Nimrod Ben Zeev has received a four-year post-doctoral fellowship at the Van Leer Institute's Polonsky Academy in Jerusalem (https://polonsky.vanleer.org.il/home/). Nimrod is planning to defend his dissertation this summer, and take up the fellowship in October. Nimrod is currently a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation's Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellow, and a Graduate Fellow at the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy. In previous years, his research has been supported by the Social Sciences Research Council's International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF).
Nimrod’s dissertation is entitled: "Foundations of Inequality: Construction, Political Economy, and the Senses in Palestine/Israel, 1918-1973." His committee is: Eve Troutt Powell (Supervisor); Kathy Brown; Heather Sharkey (NELC); Sherene Seikaly (UC Santa Barbara); and On Barak (Tel Aviv University).
Nimrod describes his project on his Departmental webpage:
https://www.history.upenn.edu/people/grad-students/nimrod-ben-zeev