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Talia Katz

Assistant Professor of Israel Studies

Judaic Studies
LT 1306

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鈥檚 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