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Background

Talia Katz is an assistant professor of Israel Studies. Trained as a cultural anthropologist, her scholarship intersects the medical humanities, childhood studies, performance studies, and gender and sexuality studies. Her current research focuses on practices of healing and repair in Israel/Palestine.

Her book manuscript in progress A Healing Stage: Violence, Self-Knowledge, and Therapeutic Theater in Israel is a historical and ethnographic study of psychodrama in Israel, focusing on the mixed Jewish-Palestinian city of Lod. The project emerges from five years of ethnographic and archival research. Katz’s research has been funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Society for Psychological Anthropology, the American Ethnological Society and the U.S. Department of Education, among others.

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Education

• PhD, Johns Hopkins University, Anthropology
• MA, Johns Hopkins University, Anthropology
• BA, Yale University, Anthropology

Research Interests

• Everyday Life in Israel/Palestine
• Holocaust Studies
• Psychological and Medical Anthropology
• Ethnographic Methods

Teaching Interests

• Cultures and Society in Israel
• Living with Difference
• Trauma Theory
• Remembering Catastrophe: Law, Ethics, and Politics
• Sexuality and Nationalism in Israel