Curriculum Vitae

Higher education: 

2006-2007  Women’s Group Fellowship of the Mexican Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Post-doctoral position, the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2000-2006  Ph.D. in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and History, New York University (with distinction).
1997-2000 M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies, Tel Aviv University (summa cum laude)
1993-1997  B.A. in Middle Eastern Studies and Psychology, Tel Aviv University


  
 

 

 

 

 

 

Appointments at the Hebrew University

2017-present

Associate Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2012-2017

Senior lecturer, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2007-2012 Lecturer, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

Tasks at the Hebrew University

2021-2023  Head of the Academic Program in the History and Philosophy of Science for Science Students
2019-2023 Head of Ethics Committee, the Faculty of Humanities
2022-2019 Member of the Hebrew University Senate
2018-present  Harry Friedenwald Chair in History of Medicine
2015-2019  Member of the academic committee, the Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace
2014-2019 Director of the Nehemia Levtzion Center for Islamic Studies
2010-2012  Academic director of the MA program in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the Rothberg International School

 

Duties in other institutions

2020-2021 The Israel Young Academy, member of the steering committee
2019-2021 The Israel Young Academy, head of the Humanities Committee
2019-2022 Member of the Inter-Senate Committee on Academic Freedom
2017-2021 The Israel Young Academy, member 

 

Research Grants

2018-2021
(extended to 2022)
Israel Science Foundation, individual research grant, “A History of Arab Medicine in Mandate Palestine”
2017-2022
(extended to 2023) 
ERC Consolidators’ Grant, “A Regional History of Medicine, 1830-1960”
2015-2018
(extended to 2019)
Israel Science Foundation, individual research grant, “Between the National and the Translational: Physicians in the Middle East and North Africa, 1840-1940” 
2011-2014
(extended to 2015) 
Israel Science Foundation, individual research grant, “The League of Nations and Traffic in Women in the Middle East and North Africa, 1919-1939”
2008-2011 Israel Science Foundation, individual research grant, “Marginalized Women in Colonial Egypt, 1882-1914”