Visiting Professor
Professor Yoav Peled is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Tel Aviv University and in 2016–2017 a Leverhulme Professorial Fellow in the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex. His book, co-authored with Gershon Shafir, Being Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship (Cambridge University Press, 2002) won the 2002 Albert Hourani Award of the Middle East Studies Association of North America for best book in Middle East studies published that year. He is co-author, with Horit Herman Peled, of The Religionization of Israeli Society (Routledge, forthcoming) and co-editor, with John Ehrenberg, of Israel and Palestine: Alternative Perspectives on Statehood (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016). He is also a member of the editorial boards of Ethnic and Racial Studies and of Citizenship Studies.
Yoav has held visiting appointments at the University of Virginia, the New School for Social Research, the University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers University, the University of California, San Diego, among others. He is also a licensed attorney (in Israel) specialising in labour law.
Contact Details
Email: poli1@post.tau.ac.il
Research Interests
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Israeli society and politics
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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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Ethnic democracy
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Citizenship
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Ethnic relations
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Religion and politics
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Constitutional law
Other Selected Publications
Yoav Peled, The Challenge of Ethnic Democracy: The State and Minority Groups in Israel, Poland and Northern Ireland (London: Routledge, 2014).
Yoav Peled, Class and Ethnicity in the Pale: The Political Economy of Jewish Workers' Nationalism in Late Imperial Russia (London: Macmillan and New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989).
Yoav Peled, Noah Lewin-Epstein, Guy Mundlak and Jean Cohen (eds), Democratic Citizenship and War (London: Routledge, 2010).
Shlomo Ben-Ami, Yoav Peled and Alberto Spektorowski (eds), Ethnic Challenges to the Modern Nation State (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000).
Yoav Peled and Doron Navot, 'Private Incarceration: Towards a Philosophical Critique', Constellations 19/2 (2012), pp. 216-234.
Yoav Peled, 'The Viability of Ethnic Democracy: Jewish Citizens in Inter-War Poland and Palestinian Citizens in Israel', Ethnic and Racial Studies 34/1 (2011), pp. 83–102.
Horit Herman Peled and Yoav Peled, 'Post-Post-Zionism? Confronting the Death of the Two-State Solution', New Left Review 67 (2011), pp. 97–118.
Doron Navot and Yoav Peled, 'Towards a Constitutional Counter-Revolution in Israel?', Constellations 16/3 (2009), pp. 429–444.
Yoav Peled, 'The Evolution of Israeli Citizenship: An Overview', Citizenship Studies 12/3 (2008), pp. 335–345.
Yoav Peled, 'Citizenship Betrayed: Israel’s Emerging Immigration and Citizenship Regime', Theoretical Inquiries in Law 8/2 (2007), pp. 333–358.