
Guy Shalev
Medical anthropology
Political Anthropology
Anthropology of Expertise
Medical Professionalism
Border Studies
Ethno-nationalism
Anthropology of the Middle East, Israel/Palestine
Current Projects:
My present work considers border-work in the Israeli Health system. It examines the intersections of professional and national borderlands, and how medicine and politics intertwine at these borders.
Curriculum Vitae
Fellowships and Grants
- Shapiro Postdoctoral Fellowship, Tel Aviv University (2017-2018)
- The Lady Davis Postdoctoral Fellowship, The Hebrew University (Declined) (2017-2018)
- The Greenwall Foundation, University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Bioethics program (2017)
- US National Science Foundation (NSF), Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (2014-2016)
- Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, Silver Graduate Research Fellowship (2014-2015)
Prizes
- Manning Outstanding Dissertation Award in Anthropology, UNC Chapel Hill (2018)
- Middle East Studies Association (MESA), Association of Middle East Anthropology (AMEA), Graduate Student Paper Prize (2017)
- Middle East Section (MES) of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Student Paper Prize (2017)
- Society for Medical Anthropology (SMA), Hughes Graduate Student Paper Prize (2014)
- Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA), Graduate Student Paper Prize: Finalist (2014)
- Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR), Student Paper Prize (2013)
- Israeli Sociological Society, Best MA Thesis Award (2013)
Education
- Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2018, Cultural and Medical Anthropology
- M.A. Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2011, Social Anthropology (Magna Cum Laude)
- B.A. Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2009, Sociology-Anthropology and Psychology (Magna Cum Laude)
Publications
- Shalev, Guy. 2016. A Doctor’s Testimony: Medical Neutrality and the Visibility of Palestinian Grievances in Jewish-Israeli Publics. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 40(2), 242-262. DOI 10.1007/s11013-015-9470-7
Presentations
- 2018 The Rhetoric of Ethics and the Ethics of Rhetoric: Conscientious Objection and Doctors’ Resistance to Force Feeding in Israel. Annual Meeting of the Israeli Anthropological Association, Dimona, Israel, May
- 2017 Clinical Citizenship: Ethno-Nationalism and the Political Subjectivity of Palestinian Physicians in Israel. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington DC, December
- 2017 Neutral and Neutralized: Medical Practice and National Suppression. Annual Meeting of the Israeli Anthropological Association, Kafr Qasim, Israel, May
- 2016 Helsinki in Zion: Ethics Committees and Political Gatekeeping in Israel/Palestine. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Minneapolis, MN, November
- 2013 Doctors with Borders: Palestinian Physicians Bearing Witness. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL, November
- 2013 Leadership in Conflict: Negotiating Charisma, Knowledge and Coexistence in a Sufi Order in Israel. American Ethnological Society and Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Spring Conference, Chicago, IL, April