDITED BOOKS
Since last promotion:
Eitan Y. Alimi, PI Sela, A., PI and Sznajder, M. PI (2016). Popular Contention, Regime, and Transition: Arab Revolts in Comparative Global Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press.
Leitz, Lisa A., PI and Eitan Y. Alimi.PI (2019). Bringing Down Divides – Special Issue Commemorating the Work of Gregory Maney (1967-2017). Research in Social Movements, Conflicts, and Change. Vol 43.
Goldstone, Jack A., PI Alimi, Eitan Y., PI Ozeren, Suleyman,c and Suat, Cubukcu.c (2021). From Territorial Defeat to Global ISIS: Lessons Learned. IOS Press, Amsterdam.
CHAPTERS IN COLLECTIONS:
Alimi, Eitan Y. (2006). "Re-conceptualizing Political Terrorism: A Collective Action Perspective for Analyzing the Tanzim", in Fighting Terrorism in the Liberal State: An Integrated Model of Research, Intelligence and International Law, Samuel Peleg and Wilhelm Kempf, eds. IOS Press, Amsterdam. Pp. 20-39. [A reprint of item # 27 in list of publication].
Alimi, Eitan Y. (2009). Israeli Peace Movements: 1967—2008. The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present. Blackwell Publishers, London and New York. Pp. 1812-1816.
Alimi, Eitan Y.,PI and Johnston H.PI (2014). “Contentious Interactions, Dynamics of Interpretations, and Radicalization: The Islamization of Palestinian Nationalism,” in The Dynamics of Political Violence, Lorenzo Bosi, Chares Demetriou, and Stefan Maltaner, eds., London, UK: Ashgate. Pp. 169-187.
Peleg, M.,PI and Alimi, Eitan Y.PI (2014). "A Palestinian State – Yes or No? Constructing Political Discourse in the Israeli Print Media – An Experimental Design", in The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: War Coverage and Peace Journalism, Wilhelm Kempf and Dov Shinar, eds., Berlin, Germany: Regener. Pp. 225-244. [A reprint of item # 26 in list of publication].
Alimi, Eitan Y. (2015). “Repertoires of Contention”, in The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements. Donatella Della Porta and Mario Diani, eds., New York: Oxford University Press.
Alimi, Eitan Y. (2015). “Occupy Israel”: A Tale of Startling Success and Hopeful Failure”, in Occupy! A Global Movement, Jenny Pickerill, John Krinsky, Graeme Hayes, Kevin Gillan, Brian Doherty, eds., New York and London: Routledge. Ch. 16. [A reprint of item # 43 in list of publication].
Alimi, Eitan Y. (2016). “Introduction – Popular Contention, Regime, and Transition: A Comparative Perspective”, in Popular Contention, Regime, and Transition: Arab Revolts in Comparative Global Perspective, Eitan Alimi, Avraham Sela, Mario Sznajder, eds., New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 1-24.
Alimi, Eitan Y.,PI and Meyer, David S.PI (2016). “When Repression Fails to Backfire: Movement’s Powers, State’s Powers, and Conditions Conducive to International Intervention”, Popular Contention, Regime, and Transition: Arab Revolts in Comparative Global Perspective, Eitan Alimi, Avraham Sela, Mario Sznajder, eds., New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 156-179.
Alimi, Eitan Y. (2018). “The Sources of the Settlement Movement’s Success: A Multi-Pronged Examination and Assessment”, in Understanding Israel: Political, Social, and Security Challenges, Joel Peters and Rob Pinfold, eds., New York and London: Routledge. Ch. 5.
Demetriou, C.,PI and Alimi, Eitan Y.PI (2018). “Relational Radicalization”, in Handbook of Relational Sociology, François Dépelteau, ed., New York: Springer.
Alimi, Eitan Y.,PI and Leitz, Lisa.PI (2019). “Introduction: Thinking about Divides”, in Bringing Down Divides: Special Issue Commemorating the Work of Gregory Maney (1967-2017), Liza Leitz and Eitan Y. Alimi, eds., United Kingdom: Emerald.
Demetriou, Chares,PI Alimi, Eitan Y.,PI and Bosi, Lorenzo.PI (Forthcoming). “Relational Arenas of Social Movement Activism”, in the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements, David A. Snow (Ed.), Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA.
Review essays and special SYMPOSIUM ARTICLes:
Alimi, Eitan Y.,PI and Meyer, David S.PI (2011). "Seasons of Change: Arab Spring and Political Opportunities". Swiss Political Science Review. 17(4): 475-479.
Alimi, Eitan Y. (2013). “Response to Aran and Hassner’s Religious Violence in Judaism: A Comprehensive yet Unfinished Agenda for Understanding Religious Violence”. Terrorism and Political Violence. 25(3): 406-408.
Alimi, Eitan Y. (2017). “A Strange yet Promising Progression: Unearthing the Relational Foundations of Political Threat”. Mobilizing Ideas Symposium on political threat. https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?id= 199823016765617&story_fbid=1864575593623676.
Alimi, Eitan Y.,PI and Chares Demetriou.PI (2018). "Price Tag Violence and the Dwindling Prospects for Peace in Israel-Palestine." Political Insight, 9(3): 36-39.
ARTICLES in refereed journals:
Alimi, Eitan Y. (2003). "The Effects of Opportunities on Insurgencies". Terrorism and Political Violence. (15)3: 111-38.
Peleg, M.PI and Alimi, Eitan Y.PI (2005). "A Palestinian State – Yes or No? Constructing Political Discourse in the Israeli Print Media – An Experimental Design". Conflict & Communication Online. 4(2): 1-18.
22-b. Peleg M.,PI and Alimi, Eitan Y.PI (2006). "A Palestinian State – Yes or No? An Experimental Design for the Construction of Public Discourse and the Promotion of Peace Journalism". Igarta Research Monograph Series. Chaim Herzog Institute for Media, Politics, and Society (In Hebrew, an extended version of item # 12, 31 pages).
Alimi, Eitan Y. (2006). "Contextualizing Political Terrorism: A Collective Action Perspective for Understanding the Tanzim". Studies in Conflict and Terrorism. 29(3): 263-283.
Alimi, Eitan Y.,PI Gamson, William, A.,PI and Ryan, C.PI (2006). "Knowing Your Adversary: Israeli Structure of Political Opportunities and the Inception of the Palestinian Intifada". Sociological Forum. 21(4): 535-557.
Alimi, Eitan Y. (2006). "Constructing Political Opportunity – 1987: The Palestinian Year of Discontent". Mobilization: The International Quarterly Review of Social Movement Research. 11(1): 67-80.
Alimi, Eitan Y. (2007). "Discursive Contention: Palestinian Media Discourse and the Inception of the ‘First’ Intifada". Harvard International Journal of Press and Politics. 12(4): 71-91.
Alimi, Eitan Y. (2007). "Israeli Sociopolitical Arena and Palestinian Politics of Contention". British Journal of Political Science. 37(3): 433-453.
Alimi, Eitan Y. (2007). "The Dialectic of Opportunities and Threats and Temporality of Contention: Evidence from the Occupied Territories". International Political Science Review. 28(1): 101-123.
Alimi, Eitan Y. (2007). "The Intifada and Israeli Society – Strategies, Opportunities, and Contentious Tactics". State and Society. 6(1): 157-185. (In Hebrew).
Alimi, Eitan Y.,PI and Bosi, L.PI (2008). "A Comparative Historical Analysis of the Process of Radicalization in the Case of the Weather Underground and the Provisional Irish Republican Army". Journal of Research in Political History. 3: 273-292. (In Italian).
Wolfsfeld, G.,PI Alimi, Eitan Y.,PI and Kailani, W.PI (2008). "News Media and Peace Building in Asymmetrical Conflicts: The Flow of News between Jordan and Israel". Political Studies. 56(1): 374-398.
Alimi, Eitan Y. (2008). "Naming A Child: On the Similarities and Dissimilarities between Social Movements and Interests Groups". Civil Society and the Third Sector in Israel. 2(2): 29-52. (In Hebrew).
Alimi, Eitan Y. (2009). "Mobilizing Under the Gun: Theorizing Political Opportunity Structure in Highly Repressive Setting". Mobilization: The International Quarterly Review of Social Movement Research. 14(2): 219-237.
Alimi, Eitan Y.,PI and Norwich, L.S (2011). "Learning from Failures: Why and How ‘Scale Shift’ Failed to Launch – Evidence from the Case of the Israeli-Arab Land Day?" Research in Social Movements, Conflicts, and Change. 31: 35-66.
39. Alimi, Eitan Y. (2011). "Relational Dynamics in Factional Adoption of Terrorist Tactics: A Comparative Perspective". Theory and Society. 40(1): 95-118.
Johnston, H.,PI and Alimi, Eitan Y.PI (2012). "Primary Frameworks, Keying, and the Dynamics of Contentious Politics: The Islamization of the Chechen and Palestinian National Movements". Political Studies. 60(3): 603-620.
Alimi, Eitan Y.,PI and Hirsch-Hoefler, S.PI (2012). "Structure of Political Opportunities and Threats, and Movement-Countermovement Interaction in Segmented Composite Regimes". Comparative Politics. 44: 331-349.
Alimi, Eitan Y.,PI Bosi, L.,PI and Demetriou, C.PI (2012). "Relational Dynamics and Processes of Radicalization: A Comparative Framework". Mobilization: The International Quarterly Review of Social Movement Research. 17(1): 7-26.
Alimi, Eitan Y. (2012). “Occupy Israel”: A Tale of Startling Success and Hopeful Failure”. Social Movements Studies. 11(3/4): 402-407.
Johnston, H.,PI and Alimi, Eitan Y.PI (2013). “A Methodology for Frame Dynamics: The Grammar of Keying Battles in Palestinian Nationalism”. Mobilization: The International Quarterly Review of Social Movement Research. 18(4): 453-474.
Alimi, Eitan Y. (2016). “The Relational Context of Radicalization: The Case of Jewish Settler Contention before and after the Gaza Pullout”. Political Studies. 64(4): 910-929.
Alimi, Eitan Y.,PI and Gregory M. Maney.PI (2018). "Focusing on Focusing Events: Event Selection, Media Coverage, and the Dynamics of Contentious Meaning‐Making." Sociological Forum, 33(3): 757-782.
Alimi, Eitan Y. (2018). "“Struggling to Remain Relevant”: Why and How Radicalization Was Impeded in the Struggle against the Gaza Pullout." Canadian Review of Sociology, 55(4): 597-623.
Alimi, Eitan Y.,PI and Chares Demetriou.PI (2018). "Making sense of ‘Price Tag’ violence: changing contexts, shifting strategies, and expanding targets." Social movement studies, 17(4): 478-484.
Alimi, Eitan Y.,PI Gregory M. Maney,C and Alon Burstein.C (2019). "Beyond the media’s radar: Introducing the Intifada Non-Media-Based Dataset." International Interactions, 45(4): 736-756.
Alimi Eitan Y.,PI Gregory M. Many.C (2021). “Rethinking Moving beyond Deterrence: A Partial Replication Study.” Political Studies Review, online first. doi:10.1177/14789299211014011.
Alimi Eitan Y. (2022). "Army Embeddedness, Political Opportunities and Threats, and the Dynamics of Contention: Understanding the Varying Role of the Armed Forces in the Egyptian, Syrian, and Libyan 2011 Revolts." International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Online First.
Alimi Eitan Y. (2023) “Price Tag and Regime Crisis.” Israeli Sociology