Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
PhD Anthropology. The University of Chicago, awarded June 2009
MA Religious Studies. Tel-Aviv University, awarded July 2002
BA English Literature and Interdisciplinary Humanities. Tel-Aviv University, awarded July 1999
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2015- 2018 Senior research fellow, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, “Financialization” Research Group.
2014-15 Junior research fellow, Central European University Institute for Advanced Study
2012-14 Postdoctoral fellow, The Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
2010-12 Postdoctoral fellow, “Value and Equivalence” Research Training Group, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
2009-10 Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
AWARDS AND HONORS
2014 Invited Keynote Speaker at the Finnish Anthropological Society Annual Meeting
2011 Berlin Roundtable/ Coninx Foundation “Deconstructing Credit and Money in Neoliberalism Workshop”: travel and participation grant
2008-9 Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture: doctoral grant
2008 First place winner of the Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA) graduate student paper prize
2008 Doolittle-Harrison travel grant
2008 Lichtstern Student conference travel grant
2007-8 Mellon dissertation year fellowship
2007 Overseas dissertation research grant for follow-up research in the West Bank
2007 Janco travel grant for follow-up research in the West Bank
2005 Lady Davis Fellowship Trust: grant for 12 months of research in the West Bank
2004 Leiffer Fund: grant for pilot research in the West Bank
2002 University of Chicago fellowship: stipend and tuition for 4 years
CONFERENCE ACTIVITY
Conferences/Workshops Organized
2015 Financialization Workshop. Budapest, March 20
2011 Itineraries of the Material: Shifting Contexts of Value and Things in Time and Space (with Hans Peter Hahn). Frankfurt am Main, October 6-8
2010 Theories of Value: Anthropological and Archeological Perspectives (with Jennifer Bagley). Frankfurt am Main, November 11-13
Panels Convened
2016 Everyday Finance (with Marek Mikus). EASA Conference, Milan, July 20-23
2014 The Future of Class (with Katariina Mäkinen). IUAES Congress, Tokyo, May 16
Papers Presented
2016 On Being Creditworthy: Introducing Credit Scoring into Israeli Households. EASA Conference, Milan, July 20
2016 Human Capital and the Middle-Class Family. Cambridge Seminar, Cambridge, May 6
2015 The Making of Financially Literate Households. American Anthropology Association Annual Meeting, Denver, Co. November 20
2014 Capitalized Property and its Discontents. American Anthropology Association Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., December 3
2014 Contesting the Value of Household Property. Sociology and Anthropology Department Seminar, Central European University, Budapest, December 1
2014 Financialization: An Anthropological Perspective. Political Economy Seminar, Central European University, Budapest, November 11
2014 Financialization and the Middle Class. IUAES Inter-Congress, Tokyo, May 16
2014 An Ethnographic Study of Financialization. Invited Lecture, The Finnish Anthropological Society Annual Meeting, Helsinki, March 26
2014 The Contribution of Marxian Value to the Study of Values. On Values: Social Scientific and Philosophical Perspectives. Helsinki, March 19
2013 Confronting the Future through Privatized Pensions. American Anthropology Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 20
2013 Security or Investment: Home Purchase in a Leveraged Real-Estate Market. Israeli Anthropology Association Annual Meeting, Jerusalem, May 30
2013 Mortgage Debt and the Predicament of the Middle Class. Society for Economic Anthropology Annual Meeting, St. Louis, April 11
2013 Homeownership in Israel: Making Sense of Middleclass Debt. Anthropology Department Seminar, University of Helsinki, March 13
2011 Normalizing Ariel: The Promise and Limits of Social Significance. Anthropology Forum, Haifa, December 29
2011 Contemporary Possibilities of Social Significance. Critical Historical Studies Conference, Chicago, December 2-4
2011 Credit and Surplus in an Anthropological Perspective. International Political Economy Workshop, Frankfurt am Main, May 11
2010 Value, Gift, and Third Sector Norms in Conflict. Norms in Conflict Conference, Frankfurt am Main, December 4
2010 Value and Values in a West Bank Settlement. Sociology and Anthropology Department Seminar, Ben-Gurion University, May 10
2009 Outline for a Theory of Value and Values. Social Theory Workshop, University of Chicago, December 7
2009 On Value and Values in a West Bank Settlement. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, December 4
2009 Neoliberalism in the Middle East. Middle East History and Theory Conference, Chicago, May 9
2009 Value in the West Bank, Social Theory Workshop, University of Chicago, February 2
2008 Moral Agency under Neoliberal Capitalism. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November 22
2008 West Bank Settlers and Capitalist Ideology. Association for Israel Studies Annual Meeting, New York City, May 19
2008 The Production and Maintenance of Normalcy in a West Bank Settlement. The Society for Cultural Anthropology Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA, May 9
2008 West Bank Settlers and Privatization. Conditions of Settler Colonialism Symposium, Chicago, April 25
Discussant
2014 Inside the Settlements. The Settlements in the West Bank: New Perspectives, Research Workshop. Minverva Humanities Center, Tel Aviv, June 29.
2012 Debt: A Source of Interdisciplinary Innovation. Dictatorship of Failure Conference, Helsinki, November 16
2010 Place, Time, Struggle. The Israeli Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Ra’anana, April 29
2009 Neoliberalism in the Middle East. Middle East History and Theory Conference, Chicago, May 9
2008 On the Crumbling of Liberal Urbanism. History and Anthropology of Europe Workshop, University of Chicago, May 29
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2014 Lecturer, “The Anthropology of Capitalism” (self-designed undergraduate course), Helsinki University, Spring Quarter
2009 Teaching Assistant, “The Development of Social and Cultural Theory” (Ph.D. course; leading bimonthly discussion section), The University of Chicago, Spring Quarter
2009 Teaching Assistant, “Practices of Othering and the Logic of Human Rights Violations”, The University of Chicago, Winter Quarter
2008 Lecturer, “Introduction to Cultural Anthropology” (self-designed undergraduate course), Fall/Winter Semester, DePaul University, Fall/Winter Semester
2007 Lecturer, “Self, Culture and Society” (Social Science Core), Social Science Collegiate Division, The University of Chicago, Winter and Spring Quarters
2004-2005 Teaching Intern, “Self, Culture and Society” (Social Science Core), Social Science Collegiate Division, The University of Chicago, Fall, Winter and Spring Quarters
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2015 -2016 ethnographic fieldwork on financial education, Germany, August-March
2015 ethnographic fieldwork on financial literacy, Israel, June-September
2014 ethnographic fieldwork on property negotiations, Israel, June-September
2013 ethnographic fieldwork on liberalized pension practices, Israel, May-August
2012 ethnographic fieldwork on homeownership and mortgages, Israel, February-August
2009-2010 ethnographic fieldwork on third sector associations and on ultraorthodox interest-free loan associations, Israel, July-June
2007 follow-up fieldwork on the settlement movement, West Bank, September
2005-2006 ethnographic fieldwork on settlements, West Bank, August-August
2004 pilot fieldwork on settlements, West Bank, August
ACADEMIC SERVICE
Refereed applications for the EURIAS fellowship.
Reviewed a book manuscript for the University of Chicago Press.
Reviewed article manuscripts for the following journals: American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology, Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR), The Sociological Review, Geopolitics, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, and The Australian Journal of Anthropology.