Prof. Orna Sasson-Levy
CV
Education
2001 Ph.D. in Sociology. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Summa Cum Laude.
Dissertation Topic: Constructions of Gender Identities within the Israeli Military
1994 MA in Sociology. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Summa Cum Laude
Academic Appointments
2020 - Presidential Advisor for Gender Equity, Bar-Ilan University
2020 - Full Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Gender Studies Program, Bar-Ilan University
2014 - 2018 Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Bar-Ilan University
2014 - Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology and
Gender Studies Program, Bar-Ilan University
2013 Visiting Scholar, Rutgers University
2009 - 2011 Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Bar-Ilan University
2006 - 2009 Deputy Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Bar-Ilan University
2004 - 2005 Member, The Young forum of Humanities and Social Sciences, The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
2003 - 2014 Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
and Gender Studies Program, Bar-Ilan University
2002 - 2003 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Lady Davis Fellowship, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2001- 2002 Postdoctoral Fellow, The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, Rutgers University
Research Grants
2018 - 2021 Research Grant, Israel Science Foundation ($95,000)
The ‘Emerging Legitimacy’ of Military Violence: The Israeli Case
With Edna Lomsky-Feder and Yagil Levy
2010 - 2013 Research Grant, Israel Science Foundation ($72,000)
The meaning of military service in Israeli women's life stories
With Edna Lomsky-Feder
2004 - 2006 Research Grant, Israel Science Foundation ($32,000)
Gender Integration in Officers’ Training in the Israeli Army
Awards and Fellowships
2004 Excellence in Research Award, Dafna Izraeli Center for the Study of Women and Gender, Bar-Ilan University
2002 - 2003 Rector Postdoctoral Fellowship ($26,000), The Hebrew University
2001- 2002 Lady Davis Postdoctoral Research Fellowship ($20,000), The Hebrew University
2001 The Kennedy-Leigh Prize in Theoretical Science for an Outstanding Dissertation, The Hebrew University
2000 The Shaine Center for Research in Social Sciences, The Hebrew University
2000 The Levy Eshkol Institute for the Study of Israeli Economy, Politics, and Society, The Hebrew University
2000 Post-Doctoral Fellowship ($30,000), The Hebrew University
1999 Rector Scholarship (Luxembourg Scholarship), The Hebrew University
1999 Yosef Avidar Award, the Center for the Study of the Land of Israel
The Ben Zvi Institute, Jerusalem.
1997 Herzl Fellowship, the Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University.
1997 Finesod-Sukenik Scholarship for Gender Studies, The Hebrew University
1996 Herzl Fellowship, the Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry,
The Hebrew University
1996 Israel Foundations Trustees Research Grant ($10,000)
1996 Outstanding Achievements in Ph.D. Studies Award, The Wolf Foundation
1996 The Levy Eshkol Institute for the Study of Israeli Economy, Politics, and Society, The Hebrew University.
1996 The Shaine Center for Research in Social Sciences , The Hebrew University
1995 The Levy Eshkol Institute for the Study of Israeli Economy, Politics, and Society , The Hebrew University
1995 Lafer Scholarship for Gender Studies, The Hebrew University
1995 First Prize Winner, the Annual Contest of the Israeli Anthropological Association for the Best MA Thesis.
Research
Education
2001 Ph.D. in Sociology. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Summa Cum Laude.
Dissertation Topic: Constructions of Gender Identities within the Israeli Military
1994 MA in Sociology. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Summa Cum Laude
Publications
Publications
Books
1. Lomsky-Feder Edna and Orna Sasson-Levy. 2018. Women Soldiers and Citizenship in Israel: Gendered Encounters with the State. New York and London: Routledge.
2. Sasson-Levy, Orna. 2006. Identities in Uniform: Masculinities and Femininities in the Israeli Military, Jerusalem: Eshkolot Series, Magnes Press, and Tel Aviv: Migdarim Series, Hakibutz Hameucahd Press (Hebrew).
Books as Editor
3. Orna Sasson-Levy and Edna Lomsky-Feder. 2018. Gender at the Base: Women, Men and Military Service in Israel. Jerusalem: Van Leer and Hakibutz Hameuchad (Hebrew).
4. Shavit, Zeev, Orna Sasson-Levy, and Guy Ben-Porat, Eds. 2013. Points of Reference: Changing Identities and Social Positioning in Israeli Society. Jerusalem: Van-Leer Institute, and Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Press (Hebrew).
Articles in Refereed Journals
1. Hartal Gilly and Orna Sasson-Levy, 2021. The Progressive Orient: Gay Tourism to Tel Aviv and Israeli Ethnicities. Environmental and Planning C: Politics and Space, 39 (1): 11-29.
2. Zamwel Einat and Orna Sasson-Levy, 2020. Dislocated Locality: Political Consumption of Voluntary Simplifiers in Israel” Israeli Sociology, 21 (1): 53-76 (Hebrew).
3. Hartal Gilly and Orna Sasson-Levy, 2019. Ethnicity and Sexuality: Gay Mizrachi subjectivity and Gay Tourism to Tel Aviv. Israeli Sociology, 20 (2): 34-58. (Hebrew).
4. Barakat, Ebtesam, Amal Jamal, and Orna Sasson-Levy. 2018. “The Consequences of Blurred Boundaries between Private and Public Spheres in Patriarchal Societies: Evidence from Druze Women in Israel,” Journal of Research in Gender Studies, 8(2): 64–91.
5. Hartal, Gilly and Sasson-Levy, Orna. 2018. Re-Reading Homonationalism: An Israeli Spatial Perspective, Journal of Homosexuality, 65:10, 1391-1414.
6. Karazi-Presler, Tair, Orna Sasson-Levy and Edna Lomsky-Feder, 2018. Gender, Emotions Management, and Power in Organizations: The Case of Israeli Women Junior Military Officers, Sex Roles 78:573–586.
7. Sasson-Levy Orna and Chen Misgav. 2017. Gender Studies in Israel in the Early 21st Century: Between Neo-Liberalism and Neo-Colonialism. Megamot, 41 (2): 165 – 206 (Hebrew).
8. Hartal Gilly and Sasson-Levy, Orna. 2016. Being [in] the center - Sexual Citizenship and Homonationalism at Tel Aviv’s Gay-Center. Sexualities, 20(5–6): 738–761.
9. Perez Merav and Orna Sasson-Levy. 2015. Avoiding Military Service in a Militaristic Society: A Chronicle of Resistance to Hegemonic Masculinity. Peace and Change: A Journal of Peace Research, 40 (4): 462-488.
10. Lomsky-Feder, Edna and Orna Sasson-Levy. 2015. "Serving the Army as Secretaries: Intersectionality, Social Contracts and Subjective Experience of Citizenship", British Journal of Sociology, 66 (1): 173 – 192.
11. Sasson-Levy, Orna, and Avi Shoshana. 2014. "Hishtaknezut: Ethnic Performance and its Failure." Theory and Criticism, 42: 71 – 97 (Hebrew).
12. Zamwel, Einat, Orna Sasson-Levy, and Guy Ben-Porat. 2014. "Voluntary Simplifiers as Political Consumers: Individuals Practicing Politics through Reduced Consumption." Journal of Consumer Culture, 14(2): 199–217
13. Sasson-Levy Orna et Edna Lomsky-Feder. 2013, Genre et violence dans les paroles de soldates: le cas d’Israël, Critique internationale, n°60 juillet-septembre, p. 71-88 [in French].
14. Sasson-Levy, Orna, and Avi Shoshana. 2013. "'Passing' as (Non) Ethnic: The Israeli Version of Acting White." Sociological Inquiry, 83 (3): 448-472.
15. Sasson-Levy, Orna. 2013. "A Different Kind of Whiteness: Marking and Unmarking of Social Boundaries in the Construction of Hegemonic Ethnicity." Sociological Forum, 28 (1): 27 – 50.
16. Sasson-Levy, Orna. 2013. "Ethnic Generations: Evolving Ethnic Perceptions among Dominant Groups." The Sociological Quarterly, 54: 399–423.
17. Sasson-Levy, Orna. 2011. "From the Military as a Gendered Organization to Militarized Inequality Regimes: Research on Gender and the Military in Israel." Israel Studies Review, 26 (2): 73-98.
18. Sasson-Levy, Orna, Yagil Levy, and Edna Lomsky-Feder. 2011. "Women Breaking the Silence: Military Service, Gender and Antiwar Protest." Gender & Society, 25 (6): 740-763.
19. Sasson-Levy, Orna. 2011. "Gendered Implications of the Transition to a Professional Military." The Public Sphere, 5: 73-92 (Hebrew).
20. Sasson-Levy, Orna. 2008. “I Don’t Want an Ethnic Identity: The Marking and Erasing of Boundaries in Contemporary Discourses of Ashkenaziyut”. Theory and Criticism, 33: 101-129 (Hebrew).
21. Levy, Gal and Orna Sasson-Levy. 2008. “Militarized Socialization, Military Service and Class Reproduction: The Experiences of Israeli Soldiers”. Sociological Perspectives, 51 (2): 349-374.
22. Sasson-Levy, Orna. 2008. “Individual Bodies, Collective State Interests: The Case of Israeli Combat Soldiers”. Men and Masculinities, 10 (3): 296-321.
Reprinted in:
Spade, Joan Z. and Catherine G. Valentine, 2014. The Kaleidoscope of Gender Prisms, Patterns, and Possibilities, Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press. Pp. 275 – 291.
23. Sasson-Levy, Orna and Sarit Amram-Katz, 2007. "Gender Integration in Israeli Officer Training: Degendering and Regendering the Military," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 33 (1): 105-135.
Reprinted in:
Alexander Karen and Mary Hawkesworth. (Eds.), 2008. Feminist Perspectives on War and Terror, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 331-361.
24. Sasson-Levy, Orna, 2007. Contradictory Consequences of Mandatory Conscription: The Case of Women Secretaries in the Israeli Military”, Gender & Society, 21 (4): 481-507.
25. Sasson-Levy, Orna, 2003. “Military, Masculinity and Citizenship: Tensions and Contradictions in the Experience of Blue-Collar Soldiers”, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 10 (3): 319-345.
26. Sasson-Levy, Orna, 2003. “Masculinity as Protest: Identity Constructions of Soldiers in Blue Collar Roles”, Israeli Sociology, 5 (1): 15-47 (Hebrew).
27. Sasson-Levy, Orna and Tamar Rapoport. 2003. “Gender, Body and Knowledge in Protest Movements”, Gender & Society, 17 (3): 379-403.
28. Sasson-Levy, Orna. 2003. “Feminism and Military Gender Practices: Israeli Women Soldiers in ‘Masculine’ roles”, The Sociological Inquiry, 73 (3): 440-465.
29. Sasson-Levy, Orna and Tamar Rapoport. 2002. “Body and Knowledge in Social Movements”, Megamot, 41 (4): 489-514 (Hebrew).
30. Sasson-Levy, Orna. 2002. “Constructing Identities at the Margins: Masculinities and Citizenship in the Israeli Army”, The Sociological Quarterly, 43 (3): 353-383.
31. Sasson-Levy, Orna. 2001. “Gender Performance in a Changing Military: Women Soldiers in “Masculine” Roles”, Israel Studies Forum: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 17 (1):7-23.
Reprinted in:
Fuchs Esther, (Editor). 2005. Israeli Women's Studies: A Reader. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J. Pp. 265-279.
Book Chapters:
1. Karazi-Presler Tair and Orna Sasson-Levy, Forthcoming. “Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Gender Relation in Contemporary Israel”, in Guy Ben-Porat et. al. (Eds.): Routledge Handbook on Contemporary Israel, Routledge.
2. Hartal, Gilly and Sasson-Levy, Orna. Forthcoming. “Middle Eastern LGBT Westernization? The case of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv”. In Ryan M. J. Michael and Helen Rizzo (Eds.): Sexualities in the contemporary Middle East. Boulder, CO.: Lynne Rienner Publishers.
3. Sasson-Levy Orna and Gilly Hartal. 2018 “Women and the Israeli Security Culture”, in Stuart Cohen And Aaron Klienman (Eds.) Routledge Handbook on Israeli Security, Routledge, Pp. 309 - 322.
4. Sasson-Levy, Orna. 2017. “Ethnicity and Gender in Militaries: An Intersectional Analysis”, in Rachel Woodward and Claire Duncanson (Eds.): The Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military. London: Palgrave Macmillan, Pp 125 – 143.
5. Safran Hannnah, Racheli Hartal and Orna Sasson-Levy, 2016. “Local Lesbian Herstory: Activism, Struggles and Achievements”, in Alon Harel, Einav H. Morgenstern, Yaniv Lushinsky (Eds.) LGBTQ Rights in Israel: Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation and the Law. Jerusalem: The Harry and Michael Sacher Institute for Legislative Research and Comparative Law, Nevo Publishers.Pp. 45 – 80.
6. Lomsky-Feder Edna and Orna Sasson-Levy. 2016. “The Effects of Military Service on Women’s Lives from the Narrative Perspective”. In Helena Carreiras, Celso Castro and Sabina Frederic (Eds.): Researching the Military, New York: Routledge. Pp. 94 – 107.
7. Sasson-Levy, Orna. 2016. "Women’s Memories of Soldiering: An Intersectionality Perspective", in Ayse Gul Altinay and Andrea Peto (Eds.), Gendered Wars, Gendered Memories: Feminist Conversations on War, Genocide and Political Violence. Ashgate books, Farnham, UK: Gower. Pp. 109 – 121.
8. Sasson-Levy, Orna. 2014. "Gender separation or Women's exclusion? The military as a case study" in Elisheva Rosman-Stollman and Ahraon Kampinsky (Eds.), Civil-Military Relations in Israel: Essays in Honour of Stuart A. Cohen, Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. Pp. 147 – 171.
9. Sasson-Levy, Orna, Guy Ben Porat and Ze'ev Shavit. 2013. "Stability, Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Identities in Contemporary Israel," in Ze'ev Shavit, Orna Sasson-Levy, and Guy Ben-Porat (Eds.), Points of Reference: Changing Identities and Social Positioning in Israeli Society. Jerusalem: Van-Leer Institute, and Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Press (Hebrew). Pp. 7-25.
10. Sasson-Levy, Orna, 2013. "'I'm an Ashkenazi, My Parents Don't See Themselves as Such': Intergenerational Differences in Perceptions of Ashkenaziness," in Ze'ev Shavit, Orna Sasson-Levy, and Guy Ben-Porat (Eds.), Points of Reference: Changing Identities and Social Positioning in Israeli Society. Jerusalem: Van-Leer Institute, and Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Press (Hebrew). Pp. 149-179.
11. Sasson-Levy, Orna, 2013. "Gender Separation or Women's Exclusion? The Military as a Case Study," in Roni Halpern (Ed.), Where Am I? Gendered Perspectives on Space. Kfar Saba: Beit Berl College (Hebrew). Pp. 111-141.
12. Sasson-Levy, Orna, and Orly Benjamin. 2012. "Public Responsibility for Gender Equality." In Kasher, A., R. Cohen-Almagor, and O. Arbel-Ganz (Eds), Handbook of Public Responsibility, Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Press (Hebrew) Pp. 497-527.
13. Sasson-Levy, Orna. 2011. "The Military in a Globalized Environment: Perpetuating an 'Extremely Gendered' Organization." In Jeanes, E., D. Knights and P. Yancey Martin (Eds.), Handbook of Gender, Work and Organization. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. Pp. 391-411
14. Sasson-Levy, Orna. 2010. "Where Will the Women be? Gendered Implications of the Decline of the Israeli citizen's Army." In Stuart Cohen, (Ed.), The New Citizen Armies: Israel's Armed Forces in Comparative Perspective, London: Routledge, Pp. 173-195.
15. Sasson-Levy, Orna. 2010. "The Military and Gender Identities." In Gender and the Military. Tel Aviv: Ministry of Defence Publishing House (Hebrew).
16. Sasson-Levy, Orna and Gal Levy. 2005. “Combat is Best? Republican Socialization, Gender and Class in Israel”, in H. Gor-Ziv (Ed.): Militarism and Education, Tel Aviv: Bavel (Hebrew).
17. Sasson-Levy, Orna. 2001. “Subversion within Oppression: Constructing Gender Identities among Women Soldiers in ‘Masculine’ Roles” in Y. Atzmon (Ed.): Will you Hear My Voice: Representations of Women in Israeli Culture, Tel Aviv: Hakkibutz Hameuchad, Pp. 277-303 (Hebrew).
Reprinted in German as:
Orna Sasson-Levy, 2003. “Frauen als Grenzgangerinnen im Israelischen Miltar: Identitaetsstrategien und -praktiken Soldaten in "Maennlichen" Rollen" in R. Seifert and C. Eifler (Eds.) Gender und Militar: Internationale Erfahrungenmit Frauen und manner in Streitkraften, Berlin: Helmer Verlag. Pp. 74-101.
BOOK REVIEWS IN REFEREED JOURNALS
Sasson-Levy, Orna. 2021. Review of Breaking the Binaries in Security Studies: A Gendered Perspective of Women in Combat, By Ayelet Harel-Shalev and Shir Daphna-Tekoah, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020). Published in Israel Studies Review, 36 (2): 145-148.
Sasson-Levy, Orna, 2013. Review of Fantasy of the State: Photographs of IDF Female Soldiers and the Eroticization of Civil Militarism in Israel, By Chava Bronfeld-Stein, Tel-Aviv: Resling, 2012. Published in Israeli Sociology 15(1): 187-180. (Hebrew).
Sasson-Levy, Orna, Edna Lomsky-Feder and Eyal Ben-Ari, 2009. Review of From "People's Army" to "Army of the Peripheries," by Yagil Levy. Jerusalem: Carmel, 2007. Israeli Sociology 10 (2): 463-469 (Hebrew).
Sasson-Levy, Orna, 2007. Review of Women in Zones of Conflict: Power and Resistance in Israel, by Tami Amanda Jacoby. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 9 (2): 281-283.
Last Updated Date : 28/07/2022
