Henriette Dahan Kalev

Henriette Dahan Kalev is a professor emerita from Ben Gurion University in the Negev, Israel. Her fields are political science and gender. She specialises in political protests and gender resistance, mainly in marginalised populations. Dahan Kalev is a Truman Institute For Peace research fellow, at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In recent years her research focused on the following topics: 1. The complex connections between gender and economy, women protests and the states institutions, 2.Transformations in the lives of women in the Middle East and North Africa, 3. Political thought and religion: The gender perspective.
Recently she has published two books: Resistance at the social margins, Resling, Tel Aviv 2018 (Hebrew) and, An anatomy of feminist resistance, Lexington Books, NY books 2019. She now concentrates on a book that will synthesise her last five years research data on Israel, politics and gender. The epicentre of this study is an analysis of the effects of neoliberal economy on gender and marginalised populations since 2008 until now, including Covid-19 pandemic effects. The case studies are taken from women in the Middle East as well as Israel’s economy and the OECD countries.
In the decade before retiring she has founded the Gender Studies Program in the Ben Gurion University and chaired it for four more years. Dahan Kalev spent time researching and teaching in leading universities such as Oxford (2003-2004), NYU (2011-2012) and UCLA (2015).