Gershon Shafir

GERSHON SHAFIR is professor of sociology at the University of California, San Diego, and director of its Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies, and the founding director of its Human Rights Minor.

He received his B.A.s in Political Science, Economics, Sociology, and Anthropology from Tel Aviv University, his M.A. in Sociology from UCLA, and his Ph. D. also in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley.

He served on the Israel and Middle Eastern Area Advisory Committees to the Senior Fulbright Program, on the Social Science Research Council’s Near and Middle East Research and Training Fellowship Committee, and on the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation’s Steering Committee. He served as the President of the Israel Studies Association from 2001 to 2003.

He is the author or editor of seven books, among them: Land, Labor, and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882-1914 (Cambridge University Press, 1989). Along with co-author Yoav Peled, he won the Middle Eastern Studies Association’s Albert Hourani Award in 2002.