Ilana F. Silber#
| Membership Number: | 5121 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ISRAEL |
| Homepage(s): | https://sociology.biu.ac.il/en/node/412 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 Visiting Fellow, Principal's Guest, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies. March-June
- 2013 - 2014 Visiting Scholar, The Center for Cultural Sociology, Department of Sociology, Yale University
- 2010 - to date Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Bar-Ilan University
- 1998 - 2010 Senior Lecturer (tenure 2003), Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Bar-Ilan University
- 1999 - 2006 Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology; the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in
- Interpretative Studies, Bar-Ilan University
- 1999 Guest Lecturer, Graduate Program of the Rothberg School for Foreign Students, the Hebrew University
- 1998 Guest, Institute of Advanced Studies , Hebrew University
- 1994 - 1995 Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Sociology, Princeton University
- 1992 - 1997 Lecturer, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University
- 1990 - 1992 Fellow Lecturer, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University
- 1988 - 1989 Fellow, Truman Institute, Hebrew University
- 1987 - 1988 Lecturer, Social Studies, Harvard University
- 1986 - 1988 Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Anthropology, Harvard University
- 1983 - 1986 Instructor, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University
- 1980 - 1983 Assistant, Dept. of Sociology, Hebrew University
- Honorary Appointments:
- 2007 - 2008 Member, Research Group Morality, Body, Society. The Jerusalem Van Leer Institute
- 2008 Member, Research Group Economics and Sociology, The Jerusalem Van Leer Institute
- 2014 Faculty Fellow, The Center for Cultural Sociology, Department of Sociology, Yale University
- 2017 Research Associate, Center for Global Generosity
- 2018 Co-Director, Center for Cultural Sociology, Bar-Ilan University
Fields of Scholarship
- Sociology of gift-relationships
- Sociological theory
- Cultural sociology
- Sociology of religion
- Sociology of philanthropy
- Comparative historical sociology
Honours and Awards
- 1982 Alex Berger Prize, Faculty of Social Sciences, Hebrew University
- 1985 - 1986 Israeli Research Foundation Fellowship
- 1987 - 1988 Pearlman Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Harvard University
- 1988 The Alex Berger Prize for an Outstanding PhD Dissertation in the Social Sciences, Hebrew University
- 1989 - 1990 Lady Davis Fellowship
- 1991 Faculty of Social Sciences Research Award, Hebrew University
- 1992 - 1993 Golda Meir Award
- 1994 - 1995 USIEF Fulbright American Research Fellowship
- 2001 Research Grant from the Faculty of Social Sciences, Bar-Ilan University
- 2001 - 2003 Research Grant from the Israeli Science Foundation ($28.000, Grant No.4617)
- 2004 - present. Faculty Fellow, The Center for Cultural Sociology, Department of Sociology, Yale University
- 2019 Fellow (Guest of the Principal), Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala
