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Curriculum Vitae – Ori Katz

+972-54-4416520; [email protected]

School of Behavioral Sciences and the M.A. program on Management in Gerontology, Netanya Academic College

Education

2020                PhD. The Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Dissertation Title: Anyone Having Information: Constructing Narratives of Missingness in Israel. Name of supervisor: Prof. Sara Helman.

2012                M.A. magna cum laude. The Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Title of thesis: Postmortem Fertilization Using Frozen Sperm: The Israeli Case. Name of supervisors: Prof. Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi and Dr. Sigal Gooldin.

2009                B.A. summa cum laude. The Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Department of Political Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Academic Appointments

2023-               Lecturer, School of Behavioral Sciences and the M.A. program on Management in Gerontology, Netanya Academic College.

2022-2023       Postdoctoral fellow, The Jerusalem School of Business Administration, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (supervisor: Prof. Tammar B. Zilber)

2020-2023       Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Death & Society, Department of Social & Policy Sciences, University of Bath, UK

Publications

Refereed Articles in Scientific Journals

Katz, O. (2025). "And what if Everyone is Wrong": Necropolitics of the Construction of Death and Non-death in Cases of Dead Hostages. Theory and Criticism 61, 73-101. [Hebrew]

Gilbar, R., Katz, O., & Kaplan, A. (2024). Autonomy, Paternalism and Solidarity at the End-of-life Stage in Assisted-living Homes in Israel: Legal, Bioethical and Sociological Aspects. TAU Law Review 47(2), 703-760. [Hebrew]

Katz, O. (2024). Everything Seems so Illogical: Constructing Missingness Between Life and Death in Israel. OMEGA – Journal of Death and Dying 88(3), 1068-1084.

Katz, O. (2023). "My Mother Is Not Newsworthy": Framing Missingness in Israel. Journalism 24(7), 1554-1571.

Katz, O., & Shalev Greene, K. (2021). Constructing Time in Uncertainty: Temporal Regimes among Missing Persons' families. Current Sociology 69(1), 59-76.

Katz, O., & Hashiloni-Dolev, Y. (2019). (Un)Natural Grief: Novelty, Tradition and Naturalization in Israeli Discourse on Posthumous Reproduction. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 33(3), 345-363.

Editorship of collective volumes

Katz, O., Kroløkke, C., Raz, A., & Hashiloni-Dolev, Y. (Eds.). (2020). Special Issue: Frozen: Social and Bioethical Aspects of Cryo-Fertility. New Genetics & Society 39(3).

Chapters in Collective Volumes

Katz, O. (2023). ‘What to do?’: Meaning-making of Searching for Missing Persons in Israel, in: Hauttunen, L., & Perl, G. (Eds.), An Anthropology of Disappearance: Politics, Intimacies and the Troubling Question of Knowing, Berghahn Books, pp. 73-93.

Katz, O. (2016). Nostalgic Revolution: Negotiating Symbolic Boundaries of Hapoel Katamon, in: Rapoport, T. (Ed.), Football Belongs to the Fans! An Investigation Journey Following Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem, Tel Aviv: Resling, pp. 69-90. [Hebrew]

Katz, O. (2015). Creating a Nostalgic Revolution: The Double Narrative of the First Fan-Owned Football Club in Israel and its Symbolic Boundaries, in: Chatziefstathiou, D., & Talentino, A. (Eds.), Sporting Boundaries, Sporting Events and Commodification, Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, pp. 35-56.

Book Review

Katz, O. (2020). Book Review of Life is Literally Here: Literature Courting Football. Amir Ben Porat. Tel Aviv: Resling. In: Israeli Sociology 21(1), 194-196. [Hebrew]

Occasional Reviewer for: Current Sociology; Reproductive BioMedicine Online; History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences; OMEGA – Journal of Death and Dying.

Scholarships, prizes, and awards

2021 – 2022     Research grant, Minerva Center for Interdisciplinary Study of End of Life, Tel Aviv University

2016 – 2020     The Azrieli Fellows Program for PhD students

2014 – 2018     Marc and Amy Feldstein Graduate Student Scholarship Endowment Fund – Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences scholarship for PhD students, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

2013                The "Reuven Kahane" Prize for the best M.A. thesis of the year, Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Sociology of Education program, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2012                The Shaine Center for Research in Social Sciences scholarship, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Professional Activities

2021-2022       Academic coordinator of the "Doing Death" course, Wolfson Medical Center

2018-2019       Invited member of Study Group, "Ice Age"

2017-2020       Board Member, Israeli Sociological Society

2017-2020       Chair, Doctoral Students and Junior Scholars Network, Israeli Sociological Society

Teaching Experience

2021-               Lecturer, Netanya Academic College. Introduction to Anthropology; The Cultural Space Between Life and Death; Qualitative Research Methods. From 2023: Managing People and Organizations in a Global World; Scientific writing for M.A. students.

2020-               Lecturer, Open University of Israel. Deviant Behavior. From 2022: Scientific writing and reading.

2020                Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Scientific Writing: Sociology and Anthropology of life and death.

2019-2020       Lecturer, Department of Social Work, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Qualitative Research Methods for B.A. students; Advanced Qualitative Research Methods for M.A. students.

2015-2016       Lecturer, Pre-Academic Preparatory, Ruppin Academic Center. Sociological Aspects of Israeli Society.

2014-2016       Teaching Assistant, Peres Academic Center. Teaching the Tutorial to "Introduction to Sociology" and to "The Historical and Intellectual Origins of the Social Sciences".