Political Anthropology
Anthropology of Expertise
Medical Professionalism
Border Studies
Ethno-nationalism
Anthropology of the Middle East, Israel/Palestine
Curriculum Vitae
Education
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Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2018, Cultural and Medical Anthropology
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M.A. Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2011, Social Anthropology (Magna Cum Laude)
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B.A. Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2009, Sociology-Anthropology and Psychology (Magna Cum Laude)
Fellowships and Grants
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Research Grant: Corona, Peace, and Conflict Resolution, The Truman Research Center for the Advancement of Peace (2020)
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The Dan David Young Researcher Fellowship in Bioethics (2018)
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Shapiro Postdoctoral Fellowship, Tel Aviv University (2017-2018)
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The Lady Davis Postdoctoral Fellowship, The Hebrew University (Declined) (2017-2018)
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The Greenwall Foundation, University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Bioethics program (2017)
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US National Science Foundation (NSF), Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (2014-2016)
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Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, Silver Graduate Research Fellowship (2014-2015)
Prizes
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Manning Outstanding Dissertation Award in Anthropology, UNC Chapel Hill (2018)
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Middle East Studies Association (MESA), Association of Middle East Anthropology (AMEA), Graduate Student Paper Prize (2017)
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Middle East Section (MES) of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Student Paper Prize (2017)
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Society for Medical Anthropology (SMA), Hughes Graduate Student Paper Prize (2014)
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Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA), Graduate Student Paper Prize: Finalist (2014)
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Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR), Student Paper Prize (2013)
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Israeli Sociological Society, Best MA Thesis Award (2013)
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
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Shalev, Guy. Forthcoming. Helsinki in Zion: Ethics Committees and Political Gatekeeping in Israel/Palestine. American Anthropologist.
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Shalev, Guy. 2021. Conditional Heroes: On Palestinian Physicians’ Role in the ‘War on COVID-19’ and on Medicine as Arena for a Politics of Recognition. Israeli Sociology.
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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
Op-Eds and Public Engagement
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Medical Apartheid. Haaretz, August 24, 2021 [Arabic, Hebrew] (with Zeev Winer)
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To Achieve ‘Coexistence,’ Palestinian Healthcare Workers in Israel Cannot Show Up as their Full Selves. Forward, May 20, 2021 (with Osama Tanous)
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Fabricated Past, Fictional Present. Haaretz, May 20, 2021.
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Numbers, not People. Times of Israel, January 22, 2021.
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The Body is the Key to Freedom. Local Call, October 27, 2020.
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History in the Service of Racism in Health. Haaretz, July 16, 2020 (with Lin Chalozin-Dovrat, Nadav Davidovitch, and Hedva Eyal)
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Three States, Two Sectors. Haaretz, April 6, 2020 (with Yael Assor and Hadas Ziv)
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As Coronavirus Crisis Looms, Israelis Launch Gaza Solidarity Campaign. +972 Magazine, April 2, 2020 [English, Hebrew, German] (with Yaara Benger Alaluf, Hadas Pe'ery, and Adi Golan Bikhnafo)
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When did the White Robe Become a Provision for Equality? Haaretz, March 17, 2020 [Arabic, Hebrew] (with Arsalan Abu Much)
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The Police is the Punishment. Haaretz, October 21, 2019.
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Two Medical Aid Delegations were Dispatched to Disaster Zones. You Only Heard about One of Them. Haaretz, June 14, 2018.
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The ‘P’ Word: Hospital Ethics Committees and Palestinian National Identity. Somatosphere: Science, Medicine, and Anthropology. October 31, 2016.
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No One Is Neutral Here. Cosmologics: A magazine of Science, Religion, and Culture. Harvard Divinity School. August 1, 2014.
Invited Book Reviews
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Shalev, Guy. 2017. Review of No Place for Grief: Martyrs, Prisoners, and Mourning in Contemporary Palestine [Lotte Buch Segal]. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 31(3). DOI 10.1111/maq.12360
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Shalev, Guy. 2015. Review of Ethnographic Encounters in Israel: Poetics and Ethics of Fieldwork [Fran Markowitz (Ed.)]. Israeli Sociology 16(2):202-204
Presentations
Event Orgenized
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2019 - (with Inna Leykin and Anat Rosenthal) Thinking with Plasticity: Health, Scientific Innovation, and the Politics of Human Bodies. The 2nd International Workshop in Medical Anthropology, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel, July
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2019 - The Moral Triangle: Germans, Israelis, and Palestinians. Special Event with Anthropologist Dr. Sa’ed Atshan (Swarthmore College). Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Tel Aviv, Israel, January
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2018 - AKP´S Fight for Hegemony: The Current Situation in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan. Special Event with Communication scholar and activist Kerem Schamberger (University of Munich). Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Tel Aviv, Israel, July
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2017 - (with Inna Leykin and Anat Rosenthal) Encounters in the Border Zones of Healthcare: Medical Anthropological Perspectives. International Workshop in Medical Anthropology, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem and the Open University, Ra'anana, Israel, July
Invited Talks
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2021 - Hospitals as Frontlines: When COVID-19 became Israel’s New Enemy, Palestinian Medical Professionals were Called for Duty. International Workshop: Relations between NGOs/Civil Society and the State, Minerva Center for the Rule of Law Under Extreme Conditions, University of Haifa. Online, June.
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2021 - Conditional Heroes: On Palestinian Physicians’ Role in the ‘War on COVID-19’ and on Medicine as Arena for a Politics of Recognition. The Truman Research Institute for The Advancement of Peace, Jerusalem, Israel, June.
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2019 - When Doctors Say No: Conscientious Objection and Solidarity in the Struggle Against Force-Feeding in Israel. Invited Session for the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association and the Canadian Anthropology Society, Vancouver, Canada, November
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2018 - Is Neutrality Inclusive? Palestinian Physicians in Israeli Hospitals. Between Racism and Inclusion Conference, Jerusalem, Israel, December
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2018 - Respecting while Suspecting: Nationality and Neutrality in the Zionist Hospital. Departmental colloquium, Anthropology, Haifa University, Haifa, November
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2017 - Medicine and the Politics of Neutrality: The Professional and Political Lives of Palestinian Physicians in Israel. Departmental colloquium, Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, May
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2017 - Structural Racism in Healthcare Settings. A presentation to the Ministry of Health’s Committee on Racism, Discrimination, and Exclusion in the Health System. Jerusalem, April
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2016 - Medical Anthropology and Palestinian Physicians in the Israeli Health System. Invited presentation for Physicians for Human Rights Israel, Tel Aviv, March
Panels Organized
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2019 - Invited Session (with Can Aciksoz) Doctors and the State: Political Climates of Medicine in the Middle East and Beyond. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association and the Canadian Anthropology Society, Vancouver, Canada, November
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2017 - (with Matan Kaminer) Neutrality in Conflicted Space. Annual Meeting of the Israeli Anthropological Association, Kafr Qasim, Israel, May
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2013 - (with Liron Shani) Modest Witnesses? Experts’ Testimonies in Political Struggles in Israel. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL, November
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2013 - Religious Communities in Conflict: Visibility, Brokenness, Charisma, and Play. American Ethnological Society and Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Spring Conference, Chicago, IL, April
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2012 - Leadership and Charisma in Contemporary Religious Communities. Annual Meeting of the Israeli Anthropological Association, Emek Yezreel, Israel, June
Papers Presented
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2021 - Conditional Heroes: On Palestinian Physicians’ Role in the ‘War on COVID-19’ and on Medicine as Arena for a Politics of Recognition. Annual Meeting of the Israeli Anthropological Association, online, May.
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2020 - “Hungry until Freedom”: The Necropolitics of Hunger-Strikes and Force-Feeding in Israeli Death-Worlds. Concerning Israel/Palestine: Thinking with Achille Mbembe. Online international conference, September.
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2019 - Medicine vs. the State: Professional and National Solidarities in the Struggle Against Force-Feeding in Israel. Annual Meeting of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Poznan, Poland, August
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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
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2018 - Medicine in the Borderlands: Politics of Neutrality in the Israeli Health System. Regional History of Medicine in the Middle East Conference, Jerusalem, Israel, April
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2017 - Clinical Citizenship: Ethno-Nationalism and the Political Subjectivity of Palestinian Physicians in Israel. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington DC, December
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2017 - Neutral and Neutralized: Medical Practice and National Suppression. Annual Meeting of the Israeli Anthropological Association, Kafr Qasim, Israel, May
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2016 - Helsinki in Zion: Ethics Committees and Political Gatekeeping in Israel/Palestine. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Minneapolis, MN, November
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2016 - Selective Neutrality: Medical Neutrality in the Hospital as a ‘Hospitāle’ and as a Workplace. Annual Meeting of the European Network for Social Policy Analysis: Israel, Haifa, Israel, February
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2014 - Doctors with Borders: Palestinian Physicians’ Testimonies in Israel/Palestine. The Clinic in Crisis: Medicine and Politics in the Context of Social Upheaval, symposium at Brown University, Providence, RI, May
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2013 - Doctors with Borders: Palestinian Physicians Bearing Witness. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL, November
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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
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2012 - The Path of Knowledge and the Path of Peace: Negotiating Charisma in a Sufi Order in the Galilee. Annual Meeting of the Israeli Anthropological Association, Emek Yezreel, Israel, June
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2011 - (with Liron Shani) Reading, Thinking, Writing. Annual Meeting of the Israeli Anthropological Association, Haifa, Israel, May