Assistant Professor Ph.D. 2005 (Anthropology), University of Chicago, U.S.A.; M.A. 1998 (Sociology and Anthropology, summa cum laude), Tel-Aviv University. Office Address: Zrinyi 14, Room 408B Phone Number: (36-1) 327 3000 Ext. 2122 Email: monterescud@ceu.hu

Areas of Research/Interest:
urban anthropology; masculinity studies; life stories; nationalism studies; wine cultures in Italy, Hungary and Israel; Jewish revival in Central Europe; Mediterranean and Middle-Eastern cities; ethnically mixed towns; Palestinian and Israeli societies; social theory.

Courses taught (2010-11):
Key Issues in Social Anthropology (MA); Cityscapes: The Urban Experience (MA); Advanced Methods (PhD)

Select Publications:

Mixed Towns/Trapped Communities: Historical Narratives, Spatial Dynamics and Gender Relations in Jewish-Arab Mixed Towns in Israel/Palestine. Co-edited with Dan Rabinowitz. Ashgate Publishing (2007).

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The Palestinian Community in Jaffa: Social Planning Report. Shatil’s Project on Mixed Cities and the New Israel Fund. (2007).
Click here to read in Arabic. Click here to read in Hebrew.

2009. "The Symbolic History of the Hyphen: Urban Alterity Between Jaffa and Tel-Aviv" Zmanim – History Quarterly 106:76-93 (Hebrew). Click here to read.

2008. "The 'Housing Intifada' and Its Aftermath: Ethno-Gentrification and
the Politics of Communal Existence in Jaffa" Anthropology News, December,
2008: 21. Click here to read.

Forthcoming. “Identity without Community, Community in Search of Identity: Spatial Politics in Jaffa” Megamot. Issue No. 46. (Hebrew). Click here to read.

2008. (co-authored with Moussa Abou-Ramadan). “Managing Islamic Law in a Jewish State: Legal Hybridity, Islamization and Cooptation of the Shari’a Courts in Israel” Law and Government Volume 11, Issue 2. ( Hebrew) Click here to read.

2007. “Masculinity as a Relational Mode: Palestinian Gender Ideologies and Working-Class Categorical Boundaries in an Ethnically Mixed Town ” In Sufian, Sandy & LeVine, Mark (eds.) Reapproaching Borders: New Perspectives on the Study of Israel/Palestine. Rowman and Littlefield . Click here to read.

2006. “Stranger Masculinities: Gender and Politics in a Palestinian-Israeli Third Space” In Ouzgane, L. (ed.) Islamic Masculinities Zed Press: London. Click here to read.

2005. “Facing South?: The Paradoxes of Spatial Governmentality in Jaffa, 1985- 2004” In Tel-Aviv-Jaffa Studies (eds.) Gila Menahem and David Nachmias. Tel-Aviv: Diyonon Press. (Hebrew). Click here to read.

2005. (co-authored with Haim Hazan) “The City of the Forking Paths: The Personal, the Urban and the National in Life Stories of Arab and Jewish Elderly in Jaffa” In Tel-Aviv-Jaffa Studies (eds.) Gila Menahem and David Nachmias. Tel-Aviv: Diyonon Press.(Hebrew). Click here to read.

2003. (co-authored with Roy Fabian) “’The Golden Cage’: On Gentrification and Globalization in the Luxurious Andromeda Gated Community in Jaffa” Theory and Criticism Vol. 23, Fall 2003: 141-178. (Hebrew) Click here to read.

2003. “Masculinity and Strangeness: Constructions of Arab Maleness in Jaffa” Israeli Sociology Special Issue on Gender and Masculinity. Volume 5, Issue 1:121:161. (Hebrew) Click here to read.


Review Essay:

Kaplan , Danny (2007). The Men We Loved: Male Friendship and Nationalism in Israeli Culture New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books. Published in Focaal – European Journal of Anthropology 51, 2008 (English) and in Israeli Sociology (Hebrew).
Click here to read in English. Click here to read in Hebrew.

Courses taught:
Key Issues in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Cityscapes