Political economy
Informality and illegality
Colonialism
Current Projects
I study the political economy of organized violence, crime, and policing, in colonial and post-colonial situations. My work focuses on the Caribbean and Palestine/Israel and employs a comparative historical framework. In the Caribbean, my work focuses on what I call “police economies”, namely, the multi-layered structures of governance and power that extend beyond and below state boundaries. In Palestine/Israel, I study the interaction between settler colonialism and illicit capital accumulation.
Curriculum Vitae
Fellowships and Grants (selection)
The William Rainey Harper Dissertation Fellowship, Division of Social Sciences, University of Chicago, 2019
Center for International Social Science Research (CISSR), Dissertation Advancement Fellowship, 2018
NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant (2017-18)
SSRC International Dissertation Fellowship (2017-18)
Prizes (selection)
Lichtstern Dissertation Prize (Best Dissertation in Anthropology, University of Chicago)
Tel Aviv University, Liebenstein Exceptional Achievement Award (M.A), 2012
National Council of Jewish Women Merit Award, Gender Studies Program, Tel Aviv University, 2008
Tel Aviv University, Humanities Faculty Dean’s List Award, 2008
Education
PhD, Anthropology, University of Chicago (2021)
MA, Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University (2012)
BA, History and Gender Studies, Tel Aviv University (2009)
Publications
Books
Living Law: Policing and Sovereignty in an Occupation Colony (Van Leer 2020)
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Maoz, Eilat and Aharon-Gutman, Meirav. “The Capitalization of Crime in the City of Real Estate.” Theoretical Criminology. March 2023 (online first)
Maoz, Eilat. 2023. “Black Police Power: The Political Moment of the Jamaica Constabulary.” Comparative Studies in Society and History, 65(1), 115-140. doi:10.1017/S0010417522000421
Dakwar, Azar, David B. Ingram, William Callison, Eilat Maoz, and Albena Azmanova. 2022. “Capitalism on Edge: How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia.” Critical Horizons 1: 1–30.
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
Maoz, Eilat. Forthcoming 2024. The changing status of Palestinian citizens in Israel in the age of Financialization. In Shalev, Michael (ed.) Palestinians in Israel in a Neoliberal Era. Van Leer: Jerusalem.
Book Reviews and Essays
Maoz, Eilat. 2022. Between Speculative Past and History of the Future. Review of The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow. Ha’zman Hazeh.
Maoz, Eilat. 2020. Welcome to the Utopia of Capitalism: Israel, UAE, and Catastrophic Capitalism. Theory and Criticism 53, pp. 181-195
Maoz, Eilat. 2018. Moishe Postone – Ein Nachruf. Analyse & Kritik 644
Maoz, Eilat and Gal Katz. 2018. Sex, Love and Freedom in the Age of Me Too. Hazman Hazeh.
Selected recent talks and presentations
Art History Colloquium, Tel Aviv University. “What Does it Mean to do an Anthropology of Capitalism?” May 2023 (invited talk).
Van Leer Institute, Forum for Regional Thinking. “The Coloniality of ‘Organized Crime’.” February 2023 (invited talk).
Political Economy of Israeli Neoliberalism Conference, Haifa Center for the Study of Inequality. “Economic Integration and the Bi-National Situation.” February 2023 (invited talk).
Seminar of the Interdisciplinary Group for the Study of Security and Securitization. “Critical Application of Digital Technologies for Democratic Security.” Open University, October 2022 (invited talk).
Putting the Social on the Table Conference, Technion and HafenCity University Conference on Smart Cities, “Using Digital Mapping to Identify Conflict-Inducing Dynamics in the City.” September 2022.
Haifa Center for the Study of Religions at Haifa University, Mossawa Center, and the Haifa Social Progress Association, Haifa Museum, May 2022. “Urban Conflict, Urban Peace” (invited talk).
Haifa Conference for the Arab Society, University of Haifa, April 2022, “A Political Economy Approach to ‘Organized Crime’ in the Palestinian Society in Israel” (invited talk).
Science, Technology and Society Studies Program Colloquium, Bar Ilan University, April 2022, “The Social Construction of Crime Meets the Social Construction of Value: A Political Economy of Financialized Gentrification” (invited talk).
School of Cultural Studies Colloquium, Tel Aviv University, December 2021, “Crime, Slavery and “Free Labor”: A View from the Caribbean” (invited talk).
Inter-University Workshop on Political Thought, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, October 2021, “The Frontier and the Plantation: Authoritarianism and the Colonial Dialectic” (invited talk)