Professor Yehouda Shenhav

Yehouda Shenhav (Stanford University, 1985) is a Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University and Senior Editor for Organization Studies . At the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute he serves as the editor of Theory and Criticism in Context and as a member of the Institute's Publications Committee. In the past he also served as Academic Director of the Advanced Learning unit (2005-2009), Editor of Theory & Criticism (1999-2009), co-Director of the Forum on Israeli Culture and Society (1999-2002 and 2004-2006), and Head of the Department of Sociology at Tel Aviv University (1995-1998). Shenhav also taught at several universities in the United States, including Stanford University, Princeton University, Columbia University, University of Wisconsin–Madison, and the University of Iowa.

Shenhav has published numerous articles in the sociological literature on American management, American capitalism, social stratification, nationalism and ethnicity.

Selected Publications:

• The Arab Jews: A Postcolonial Reading of Nationalism, Religion and Ethnicity, Stanford University Press, 2006
• What is Multiculturalism: On the Politics of Identity in Israel (with Yossi Yonah), Bavel, 2005
• Manufacturing Rationality: The Engineering Foundations of the Managerial Revolution, Oxford University Press, 1999
• The Organization Machine, Schocken, 1995 (Hebrew)

Edited volumes include:

• The Politics of Exception and State of Emergency (with C. Schmidt and S. Zelniker), Jerusalem and Tel Aviv: The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, 2009 (Hebrew)
• Coloniality and the Postcolonial Condition, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv: The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, 2004 (Hebrew)
• Space, Land and Home, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv: The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, 2003 (Hebrew)
• Mizrahim in Israel, (with H. Hever and P. Mutzaphi–Haler), Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, 2002 (Hebrew)

Shenhav is one of the founders of Ha’Keshet Ha’Demokratit Ha’Mizrahit (Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow Coalition), a social and political movement founded by second generation Israeli Jews from Arab countries. The group leads social activism in the area of education, land redistribution, affordable housing and multiculturalism.