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” |