faculty member

Name: Dr. Ruth Preser
Academic Rank: Lecturer
Department: Multidisciplinary Studies
Phone Number: +972(0)48181631
Email: [email protected]
Areas of Interest:
I'm a faculty member at Tel-Hai College and a scholar in the field of gender studies, combining cultural and queer theory and empirically informed inquiry. I study forms of citizenship, the public sphere and politics of belonging in the context of kinship, migration, diasporic cultures and urban environments. I am a co-founder of the Haifa Feminist Institute - Archive, Library and Research Centre, and a member of the Lexicon for Political Theory research group at the Minerva Humanities Centre in Tel-Aviv University. My current research explores women without legal status in Israel.
Biographical Info:
2018- Tel – Hai Academic College, lecturer

2017-2018 Tel – Hai Academic College, adjunct lecturer

2014-2016 ICI Berlin - Institute for Cultural Inquiry, affiliated fellow

2013-2014 ICI Berlin - Institute for Cultural Inquiry, post-doctoral fellow

2012-2013 Humboldt Universität Berlin, The Institute for European Ethnology and the Trans-Disciplinary Gender Studies Program, post-doctoral fellow

2006 -2012 Bar-Ilan University, Gender Studies Program, PhD
Teaching:
Gender, intimacy and sexuality; body, identity and belonging: the production of categories of health and pathology; culture and psyche – seminar; exclusion, belonging and public formations; the politics of emotions; introduction to queer theory; object biography - introduction to posthumanism; gender and migration.
Awards:
2013-2014 - Postdoctoral fellowship, ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin (€16,500)

2012-2013 - Postdoctoral award, Bar-Ilan University (US$ 40,000 taken at Humboldt Universität, Berlin)

2012-2013 - Postdoctoral fellowship, Open University (NIS 70,000 declined)

2007-2011 - Doctoral excellence fellowship, Bar-Ilan University (NIS 160,000)

2011 - Distinguished PhD Research Award, The Fanya Gottesfeld Heller Center for the Study of Women in Judaism at Bar-Ilan University (NIS 3,000)

2009 - Rector's Excellence Award, Bar-Ilan University (NIS 2,500)

2002; 2003; 2004 - MA Excellence Awards, Bar-Ilan University's (total of US$ 5,800)
Publications:
Refereed Journals:

(In press) with Ayala Olier. Regulating the Undesirable: Statusless Women in Israel. International Migration Review.

(In press). Feminist Semiotics of ‘Safe’: Intimate Violence in the Time of Pandemic. Violence Against Women.

(2023) with Ayala Olier. Structures of abandonment: Gender, statuslessness and bare life. Migration Studies. https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnad010

(2021) What Therefore Discourse Has Joined Together: Kinship, Performativity and Everyday Use of Public Space. Social and Cultural Geography, 22 (1): 58-75.

(2020) Intimate Violence. Mafte’akh – Lexical Review of Political Thought, 15: 155-162 [Hebrew].

- A short version appeared in: (2021) Israeli Sociology, 21 (2): 245-246 [Hebrew]

(2018) How to Be Feminist in Public. Feministiqa, 1 (1): 98-103.

(2018) The Lesbian Complaint: On Kinship, Genre, and Being Public. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 21 (2): 259-274.

(2017) Lost and Found in Berlin: Identity, Ontology and the Emergence of Queer Zion. Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, 24 (3) 413-425.

(2016) With Ronit Kark & Tanya Zion-Waldoks, From Politics of Dilemmas to Politics of Paradoxes: Feminism, Pedagogy and Women’s Leadership for Social Change. Journal of Management Education, 40 (3): 293-320.

(2016) A Methodology of Damage. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 19 (1): 17-30.

(2014) Things I Learned from the Book of Ruth. Essay. Theory and Criticism, 43: 313-319 [Hebrew]

(2011) Coherent Deviants: Transformation and Transition in Life-Stories of Once-Married Women Who Chose to Live as Lesbians. Women’s Studies International Forum, 34 (2): 140-150.

Conference Proceedings:

(2016) With Amy Y. Ou , Neha Tripathi , Robert E Quinn , Ronit Kark , Josh W. Keller , Peter Ping Li , Bo Shao , Neha Tripathi , Nan Wang , Xiuxi Zhao and Tanya Zion-Waldoks, Dynamics of Paradoxical Leadership: Theoretical Frameworks & Empirical Evidences of Balancing. Academy of Management Proceedings, ISSN: 0065-0668

Refereed Book Chapters:

(2022) On Being Public: Feminism, Sexual Harassment and the Question of Palestine. In: Cristina Alcalde & Paula-Irene Villa (eds.), #MeToo and beyond. Perspectives on a Global Movement. University of Kentucky Press

(2017) Things I Learned from the Book of Ruth: Diasporic Reading of Queer Conversions. In: Manuele Gragnolati and Christoph F.E. Holzhey (eds.), De/Constituting Wholes: Towards Partiality Without Parts. 'Cultural lnquiry' (Series), Vienna: Turia + Kant, 47-65.

(2017) With Ronit Kark & Tanya Zion-Waldoks, Ironic Paradoxes: Feminist Pedagogy between Theory and Practice. In: Daphna Golan, Yona Rosenfeld and Zvika Orr (eds.) Bridges of Knowledge: Campus-Community Partnerships in Israel. Tel-Aviv: Mofet, 218-249 [Hebrew].

(2011) Relationships with Women/Lesbians. In: Tal Tamir (ed.), Women and Their Bodies: Our Bodies, Health, and Sexuality. Ben Shemen: Modan, 249-280 [Hebrew].

Review Essays [Invited]:

(2018) An Other Sex. Israeli Sociology, 19(2): 228-230 [Hebrew].

(2017) Un-learning to See Palestine. New Formations: A Journal of Culture/Theory/Politics, 89-90: 243-246.

(2015) With Chen Misgav, Israel/Palestine and the Queer International by Sarah Schulman with. Journal of Middle East Women's Studies: Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, 11(1): 111-113.

(2013) Figurations of Violence and Belonging: Queerness, Migranthood and Nationalism in Cyberspace and Beyond by Adi Kuntsman. Israeli Sociology, 15(1): 182-186 [Hebrew].

Scientific Reports:

(2020) Bare Lives: Women without Status in Haifa and Northern Israel. Isha l'Isha, Haifa [Hebrew] file:///C:/Users/TelHai/AppData/Local/Temp/Bare-Lives-he-1.pdf

Book Chapters:

(2018) Forward. In: Estee Rieder-Indursky, Invisible Women - Ultra Orthodox Feminism, The Case of “No Voice No Vote "Campaign. Haifa: Pardes.

(2021) Epilogue. In: Judith Yahav, Women’s Love: Late Coming-out Monologues. Haifa: Pardes.

Presentations:

1. Participation in Scholarly Conferences

Role	Subject of Lecture/Discussion	Place of Conference	Name of Conference	Date
Lecture	Structures of Abandonment: Gender, Statuslessness and Bare Life	Charles University, Prague	The European Consortium for Political Research General Conference	* 09/2023
Lecture	The Logic of Emergency and the Emergence of Civic Infrastructures: Care for Women without Status in Israel	University of Warsaw & online	Migration and inequalities. In search of answers and solutions	* 07/2023
Invited lecture	The Logic of Emergency and the Emergence of Civic Infrastructures: Services for Women without Status	Panteion University, Athens	Gender – Based Violence and Resilence During COVID-19 Pandemic	* 03/2023
Lecture	Structures of Abandonment: Gender, Statuslessness and Bare Life	Leibniz University, Hannover	Inclusive Citizenship as Belongings, Practices and Acts Conference	* 10/2022
Lecture	The Logic of Emergency and the Emergence of Civic Infrastructures: Services for Women without Status	University of Innsbruck & online	The European Consortium for Political Research Conference	* 08/2022
Lecture	Intimate Violence in the Time of COVID: Feminist Semiotics of “Safe”	University of Ljubljana	The European Conference on Politics and Gender	* 07/2022
Lecture	Intimate Violence in the Time of Pandemic	Columbia College Chicago	The 20th Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Association	* 06/2022
Lecture	Violence, Security and Family – Spatial Arrangements during COVID-19	Tel-Hai College, Kiryat Shmona	The Israeli Geographical Association Annual Meeting	* 12/2021
Lecture	Intimate Violence – An Epidemic	Israeli Ministry of Health online	The Double-Edged Plague – Family Violence and Sexual Trauma	* 11/2020
Lecture	Feminism, Infrastructures and Women without Status in the City of Haifa	Freie Universität Berlin	The Eighth Berlin Program Interdisciplinary Summer Workshop, Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies	* 06/2019
Invited lecture	How to Be Feminist in Public	University of Kentucky	International Symposium: Comparative Perspectives on #MeToo	* 04/2019
Lecture	How to Be Feminist in Public	National Technical University of Athens	The 8th International Conference of Critical Geography	* 04/2019
Lecture	Diversity, Sexuality and the Emergence of Berlin’s Queer Zion	Jagiellonian University, Kraków	Midterm Conference of the ESA Sexuality Network	* 02/2019
Lecture	How to Be Feminist in Public	Tel-Hai College, Kiryat Shmona	The Gender Studies Programs' Annual Conference	* 02/2019
Invited lecture	Israeli Sabra in the Queer Diaspora: The Chosen Body Revisited	ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry	Queer Israelis in Berlin: Belonging, Resistance, and the Politics of Emigration	* 09/2018
Invited lecture	Archive	Minerva Humanities Center, Tel-Aviv University	Looted and Hidden – Film Screening & Discussion, The Lexicon for Political Theory	03/2018
Invited lecture	How to Be Feminist in Public	Hebrew University, Jerusalem	The Gender and Conflict Lecture Series, The Sophie Davis Forum on Gender, International Conflict Resolution and Peace	03/2018
Lecture	Between the Queerscape and the Ethnoscape: Reading for a Contemporary Nomadic	University of Barcelona	The IV European Geographies of Sexualities Conference	09/2017
Invited lecture	The Vulnerable Feminist	ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry	Reconfiguring Cultural Inquiry	06/2017
Invited lecture	What Therefore Discourse Has Joined Together: Kinship, Performativity and Everyday Use of Pubic Space	Södertörn University Stockholm	Queer(y)ing Kinship in the Baltic Region: An International Workshop, Centre for Baltic and Eastern European Studies,	04/2017
Invited lecture	The Lesbian Complaint: On Kinship, Genre, and Being Public	Minerva Humanities Center, Tel-Aviv University	The Lexicon for Political Theory	01/2017
Lecture	Identity, Ontology and the Emergence of Berlin’s Queer Zion	Frei Universität Berlin	Becoming TransGerman	06/2016
Lecture With Ronit Kark and Tanya Zion-Waldoks	'Paradox of Competing Identities: The Case of Women Leadership	Anaheim Convention Cente, California	The Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Making Organizations Meaningful	08/2016
Invited lecture	Lost and Found: Identity, Ontology and the Emergence of Queer Zion	Zentrum Jüdische Studien, Berlin-Brandenburg	Lecture Series on Hebrew Culture and Thought in Berlin	10/2015
Invited lecture	Race, Sexuality and Identity: The Israeli Queer Diaspora in Berlin	WZB Berlin Social Science Center	Israeli Immigrants in Berlin	10/2015
Lecture	Lost and Found: Identity, Ontology and the Emergence of Queer Zion	Sapienza University of Rome	The III European Geographies of Sexualities Conference	09/2015
Invited response lecture	Queer as a Lifestyle: invited response paper for the session” Straight with a twist”: reflections on heterosexuality beyond the heteronormal	Sapienza University of Rome	The III European Geographies of Sexualities Conference	09/2015
keynote address	A Family Portrait	Polish Academy of Sciences	Queer Kinship and Relationships International Conference	06/2015
Invited lecture	Haunting and the City: Everyday Encounters and Negotiations between Palestinians and Jews in the Diaspora	Hebrew University, Jerusalem	Gender and International Intervention in Violent Conflicts International Workshop, The Sophie Davis Forum on Gender, International Conflict Resolution and Peace	5/2015
Lecture	Walking in the City: Cosmopolitanism, Multiculturalism and Israeli Queers in Berlin	Haifa University	The 55^th Israeli Geographical Association Annual Conference	12/2014
Plenary lecture	A Family Portrait	University of Southern Denmark	The International Conference on Critical Kinship Studies	10/2014
Lecture	Berlin My Love – Haunting and the City	ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry	De-Constituting Wholes: Haunting, Eclipse, Plasticity	07/2014
Lecture	Berlin My Love	Tel Aviv University	An Other Sex 14 - The Israeli Annual Conference for Lesbian & Gay Studies and Queer Theory	06/2014
Lecture with Ronit Kark and Tanya Waldax Zion	Towards Politics of Paradoxes: Feminism, Pedagogy and Social Change	Hebrew University, Jerusalem	Learning from Successes in Community-Academy Partnership	10/2013
Lecture	A Methodology of Damage	University of Lisbon	The II European Geographies of Sexualities Conference	09/2013
Invited Lecture	Queering the Family	Technische Universität, Berlin	Family Technologies Lecture Series	05/2013
Lecture	Lesbian Dramas and the Stories about Them	Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris	Crossroads in Cultural Studies	06/2012
Lecture	Methodologies of Damage: How to Do Things with Separations	Tel Aviv University	An Other Sex 12 - The Twelve Israeli Annual Conference for Lesbian & Gay Studies and Queer Theory	05/2012
Lecture	Separation and the Art of Identity Maintenance	Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan	Gender in Theory and in the Field Conference	05/2012
Lecture	'A Narrative Investigation of Queer Separation: Sexuality and Belonging in Israel	Birkbeck University of London	Beyond Citizenship: Feminism and the Transformation of Belonging Conference	06/2010
Lecture	Queer Separations	Tel Aviv University	An Other Sex 10 - The Tenth Israeli Annual Conference for Lesbian & Gay Studies and Queer Theory	05/2010
Invited lecture	Fantasies about Activism in the Field and in the Academy	Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan	10^th Anniversary of the Gender Studies Program,	01/2010
Lecture	Families We Choose and Those We Don't in Life Stories of Once Married Women Who Chose to Live as lesbians	Kinneret Academic College	Anthropology of the Family, Kinship and Relationships, the 37th Annual Conference of the Israeli Anthropological Society	04/2009
Lecture	Families We Choose and Those We Don't: A Narrative Investigation of Kinship Transformation	University of Huddersfield	Narrative, Memory and Ordinary Lives, Narrative and Memory Research Group 9th Annual Conference	04/2009
Lecture	Disturbed Reading: Resistance and Yielding to the Imperative for Coherence in Life Stories of Once Married Women Who Chose to Live as Lesbians	Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan	Discourse and Gender in Israel Conference	01/2007
Lecture	Notes on a Scandal: Transformation and Transition in Life Stories Of Once-Married Women Who Chose to Live as Lesbians	Women's Education, Research and Resource Centre (WERRC), School of Social Justice, University College Dublin	Lesbian Lives XIV: Lesbian Existence and the Lesbian Continuum Conference	06/2007
Lecture	Significantly Others: Life Stories of Once Married Women Who Chose to Live as Lesbians	Tel Aviv University	An Other Sex 06 - The Sixth Israeli Annual Conference for Lesbian & Gay Studies and Queer Theory	06/2006

2. Invited lectures in seminars and colloquia

Presentation/Comments	Name of Forum	Place of Lecture	Date
The Vulnerable Feminist	The Gender Studies Colloquium	Ben Gurion University, Be’er Sheva	06/2017
Israeli Queer Diaspora in Berlin – Identity, Performativity and Memory	The Memory, Discourse and Diversity Seminar	The department of Social Sciences, Humboldt Universität, Berlin	04/2015
Stopping in the City – Methodological Reflections on Urban Investigation	The Urban Design and Social Change in the European Metropolis Seminar	Technische Universität & Bard College, Berlin	03/2015
A Methodology of Damage	The Gender Laboratory - Institut für Europäische Ethnologie	Humboldt Universität, Berlin	07/2013
Belonging Travels	The Institut für Europäische Ethnologie Colloquia Series	Humboldt Universität, Berlin	06/2013
How to Say Coupledom in the Plural: Intimate Publics and Kinship Scandals	The Lafer Center for Women and Gender Studies’ Colloquia Series	Hebrew University, Jerusalem	03/2012

Link to:
My publications on Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ruth_Preser

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