Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology

DANIEL MONTERESCU, Ph.D.

Personal Information

Position: Associate Professor E-mail: [email protected] Address: Central European University, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, Nador u. 9, Budapest 1051, Hungary Marital Status: Married +3 Nationality: Israel and France

Education

1998-2005 Ph.D., Department of Anthropology, the University of Chicago. Dissertation committee: John Comaroff [chair], Saskia Sassen, James Fernandez, Rashid Khalidi. Dissertation: “Spatial Relationality: Ethnic Relations, Urban Space and the State in Jewish-Arab Mixed Towns, 1948-2004.” 2000 Graduate workshop “Introduction to Spatial Pattern Analysis in a GIS Environment,” the Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science, University of California, Santa Barbara. 1996-1998 M.A. Summa Cum Laude, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel-Aviv University. Thesis: “The Socio-Cultural Construction of Arab Masculinity in Jaffa.” Supervisors: Haim Hazan and Dan Rabinowitz. 1993-1996 Student in the Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Program for Outstanding Students Tel-Aviv University (Main fields: Philosophy, Physics, Middle-Eastern studies, Anthropology). 1993-1994 Arabic translation course. 1989-1993 Open University (physics, philosophy, English). 1989-1990 One-year intensive course in (Arabic Language and Literature and History of the Middle-East), The Center for Arab Studies, Givat-Haviva. 1989 Graduation, The French school, Collège des Frères, Jaffa (French Baccalauréat).

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Academic Positions, Visiting Professorships and Teaching Experience

2016-2017 The Technion, Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Lady Davis Visiting Associate Professor. 2013 (Spring) L'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Visiting Professor, Paris. Lecture Series on Anthropology and Urbanism in the Middle East. 2010- present Central European University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Courses: “Jewish Revival Movements” (MA); “Food, Culture and Politics” (MA); “Ethnographic Methods” (MA); “Dissertation Write-up Seminar” (Ph.D.), “Advanced Research Methods” (Ph.D.), “Rethinking Ethnography” (Ph.D.), “Key Issues in Social and Cultural Anthropology” (M.A.), “Comparative Masculinities” (M.A.), “Cities in the Middle East and Southern Europe” (M.A.), “Theorizing the City” (MA), “Cityscapes” (M.A), “Thesis Write-Up Workshop” (MA), Ethnographic Methods (MA). 2009-2010 European University Institute, Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow. 2007-2008 European University Institute, Jean Monnet Postdoctoral Fellow, “The European Forum on Political Violence”. 2005- 2007 Central European University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology. 2005 University of Chicago, Starr Lecturer, Department of Anthropology. “Intensive Study of a Culture: Cities in the Middle East” (B.A.). 2004-2005 University of Chicago, Instructor, Center for Gender Studies. “Anthropology of Masculinity in the Middle East” (B.A.). 2003-2005 University of Chicago, Preceptor, BA Seminar, International Studies Interdisciplinary Program (B.A.). 1999-2000 University of Chicago, Teaching Assistant. “Myth and Ritual: Classical Readings in Anthropology” and “Theories of Sacrifice” (B.A.). 1999 Tel-Aviv University, Visiting Lecturer, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology. Course: “Anthropology of Masculinity in the Middle-East” (B.A.). 1996-1997 Tel-Aviv University, Teaching and Research Assistant, for Dr. Avi Cordova, Prof. Yehouda Shenhav, Prof. Shlomo Deshen, Prof. Haim Hazan, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology. Courses: “Qualitative Research Methods” and “Historical and Intellectual Sources in the Social Sciences” (B.A.). 1993-1997 The Open University of Israel, Spoken Arabic Instructor.

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Grants and Honors

2020-2023 Gerda Henkel Stiftung Lost Cities Programme, “Cities Lost and Found: The Social Life of Ruins in Israel/Palestine, 1882 to the Present” (€375,000). 2019-2020 “Intangible Heritage and Local Knowledge in Palestinian Jaffa” (€50,000). 2019 Institute for Advanced Studies, Faculty Fellow (CEU). 2019 Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts grant for Hebrew version of Jaffa Shared and Shattered (30,000 NIS). 2018-2019 Research Support Scheme, Faculty Grant, CEU, “The Social Life of Amba: Transnational Foodways from India and Iraq to Israel/Palestine, the UK and the US” (€5,000). 2017-2018 Research Support Scheme, Faculty Grant, CEU, “Europe’s Racialized Others: Jews, Roma, Muslims and the ‘Refugee Crisis’ in Hungary” (€5,000). 2016-2017 Research Support Scheme, Faculty Grant, CEU, “Criminal Networks Across Urban Borders in Israel” (€5,000). 2014-2015 Research Support Scheme, Faculty Grant, CEU, “Border Wines: Terroir Across Territory in Central Europe and Israel/Palestine” (€5,000). 2014 European Research Council (ERC), Finalist, “The Jewish Revival in Europe: Anti-Semitism, Diaspora and Communal Formations in Budapest, Berlin and Krakow.” 2011-2014 Marie Curie Career Integration Grant, FP7, European Commission, “Mediterranean Cities in Conflict: Urban Wars and Inter-Ethnic Coalitions in Lebanon and Israel/Palestine, 1918 to the present” (€75,000). 2011 Research Support Scheme, Faculty Grant, CEU, “Judapest: The Jewish Revival in Central Europe” (€2,500). 2010 Research Fellow, German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development, “From Property Reallocation to Symbolic Appropriation: Ownership, Ethnicity, and Memory in 20th Century Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Israel”. 2009-2010 Marie Curie Fellowship for Career Development, Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, EUI, Florence, “The Limits of Peaceful Coexistence: Jewish- Arab Relations and Urban Space in Ethnically Mixed Towns” (€150,000).

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2007-2008 Jean Monnet Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), European University Institute, Florence (€30,000). 2006 Faculty Research Grant, Central European University “Life Stories of Elderly Palestinians and Jews in Jaffa” (€10,000). 2005-2006 Morris Ginsberg Postdoctoral Fellowship, The Hebrew University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology (Declined, accepted tenure-track position at CEU). 2004-2005 Dan David Prize Doctoral Scholarship. Field: Cities – Historical Legacy (€10,000). 2003-2004 Harry Frank Guggenheim and the Josephine de Kármán. Dissertation Fellowships. (€30,000) 2002-2003 US Institute of Peace, Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowship, and Centre de Recherche Français de Jérusalem, CRFJ (€30,000). 2001-2002 NSF Dissertation Improvement Award (€10,000). 2000-2001 Lady Davis Trust, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Dissertation Fellowship (€10,000). 2000 CASPIC (Council for Advanced Studies on Peace and International Cooperation), MacArthur Foundation and the University of Chicago, Dissertation Award. 2000 PARC (The Palestinian-American Research Center), Doctoral Research Grant. 1999 CASPIC summer grant, The University of Chicago. 1999 Residential Fellowship, The Center for Gender Studies, University of Chicago. 1999-2003 Century Fellowship, The University of Chicago. 1997 Dean’s list, Tel-Aviv University. 1996-1997 Adi-Lautman Foundation, The Interdisciplinary Program for Outstanding Students, Tel-Aviv U. 1993-1996 Federman Foundation, The Interdisciplinary Program for Outstanding Students, Tel-Aviv University.

Professional Experience

2014- WSET (Wine & Spirit Education Trust) Diploma candidate, Level 4, Rust, Austria. 2010 Sommelier, 3° Livello, Florence, Italy. 2002 Social Planning Consultant. Tel-Aviv-Jaffa Strategic Plan. Tel-Aviv-Jaffa Municipality. 2001-2002 Co-Principal Investigator. “The Voice of Jaffa”: Life stories of Arab and Jewish Elderly in Jaffa. Herczeg Institute for the Study of Old-Age, Tel-Aviv University. 2002 Project Director. Series of Lectures “Jaffa the Bride of the Sea: Social, Cultural and Political Perspectives.” Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.

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1996-1997 Director of the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Camp (Jerusalem), Coordinator of Palestinian and Israeli youth meetings. 1993-1997 Participating in the development of computerized programs for the study of Arabic at “The Educational Technology Center” (Ramat-Aviv). 1993-1996 Arabic teacher at “Gimnasya-Hertzelya”, enrichment lectures in high-schools. Instructs further-study courses for teachers, Ministry of Education.

Languages French, English, Hebrew, Arabic (Reading, Writing and Conversation). Advanced Italian. Intermediate Hungarian.

Publications

Monographs in English

Monterescu, D. and Hazan, H. 2018. Twilight Nationalism: Politics of Existence at Life’s End. Stanford University Press. http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=27593

Monterescu, D. 2015. Jaffa Shared and Shattered: Contrived Coexistence in Israel/Palestine. Indiana University Press. Series: Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa. http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=807546

Reviewed in American Ethnologist, Middle Eastern Studies, Social Anthropology, and Perspectives on Politics among others. Jordan Schnitzer Book Award Finalist, Association for Jewish Studies (2016)

Monographs in Hebrew

Monterescu, D. Forthcoming. Jaffa Shared and Shattered. Tel-Aviv: Bavel Press. [`Ir Shesu`a la Yachdav].

Hazan, H. and Monterescu, D.

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2011. A Town at Sundown: Aging Nationalism in Jaffa. Jerusalem: Van Leer and Hakibbutz Hameuchad. [`Ir bein `Arbayim: Le’umiyut Mizdakenet be- Yafo].

Edited Volume

Monterescu, D. and Rabinowitz, D. (eds.) 2007. Mixed Towns, Trapped Communities: Historical Narratives, Spatial Dynamics, Gender Relations and Cultural Encounters in Jewish-Arab Mixed Towns in Israel/Palestine. Ashgate Publishing.

Scientific Editor

2018. Scientific Supervision of Edited Volume Arab-Palestinian Political Thought. Editor: Aziz Haidar. Van Leer Institute and Hakibbutz Hameuchad.

2010. Editing, Supervising and Introducing the Hebrew Translation of Rashid Khalidi (2006) The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood. Van Leer Institute and Hakibbutz Hameuchad.

Guest Editor

Castañeda, H., Holmes, S., Kallius, A., Monterescu, D. 2016. Virtual Issue: “Refugees” and Im/migrants in American Ethnologist, 1991–2016 https://goo.gl/Wwf2QM

Journal Articles (Published or Accepted)

23. Monterescu D. and Handel A. Forthcoming (2020). “Terroir and Territory on the Colonial Frontier: Making New- Old World Wine in the Holy Land” Comparative Studies in Society and History. 22. Handel A. and Monterescu D. 2019. “In Search of the Holy Grail: Indigenous Wines, Science and Local Identity” Israeli Sociology 20(2): 107-135 (Hebrew). 21. Monterescu D. and Handel A. 2019. “Liquid Indigeneity: Wine, Science and Colonial Politics in Israel/Palestine” American Ethnologist 46(3): 313-327.

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In Press (2019). “The University as Public Enemy: CEU, Institutional Precarity and Academic Solidary” Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale (Forum on Politics and Precarity). 19. Monterescu, D. and Levy, N. 2019. “Conservative Radicalism: Circumstantial Multiculturalism at the French School, Collège des Frères, Jaffa” Megamot 54(2) (Hebrew). English version under review at Ethnic and Racial Studies 18. Monterescu, D. 2017. “Border Wines: Terroir Across Territory in Central Europe and Israel/Palestine” Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies 17(4):127-140. 17. Castañeda, H., Holmes, S., Kallius, A., Monterescu, D. 2016. “Anthropology and Human Displacement: Mobilities, Ex/Inclusions and Activism” American Ethnologist (Introduction to Curated Virtual Issue). 16. Kallius, A, Monterescu, D. and Rajaram, P.K. 2016. “Immobilizing Mobility: Border Ethnography, Illiberal Democracy and the Politics of the ‘Refugee Crisis’ in Hungary” American Ethnologist 43(1):25-37. 15. Monterescu, D. and Schickler, M. 2015 “Creative Marginality: Jews, Palestinians and the Alternative Cultural Scene in Tel-Aviv-Jaffa”; “Marginalité Créative: La Scène Alternative Judéo-Arabe de Tel-Aviv-Jaffa” Ethnologie Française 45(2): 297-312 (French and English). Special issue on Israel (eds. Fran Markowitz and Nir Avieli). 14. Monterescu, D. and Shaindlinger, N. 2013. “Situational Radicalism: The Israeli ‘Arab Spring’ and the (Un)Making of the Rebel City” Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory 20(2): 40:65. Revised and republished as “La Primavera Araba di Tel Aviv” in Storia Urbana 139: 159-186 (Italian) 13. Monterescu, D. 2012. “Dead End Alleys: Orientalist Scholarship in Search of the Islamic City” Jama`a 11: 113-121 (Hebrew). 12. Monterescu, D. 2011. “Beyond the Sea of Formlessness: Jacqueline Kahanoff and the Levantine Generation” Journal of Levantine Studies (Summer) 1:23-40. 11. Monterescu, D. 2011. “Estranged Natives and Indigenized Immigrants: A Relational Anthropology of Ethnically Mixed Towns in Israel/Palestine” World Development 39(2):270- 281.

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2011. “Identity without Community, Community in Search of Identity: Spatial Politics in Jaffa” Megamot 37(3-4): 484-517 (Hebrew). 9. Monterescu, D. 2010. “Spheres of Transgression: The Israelization and Palestinization of Urban Space” Zmanim – History Quarterly 110:104-116 (Hebrew). 8. Monterescu, D. 2009. “The Bridled Bride of Palestine: Orientalism, Zionism and the Troubled Urban Imagination” Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 16(6):643- 677. 7. Monterescu, D. 2009. “The Symbolic History of the Hyphen: Urban Alterity Between Jaffa and Tel-Aviv” Zmanim – History Quarterly 106:76-90 (Hebrew). 6. Monterescu, D. 2009. “To Buy or Not to Be: Trespassing the Gated Community” Public Culture 21(2):403-430. 5. Rabinowitz, D. and Monterescu, D. 2008. “Reconfiguring the ‘Mixed Town’: Urban Transformations of Ethno- National Relations in Palestine and Israel” International Journal of Middle East Studies 40(2):195-226. 4. Abou-Ramdan, M. and Monterescu, D. 2008. “Managing Islamic Law in a Jewish State: Legal Hybridity, Islamization and Cooptation of the Shari’a Courts in Israel” Law and Government 1(2):435- 473 (Hebrew). 3. Monterescu, D. and Fabian, R. 2003. “The Golden Cage: On Gentrification and Globalization in the Luxurious Andromeda Gated Community in Jaffa” Theory and Criticism Vol. 23, Fall 2003: 141-178 (Hebrew) 2. Monterescu, D. 2003. “Masculinity and Strangeness: Constructions of Arab Maleness in Jaffa” Israeli Sociology Special Issue on Gender and Masculinity 5(1):121:161. (Hebrew) 1. Monterescu, D. 2001. “A City of 'Strangers': The Sociocultural Construction of Manhood in Jaffa” Journal of Mediterranean Studies 11(1):159-189.

Book Chapters

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14. Monterescu D. and Scheibelhofer, P. Forthcoming. “Gender Regimes and Hegemonic Masculinities” The Cambridge Handbook of the Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality 13. Monterescu, D. et al. Forthcoming. “The Occupation and the City” In Mark LeVine, (ed.) Year 51: The Past, Present and Future of the Israeli Occupation. University of California Press. (A collectively written book with a dozen leading Palestinian, Israeli and International Scholars). 12. Monterescu, D. and Zorandy S. Forthcoming. “Judapest and the Jewish Revival: Improvising Community in Central Europe” In Tartakowsky Ewa (ed.) Jewish Europe. Jagiellonian University Press. 11. Monterescu, D. and Yasmin, A. 2015. “The Impossible Revolution: Why Did the Arab Spring Fail to Materialize in Lebanon and Israel/Palestine?” In Akcali, Emel (ed.) The Aftermath of Revolution: Neoliberal Governmentality in the Middle East. Palgrave Macmillan. 10. Monterescu, D. 2013. “Spatial Relationality and The Fallacies of Methodological Nationalism” In Powell, Christopher and Francois Depelteau (eds.) Applying Relational Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan. 9. Monterescu, D. 2010. “The Blindness of Nationalism: Rashid Khalidi and Palestinian History” Preface to Khalidi, Rashid The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood. Van Leer Institute and Hakibbutz Hameuchad. (Hebrew). 8. Monterescu, D. 2007. “Identity Politics in Mixed Towns: The Case of Jaffa (1948-2004)” In Rekhess, Elie (ed.) Together But Apart: Mixed Cities in Israel. Tel Aviv: The Moshe Dayan Center for ME and African Studies and Konrad-Adenauer Program for Jewish-Arab Cooperation. (Hebrew). 7. Monterescu, D. 2007. “Masculinity as a Relational Mode: Palestinian Gender Ideologies and Working-Class Categorical Boundaries in an Ethnically Mixed Town” In Sufian, Sandy & LeVine, Mark (eds.) Reapproaching Borders: New Perspectives on the Study of Israel/Palestine. Rowman and Littlefield. 6. Monterescu, D. 2007. “Heteronomy: the Cultural Logic of Space in Jaffa”. In Monterescu, Daniel and Dan Rabinowitz, Mixed Towns, Trapped Communities: Historical Narratives, Spatial Dynamics Gender Relations and Cultural Encounters in Ethnically Mixed Towns in Israel/Palestine. Ashgate Publishing.

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4. Rabinowitz, D. and Monterescu, D. 2007. “Introduction: The Transformation of Urban Mix in Palestine/Israel in the Modern Era”. In Monterescu, Daniel and Dan Rabinowitz, Mixed Towns, Trapped Communities: Historical Narratives, Spatial Dynamics Gender Relations and Cultural Encounters in Ethnically Mixed Towns in Israel/Palestine. Ashgate Publishing. 3. Monterescu, D. 2006. “Stranger Masculinities: Gender and Politics in a Palestinian-Israeli Third Space” In Ouzgane, L. (ed.) Islamic Masculinities Zed Press: London. 2. Monterescu, D. 2005. “Facing South?: The Paradoxes of Spatial Governmentality in Jaffa, 1985- 2004” in Tel-Aviv-Jaffa Studies (eds.) Gila Menahem and David Nachmias. Tel-Aviv: Diyonon Press. (Hebrew). 1. Hazan, H. and Monterescu, D. 2005. “The City of the Forking Paths: The Personal, the Urban and the National in Life Stories of Arab and Jewish Elderly in Jaffa” In Tel-Aviv-Jaffa Studies (eds.) Gila Menahem and David Nachmias. Tel-Aviv: Diyonon Press. (Hebrew).

Work in Progress

Special Issue (Under Review)

Lammer, C., Thiemann, A. and Monterescu, D. (eds.) Infrastructures of Value: (Im)mobilising the Unique in Agri-food Chains (submitted to Critique of Anthropology; proceedings of Consuming the Unique conference at CEU).

Books (Submitted)

Monterescu, D. and Werczberger, R. (eds.) Jewish Revival(s): Remaking Jewishness in a Post-Secular Age (submitted to Wayne UP).

Books (Under Preparation)

1. Monterescu, D. Food and Borders: Terroir and Territory in Europe and the Middle East (to be submitted in 2020 to U. of California Press Food Studies Series)

2. Monterescu, D. The Violence of Pluralism in Mediterranean Cities (under preparation).

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Articles (Submitted)

1. Monterescu, D. “Defining the Urban Indeterminate Situation: Jews and Arabs Contest the Mixed Town” Studies in Symbolic Interaction (accepted pending revision). 2. Monterescu, D. “Terroir, Territory and the Border: Making New World Wine in the Holy Land” Comparative Studies in Society and History (under second review). 2. Monterescu, D. and Levy, N. “Conservative Radicalism: Circumstantial Multiculturalism at the French School, Collège des Frères, Jaffa” Ethnic and Racial Studies (Hebrew version accepted by leading Israeli journal Megamot)

Articles (Under Preparation)

1. Monterescu D. and Kadar. M. “Political Hipsters: Performative Radicalism in Ana Loulou Bar” Ethnic and Racial Studies 2. Monterescu D. and Kallius A. “Spectral Refugees: Anti-Semitism and the Migration Industry” Urban Studies 3. Monterescu D. and Werczberger, R. “Riding the Jewish Renaissance: Survival, Revival and Renewal” Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 4. Monterescu, D. and Cook I. “Rhythmic Calibrations: Spatio-Temporal Configurations in Multi-Ethnic Cities” Time and Society

5. Monterescu, D. “Trans-border Terroir in the Middle East and Central Europe” Ethnologie Française

Non-Refereed Articles

2019 (Forthcoming). « Villes “mixtes” en Israël : entre désenchantements et concurrences » Revue Urbanisme (with Yoann Morvan). 2018. “From an Iraqi Sauce to the Umami of the Middle East: A History of Amba” Haaretz, 19/5/2018. 2013. Radical Gentrifiers: Social Action in Jaffa Jadal Mada al-Carmel Issue 18 (Arabic and English).

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2009. Betwixt and Between: Urban Liminality and the Future of Binationalism in Jewish-Arab 'Mixed Towns' In Liminal Spaces Holon: The Centre for Digital Art. 2008. The “Housing Intifada” and Its Aftermath: Ethno-Gentrification and the Politics of Communal Existence in Jaffa Anthropology News, December, 2008: 21. 2007. Spatial Policy in Jaffa. In Remembering Jaffa’s al-Ajami Neighborhood, Zochrot/Remembering.

Op-eds, TV Appearances and Interviews

Haaretz Op-eds and Blog (Cities Shared and Shattered; Hebrew and English): https://www.haaretz.com/misc/writers/WRITER-1.4969744; TheMarker; Haokets; +972 Magazine; Fathom Journal; Ossim Seder with Gal Gabay; London & Kirschenbaum, 168Ora.

Ongoing Research Projects

• The Jewish Revival in Central Europe: Anti-Semitism and Community Formations in Budapest, Berlin and Krakow, 1989 to the Present. • Border Wines: Regionalism, Territoriality and Terroir in Europe and the Mediterranean • Border Ethnography: The ‘Refugee Crisis’ in Hungary and ‘the Balkan Route’. • Educational Multiculturalism in French Schools in Israel. • Security in Jewish Schools in Warsaw and Berlin

Review Essays

• Baron, Ilan Zvi (2015). Obligation in Exile: The Jewish Diaspora, Israel and Critique Edinburgh UP. Perspectives on Politics 2017, 15(3): 793-795. • Wilson, Chacko Jacob (2011). Working out Egypt: Effendi Masculinity and Subject Formation in Colonial Modernity, 1870-1940 Duke UP. Comparative Studies in Society and History 2013, 55(1):233-235. • Kaplan, Danny (2007). The Men We Loved: Male Friendship and Nationalism in Israeli Culture New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books. Focaal – European Journal of Anthropology 2008, 51: 169-172 (English) and Israeli Sociology 2008, 10(1): 199-202 (Hebrew). • Ochs, Juliana (2011). Security and Suspicion: An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Israel U of Pennsylvania Press. Israeli Sociology 2013, 14(2): 46-48. (Hebrew).

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Special Projects and Encyclopedia Entries

2007. The Palestinian Community in Jaffa: Social Planning Report. Shatil’s Project on Mixed Cities and the New Israel Fund. (Arabic and Hebrew). 2007. “Rites of Passage” In International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities, 1 vol., eds. M. Flood, J.K. Gardiner, B. Pease, and K. Pringle. London: Routledge. 2003. “The Voice of Jaffa”: Life stories of Arab and Jewish Elderly in Jaffa. Herczeg Institute for the Study of Old-Age: Tel-Aviv University. (Collection of life stories in Arabic and Hebrew).

Presentations and Conferences

2019. “Political Food: How to Make a National Food Icon?” The British Institute for the Study of Iraq at The British Academy, Jews of Iraq – Engagement with Modernities, September 16-18. [Invited] 2019. “Food, Indigeneity and Colonial Politics,” Israeli Anthropological Association, Be’er Sheva, May 26-27, 2019. [Invited] 2018. “The Pragmatics of Inclusion,” American Anthropological Association, San Jose, November 14-18, 2018. 2018. “Urban Jewish Memory Between Revival and Repression: Dialectics of Lieux and Non-Lieux de Mémoire in Budapest” Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage, Urban Jewish Heritage: Presence and Absence, Krakow, Poland, September 3-7, 2018. 2018. “The Banality of the Ghetto: Urban Enclaves and Ethnic Mix in Palestine and Israel in the 20th Century” (Panel: Contested Cities and Regions 1919-1954) The European Social Science History Conference, Belfast, April 4-7, 2018. 2017. “The Jewish Triangle: Improvising Jewish Revival in Budapest, Krakow and Berlin” Analysing Jewish Europe Today, Warsaw, October 23-25, 2017. 2017. “Urbanism Without a City: Conversation between Daniel Monterescu and Senan Abdelqader,” Urban Design Bezalel Colloquium, March 28, 2017. [Invited] 2016. “Immobilizing Mobility: Refugees, Roma and Jews in an Illiberal Democracy,” Colloquium, Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, The Technion, November 28, 2016. [Invited] 2016. “The Perils of Urban Classification: City Forms in Israel and the Persistence of Binational Mixité” The Classification of Humanity: Defining and Dividing Societies in the Modern Era, Haifa University, November 27-28, 2016. [Invited] 2016. “Eros and the City: Anna Loulou and the Alternative Scene in Jaffa,” Research Group Art and the City, The Technion, October 31, 2016. [Invited] 2016. “Judapest Strikes Back: The Jewish Revival in Central Europe” Departmental Seminar, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben-Gurion University, November 9, 2016. [Invited] 2016. “Recycling Ruins: Material Traces and Urban Memory in Jaffa and Budapest,” Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (WIKO), The Social Life of Ruins, Conference Co-Organizer, Berlin, June 9-10, 2016. 2016. “Space and the Other: Theorizing Unruly Urbanism” Keynote Speaker, Bezalel Academy, Other Urbanism(s), June 1-2, 2016. [Invited]

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2016. “Centering the Periphery: Creative Marginality and Radical Activism in Neoliberal Cities in Europe and the Middle East,” Conference Organizer, CEU, May 2-3, 2016. 2016. “Jaffa Shared and Shattered: Contrived Coexistence and Binational Urbanism” Keynote Speaker, Inter-Group Relations in Urban Settings, Roth Institute for the Study of Antisemitism and Racism, Tel-Aviv University, January 13-14, 2016. [Invited] 2015. “The Anthropology of Hope and the Future of the Middle East” American Anthropological Association and Middle East Studies Association, Denver, November 19-23, 2015. 2015. “Cities Shared and Shattered: Urban Mix and Ethnic Coexistence from a Global Perspective,” Keynote speaker, Shared Living in a Mixed City, Jerusalem, October 19-23, 2015. [Invited] 2015. “The Palestinian Minority in Israel in a Changing Middle East: Challenges and Transformations” Round Table at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, May 20-21 (French). [Invited] 2014. “Theorizing Binationalism and Urban Pluralism in the Middle East,” The University of Heidelberg and the Hochschule für Jüdische Studien, Heidelberg, Germany, October 15, 2014. [Invited] 2014. “The Territorial Politics of Terroir,” Keynote Speaker, The Food Studies Association, Budapest, May 31, 2014. [Invited] 2014. “Jaffa as an Urban Laboratory.” Double Panel Organizer. Israeli Anthropological Association, Tel-Aviv-Jaffa College, May 14-15, 2014. 2013. “Creative Marginality: The Limits of Radicalism in Jaffa” American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November 19-24, 2013. 2013. The Jewish Revival in Europe and North America: Between Lifestyle Judaism and Institutional Renaissance. Conference Organizer. Funded by RELIGIOWEST (ERC Project led by Olivier Roy), European University Institute, Florence, June 5-6, 2013. 2013. “The Violence of Pluralism: Urban Transformations and New Political Subjectivities in the Mediterranean,” Workshop Co-director, Mediterranean Research Meeting (MRM) organized by EUI, Mersin, Turkey, March 20-23, 2013. 2012. “Reclaiming the Ghetto? Collective Mobilization and Urban Fragmentation in Jaffa and Budapest” Jewish and Non-Jewish Spaces in the Urban Context, the Humboldt University of Berlin, Institute of European Ethnology, November 5- 6, 2012. 2012. “Radical Gentrifiers: Reconfiguring Class and Political Action in Jaffa” Conference: Competing Histories and Conflicted Spaces: Property, Ethnicity and Contested Memory in Post-War Societies, Hebrew and Haifa Universities, October 29-31, 2012. [Invited] 2011. “Gender, Power and the City: Masculinity Studies in Conflict Zones” Institute of Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Hamburg, November 22, 2011. [Invited] 2011. “Liquid Mediterraneanism: Terroir and Territory on South Mount Hebron” The Mediterranean, Criss-crossed and Constructed, Harvard University, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Organizers: William Granara, Michael Herzfeld, Cemal Kafadar, Cambridge, Mass., April 28-30, 2011. [Invited]

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2011. “Judapest: Improvising Community in Budapest and Berlin” British Association for Jewish Studies. Jewish Identities in Contemporary Europe, International Conference, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, London April 11-13, 2011. 2011. “Urban Revolt and the Future of Democracy in the Middle East” IRES Current Affairs Roundtable - Uprisings in the Middle East: Egypt and beyond, CEU, February 8, 2011 and The College for Advanced Studies in Social Theory, Corvinus University, February 22, 2011. [Invited] 2010. “Rescaling Urban Violence” Roundtable with Gerhard Haupt and Friedrich Lenger: Urban Violence, Casual and Extraordinary, 21st International Congress of Historical Sciences, Amsterdam, August 22-28, 2010. 2010. “Nationalism Studies and Symbolic Interaction” The Present and Future of Symbolic Interactionism, Pisa, June 3-5, 2010. 2009. “The Arab Citizens of Israel Beyond the Ethnic Lens” Centre d'étude de la vie politique, Université libre de Bruxelles, November 10, 2009. [Invited] 2009. “New Jews, Old Jews: Gentrification and the Romantic Imagination” International Conference, Romanticism and the City. CUNY, November 5-8, 2009. 2009. “Border Street: A Sociological Journey into the Urban Contact Zone” Keynote Speech, Daily Life on the Border between Bat-Yam and Jaffa. Organized by Van Leer Institute and Anna Lindh Foundation, September 23, 2009. [Invited] 2009. “Creative Destruction, Destructive Creation: Ethnically Mixed Towns as Emerging Spatial Configurations, 1517-2009” International Conference, Cities In Change – Decay, Destruction And Rebirth, The Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University, June 2-3, 2009. [Invited] 2009. “Beyond Segregation: Socio-Spatial Relations and the Failure of Mediation in Ethnically Mixed Towns” Enclaving Identity, Remaking Borders: The Politics of Symbolic Differentiation in The Circum Mediterranean Interdisciplinary Workshop at RSCAS, EUI, May 29-30, 2009. Co-organizer with Benoit Challand and Daniella Vicherat. 2008. “The Banality of Neoliberal Planning: Gated Communities and Palestinian Dispossession in Jaffa” State of Exception: Surveillance and Population Control in Israel/Palestine. Larnaca, Cyprus, December 6-8, 2008. [Invited] 2008. “The Bridled ‘Bride of Palestine’: The Paradoxes of Zionist Imaginings of Jaffa” Rethinking Ethnicity and Ethnic Strife: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, CEU, Budapest, September 25-27, 2008. 2008. “The Unintended Consequences of Urban Planning” The Israel Historical Association Annual Meeting. Jerusalem, August, 2008. 2008. “Globalization and the Regulation of the Social,” Panel Chair, International Institute of Sociology World Congress, Budapest, June 27, 2008. 2008. “Islam and Nationalism” Presentation at the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies Seminar Series. June 25, 2008, EUI. 2008. “Rescaling Urban Violence: State, Nation, Community and Masculinity in Ethnically Mixed Towns in Israel/Palestine” Presentation at the annual conference of the European Forum on Political Violence, EUI, June 6, 2008. 2008. “National Space and Multilevel Mediations between State, Religion, and City in Israel/Palestine” Workshop on Nationalism and Multi-Level Governance, EUI, May 30-31, 2008.

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2008. “The Failure of Ethnic Cleansing: Jewish-Arab Encounters in Palestinian- Israeli Mixed Towns” Mediterranean Seminar and the Working Group on Urban and Regional Studies, EUI, March 13, 2008. 2007. “Liminality and Meta-Nationalism: Space, Gender and the Untold Story of Jewish-Arab Mixed Towns” Conference Organized by The Israeli Center for Digital Art Liminal Spaces Project, Israel, October 2007. [Invited] 2007. Discussant at the workshop “The Nationalization of Cities in the 20th Century. East Central Europe and Palestine/Israel Compared.” Berlin, September, 2007. [Invited] 2007. “Palestinian-Israeli Mixed Towns as Mediterranean Cities and as Binational Corridors of Power.” Urban Identity, Power and Space: The Case of Trans- European Corridors. Silver Jubilee Conference of the Commission on Urban Anthropology; International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Science. Tirana, August, 2007. 2006. Participation at the Master’s Seminar: "The Islamic Paradigm – On the Relationship between the Social Sciences and Islamic Studies" at the Orient- Occident Research Centre Mainz, Germany. September, 2006. [Invited] 2006. “Whose City Is It?: Palestinian-Israeli Mixed Towns as Lieux de Mémoire – Remembrance, Restoration and Return.” The 7th Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting at the European University Institute in Florence. Workshop no. 11 entitled “Spaces of Memory and Practices of Restoration.” March, 2006. 2005. “Mediterranean Cities: Space, Sociality, Nationalism and Cultural Encounters” Panel Organizer for the American Anthropological Association. Nov. 2005. Washington, DC. Paper: “Remembrance of Cosmopolitanism Lost: Jews and Arabs in Jaffa and Alexandria.” 2005. “Urban Space and Sociality in Ethnically Mixed Towns” RC 21 (Research Committee on Urban and Regional Development. International Sociological Association). Paris, June, 2005. 2005. “’Methodological Nationalism’ in Arab-Jewish Mixed Towns: An Anthropological Critique” Association of Israeli Studies. Tucson, USA. May, 2005. 2004. “Spatial Heteronomy and Identity Politics in Mixed Towns: Jaffa, 1948-2004” Together But Apart: Ethnically Mixed Cities from a Comparative Perspective. Tel-Aviv University. Konrad Adenauer Foundation for Jewish- Arab Cooperation. November, 2004. [Invited] 2003. “The Golden Cage: Gentrification and Globalization in the Andromeda Hill Gated Community, Jaffa, Israel”. Globalization Workshop. The University of Chicago. December, 2003. 2003. “Heteronomy: The Cultural Logic of Space in Jaffa: 1948-2003”. International Workshop on Palestinian-Israeli Mixed Towns. Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. 13-15, June, 2003. Conference Organizers: Daniel Monterescu and Dan Rabinowitz. 2002. “Spatial Dialectics in Mixed Towns: Urban Space and Jewish-Arab Relations in Jaffa, 1948-2002. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. New-Orleans. Nov. 2002. Panel Organizers: Daniel Monterescu and Dan Rabinowitz. 2002. “Ethno-Gentrification? Space, Ethnicity and Capital in the Luxurious Andromeda Housing Project in Jaffa”. International Conference: “Upward

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Mobility: Gentrification in the 21st Century”. The Department of Urban Studies. The University of Glasgow (26-27/9/2002). 2002. “Urban Space and Jewish-Arab Relations in Mixed Towns: The Case of Jaffa, 1948-2002.” Departmental Seminar. Department of Sociology and Anthropology. The Hebrew University. [Invited] 2002. “Paradoxical Space: Contradictory Discourses of Planning, Gentrification and Coexistence.” Everyday Life in the Middle East. Ben-Gurion University. [Invited] 1999. “To Modernity and Back: Cultural Dilemmas of Palestinian Men in Jaffa” International Conference.: “The Uncertain State of Palestine” (17- 18/2/1999, U. of Chicago). [Invited] 1999. “On Identity and ‘Strangeness’: The Cultural Construction of Masculinity in Jaffa”. The Israeli Anthropological Association - “Borders and Beyond” (Annual Meeting, March 1999, Israel). 1999. “Masculinities in Israeli and Palestinian Societies” The ‘Gender and Society’ Workshop (16/2/1999, U. of .Chicago). 1999. “The Historical Construction of ‘Strangeness’: The Case of the Palestinian Citizens of Israel”. The 14th Middle Eastern History and Theory Meeting (10/4/1999, U. of C.) 1999. “Masculinity as a Relational Mode: The Case of Palestinian Men in Jaffa”. IIS99 - The International Institute of Sociology. 34th World Congress (July 1999, Israel). 1999. “Models of Arab Manhood in Jaffa”. The annual conference of the Historical Society of Israel - “The East-West Interface: Encounters Between Cultures”, May 1998, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem. 1997. “A City of 'Strangers': The Sociocultural Construction of Manhood in Jaffa” International Conference - “Alterity and Stereotypes: Conceptions of Otherness in the Mediterranean”, Malta, Nov. 1997, Foundation for International Studies at the University of Malta (published JMS).

Reviewer for

American Anthropologist; American Ethnologist; Comparative Studies in Society and History; Urban Studies; The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute; International Migration; Social Forces; Ethnography; Cultural Anthropology; Anthropological Theory; Anthropological Quarterly; British Journal of Sociology; Sociological Perspectives; International Journal of Urban and Regional Research; Journal of Historical Geography; Environment and Planning D: Society and Space; Planning Theory; Environmental History; Journeys; Focaal; Hagar; Journal of Palestine Studies; Journal of Modern Jewish Studies; International Journal of Middle East Studies; Identities; History and Memory; Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie; Rivista Anuac; Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East; Israeli Sociology [Heb.]; Theory and Criticism [Heb.]; Book reviewer for Ashgate Publishing, Routledge; Grant reviewer for ESRC (UK), FWO (Belgium), ISF (IL), Ostersjo Stiftelsen (Sweden); European Commission Marie Skłodowska- Curie Individual Fellowships; Review of Urban Agenda Projects, the Habitat III New Urban Agenda, EU Circular Economy Package and the EU 2030 Energy and Climate Package (European Commission towards FP9).

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Member of Editorial Board

Journal of Levantine Studies; Rivista dell'Associazione Nazionale Universitaria Antropologi Culturali (Journal of the Italian Anthropological Association)

Supervision (2005-2018)

55 MA Students (not listed) and 14 PhD (below):

• Alexandra Oanca (CEU, Soc.) Expert Knowledge and the European Capital of Culture. (Graduated, 2017, summa cum laude, Postdoc at U. of Amsterdam). [Second Supervisor] • Levente Polyak (CEU, Soc.) Civic Space: Cooperation and Conflict around Reappropriated Buildings in Four European Cities. (Graduated 2017, cum laude). [Primary Supervisor] • Ian Cook (CEU, Soc.) Expectant Urbanism: Time, Space and Rhythm in a Smaller South Indian City. (Graduated 2016, summa cum laude, CEU Media Lab). [Primary Supervisor] • Frank Karioris (CEU, Gender) The Construction of Male Homosociality in US Colleges. (Graduated 2016, Visiting Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Pittsburgh). [Primary Supervisor] • Johannes Muller (CEU, IRES) Non-State Actors in Euro-Mediterranean Politics: Regional Convergence and Pro-Integration Advocacy. (Graduated 2014, summa cum laude). [Internal Member] • Paul Scheibelhofer (CEU, Gender) Integrating the Patriarch? Negotiating Migrant Masculinity in Times of Crisis of Multiculturalism. (Graduated summa cum laude, 2014, Lecturer at Universität Innsbruck, Austria). [Internal Member] • Aniko Horvath (CEU, Soc.) The Reproduction of Marginality in Post- Socialist Property Regimes: Home Ownership in Urban Romania. (Graduated summa cum laude, 2013, Lecturer at King’s College, UK). [Primary Supervisor] • Neda Deneva (CEU, Soc.) Assembling Citizenship: Bulgarian Muslims and the State between Bulgaria and Spain. (Graduated magna cum laude, 2013, Postdoc at New Europe Institute). [Second Supervisor] • Nil Mutluer (CEU, Gender Studies) Gendered Citizenship and Everyday Life of Internally Displaced Kurdish Men in Istanbul. (Graduated, 2012, Lecturer at Fatih U., Turkey). [Internal Member] • Elisabeth Schober (CEU, Soc.) Violent Imaginations: Liminal Encounters from Camp Town to the Inner City – Seoul and the United States Armed Forces in South Korea. (Graduated cum laude, 2011, Faculty at Oslo U.). [Second Supervisor] • Simion Pop (CEU, Soc.) Modalities of Religious Transmission in Contemporary Eastern Orthodox Christianity in Transylvania. [Primary Supervisor] • Anamaria Berbec-Chiritoiou (CEU, SOC) Kinship, Personhood and Roma Human Trafficking. [Primary Supervisor]

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• Jana Hrckova (CEU, SOC) Gaps of Warsaw: Sensing Urban Emptiness in a Post-Socialist City. [Primary Supervisor] • Brian Dougherty (CEU, SOC) Imagining the Futures of Cairo’s Coptic Community. [Second Supervisor]

External Reader (MA and PhD Dissertations)

• Neighborhoods, Neighbors, Neighborliness: Urban Life in the Yishuv in British Mandate Palestine (Elia Etkin, Tel Aviv U., 2019). • The Right to Remain: Articulating Urban Indigeneity in Israel and Australia (Naama Blatman-Thomas, Ben Gurion U., 2018) • The “Crisis” of Patriarchal Masculinity among Palestinian Citizens of Israel (Samia Jubran, Proposal, Bar Ilan U. 2017) • Masculinities and Family Life Among Urban Members of the Zionist Labor Movement in Mandate Palestine (Matan Boord, Tel Aviv U., 2017) • The Relations between States and Minorites in Planning Context (’Urwa Sweitat, MA Thesis,Technion, 2017)

CEU Collective Projects

2019 “Consuming the Unique: Art, Food and the Global Infrastructures of Value.” Conference Co-organizer (with Andre Thiemann), CEU May 8-9, 2019. (Supported by CEU Academic Events Fund). Special Issue under review with Critique of Anthropology.

2018 Summer School, “The National and the Transnational: States, Institutions, and Mobility at a Critical Time.” Course directors: Maurice Crul (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam), Peggy Levitt (Wellesley College), Nyiri Pál (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam).

2016-2017 CEU ITI - Inequalities and Social Justice. “Gendered Creative Teams and Unequal Recognition.” Faculty Coordinator/PI: Balazs Vedres

2016 “Centering the Periphery: Creative Marginality and Radical Activism in Neoliberal Cities in Europe and the Middle East.” Conference Organizer, CEU, May 2-3, 2016. (Funded by CEU Academic Events Fund).

Service

2017-2019 Seminar Series Coordinator 2013-2016 PhD Program Director 2012-2014 University Scholarship Advisory Committee, Member 2012- The Comparative Masculinities Workshop and Urban Studies Workshop, Faculty Sponsor 2010-2012 Two-Year MA in Global and Urban Studies, Program Director 2006-2008 Departmental Seminar Coordinator

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