SHORT CURRICULUM VITAE

Update: May 2002

Name: Erez Tzfadia

Work Address: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Department of Geography

P.O.B 653 Beer-Sheva, 84100, Israel.

Ph: 972-8-6477170, Fax: 972-8-6472821

Email: tzfadia@bgumail.bgu.ac.il

Homepage: http://www.geog.bgu.ac.il/members/erez.htm

Home Address: Rambam St, 50/8 Beer-Sheva, Israel, Ph: 972-8-6289201

Place and date of birth: Jerusalem, Israel, 08 April 1969

2001 The Third Mediterranean Program Summer-School (Florence, July 9-19) “Building Interdisciplinarity in the Study of the Middle East”. Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute.

1995- present: Ph.D. and Graduate (M.A.) student (integrated program), Department of Geography and Environmental Development, Ben-Gurion University, Israel (M.A. with distinction).

1992-1995: B.A. Studies in the department of Geography and Environmental Development, Section of Political Sciences and Section of Philosophy, Ben-Gurion University, Israel (with distinction)

EDUCATION AND ACADEMIC TRAINING

§ The Lady Davis Post Doctoral Fellow (starting date: October 2002)

§ The Wolf Foundation, Award for PhD students, January 2001

§ The Kreitman Foundation, Ben-Gurion University, PhD scholarship, 1998-2002

§ Ben-Gurion University, M.A. scholarship, 1996-1998 (includes two summer scholarships for outstanding student)

§ Ben-Gurion University, B.A. scholarship for outstanding student, 1993.

PRIZES AND AWARDS

CURRENT RESEARCH

The “Morning After”: Israel at the end of the conflict. This project, which is in collaboration with the Truman institution (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) and funded by the Ford foundation, aims to evaluate the face of Israel by the end of the Israel-Palestine conflict. The project examines 15 different aspects, one of them being the spatial aspect, of which I am in charge. Professor Miron Benvenisti heads the project (Award is included).

Public policy and immigrants’ absorption in Israel’s Development Towns. This project is based on my Ph.D. thesis and evaluates the impact of the Israeli immigrants’ absorption and dispersal policy on the development (small-size peripheral) towns. It is funded by the Israeli Ministry of Science, and supervised by Professor Oren Yiftachel.

The Israeli Land Regime: Legal and Geographical Aspects. The aim of this legal-geographical project is to analyze the unequal distribution of land resources according to ethnic belonging in Israel. It is headed by Professors Oren Yiftachel (Department of Geography, Ben-Gurion University) and Kedar (Faculty of Law, Haifa University) and includes other geographers, historians and legal counselors. Funded by the Israeli academy of sciences.

Loyalties and Agreements in the Globalized Era: From Hatzeva to Marks and Spencer. This research, headed by architect H. Yaacobi and myself - aims to evaluate the impact of globalism and nationalism on agricultural borderlands settlements. The research focuses on the Israeli Arava region, which is settled by national dominant group. It demonstrates the relationship between the state and the settlers and the ways the state benefits from it.

Resource competition, relative deprivation and protest in peripheral urban settlements: Ofakim absorbs new immigrants. This research was part of the requirements for an M.A degree. It has since expanded to my Ph.D. thesis.

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATION

§ “The Shifting Sands of Urban Politics, Planning and Identities: A Review Essay”, Geopolitics, 2002, In Press. Co-author: Yacobi, H. and Yiftachel, O.

§ “Political Mobilization in the Israeli Development Towns”, Politika, 7, pp. 79-96, 2001. Co-author: Yiftachel, O. (Hebrew).

§ “Between Nation and Place: Locality in the Israeli Development Towns Oppose Russian Immigration”, Studies in Geography, 2002, In Press (Hebrew)

§ “Competition on Political Resources: The Development Towns’ Municipal Elections”, Horizons in Geography, 53, pp. 59-70, 2001 (Hebrew).

§ “Immigrant Dispersal in Settler Societies: Mizrahim and Russians in Israel under the Press of Hegemony”, Geography Research Forum, 20, pp. 52-69, 2000.

§ “Trapped Men”, Panim, 13, pp. 44-59, 2000. Co-author: Yiftachel, O. (Hebrew).

§ Policy and Identity in Development Towns: The Case of North-African Immigrants, 1952-1998, Beer-Sheva: Negev Center for Regional Development. 1999. Co-author: Yiftachel, O. (Hebrew).

PAPERS PRESENTED IN ACADEMIC CONFERENCES

§ “Constructed and Local Impacts: Mizrahim – Russians Relations in Different Development Towns”, The Israel Political Science Association Meeting, Tel-Aviv: University of Tel-Aviv, June 2002 (Hebrew).

§ “Transformed Sense of Place: The End of Mizrahi Hegemony in Israel’s Development Towns”, ‘Motar’: Landscapes and Environment in Israel, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Art, March 2002 (Hebrew).

§ “Zionism, Land and Immigrant Absorption in the 1990s”, ‘Dispossession’ or ‘Land Robbery’: Settlement and Property in Land, Sede-Boker: Ben-Gurion Research Center, March 2002 (Hebrew).

§ “Development Towns: A Spatial Sorting Mechanism in the Israeli Immigration Regime”, The 33rd Conference of the Israeli Sociological Society (ISA), Haifa: University of Haifa, February 2002 (Hebrew). Co-presenter: Yiftachel, O.

§ “Segregation in Peripheral Towns: Immigrants relations in settler societies”, Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference, Belfast: Queen’s University, January 2002.

§ “Public Housing and Spatial inequality: Immigrants’ Dispersal to Development Towns”, Israeli Geographical Association, Tel-Aviv: December 2001 (Hebrew).

§ “The Role of Public Housing in Containing Ethnic Inequality”, Social Inequality and Housing, Tel Aviv: June 2001, with Yiftachel, O.

§ “Globalizing the Dominant – From the Frontier to Marx and Spencer”, 97th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York: February 2001. With Yaacobi, H.

§ “The Role of Locality in Political Mobility: The Case of Development Towns”, Israel Geographic Association, Jerusalem: December 2000 (Hebrew).

§ “Identity and the Threatened Place: ‘Mizrahim’ and ‘Russians’ in The Development Towns”, Space and Society: Critical Aspects, Tel-Aviv, April 2000 (Hebrew).

§ “Political Mobility in the Development Towns: Struggle for Local Domination”, Conference of the Israeli Political Scientists, Jerusalem, April 2000 (Hebrew). With Yiftachel, O.

§ “Politics and Identity in the Development Towns: Inter-Generation Differences”, Conference of the Israeli Sociologies, Tel-Aviv, February 2000 (Hebrew). With Yiftachel, O.

§ “Changes in the Town: Competition Intensification in Case of Discriminating Immigrants’ Absorption Policy”, Political Landscapes: On the Threshold of 21st Century and Emerging Patterns, Chandigarh: Punjab University, December 1999.

§ “Identity, Competition and Protest in Peripheral Towns: Ofaqim Absorbs Immigrants”, Israel Geographic Association, Haifa: December 1999 (Hebrew).

§ “Immigration and Urban Politics: Immigrants’ Absorption in Ofaqim”, Conference of the Israeli Sociologies, Rishon-Le-Zion: March 1999 (Hebrew).

§ “Immigration, Deprivation and Urban Politics: Ofaqim Absorbs New Immigrants”, Cities at the Millennium, London, December 1998.

2000-2001 Bedouin Municipal Workshop mentor. Supervised by Professor David Newman (Department of Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University) and Dr. Ismael Abu-Saad (Center for Bedouin Studies and Development, Ben-Gurion University). The workshop, funded by the Mediterranean Democracy Program of the European Union, is set out to teach basic municipal and local government management skills to residents of the Bedouin towns and unrecognized villages of the Negev region. Held on a weekly basis over a ten-month period.

1999-present Lecturer, Department of Geography, Ben Gurion University. Courses: Immigration and Space; Urban settlement in peripheral regions; Bibliographic sources.

1999-present Lecturer, Department of Geography, Achva College. Courses: Urban settlement in peripheral Regions; Statistical Methods and probability; Ethnic Relations in Geopolitics Landscape.

1995-2000 Teaching assistant, Department of Geography Ben Gurion University. Courses: Ethnic relations in the geopolitics landscape, Computers (Win 95, Office 97), Urban Geography, Geography of Tourism, Academic Writing, Geography of Population, Human Geography of Israel.

1995-2000 Teaching assistant, Department of Geography, Achva College. Courses: Urban Geography, Statistical Methods, Academic Writing, Geography of Population, Economics Geography, Geography of Tourism, Geography of Marketing.

1997 Coordinator, Annual Conference of the Israeli Geographers Association

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

MEMBERSHIP IN ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

§ The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute: Mix City – Israeli City: Question of Identity, Meaning and Power

§ The Israeli Geographical Association

§ Yitzhak Rabin Center for Israel Studies

§ Yeruham Forum