Hi, I'm Yael. I'm from Jerusalem, where I live with my children. I joined the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Hebrew University in Fall 2015. I am currently also an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Regional studies at Harvard University. I teach sociology of Empires, Law & Society, Transnational historical sociology, Bureaucracy and the state, Society in Israel and Thesis workshop. I'm also fortunate to lead the honors program for undergraduates aspiring to complete their BA and MA in four years in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. You can find me in person in my office at the department at Hebrew University, or email me. Here is my website https://scholars.huji.ac.il/yaelberda/homeRight here below is my formal bio: Dr. Yael Berda is an Israeli Lawyer and holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology at Princeton University. Born in New York City and raised in West Jerusalem, Yael has been highly engaged in social justice activism and politics in Israel/Palestine. In 2014-2015, and 2016-17 she has been an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs in Cambridge, MA and holds a position as Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Hebrew University. During the 2018 Winter Session term, Dr. Yael will be teaching an intensive graduate seminar on "Doing" Transnational Historical Sociology at Harvard University. Her first book, The Bureaucracy of Occupation in the West Bank, was published in July 2012, by the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem and Hakibutz Hameuhad Publishing (Hebrew). Her latest book is Living Emergency: Israel's Permit Regime in the Occupied West Bank (Stanford University Press, 2017).Yael graduated from the faculty of Law at Hebrew University and received her MA (Magna cum laude) from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University. Her master's thesis looked at the bureaucracy of the occupation in the Palestinian territory. The first institutional ethnography of the permit regime in the West Bank, it explores the influence of Colonial administrative legacies on the contemporary military civil administration in the occupied territories.Yael's current book project examines the persistence of bureaucratic legacies following independence in former colonies, focusing on population management practices and the construction of political membership in states afflicted by partition plans: Israel, Cyprus, and India. Her work has been recognized and supported by grants from SSRC, The National Science Foundation, The ACLS, The Ford Foundation and others. She is currently working on the manuscript of Administrative Memory and Colonial Legacies in India, Israel & Cyprus. Before Princeton, Yael was a practicing Human rights lawyer in Israel, first in the law offices of Avidgor Feldman, and then pursued her own practice in Jerusalem focusing on Administrative and Constitutional Law, specifically cases of freedom of speech, freedom of association, and freedom of movement. She has argued cases in the Israeli Supreme court, administrative courts and the military criminal courtRead more about this authorRead less about this author