Calanit Tsalach - Curriculum Vitae Personal Details Calanit Tsalach Spitzer Department of Social Work, The Israeli Center for Qualitative Research Ben-Gurion University of the Negev POB 653, Beer-Sheva 84105, Email: tsalachc@bgu.ac.il, cala02@walla.co.il Education 2008-2014: PhD. Summa cum laude Spitzer Department of Social Work Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Advisors: Prof. Michal Krumer-Nevo, Dr. Yuval Yonay. Dissertation topic: "Experiences of Ethnic Otherness in Academic Spaces" 2002-2004: MA, Summa cum laude Department of Communication Advisor: Dr. Rivka Ribak. MA Thesis Topic: "A Not-So-Rosy Picture: The Construction of Homosexuality in Teen Magazines". 1997-2000: BA, Magna cum laude Department of Sociology and Anthropology Department of Communication Research Interests Ethnicity /class/gender intersection Popular Culture Social construction of groups and places Qualitative methodologies Critical Race Theory 1
Awards and Scholarships 2013 Marianne Amir Award for excellence in research Paulette & Joseph Rose prize for academic excellence in the fields of Social Sciences and the Humanities- The ISEF Foundation The Wolf Foundation award scholarship for excellent doctoral students. 2008-2012 Kreitman scholarship for excellent doctoral students ISEF - scholarship for doctoral students. 2004 Department Excellent M.A student scholarship - The Department of Communication, 2003 Excellence scholarship for M.A. students - The Department of Communication, Excellent M.A proposal scholarship- Women Studies, University of Haifa 1997-1999 Excellence scholarship for B.A. students- Faculty of Social Science, University of Haifa. Publications Articles in refereed journals Tsalach, C. (2013). Between silence and speech: Autoethnography as an othernessresisting practice. Qualitative Inquiry, 19(2), 71-80. Tsalach, C. (2006). "The memory of the past will disappear without a trace': Construction of homosexuality in advice columns in teen magazines" Israeli Sociology: A Journal for the Study of Israeli Society 7(2), 317-350 (in Hebrew). Articles in Books Tsalach, C. (2007). 'Different kind of life': Construction of homosexuality in teen magazines. In G. Rahav, Y.Wozner, F. Azaiza, & M. Wander-Schwartz (eds). 2
Youth in Israel, 2005. (pp. 51-88). Tel-Aviv: Ramot. (in Hebrew) Unrefereed Articles and Research Reports Krumer-Nevo, M., Tsalach, C. & Malka, M. (2009). "Tools for tomorrow: For caucuses youth in Beer-Sheva, first year 2007-2008: A report aimed to practitioners of social well care and community. Beer- Sheva: Ben-Gurion (in Hebrew) Krumer-Nevo, M., Shraga, Y., Tsalach, C. (2007). "An important chapter in life": A follow-up evaluation study. Yedidim. (in Hebrew) Unrefereed Tsalach, C. (2013). Two women with trenzas across time and space. Harvard Journal of Law & Gender, http://harvardjlg.com/2013/03/two-women-with-trenzas-across-time-andspace/. Conference Papers 2013- "So why don't you persue PhD? Normal biographies and hidden barriers on the way to higher education", Research, Practice and Social Change The national conference of Social Work Doctoral Students, The Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, Hebrew University, Jerusalem May, 29. 2012- "Barbequing in Kreitman Fellows club: Auto-Ethnography of insidious micro aggressions", The conference of research students, Spitzer Department of Social Work, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Neve Shalom. Jerusalem, May, 23. 2012 - "Terms of Silence and Speech: an Autoethnographic Look on Ethnic Otherness", The International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, May, 16-19. 2012 "Transitions: an Auto-Ethnographic look on divided habitus between home and academy", The Annual conference of the Israeli Center for Qualitative Methodologies. Ben-Gurion February, 7-8. 2012 "So what do you say mom? On truth and relational ethics in Autoethnographic research", The Annual conference of the Israeli Center for Qualitative Methodologies. Ben-Gurion February, 7-8. - "From Silence to Speech: Auto-ethnography as an Otherness-Resisting Practice", Doing Autoethnography: Here and Now" Graduate Conference, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, November 4-5. (paper accepted) 3
- "From home to the Academy: Auto-Ethnograpic dialectic of gazes", The Annual Conference for ISEF Doctoral Fellows, The Hebrew University, June, 18. 2010- "Between Epistemic Wounds and Social Tears: Auto-Ethnography as Performative Utterance", The International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, May, 26-29. 2010 "Silent Movie: uses of remembering and forgetting in autu-ethnographic of Mizrahi otherness". The Annual Conference of the Israeli Anthropological Association, The Open University, Ra'anana, April, 28-29. 2010 " Between Epistemic Wounds and Social Tears: Auto-Ethnography as Performative Utterance". The Annual conference of the Israeli Center for Qualitative Methodologies. Ben-Gurion February, 17-18. 2008- "talking from my guts: reflection on Mizrahit and academic otherness", The Annual Conference for ISEF Doctoral Fellows, The Hebrew University, June, 18. 2005- "A Different kind of love- Homosexuality Construction in Personal Stories in Teen Magazines", The Annual Conference for Lesbian & Gay Studies and Queer Theory, Tel-Aviv University, May, 8-10. 2005- "'The memory of the Past will disappear without a trace': Construction of homosexuality in advice columns in teen magazines", The Annual Conference of the Sociological Association, Tel-Hai Academic College, February, 16-17. 2004- "A Story of Another Kind: Narrative Construction of Homosexuality in Teen Magazines" The Communication Student Research Conference in Memory of Mark Biano, University of Haifa, December 12. 2004- "'The memory of the Past will disappear without a trace': Construction of homosexuality in advice columns in teen magazines", The Annual Conference for Lesbian & Gay Studies and Queer Theory, Tel-Aviv University, May, 9-10. 2003- "My Mother's Language"- Code Switching between Hebrew and Iraqi-Arabic amongst immigrants from Iraq, The Annual Conference of The Israeli Association for the Study of Language and Society, Jerusalem, June 15. Invited talks 2012 " Writing academically with an accent: Moments of ethnic otherness in academic spaces" Critical Theories Course, Social Work Department, Ben- Gurion 2010 "Writing academically with an accent: Moments of ethnic otherness in 4
academic spaces" Gender & Multiculturalism Course, Social Work Department, Ben-Gurion 2010 "Only in 'Ma'ariv Lanoar' what you read is what there is: Homosexuality in Teen Magazines". The Communication high school students Conference: "research and inquiry in Communication: Terror, censorship and the freedom of speech", Haifa University. 2009 "Only in 'Ma'ariv Lanoar' what you read is what there is: Homosexuality in Teen Magazines". The Gender & Media research Seminar, Sapir College. Teaching Experience: 2014- Lecturer: Advanced Qualitative Methodologies, Spitzer Department of Social Work, Ben-Gurion Feminist Methodologies, Gender Studies Program, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. 2013- current. Lecturer: Israel's Social Structure, Spitzer Department of Social Work, Ben-Gurion Academic Writing, Spitzer Department of Social Work, Ben-Gurion 2012- current. Lecturer: Qualitative Methodologies, Spitzer Department of Social Work, Ben-Gurion 2012-2013 Lecturer: Qualitative Methodologies, Youth Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. - Lecturer: Academic Writing, Spitzer Department of Social Work, Ben-Gurion - Teaching Assistant Qualitative Methodologies, Spitzer Department of Social Work, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev). 2009-: Qualitative Methodologies, Social Work Department, Sapir College 2003-2004: Introduction to Women's Studies. Woman Studies Program, University 5
of Haifa. Previous Research Activity 10/2006-09/2008 Research coordinator - "Ethnicity, Gender and Class in the Lives of Immigrant Youth from the Caucasus". Principal investigator: Dr. Michal Krumer-Nevo, the Spitzer Department of Social Work, Ben Gurion University of the Negev. 2005-2007 Research assistant "Religion, Media and Culture in Israel- The case of Rabi Amnon Yitzhak". Principal investigator: Dr. Michele Rosenthal, the Department of Communication, 2005-2006 Research assistant -Spirituality in organizations. Principal investigators: Prof. Tamar Katriel, the Department of Communication, Dr. Nurit Zaidman, Department of Business Administration, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Research assistant "Body images in commercial T.V". Principal investigators: Dr. Amit Kama, the department of Communication, Emek Yezreel Academic College. Dr. Dalia Liran-Alper, the College of Management, Academic Studies Division. 8/2005 Writing a comparative report for the Second Authority for Television and Radio regarding Archives for Broadcast Materials. http://hevra.haifa.ac.il/com/vmrc/a-v-archive-report-050811.htm Research assistant "Hatzala" narratives". Principal investigator: Prof. Tamar Katriel, the department of Communication, Research assistant "Mass communication as a resource in Social Work". Principal investigator: Prof. Amnon Boehm. Department of Social Work, University of Haifa. 2002-2004 Research assistant in Project "domestication of technologies in cultural contexts" Principal investigator: Dr. Rivka Ribak, the department of Communication, Haifa University 2002-2003 Research assistant "Coverage of social groups and places in the Israeli media" Principal investigator: Dr. Eli Avraham, the department of Communication, 6
Member in Scientific Committees The Scientific Committee of the fifth Conference for Qualitative Methodologies. The Scientific Committee of the third Conference for ISEF Doctoral Fellows. 2010 The Scientific Committee of the forth Conference for Qualitative Methodologies. Academic Activities 2013 Academic counselor for ISEF B.A studemts Member, the third Conference for Doctoral students, ISEF BA students' progarm 2010 Chair, a Panel at the forth Conference for Qualitative Methodologies Member, the Academic program Committee of the ISEF Doctoral Forum 2009 Member, the Qualitative Doctoral Students, The Israeli Center for Qualitative Research Member, Feminists methodologies reading group, The Israeli Center for Qualitative Research Member, queer reading group, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev ISEF BA students academic counseling, Sapir College Other Work Experience 2003-2004 Women Studies Program coordinator, 7