| Expert Name | Ms. Pnina Motzafi-Haller |
| Title | Researcher/Lecturer on Anthropology |
| Division | Social Studies Unit, Man in the Desert Department |
| Institution | Ben Gurion University of the Negev |
| City | Sede Boqer |
| Country | Israel |
| Telephone | 972 7 659 6866 |
| Email | pnina(at)bgumail.bgu.ac.il |
| Work Experience | - I have been working as an anthropologist in Botswana since 1981 on issues of rural development and social impact of land reforms. I conducted field work there during 1981, 1982-84, 1993 (total 18 months)
- I am also the project manager of a 4 year project ($100,000) on rural development in Burkina Faso. The focus is on the experience of projects on preventing soil erosion.
- I have worked as a consultant to the World Bank (1981); to an American Boston based NGO (1986); to the Danish International Agency 1998, 1999; and to EcoPeace, an NGO concerned with ecological issues in the Middle East. |
| Qualifications | Ph.D., Social Anthropology Brandeis University, MA, USA, 1988 |
| Number of Publications | 20 |
| Awards | - President, Israeli Student Association of New England, 1985-86
- Senior Common Room Member, Mather House, Harvard University |
| Other Activities | - Board of Director, the Israeli Feminist Association
- Member in the permanent board of a think-tank as 'Society and Culture in Israel', the Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem
- Reviewer of grant proposals for several Israeli government granting agencies
- Academic reviewer of books and articles for multiple publishing presses and professional journals |
| Publications | 1. Motzafi-Haller, 2000: 'Scholarship, Identity and Power. Mizrahi Women in Israel' Signs, Journal of Women in Culture and Society. In press;
2. 1997: The Politics of Space and Place in Botswana Canadian Journal of African Studies 31, 2;
3. 1998: 'Beyond Textual Analysis' Cultural Anthropology 13,4;
4. 1996: Power, Identity and History in Botswana Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 2,4;
5. 1995: Liberal Discourses of Cultural Diversity in Botswana: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 18,2 |
| Discipline | Anthropology and Sociology |
| Last updated | 09/05/2007 12:11:00 |
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