Professor Nissim Mizrahi

Nissim Mizrahi is a full professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University and served as the Department Chair from 2013 to 2016. He holds a BA and MA with distinction from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He completed his PhD at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor under the auspices of the Fulbright Foundation, and his postdoctoral studies at Harvard University. His research interests include the sociology of mind, medicine, and culture, social boundaries, social identity and morality, liberalism, and ethnicity and stigma studies. He is the author and co-author of eight books, edited books, and special issues, and of dozens of research articles published in leading international journals such as American Sociological Review, American Ethnologist, Social Science and Medicine, and Sociology of Health and Illness. Prof. Mizrahi has won numerous awards and grants, including the Clifford Geertz Award for Best Paper in the Sociology of Culture from the American Sociological Association; the Israeli Sociological Association Award for Best Paper; and the Tel Aviv University Rector's Outstanding Teaching Award. His early research dealt with mind-body relationships in the history and practice of modern medicine. 

 Since the second decade of the 2000s, he has been exploring the crisis of liberalism as a moral and political vision and as a stance for research and criticism. During this period, he published a number of programmatic articles in Hebrew and English that formulate a research agenda that goes beyond the limits of the liberal grammar of contemporary critical discourse.