ד"ר אביבה קפלן

CURRICULUM VITAE

1. Personal Details

Home address: 8 Kiriaty St., Rishon Le-Zion, Israel

E-mail: [email protected]

Home phone: +972-3-9662517

Cellphone: +972-50-5366274

2. Higher Education
   
3. Undergraduate & Graduate Studies

1. Professional diplomas

3. Academic Ranks and Tenure in Institutes of Higher Education 

Scholarly Positions and Activities outside the Institution

4. Participation in Scholarly Conferences

5. Invited Lectures

6. Research Grants

7. Awards and Prizes

8. Teaching
   
   2019 –     School of Health Management Systems – B.A, Netanya Academic College
   present     Selected issues on Sociology and Selected issues on Gerontology2019         School of Health Management System – B.A., The Academic Center for
   Law and Science, Hod Hasharon: Selected issues in gerontology

   2015-       School of Health Management Systems –M.A. Netanya Academic College:
   present     Sociology &Anthropology Of Aging; Social Aspects and Community Health
   Organizations; Seminar on Aging and Culture

   2009 –      School of Behavior Sciences, Netanya Academic College:
   present     Introduction to Sociology; Introduction to Anthropology; Social Change;
   Everyday Issues in the Life of Old People; Seminars on aging and culture

   2008 –      of Sociology & Anthropology, Ashkelon Academic College:
   2014        Sociology of Old Age; Anthropology of Old Age; Aged Living Facilities
   Organizations; Everyday Issues in the Life of Old People; Seminars on aging
   and old age
   2000        Faculty of Social Welfare & Health Studies, Haifa University (Designated
   course for directors of institutions for the elderly): Sociology & Anthropology of
   Old Age; Living in Old Age Homes
   1999        Faculty of Social Welfare & Health Studies, Haifa University: M.A. in
   Gerontology
   1998        School Of Nursing, Ben-Gurion University: Seminar on Gerontology

9. Membership in Professional Organizations

• Israel Gerontological Society
• 2004 – present Member of executive committee
• 2000-2005 General secretary
• 1998-2000 Chairperson of the Coastal Plain District
• Israel Sociological Society
• Israeli Anthropological Association

10. Professional Experience

11. Publications
    
12. D. Dissertation

Kaplan, A. (1998). Attendees-Absentees in "Oasis" – Life in Contemporary Old Age Site. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Bar-Ilan University.
Under the supervision of Prof. Haim Hazan and Prof. Nissan Rubin

1. Books

Sharaby, R. & Kaplan, A. (2014).  Like Mannequins on Display:  Ethiopian Immigrant Leaders in Israel. Tel Aviv: Resling. (Hebrew)

Kaplan, A. (2013). A Prelude to Paradise: Life at a contemporary old age site. Tel Aviv: Resling. (Hebrew)

1. Chapters in books

Kaplan, A. & Sharaby, R. (2012). “Invisibility and social exclusion: The elderly priests of the Ethiopian immigrants in Israel" In D. Soen, M. Shechory, S. & Ben David (Eds.), Minority Groups: Coercion, Discrimination, Exclusion, Deviance and the Quest of Equality. Hauppauge, N.Y: Nova Science Publishers Inc., pp. 211-226.

Kaplan, A. (2006). “Death is the future – On the culture of death and the end of life”. In Y. Doron (Ed.), At Home and not at an Institution – on the Right to Die at Home. Jerusalem: Eshel – The Association for the Planning and Development of Services for the Aged in Israel, pp. 37-71. (Hebrew)

Kaplan, A. (2002). “Attendees-absentees in ‘Oasis’: Existential paradoxes in a contemporary old age site”. In Y. Brick (Ed.), The Politics of Old Age, the Elderly Population of Israel on the National Order of Priorities. Hakibbutz Hameuchad and Eshel, pp. 219-235. (Hebrew)

1. Articles

Erel, H. & Kaplan, A. (under review). Meaning of life in old age and the preservation of cognitive abilities. The Gerontologist.

Sharaby R. & Kaplan, A. (2017). "Others" within their people: Spiritual leaders of Ethiopian immigrants in Israel. Dvarim – academic journal, multi-disciplinary, online. (Hebrew).

Kaplan, A. & Sharaby R. (2017). Variations of identities among the leaders of a minority group of immigrants. Social Identities – Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, 24(3), 403-411.

Sharaby, R. & Kaplan, A. (2015). Complexity of identity and tactics of resistance among religious leaders of immigrants. Social Identities – Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, 21(6), 562-572

Sharaby, R. & Kaplan, A. (2015). Ethiopian Rabbis in Israel: Between the Hammer of the Rabbinical Establishment and the Anvil of the Ethnic Community. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 14(3), 482-500.

Kaplan, A. & Sharoni, G. (2014). Research report: Etiology of excess-involvement of the elderly in traffic accidents. Published on the website of the Association of Insurance Companies in Israel. (Hebrew)

Kaplan, A. & Sharaby, R. (2013).  Old Ethiopians in an intercultural transition in Israel. Gerontology and Geriatrics, 40(2-3), 49-78. (Hebrew – the authors were guest editors)

Kaplan, A. & Sharaby, R. (2013).  Splinters of identity among the priest of Ethiopian immigrants in Israel.  Israeli Sociology, 15(1), 58-82. (Hebrew)

Sharaby, R. & Kaplan, A. (2011).  Ethiopian religious leaders of the 1.5 generation: Between integration and resistance. Sociological Papers, 16, 95-109.

Kaplan, A. (1997). Sheltered housing – The costume and what lies underneath. Gerontology, 77, pp. 95-103. (Hebrew)