Following his doctoral dissertation, in which he explored how the interrelationship between ethnic politics and educational policy led to the development of the Israeli ethnicized society, Gal became engaged in various research projects that aim to examine the triad of education, ethnicity and citizenship. Most recent research projects focus on the education of children to labour-migrant and on alternative Arab education. His book manuscript, which is under review at CUP, is a political account of the history of education in Israel and its implications for the construction of ethnic identities and conceptions of citizenship. Gal has published locally and internationally on these topics, as well as on class- and ethnic-voting in the Israeli general elections.
Her fields of specialization include: Culture and Citizenship, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism, Qualitative research methods, Nationalism, Israeli Society and Culture, The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the Labor Market. Among her publications: "Border people: the Story of Palestinian work Migrant at the Age of Oslo" Israeli Sociology "Quality of life" and "Life" in the Modernist Plan City" Planning - Journal of the Association for Environmental Planning in Israel, "'Put your hands together for the Israel Andalusian Orchestra!' Toward critical discussion on the notion of multiculturalism" Alpayim 33. The Day The Sun Rises in the West - Ethnography of a Peace Process International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society "Classic, Mizrachi Orchestra", Theory and Criticism.
Other areas of Harmat's expertise include lecturing, training, conflict analysis, dialogue facilitation and gender empowerment research. She has been lecturing at the Seminar Hakibutzim Teachers' College since 2004, and teaching Hebrew as a second language in various settings. Currently Gal is a guest lecturer at the European Peace University and Salzburg University (Austria), Transcend Peace University and PATRIR peace research institute. She is a regular consultant for intergovernmental organizations, corporate donors, and peace organizations. Gal holds a Bachelor Degree in Art, a Master of Arts in Gender and Peace building from the UN-Mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica and is currently a PhD candidate in Gender Analysis of Multi-Cultural Education at Nitra University (Slovakia).
Born and initially educated in New Zealand, he holds graduate degrees from the London School of Economics and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He has been a visiting professor at the University of California (Berkeley), Duke University, University of Washington (Seattle), and Stockholm University. Shalev's areas of specialization are political sociology, political economy, the welfare state and social stratification, and he is also an expert on quantitative methodologies in comparative research. Shalev is the author of Labour and the Political Economy in Israel (Oxford University Press, 1992), a history of the politics and policies of the labor movement in Israel. He has also published authoritative articles on a variety of contemporary aspects of Israeli politics and political economy, including class voting, the welfare state, and the rise of neoliberal economic policies. Shalev has published widely in the field of comparative politics and sociology, most recently on the relationship between gender and class inequality. A selection of his publications can be viewed on the web: Papers by Michael Shalev
He has received his MA degree in Political Philosophy from Tel Aviv University under the instruction of Prof. Joseph Agassi and his PhD in Comparative Political History from Cambridge University UK under the instruction of Prof. Ernest Gellner. His major research fields are Ancient Greece (with particular interest in the polis) and Modern Nationalism. His book on Israeli national identity is forthcoming in Hebrew in 2009.
He has taught archaeology of ancient Israel in numerous institutions. In 2009 he will teach a course on Archaeology and Environment, at the Porter school for Environmental Studies. Yuval completed his PhD in 2004 at Tel-Aviv University under the guidance of Prof. Israel Finkelstein and Prof. Moshe Kochavi. Yuval is currently directing the field work at the renewed excavations at the site of Ramat Rahel and co-directing the field work in the two community based projects at Lod and Modi'in. A book: 'Aphek-Antipatris II' co-written and edited by me, is forthcoming in 2009. He also authored and co-authored a number of articles that were published in scientific journals centered on the archaeology in history of Ancient Israel.
His research and teaching to date engage many central questions in political philosophy and the history of political thought. His doctoral research entitled Reconsidering Contextualism addresses a significant philosophical faultline in the human sciences, examining the longstanding question of the relations between political theories and their historical context. He has also published on the connections between aesthetics and political thought (focusing especially on the theory and practice of architecture), and the politics of identity in Israel. Most recently he contributed a chapter on international political theory in Political Thought and International Relations (OUP: 2009 edited by D Bell). Ze'ev was invited to participate in a collection of essays on The Cambridge School for Princeton University Press. He has an extensive and wide-ranging teaching experience in different disciplines – philosophy, politics, and sociology - in different institutional settings in the UK and Israel.
Previously, 2002's YOSSI & JAGGER, the love affair between two officers in the Israeli army, became an international breakout hit. Born in New York City, at an early age Fox moved with his family to Israel. He grew up in Jerusalem, then studied at Tel Aviv University's School of Film and Television. His first film, TIME OFF, a 45-minute drama about sexual identity in the Israeli army, won him acclaim and led to the making his first feature, SONG OF THE SIREN, a romantic comedy which became Israel's biggest box office success in 1994. He also created and directed the Israeli TV dramatic series FLORENTINE, which examined the life of young people in Tel Aviv before and after the Rabin assassination. Fox ran the film program at the Alon high school for the arts in Ramat Hasharon, and has taught filmmaking at Tel Aviv University's School of Film and Television as well as at Sapir and Beit Berel colleges.
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Dr. Levy, who received his PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science, serves as the director of NYU Tel Aviv. He also teaches Perspectives in Israeli Society and History, the required course for all enrolled students.
Dr. Levy uses the class to introduce students to a broad perspective on Israeli society and on the Middle East at large. The lectures are complemented with excursions in and outside Tel Aviv.
