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