Yael Berda

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Affiliate, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion (2019-2021).
Gerard Weinstock Visiting Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Harvard University (2019-2020)
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Research interests: Intersections of sociology of law, bureaucracy and the state, race and racism and sociology of empires.

 

Bio: Yael is currently exploring two projects: one looking at citizenship as a mobility regime in societies with pronounced racial/national inequalities, particularly Israel/Palestine and India and the other is an exploration of cultural appropriation, focusing on the inequalities of boundary crossing between racialized groups.

 

This information is accurate as of the affiliate year indicated. (updated 12.26.2025)