Iddo Tavory
PhD candidate in Sociology, UCLA (2008). MA in Sociology, UCLA (2007). MA in Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University (Cum Laude, 2004). BA in Philosophy and Psychology, Tel Aviv University (Cum Laude, 1999). BA in Sociology, Tel Aviv University (Cum Laude, 1999)
Phone: 310-404-9433
Fax: 310-206-9838
E-mail:
iddotavory@ucla.edu
Subfield
Ethnographic Methodology, Sociological Theory, Culture and Interaction, Sociology of Religion, Urban Sociology
Research Interests
My dissertation is a historical and ethnographic study of everyday community and religiosity in a Jewish Orthodox neighborhood in Los Angeles. Other than that, I am involved in work regarding the links between culture, interaction and the AIDS epidemic in Malawi (where I try to spend my summers), and more theoretical writings regarding methodology, time, culture, and interactionist theory. I have also written about the New Age movement in Israel, based on an ethnographic project I conducted while studying at Tel Aviv University.
Publications
Peer Reviewed Publications:
Frth. - Tavory, Iddo (Forthcoming) "Of Yarmulkes and Categories: Delegating Boundaries and the Phenomenology of Interactional Expectation." Theory and Society. available on "online first": http://www.springerlink.com/content/w5125153536l1871/fulltext.pdf
* A French translation of "Of Yarmulkes and Categories" is forthcoming in M. Berger, D. Cefai, C. Gayet-Viaud, and J. Stavo-Debauge, (eds.), Ethnographies du Politique, Bruxelles, P.I.E. Peter Lang - Action publique.
Frth. - Tavory, Iddo (Forthcoming) "The Hollywood Shtetl: From Ethnic Enclave to Religious Destination." Ethnography, 11(1).
Frth. - Goodman, Yehuda and Iddo Tavory (Forthcoming) Crafting Selves, Building Community, Erasing the Nation: A Pragmatist Reading of New Age Gatherings in Israel. Sociologia Israelit [In Hebrew, equal authorship].
2009 - Tavory, Iddo and Ann Swidler (2009). "Condom Semiotics: Meaning and Condom Use in Rural Malawi." American Sociological Review, 74(2): 171-189. [Lead Article in Issue]
2009 - Tavory, Iddo and Stefan Timmermans (2009) "Two Cases of Ethnography: Grounded Theory and the Extended Case Method." Ethnography 10(3): 243-263 [Lead Article in Issue].
2009 - Tavory, Iddo and Yehuda Goodman (2009). "’A Collective of Individuals’: Between Self and Solidarity in a Rainbow Gathering." Sociology of Religion, 70(3): 262-285.
Non-peer Reviewed Publications:
2009 - Tavory, Iddo (2009) "The Structure of Flirtation: On the Construction of Interactional Ambiguity." Studies in Symbolic Interaction, 33: 59-74.
2007 - Tavory, Iddo (ed.) (2007) Dancing in a Thorn Field: The New Age Spirituality in Israel. Tel Aviv: Hakibutz Hameuhad Press. [Book: In Hebrew].
• The Book Includes Two Chapters by Myself: "God’s Energy: the Encounter between the New Age and the Social Sciences." pp. 7-25; and "The Rainbow and “Babylon”: Dynamics of Resistance and Continuity." pp. 89-119.
2007 - Timmermans, Stefan and Iddo Tavory (2007). "Advancing Ethnographic Research through Grounded Theory Practice." In Kathy Charmaz and Anthony Bryant (Eds.) Handbook of Grounded Theory. London: Sage. pp. 493-513.
2004 - Tavory Iddo (2004). Weeds in Heaven: Religiosity in Israel. Sociologia Israelit 4(2): 144-147. [In Hebrew]
Work in Progress and Under Review (Drafts Actually Available):
- Tavory, Iddo (Under Review) "Action and the Moral Object: Moral Density in a Jewish Orthodox Community."
- Tavory, Iddo and Michelle Poulin (Under Review) "Sex Work and the Construction of Intimacies: Institutions and Culture in Rural Malawi."
- Tavory, Iddo (Under Review) "Liturgy and Interaction: Public Worship in a Jewish Orthodox Community."
- Eliasoph, Nina and Iddo Tavory (Work in Progress) "Modes of Beckoning: Culture, Interaction and the Organization of Narrative Futures."
- Tavory, Iddo and Stefan Timmermans (Work in Progress) "Ethnography and its Double: The Pragmatics and Poetics of Culture and Interaction."
- Tavory, Iddo (Under Review) "The Neighborhood, the Club and the Shadow: Research Strategies and the Definition of 'Community'."
- Katz, Jack and Iddo Tavory (Work in Progress) Jewish Neighborhoods in Los Angeles, Now and Then
Grants and Awards
2010: Dissertation Year Fellowship Award
2005-2009: UCLA Department Fellowship
2007: Globalization Africa Fellowship
2007, 2008: QGE Summer Grants
Advisors
Committee: Jack Katz (Chair), Stefan Timmermans, Rogers Brubaker, David Myers
Conference Presentations
2009 - "Liturgy and Interaction: Public Worship in a Jewish Orthodox Community." Invited Presentation at the Northwestern Ethnography Working Group, Evanston, October.
2009 - "Action and the Moral Object: Moral Density in a Jewish Orthodox Community." Invited presentation at the University of South California Religion and Public Life Seminar Series. USC, Los Angeles, March.
2008 - “Using Diaries as a Research Method.” Invited lecture at Brown University Qualitative Methodology Working Group. Brown University, Providence, November.
2008 - "The Future Tense: Two Ethnographic Studies of Problematic Negotiations of a Temporal Trajectory." ISA, Barcelona, September (with Nina Eliasoph – Nina is first author).
2008 - "Money, Sex and Institutional Embeddedness: Sex Work and Exchange in Rural Malawi." ASA, Boston, August. (with Michelle Poulin)
2008 - "Revelations of Community: Personal providence in an Orthodox Jewish Neighborhood." Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Religion, Boston, July.
2008 - "Meanings of Condom Use in Rural Malawi." NAC Conference, Lilongwe, Malawi, June. (with Ann Swidler, presentation given by Ann Swidler)
2008 - "Walking the Streets: Danger and the Construction of Neighborhood Experience in a Jewish Orthodox Community." Invited lecture at the Comparative Urban Studies Workshop, Central European University, Budapest, May.
2008 - "Sanctifying Neighborhood Identity: From Ethnic Enclave to Religious Neighborhood," Urban Ethnography Conference, New Haven, April.
2007 - "Dancing in a Thorn Field: The New Age Movement in Israel." Invited lecture at Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, May.
2007 - “Temporality and Flirtation: Actualization Practices and the Structure of Sexualized Interaction.” Couch/Stone Symposium, Urbana-Champaign, April.
2007 - “Seeing Religiosity: Embodied Distinctions in a Jewish Orthodox Community.” Stonybrook Ethnography Conference, New York, March. (**Also presented under the same title as an invited lecture at the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies, January 2008**).
2004 - “The Rainbow and “Babylon”: Dynamics of Resistance and Continuity.” Israeli Anthropological Society, Sd'e Boker: April [In Hebrew]
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