1 Liora Gvion Ph.d tenured senior lecturer The Kibbutizm College of Education, 149 Namir Road Tel Aviv, Israel Gvion @macam.ac.il Education - Post Doctoral Studies: Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Hebrew University. Jerusalem. Israel. October 1991- September 1993. 1 - Ph.D: Department of Sociology. State University of New York at Stony Brook. Stony Brook New York 11974. U.S.A. September 1986 September 1991. - M.A: Department of Sociology. Tel Aviv University. Tel Aviv. Israel. October 1981- July 1985. - B.A: Department of Sociology and Department of Theatre. Tel Aviv University. Tel Aviv. Israel. October 1978 July 1981. Publications A. Books 1) Gvion, L. 2006. Culinary Bridges versus Culinary Barriers: Social and Political Barriers of Palestinian Cookery in Israel. Jerusalem: Carmel (in Hebrew). *2) English version of the book: Gvion, L. 2012. Beyond Hummus and Falafel: Social and Cultural Aspects of Palestinian Food in Israel. Berkeley: University of California Press. Translated by David and Ilana Wesley. Modified and edited for the American reader by Liora Gvion. B. Peer-Reviewed Articles 1 Reading Ethnicity via American cookbooks: 1850-1990. Dissertation submitted to State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY, USA. Fall 1991.
2 1) Gvion, Liora. If you ever saw and opera singer naked: the social construction of the singer s body. European Journal of Cultural Studies. (forthcoming). 2) Gvion Liora, We No Longer Eat in the Dining Hall : The Making of the New Kibbutz Family. Food and Foodways, forthcoming (pending revisions) 3) Tradition and Resistance: The Case of Palestinian Restaurants in Israel. Journal of Intercultural Studies. Vol. 35 (4), 366-384 4) Gvion, Liora. 5 Two narratives of Jewish food in Israel. Studies in Contemporary Jewry. Forth coming. 5) Gvion, Liora 2012. We are more of a Family Now: Food, Motherhood and Family in the Privatized Kibbutz. Gilui Daat. Vol 1 (1): 99-119. (In Hebrew) 6) Gvion, L. 2011. Cooking, Food and Masculinity: Palestinian Men in Israeli Society. Men and Masculinities. vol. 14, 4: pp. 408-429. 7) Gvion, L. 2011. Higher Education as a means of constructing a Russian Ethnicity in Israel. Young. 19:1 (2011): 25 44. 8) Gvion, Liora. 2009. The Painful Body: Extreme Thinness as a Working Tool among Dance Students Teachers. Dapim, Vol 48: 134-162. (In Hebrew). 9 Gvion, Liora. 2009. What's Cooking in America: Cookbooks Narrate Ethnicity: 1850-1990. Food Culture and Society. Vol 12 (1): 53-76 10) Gvion, Liora. 2009. Narrating Modernity and Tradition: The Case of Palestinian Food in Israel. Identities. Vol 16(4): 391-413.
3 11) Gvion, Liora. 2009. Organized Leisure as Promoting Nostalgia: Israeli Senior Citizens Singing in Yiddish. Leisure Studies. 28(1): 51-65. 12) Gvion, Luora., & Trostler, Naomi. 2008. From Spaghetti and Meatballs through Hawaiian Pizza To Sushi: The Changing Nature of Ethnicity in American Restaurants. Journal of Popular Culture. 41(6):950-975. 13) Gvion, Liora & Luzzatto, Diana. 2008. Children Second to Bureaucrats: Who Cares about Children with Special Needs? Israeli Sociology, Vol 9 (2) 443-466. (In Hebrew). 14) Gvion, Liora. 2008. Dancing Bodies, Decaying Bodies: The Interpretation of Anorexia among Israeli Dancers. Young. Vol 16(1): 67-87. 15) Gvion Liora. & Luzzatto, Diana. 2008. Affluent Parents Advocacy for Special Education Children's Rights vis-à-vis Placement Committees in Israel. Education, Citizenship and Social Justice. Vol 3(2): 147-166. 16) Trostler, Naomi. & Gvion, Liora 2007. Trends in Restaurant Menus in 1950-2000. Nutrition Today. Vol 42(1): 255-262. 17) Luzzatto, Diana., & Gvion, Liora. 2007. The Coming of the Young and Sexy Lesbian: The Israeli Urban Scenario. Journal of Social Semiotics. Vol 17(1): 21-41. 18) Gvion, Liora. 2006. The Social Construction of Russian Spaces: Higher Education as a Vehicle for Segmented Assimilation JETEN Vol 2(1): 55-67 19) Gvion. Liora. 2006. Cuisines of Poverty as a Means of Empowerment: Arab Food in Israel, Agriculture and Human Values. Vol 23:299-312.
4 20) Gvion, Liora. 2006. Culinary Knowledge and Discourses of Identity: Palestinian Food in Israeli Society. Journal of ETEN. Vol 1(2): 35-46. 21) Luzzatto, Diana., & Gvion, Liora2004. Feminine But Not Femme: The Dual Lesbian Body. Journal of Homosexuality. Vol 48(1): 43-77. 22) Gvion, Liora., & Luzzatto, Diana. 2004. The Pygmalion Syndrome: The Case of Mizrachi Lesbians in Israel. Identities. Vol 11: 65-87. 23) Gvion, Liora & Luzzatto, Diana. 2004. Reflections on Participation in the Public Discourse: Parents to Children with Special Needs Exercising Democracy. In N. Hall. & Springate, D. (eds.),. Occasional Papers 2004. London The University of Greenwich: 63-73. 24) Gvion, Liora. & Luzzatto, Diana. 2003. The Route to Success Travels through Interethnic Love: Sexual Orientation, Ethnic Identity and Educational Achievement amongst Ethnic Lesbians in Israel. in N. Hall. & Springate, D. (eds.),. Occasional Papers 2003. London The University of Greenwich:13-26. 25) Gvion, Liora. 2002. Who Is Afraid of Cooking Vegetables: Changing Conceptions of American Vegetarianism 1850-1990. European Journal of American Culture. Vol 21(3): 146-159. 26) Gvion, Liora. & Trsotler, Naomi. 2000. Street Food Vending: The Israeli Scenario. In Simpopoulos and Bhat (eds.), Street Foods. World Review of Nutrition and Dietetics: 155-168. 27) Gvion. Liora. 1990. Why Do Vegetarian Restaurants Serve Hamburgers: Toward an Understanding of a Cuisine. Semiotica. Vol 80(1/2): 61-79. C. Peer Reviewed Chapters in Books
5 1) Gvion, Liora and Patkin. Dorit. 2015. All You Are Talking About Does Not Apply to My Household : Israeli Male Teachers, Domestic Duties and Masculine Identity. In Szabo Michelle (ed.) Masculinity and Domesticity (tentative title). England: Berg 2) Gvion, Liora. 2015. Coming here makes me a Better Person : African Refugees and the Decaying Israeli Middle Class. In Nancy, L. Stockdale (ed.), Historical and Contemporary Foodways in the Middle East and North Africa. (tentative title). University of Arkansas Press. 3) Gvion, L. 2009. Entitled to Eat: Food Democracy and the Right to Maintain One's Culture. In Britt Unni Wilhelmsen and Sidsel Hadler Olson (eds). Democracy in Education. Norway. Bergen University College Journal: 85-96. 4) Gvion, L. & D. Luzzatto, 2005. Mobilizing a Lesbian Identity as a Means for Educational Achievement: Mizrachi Lesbians in Israel. in Helve, H. & Gunilla Holm (eds.), Contemporary Youth Research. October 2005. England. Ashgate: 185-196. D. Academic Non-Refereed Chapters in Books 1) Gvion, Liora. 2005. Hummus, Couscous, Sushi: Food and Ethnicity in Israeli Society. In Kleinberg, Aviad. (ed.), A Full Belly: Rethinking Food and Society in Israel, Tel- Aviv: Keter and University of Tel Aviv PressL 32-78. (In Hebrew). E. Entries in Encyclopedias 1) Gvion, Liora & Aliza Stark. 2013-4. Israeli Food in America. In Lucy Long (editor) Ethnic Food In the United States. 2) Stark, Aliza & Gvion, L. 2011. Food in Israel. In Ken Albala (ed.) Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia: Volume 1, Africa and the Middle- East.. California: Santa Barbara. Greenwood: 259-266.
6 F. Conference Papers 1) Gvion, Liora. 2006. Old-Russian values : Second generation of Russian immigrants in Israeli society. The Proceedings of the 16 th Annual Conference of the European Teacher Education Network. Hall, N. & Springate, D. (eds.) 2) Gvion, Liora. & Luzzatto, Diana. 2005. Mediating Between the Private and the Public Domain: Ethic Dilemmas and Informed Consent. Budrich-verlag CD Rom. 3) Gvion, Liora. & Luzzatto, Diana 2004. Making Private Issues Public: Ethic dilemmas versus Moral Obligations. RC 33 Publications. Conference DC ROM. 4) Gvion, Liora. & Luzzatto, Diana. 2004. Saving Our Children: Placement Committees as a Discursive Field. The Proceedings of the 14 th Annual Conference of the European Teacher Education Network. Hall, N. & Springate, D. (eds.),: 16-22. 5) Gvion, Liora. & Luzzatto, Diana. 2003. My Fair Lady: Ethnic Identity and Educational Achievement Amongst Mizrachi Lesbians in Israel. The Proceedings of the 13 th Annual Conference of the European Teacher Education Network. Hall, N. & Springate, D. (eds: 15-22. 6) Gvion, Liora. 2002. Teachers to the Nature of Democracy in Israel: An overview of a College Curriculum as a Reflection of Politic. The Proceedings of the 12 th Annual Conference of the European Teacher Education Network. Hall, N. & Springate, D. (eds.),: 30-35. G. Academic Non-Refereed Articles 1) Gvion, Liora. 2014. The Carmel Food Market: Public Spaces and Imagined Mobility. Education and Context, 36:197-220. 2) Gvion, Liora. & Luzzatto, Diana. 2009. I Can be Both: Sexy and Lesbian. Education and Context, Vo. 31: 215-234. (In Hebrew). 3) Gvion, Liora. 2008. What s Between Food and Democracy? Education and Context, Vo. 30: 215-232. (In Hebrew).
7 4) Gvion, Liora. 2007. The Social Construction of Russian Venues: Higher Education as a Vehicle for Segmented Assimilation. Education and Context, Vol. 29: 151-166. (In Hebrew). 5) Gvion, Liora. 2006. Food, Poverty, National Identity and Empowerment: The Case of Palestinian Citizens of Israeli Society. Education and Context, Vol. 28: 165-180. (In Hebrew). 6) Gvion, Liora & Eliyahu Rosie, 2003. May He Rest in Peace: Obituaties as a Looking Glass into the Ideological Changes in Israeli Society. Education and Context, Vol. 25: 211-230. (In Hebrew). 7) Gvion, Liora & Eckstein Tamar. 2002. Why is the Dancer so Skinny: The Normalization of Anorexia Nervoza Among Dancers. Education and Context, Vol. 24: 91-106. (In Hebrew). 8) Gvion, Liora. 2001. In the Tavern of Tchestohov: The Social Construction of Yiddish Culture in a Multicultural Society. Education and Context, Vol. 23: 221-240. (In Hebrew). H. Review Articles 1) Liora Gvion. Purvis, Philip. 2013. Purvis, Philip (ed.), Masculinity in Opera: gender, history and New Musicology. New-York: Routledge. 265 pages. Men and Masculinities, Forthcoming. 2) Gvion, Liora. Food For Thought: Transnational Contested Identities and Food Practices of Russian-Speaking Jewish Migrants in Israel and Germany. A Review of Julian Bersntein s book. Forthcoming. 3) Gvion, L. 1990. "Dining Out: A Sociology of Modern Manners." A Review of J. Finkelstein's Book. American Journal of Sociology. I. Conferences 1) Gvion, Liora and Dorit, Patkin. 2015. Women Have a Feel for Cooking, Men Don t : Why Do Men Abstain From Domestic Cooking? Paper to
8 be presented at the IEHCA Conference on Food History and Food Studies in Tours, University of Tours, France, March 2015. 2) Gvion, Liora. 2014 Food, African Refugees and the Decaying Israeli Middle Class: The Case of Marak 2 Lewinsky. Paper to be presented at the Annual Meetings of AFHVS, ASFS, and SAFN. Burlington, Vermont. 3) Gvion, Liora. Is There Jewish Food in Israel? paper presented at Global Gateways and Local Connections Participant. Annual Meetings of AFHVS, ASFS, and SAFN. NYU, New York June 2012. 4) Gvion, Liora. Is There Jewish Food in Israel? paper presented at the 28th Annual International Conference of the Association for Israel Studies. Haifa, Israel, June 25-27, 2012. University of Haifa 5) Liora Gvion, Two food narratives, two identities and one national cuisine: The story of Jewish food in Israel. Paper presented at the ISA annual meetings in Buenos Aires, August 1-4, 2012. 6) Gvion, Liora. The Privatization of the Kibbutz Communal Dining Room and its Effect on the Family in the Kibbutz paper presented at Food & Agriculture under the Big Sky: People, Partnerships, Policies: the Joint Annual Meetings of AFHVS, ASFS, and SAFN. University of Montana, Missoula, June 2011. 7) Gvion, L. I'd like to have hummus, tahini and shishlik : Palestinian restaurants in Israel as political arenas for experiencing leisure the 13th Annual Mediterranean Studies Association International, held at the Universidad de Salamanca, Spain, May 26-29, 2010. 2 Marak means soup (in Hebrew) and Lewinsky is the name of the little park in which the refugees lived.
9 8) Gvion, L. Food Markets as Indices of Social Change: the Carmel Market in Tel-Aviv. Paper presented at the ASFS meetings, May 2009. State College, Pennsylvania, USA. 9) Gvion, Liora. A Queen for a Day: Leisure Activities as Reproducing Gender and Ethnic Inequalities. Paper presented at a two day conference Leisure in Islamic Societies. Jerusalem, the Hebrew University, January 2009. (in Hebrew). 10) Gvion, L. Cooking, masculinity and the guardians of culture: the case of Palestinian cooks in Israel. Paper presented at the ASFS meetings, July 2008. New Orleans, USA. 11) Gvion, L. Women's ways of innovating culture versus men's ways of preserving tradition: culinary practices in the course of identity formation: the case of Palestinian food in Israeli society. Paper presented at the British Sociological Association Meetings, April 2007, University of East London, London. 12) Gvion, L. Who Else Knows Who is Yevtushenko? Second Generation of Russian Immigrants in Israeli Society. Paper presented at the 16 th annual Conference of the European Teacher Education Network. Leiden, the Netherlands. February 2006. 13) Gvion, L. Culinary Cultures and the Politics of Ethnic Identities: the Case of Palestinians in Israeli Society. Paper presented at an international conference titled: Making Use of Culture to be held at the University of Manchester, Manchester, GB in January the 22 nd 2005. 14) Gvion, L. The Coming of the Young and Sexy Lesbian: The Israeli Urban Scenario. Paper presented at an international conference titled: Childhoods 2005 Oslo, Children and Youth in Emerging and Transforming Societies (with Diana Luzzatto). Oslo, June 2005.
10 15) Gvion, L. Dancing Bodies, Miserable Women and the Social Production of Anorexia Nervosa. Paper presented at an international conference titled: Childhoods 2005 Oslo, Children and Youth in Emerging and Transforming Societies. Oslo, June 2005. 16) Gvion, L. Negotiating Hierarchies of Inequality: The Case of Children with Special Needs. Paper presented at the 37 th world congress of the International Institute of Sociology. Stockholm, July 2005(with Diana Luzzatto). 17) Gvion, L. Making Private Issues Public: Ethics Dilemmas Versus Moral Obligations. paper presented at the Sixth International Conference on Logic and Methodology. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. August 16-20. 2004 (with Diana Luzzatto). 18) Gvion, L. Domestic Knowledge as A Source of Identity Formation: Arab Women in Israel as Carriers of Culinary Knowledge. Paper Presented at the Annual International Conference of the Mediterranean Society; Barcelona, May 27-30 2004. `19) Gvion, L. Saving Our Children: Placement Committees as a Discursive Field. Paper presented at the 14 th annual Conference of the European Teacher Education Network. Viana do Castello, Portugal. February 2004. (with Diana Luzzatto). 20) Gvion, L. The New Lesbian Body as a Semantic Field. Paper presented at the Conference: Sexuality After Foucault Manchester, England; November 28-30, 2003. (with Diana Luzzatto). 21) Gvion, L. Cuisines of Poverty as Means of Empowerment: Arab Food In Israel. Paper presented at the Poverty, Food and Health in Welfare International Conference. Lisbon, Portugal. July 1-4. Lisbon Portugal.
11 22) Gvion, L. Food and the Politics of Identities: The Case of Arab Cuisine in Israel Paper presented at the Annual conference of the Mediterranean Society Budapest, Hungary. May 2003. 23) Gvion, L. My Fair Lady: Ethnic Identity and Educational Achievement Amongst Mizrachi Lesbians in Israel. Paper presented at the 13 th annual Conference of the European Teacher Education Network. Groningen The Netherlands. February 2003. (with Diana Luzzatto). 24) Gvion, L. Teachers to the Nature of Democracy in Israel: An overview of a College Curriculum as a Reflection of Politic. Paper presented at the 12 th annual Conference of the European Teacher Education Network. London. England. February 2002.