Dr. Dalia Liran-Alper – Curriculum Vitae

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The College of Management-Academic Studies April 2008

Date: September 16, 2014

Personal Details: Academic Degree: PhD Phone Number at: Mobile: 0546-665480 School/Department: School of Media Studies, The College of Management-Academic Studies

Academic Education: Name of higher education Year degree Year/s institution Subject Degree or diploma received 1976-1979 Hebrew University of International Relations, BA 1980 Jerusalem History 1980-1983 Hebrew University of Communication MA (practical 1983 Jerusalem program) 1989-1994 Hebrew University of Communication Thesis (theory 1994 Jerusalem program) 1998-2005 University of Haifa Education, Communication PhD 2005

M.A. and Ph.D. Details: (Institution, Adviser/s, Title) Masters thesis: Media representation of women in politics: Are they still “Domineering dowagers and scheming concubines”? (1994) Adviser: Prof. Gadi Wolfsfeld Doctoral thesis: Sociocultural construction of gendered identity among girls attending dance classes in Israel (2004) Adviser: Tamar Katriel

Further Studies: Teaching license program, Levinsky College of Education, Tel Aviv (1995-1996)

Academic Experience – Teaching: Year/s Name of institution Department/program Rank/position 1980-1992 The Open University International relations, Social patterns Instructor in Israel, Mass media, and others 1993-1997 Levinsky College of Faculty of Education, Teacher Lecturer Education Training 2011-1989 Beit Berl Academic School of Education, Department of Lecturer College Social Sciences 1994-2004 Teachers College of Teaching Communications Program coordinator Technology (1994/5) 2

2002-2007 Open University – Hasifa School of Media Studies Lecturer School of Communications, Television and Multimedia 2010-2011 Tel Aviv University Child and Youth Culture Program Lecturer From 1993 The College of School of Media Studies Lecturer Management-Academic Studies

Academic Appointments: Lecturer at the School of Media Studies, College of Management-Academic Studies

Academic/Administrative Positions: 1990-1992 Director of the Center for Work and Management Studies, Beit Berl Academic College 1991-1992 In charge of establishing the Beit Levinson Workers Academy in conjunction with the Workers Enterprises, Beit Berl Academic College 1992-1993 In charge of establishing the Beit Berl Academic College and Open University joint program, Beit Berl Academic College (with Dr. Yitzhak Greenberg) 1996-2006 Practical Work Coordinator (internship), School of Media Studies, College of Management- Academic Studies 2007-2012 Dean of Students, School of Media Studies, College of Management-Academic Studies 2012-2014 Joint Programs Coordinator, School of Media Studies, College of Management-Academic Studies 2007-present Member of the Teaching Committee and School Council, School of Media Studies, College of Management-Academic Studies

Previous Professional Experience (Non-academic): 1976-1978 Auditor, Ministry of Education, Information Center, Media Watch Department, Jerusalem 1977-1978 Parliamentary assistant, The Knesset, Jerusalem 1979-1981 Teaching assistant, Department of International Relations, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1979-1981 Social sciences teacher, Gymnasia Rehavia, Jerusalem 1981-1982 Social sciences teacher, Gymnasia Herzliya, Tel Aviv 1992-1993 Manager of the Working Women’s Council project, Working Women Division, NA’AMAT, Israel National Labor Federation

Research Students (M.A. and Ph.D.): Name: Idit Itav (MA thesis) Subject: The correlation between watching TV and adopting a thin feminine model, Beit Berl Academic College, Educational Counseling Program, October 2009

Membership in Professional Societies: Year/s Name of organization 1994-present International Association for Mass Communication Research (IAMCR) 1996-present The Israel Communication Association, member of the Association Committee since 2006 1999-present The Israel Association of Feminist and Gender Studies, board member since 2013 2001-present The Israel Anthropological Association 2001-present The Israel Sociological Society, chair of the Gender Section 2006-2011 3

1999-present International Communication Association (ICA) 2009-present Association for Israel Studies (AIS)

Positions and Public Activities: Year/s Name of institution Rank/position 1991-1995 NA’AMAT magazine Journalist and member of the editorial board 1992-1994 Emtza Hasharon journal Columnist 1996-1997 Halonot (Jewish-Arab children’s Management member journal) 1992-1998 Israel Broadcasting Authority Plenum member, chair of the Women’s Status Committee, member of the Subcommittee for Television and Radio Programs, and the Committee for Sponsored and Public Service Broadcasts 2012-2014 Israel Press Council Member

Membership on Scientific Editorial Boards of Academic Publications: Member of the editorial board, Media Frames – Israeli Journal of Communication, 1, December 2007, published by the Israel Communication Association in conjunction with the Second Authority for Television and Radio Member of the editorial board, online journal Migdar (Gender), February 2012

Publications: Books and Monographs: 1. Liran-Alper, D. & Kama, A. (2007). Shaping the body and sculpting identity: Representations of the body in commercial television. The Chaim Herzog Institute for Media, Politics, and Society, Tel Aviv University.

Refereed Journal Articles: 1. Liran-Alper, D. (2000). Is the future of media in the hands of women? The Committee on Women’s Status at the Israel Broadcasting Authority, 1993-1998. Patuach 4, 188-204. 2. Liran-Alper, D. (2000). Women in the (Israel) Broadcasting Authority: Data and positions. Kesher 28, 95- 99.

Since last promotion: 3. Kama, A. & Liran-Alper, D. (2008). Forever young: Representations of the ageing body in commercial television. Hokrim BaEmek, 3, 281-299, Jezreel Valley: Jezreel Valley Academic College. 4. Tsarfaty, O. & Liran-Alper, D. (2010). Preservation vs. change: Manifestations of feminist discourse in commercial family magazines in ultra-Orthodox society in Israel. Kesher, 40,126-138. 5. Liran-Alper, D. & Tsarfaty, O. (2012). Online media representation of a woman protest leader in Israel. Kesher, 43, 29-39. 6. Tsarfaty, O. & Liran-Alper, D. (2012). La naissance d`un discours feminist dans les magazines commerciaux Haredi. TSAFON Revue d`etudes juives du Nord, 63, 73-102. 7. Liran-Alper, D. & Tsarfaty, O. (2013). Gender representations in the ultra-Orthodox children’s magazine “Yeladim”. Kesher 44,106-113. 8. Tsarfaty, O. & Liran-Alper, D. (Forthcoming). A nascent women’s-feminist discourse in commercial Haredi magazine, Israel Affairs (special issue: Political Economy in Israel). 9. Liran-Alper, D. & Peschansky, M. (2014). Representations of the pregnant Kate Middleton in the printed press in Israel (2012-2013), Migdar, 3 (in press).

Textbooks: 1. Liran-Alper, D. (1993). Current affairs: Program of elementary school social education activities. Jerusalem, Ministry of Education and Culture.

Since last promotion: 2. Liran-Alper, D. (Ed.) (2006). Compilation of articles for the “Culture, technology, and digital media” course. Tel Aviv: The Open University.

Chapters in Books: 1. Liran-Alper, D. (2009). A president in the headlines: President Dalia Itzik in the Israeli media-public discourse. In H. Zubida & D. Mekelberg (Eds.), Israeli democracy at 60: Reality and vision (pp. 269-292). Tel Aviv-Yafo, the Israel Political Science Association. 2. Liran-Alper, D. (2009). An Israeli swan? Gender and fantasy in dance classes for girls. In H. Rothenberg & D. Roginsky (Eds.), Voices in movement: Dance in Israel (pp. 189-219). Tel Aviv, Resling. 3. Liran-Alper, D. (Forthcoming). A president in the headlines: President Dalia Itzik as reflected in the Israeli media. In N. Corbu (Ed.), Identity and intercultural communication. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 4. Tsarfaty, O. & Liran-Alper, D. (Forthcoming). A new solidarity among ultra-Orthodox women in Israel. In N. Corbu (Ed.), Identity and intercultural communication. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 5. Liran-Alper, D. & Geffen, S. (Forthcoming). Children as players on an adult stage: Representation of children in reality shows on Israeli television. In M. Talmon (Ed.), As seen on Israeli TV: National television between the local and the global context. 6. Liran-Alper, D. (Forthcoming). The Broadcasting Authority in the early years of commercial television (1992-1998). In A. Shechter, N. Elias, N. Nimrod, & Z. Reich (Eds.), Passages in Communication – Tribute to Prof. Dan Caspi. Tel Aviv: Tzivonim (in print).

Papers published in Proceedings of Academic Conferences: 1. A president in the headlines: President Dalia Itzik as reflected in the Israeli media. ICA –International Communication Association Conference. Chicago, Illinois, U.S., May, 21-25, 2009. 2. A president in the headlines: President Dalia Itzik as reflected in the Israeli media. Paper presented at The International Conference on Identity and Intercultural Communication, Bucharest, Romania, September 26- 27, 2011. 3. Preservation vs. change: Manifestations of feminist discourse in commercial family magazines in ultra- Orthodox society in Israel. Paper presented at The International Conference on Identity and Intercultural Communication, Bucharest, Romania, September 26-27, 2011(with Dr. Orli Tsarfaty) 4. The people demand social justice: Media representation of the leader of the social protest in Israel 2011, 2nd ISA Forum of Sociology: Social Justice and Democratization, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 1-4, 2012 (with Dr. Orli Tsarfaty). 5. Online media representation of a woman protest leader in Israel. ICA – International Communication Association Conference, London, England, July, 17-22, 2013. 6. The three harpies: Media representation of political leadership in the 2013 Israeli general election. ICA – International Communication Association Conference, Seattle, U.S., May, 22-25, 2014 (with Dr. Orli Tsarfaty).

Other publications (i.e., research reports, encyclopedia entries, review articles, book reviews): 1. Liran-Alper, D. (2003). Mud wrestlers: The media image of women contending for internal party elections in Israel in 2002. Matzav HaInyanim, 20, Beit Berl Academic College.

Since last promotion: 2. Liran-Alper, D. & Kama, A. (2006). Shaping the body and sculpting identity: Representations of the body in commercial television. Submitted to the Second Authority for Television and Radio. 5

3. Liran-Alper, D. (2008). Israel beyond the conflict: Life in Israel (Chapter 3). Part of the Neaman Paper – Research Report on Public Diplomacy in Israel, a joint project of the Samuel Neaman Institute at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Encyclopedia Entry: 4. Israeli Culture, Israel Studies: An Anthology (AICE) (October 2010).

Book Review: 5. Lomsky-Feder, E. & Rapoport, T. (Eds.) (2010). Visibility in immigration: Body, gaze, representation (406 pages). Jerusalem and Tel Aviv-Yafo: The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and Hakibbutz Hameuchad. Review published in Israeli Sociology, 13(2), 460-462 (2012).

Commissioned Paper: 6. Liran-Alper, D. (2014). Children are the face of our time: Television and children in Israel, Panim-Israel Teachers Union Journal. Tel Aviv. (Forthcoming).

Papers Presented at Academic Conferences: 1. 1994 Television News for Children, The Israel Communication Association Annual Conference, Tel Aviv, Israel. 2. 1994 Media representation of women in politics: Are they still “Domineering dowagers and scheming concubines”? IAMCR Conference, Seoul, Korea. 3. 1997 Representation of teachers in the Israeli media, The Center for Gender Studies, Beit Berl Academic College, Israel. 4. 1997 Media representation of women in politics: Are they still “Domineering dowagers and scheming concubines”? The Israel Sociological Society Annual Conference, Rishon LeZion, Israel. 5. 1999 Representation of women politicians in the printed media in Israel, seminar of the Israel Historical Society and the Lafer Center for Women and Gender Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Shefayim, Israel. 6. 1999 Is the future of media in the hands of women? The Committee on Women’s Status at the Israel Broadcasting Authority, IAMCR Conference, Leipzig, Germany. 7. 2002 Each girl to her own body: Dance classes for girls in Israel, The Israel Anthropological Association Annual Conference, Neve Ilan, Israel. 8. 2002 Session chair: Youth Cultures, The Israel Sociological Society Annual Conference, Beit Berl Academic College, Israel. 9. 2003 Dancing for the community: Dance classes for girls in Israel, Department of Women’s Studies, University of Haifa, Israel. 10. 2004 An Israeli swan: Young girls dance ballet and glocalization, IAMCR Conference, Porto Alegre, Brazil. 11. 2004 An Israeli swan: Young girls dance ballet and glocalization, 1st Israeli Interdisciplinary Conference on Qualitative Research Methods, Tel Aviv, Israel. 12. 2004 An Israeli swan: Young girls dance ballet and glocalization, The Israel Sociological Society Annual Conference, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. 13. 2005 Dancing for the community: Dance classes for girls in Israel, The Israel Sociological Society Annual Conference, Tel-Hai Academic College, Israel. 14. 2005 Dancing for the community: Dance classes for girls in Israel, The Israel Anthropological Association Annual Conference, Sapir Academic College, Israel. 15. 2005 Dancing for the community: Dance classes for girls in Israel, seminar of the Lafer Center for Women and Gender Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Jerusalem, Israel.

Since last promotion: 16. 2006 Dancing for the community: Dance classes for girls in Israel, 2nd Israeli Interdisciplinary Conference on Qualitative Research Methods, Tel Aviv, Israel. 17. 2006 “Mom swap”, not “wife swap”: On Israeli reality TV – Between the local, the global and the universal (with Sachlav Stoler-Liss), IAMCR Conference, Cairo, Egypt. 18. 2006 Problems and experiences of peace (discussant), Peace Journalism Conference: Journalism in the Middle East Region, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, Cyprus. 19. 2007 We are all the children of life: Body representations of children on commercial television, The Israel Sociological Society Annual Conference, Haifa, Israel. 20. 2007 Body matters: Body representations on Israeli commercial television, The Israel Communication Association Annual Conference, Ra’anana, Israel. 21. 2007 Childhood: Sociological and historical perspectives, seminar: Little People, Big Consumers, College of Management, School of Communication and Business Studies, Rishon LeZion, Israel. 22. 2007 Writing dance: Dance research in dance classes for girls in Israel, The Israel Anthropological Association Annual Conference, Achva Academic College, Israel. 23. 2007 How do I look? – Body representations of children and adolescents on Israeli television, The Annual Mousa Karayanni Seminar, University of Haifa Department of Education, Haifa, Israel. 24. 2007 No admission to fat, wrinkled, or unattractive women: Television representations of feminine aesthetics (with Amit Kama), 50th IAMCR Conference, Paris, France. 25. 2008 A president in the headlines: President Dalia Itzik as reflected in the Israeli media, The Israel Sociological Society Annual Conference, Tel Aviv, Israel. 26. 2008 Session chair: Gender, media and popular culture, and Gender, politics, and media, The Israel Sociological Society Annual Conference, Tel Aviv, Israel. 27. 2008 Session chair: Gender, the welfare state and entrepreneurship: A local sociological perspective, a conference in memory of Dafna Izraeli: Employment, Welfare and Family: A Comparative Perspective of the State of Israel, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. 28. 2008 Session chair and speaker: Dancing Girls – On dance classes in Israel and creating anthropological knowledge, The Israel Anthropological Association Annual Conference, Beit Berl Academic College, Israel. 29. 2008 A president in the headlines: President Dalia Itzik as reflected in the Israeli media, The Israel Association of Political Science Annual Conference, Beit Berl Academic College, Israel. 30. 2008 A president with a ‘feminine touch’: President Dalia Itzik as reflected in the Israeli media, 51st IAMCR Conference, Stockholm, Sweden. 31. 2008 Presentation of the chapter: Israel Beyond the Conflict at the conference concluding the project: Public Diplomacy in the 21st Century: The Israeli Case, organized by the Samuel Neaman Institute at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in conjunction with the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tel Aviv, Israel. 32. 2008 Session chair: Sexual harassment: In academe as well, The Israel Sociological Society and The Israel Association of Feminist and Gender Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. 33. 2009 Session chair: Gender and women’s identities, The Israel Sociological Society Annual Conference, Tel Aviv, Israel. 34. 2009 Beyond the conflict: Life in Israel, Public Diplomacy in the 21st Century: The Israeli Case (organized by the Samuel Neaman Institute at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in conjunction with the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs), The Israel Communication Association Annual Conference, Jezreel Valley Academic College, Israel. 35. 2009 Preservation vs. change: manifestations of feminist discourse in commercial women’s/family magazines in ultra-Orthodox society in Israel (with Orli Tsarfaty, The Israel Anthropological Association Annual Conference, Kinneret Academic College, Israel. 36. 2009 Preservation vs. change: Manifestations of feminist discourse in commercial women’s/family magazines in ultra-Orthodox society in Israel (with Orli Tsarfaty), AIS Annual Conference, Beersheba, Israel. 7

37. 2009 Life in Israel: Beyond the conflict, Public Diplomacy in the 21st Century: The Israeli Case, draft report on a joint study conducted by the Samuel Neaman Institute and Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, AIS Annual Conference, Beersheba, Israel. 38. 2009 A president in the headlines: President Dalia Itzik as reflected in the Israeli media, ICA Conference, Chicago, USA. 39. 2009 Preservation vs. change: Manifestations of feminist discourse in commercial women’s/family magazines in ultra-Orthodox society in Israel, conference: Cultures in Israel: Contacts and conflicts, The Open University, Ra’anana, Israel. 40. 2010 The naked state: Eros, civilization, and the naked issue of Pnai Plus (Israeli) magazine by Gilad Padva, respondent in a PhD Workshop, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. 41. 2010 Madam Prime Minister: Creating different politics in Israel, The Annual Conference in Memory of Dr. Vicki Shiran, panel member: Different Politics: Women in War and Peace, Beit Berl Academic College, Israel. 42. 2010 Blessed art thou, who hast not made me a woman: Manifestations of feminist discourse in commercial women’s/family magazines in ultra-Orthodox society in Israel (with Orli Tsarfaty), 14th Israel Communication Association Annual Conference, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzlia, Israel. 43. 2010 Let us grow up in peace: Representations of children in commercials on Israel’s commercial TV channels (with Orli Tsarfaty), The Israel Anthropological Association Annual Conference, Open University, Ra’anana, Israel. 44. 2010 Preservation vs. change: Manifestations of feminist discourse in commercial family magazines in ultra-Orthodox society in Israel (with Orli Tsarfaty), Gender and Jewish Identity Conference, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. 45. 2010 A president in the headlines: President Dalia Itzik in the Israeli media-public discourse, Language and Society are Mutually Shaped, 9th Israeli Association for the Study of Language and Society Annual Conference, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel. 46. 2010 Blessed art thou, who hast not made me a woman? A nascent women’s-feminist discourse in commercial Haredi magazines (with Orli Tsarfaty) Paper presented at the IAMCR 2010 conference, Portugal. 47. 2010 Gender representations in the ultra-Orthodox children’s magazine “Yeladim” (with Orli Tsarfaty), 6th International Conference of the Israel Association for Research in Jewish Education, Challenges in Jewish Education: Cultural Vitality, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. 48. 2011 New Israelis: Between “Asfur” and “Haborer”, Fiktsia Conference: A Look at Israeli Television Drama, 1st Annual Television Conference, Department of Film and Television, Tel Aviv University, Israel. 49. 2011 Gender representations in the ultra-Orthodox children’s magazine “Yeladim” (with Orli Tsarfaty), The Israel Sociological Society Annual Conference, Tel Aviv-Yafo Academic College, Israel. 50. 2011 A president in the headlines: President Dalia Itzik as reflected in the Israeli media, paper presented at The International Conference on Identity and Intercultural Communication, Bucharest, Romania. 51. 2011 Preservation vs. change: Manifestations of feminist discourse in commercial family magazines in ultra-Orthodox society in Israel, paper presented at The International Conference on Identity and Intercultural Communication, Bucharest, Romania. 52. 2011 Manifestations of feminist discourse in commercial family magazines in ultra-Orthodox society in Israel, “Mishpacha” and “Mishpacha Tova”, “At”: Thirty Years of Feminist Research in Israel, Tel Aviv University, Israel. 53. 2012 Girl takes boy and boy takes girl: Gender representations in the ultra-Orthodox children’s magazine “Yeladim”, conference: Campfire: Children’s Magazines in Israel Past and Present, Child and Youth Culture Research Program and Department of Communication, Tel Aviv University, Israel. 54. 2012 Wearing the hat: The media framing of protest leader Daphni Leef in the online press (with Orli Tsarfaty), seminar: Social Protest and Feminine Leadership, The Israel Sociological Society, Kibbutzim College of Education. 8

55. 2012 The media representation of social protest leader Daphni Leef (with Orli Tsarfaty), seminar: Protest on the Web, the Joint Humanities Program, Tel Aviv University. 56. 2012 Session chair: Bad television? Fiktsia Conference: Television at its Best, 2nd Annual Television Conference, Department of Film and Television, Tel Aviv University, Israel. 57. 2012 Is this my family? Representation of the family in television commercials in Israel (with Orli Tsarfaty), The Israel Sociological Society Annual Conference, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. 58. 2012 The media representation of social protest leader Daphni Leef (with Orli Tsarfaty), Beit Sokolov, Tel Aviv University, Israel. 59. 2012 Will the next revolution be broadcast on TV? Participation in conference symposium: Protest, Television, and Internet, The College of Management, Israel. 60. 2012 Children are joy: Representations of childhood and children in television commercials in Israel (with Orli Tsarfaty), The Israel Communication Association Annual Conference, Tel Aviv University, Israel. 61. 2012 The people demand social justice: Media representation of the leader of the social protest in Israel 2011 (with Orli Tsarfaty), 2nd ISA Forum of Sociology: Social Justice and Democratization, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 62. 2012 The people demand social justice: Media representation of the leader of the social protest in Israel 2011 (with Orli Tsarfaty), International Society for Justice Research (ISJR), The College of Management-Academic Studies, Israel. 63. 2013 Family, education, and media in a diverse society (with Orli Tsarfaty), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. 64. 2013 Cooking and singing from the heart: Children on TV reality shows (with Shelly Geffen), Family, education, and media in a diverse society, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. 65. 2013 Cooking and singing from the heart: Children on TV reality shows (with Shelly Geffen), Fiktsia Conference: 3rd Annual Television Conference, Department of Film and Television, Tel Aviv University, Israel. 66. 2013 Session participant: The special child in the media, Beersheba Child Protection Conference, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel. 67. 2013 Preoccupied with everyday matters: The Broadcasting Authority prepares for an era of multiple channels in Israel (1992-1998), Passages in Communication: Tribute to Prof. Dan Caspi, Ben- Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel. 68. 2013 The three “vaybers”: Media representation of political leadership in the 2013 Israeli general elections (with Orli Tsarfaty), The Israel Political Science Association Annual Conference, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. 69. 2013 The Emmanuel Rosen Affair, special panel at The College of Management, Israel. 70. 2013 Cooking and singing from the heart: Children on TV reality shows (with Shelly Geffen), Project Day, The College of Management, Israel. 71. 2013 Online media representation of a woman protest leader in Israel, ICA – International Communication Association Conference, London, England. 72. 2014 Symposium: Marketing to children: Little consumers, big impact? Department of Communication, Tel Aviv University, Israel. 73. 2014 Children as players on an adult stage: Representation of children in reality shows on Israeli television, The Israel Communication Association Annual Conference, Netanya Academic College, Israel. 74. 2014 Seminar panel: The disengaged, The College of Management, Israel. 75. 2014 Seminar panel: Cyberbullying, The College of Management, Israel. 76. 2014 The three harpies: Media representation of political leadership in the 2013 Israeli general election, ICA – International Communication Association Conference, Seattle, U.S.A. 77. 2014 The three harpies: Media representation of political leadership in the 2013 Israeli general election, AIS Annual Conference, Sde Boker, Israel.

Grants: Year/s Name of institution Subject 1998-2004 University of Haifa, Israel Tuition grant for doctoral studies 2005-2006 The Second Authority for Television and Radio Research grant: Representations of the body in commercial television (with Dr. Amit Kama) 04/2007-10/2009 Chair of the “Israel’s Contribution” team in a joint Research fund project of the Samuel Neaman Institute at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Israel’s Information Policy 2012-2010 The College of Management Research Authority Two-year Research Encouragement Fund Prize

Scholarships, Prizes and Awards: Outstanding lecturer at the College of Management Academic Studies.