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:

 

 

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). 

EDITED BOOKS

Since last promotion:


CHAPTERS IN COLLECTIONS:

 

 

Review essays and special SYMPOSIUM ARTICLes:

 

 

ARTICLES in refereed journals:

 

 

 

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). 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

39.  Alimi, Eitan Y. (2011). "Relational Dynamics in Factional Adoption of Terrorist Tactics: A Comparative Perspective". Theory and Society. 40(1): 95-118.