Dr. Nissim Mizrachi
Dr. Nissim Mizrachi is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University. He received his MA, summa cum laude, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He obtained his PhD in sociology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and was a Research Fellow at Harvard University. He has been the recipient of many prizes including Fulbright, Rockefeller and Lady Davis awards. He is the 2008 recipient of the Geertz Prize for that year's best article in the sociology of culture, awarded by the American Sociological Association. Dr. Mizrachi's main areas of interest are the sociology of knowledge and culture, science and medicine, practice theory and social inequality. His publications have appeared in various international journals, including The American Sociological Review, American Ethnologists, Social Science and Medicine, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Sociology of Health and Illness. He heads three research groups at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute: Disability Studies (with Dr. Neta Ziv), Crossing Boundaries (with Prof. Hanna Herzog) and The Concept of Justice in Political Philosophy and Contemporary Sociology (with Dr. Yossi Dahan).
Mizrachi is currently editing two volumes based on previous research groups he headed at the Institute: The Politics of Difference in Israeli Education: A View from Below (with Prof. Yossi Yonah and Dr. Yariv Feniger), and Psychology on the Couch: The Therapeutic Discourse in Contemporary Israel. He is also currently directing a major research project funded by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. The subjects investigated are: 1. the social boundaries of identity politics, their cultural roots and historical contexts; and 2. a bottom-up analysis of the perception of social structure among different social groups in Israel, along with the association between those perceptions and participation in peace movements.
In 2010 he will co-edit, together with Prof. Michele Lamont of Harvard University, a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Selected publications
N. Mizrachi, Y. Goodman and Y. Feniger, "'I Don’t Want to See It': Decoupling Ethnicity from Social Structure in Jewish Israeli High Schools,"
Ethnic and Racial Studies 32 (2009): 1203-1225
Y. Goodman and N. Mizrachi, "'The Holocaust Does Not Belong to European Jews Alone': The Differential Use of Memory Technologies in Israeli High Schools," American Ethnologist 35 (2008): 95-114
N. Mizrachi, I. Drori and R. Anspach, "Repertoires of Trust: The Practice of Trust in a Multinational Organization amid Political Conflict," American Sociological Review 72 (2007): 143-165
N. Mizrachi, J. Shuval and S. Gross, "Boundary at Work: Alternative Medicine in Biomedical Settings," Sociology of Health and Illness 27(1) (2005): 20-43
N. Mizrachi, "'From Badness to Sickness': The Role of Ethnopsychology in Shaping Ethnic Hierarchies in Israel," Social Identities 10(2) (2004): 219-243
N. Mizrachi, "Epistemology and Legitimacy in the Production of Anorexia Nervosa in Psychosomatic Medicine, 1939-1979," Sociology of Health and Illness 24(4) (2002): 462-490
N. Mizrachi, "From Causation to Correlation: The Story of Psychosomatic Medicine, 1939-1979," Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 25(3) (2001): 317-343
