Yuval Feinstein Department of Sociology and Anthropology University of Haifa Mount Carmel, Haifa Israel, 31905 Email: fyuval@soc.haifa.ac.il Updated June 7, 2016 EDUCATION 2012 PhD., Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles 2008 M.A., Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles 2006 M.A. (Summa cum laude), Sociology, University of Haifa 2003 B.A. (Summa cum laude), Sociology and Anthropology, University of Haifa 2003 B.A. (Cum laude), Honors Program, University of Haifa CURRENT EMPLOYMENT Lecturer (tenure track), Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Haifa OFFICES IN UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC ADMINISTRAION 2013-date Chair, undergraduate Studies, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Haifa. 2012 Member of the undergraduate studies committee, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Haifa. BEST PAPER AWARDS Elise M. Boulding Graduate Student Paper Award of the Peace, War, and Social Conflict Section of the American Sociological Association (2012) Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award of the Sociology of Emotions section of the American Sociological Association (2012) Best Doctoral Student Paper Award of the Nationalism Section of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (2012) Best Article Award of the Comparative and Historical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association (2011)
Yuval Feinstein Updated June 7, 2016 Page 2 Elise M. Boulding Graduate Student Paper Award of the Peace, War, and Social Conflict Section of the American Sociological Association (2010) Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award of the Sociology of Emotions section of the American Sociological Association (2010) PUBLICATIONS Articles in refereed journals Feinstein, Yuval. 2016. Pulling the trigger: How nationalism increases support for military action via the generation of and hubris. Sociological Science 3:317-334. *Elise M. Boulding Graduate Student Paper Award of the Peace, War, and Social Conflict Section of the American Sociological Association (2012). Winner. *Best Doctoral Student Paper Award of the Nationalism Section of the Association for the Study of Nationalities. 2012. Winner. *Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award competition. ASA Sociology of Emotions section. 2012. Winner. Feinstein, Yuval. 2016. Rallying around the president: When and why do Americans close ranks behind their presidents during international crisis and war? Social Science History 40(2):305-338. Wimmer, Andreas, and Yuval Feinstein. 2016. Still no robust evidence for the power of world polity (Reply to Li and Hicks). American Sociological Review 81(3):608-615. Feinstein, Yuval. 2015. The thin line between crazy and hero : exploring multiple statuses of U.S. veterans who participate in a work-therapy program. Armed Forces & Society 41(1) 3-22. (Online first: November 5, 2013) Wimmer, Andreas and Yuval Feinstein. 2010. The rise of the nation-state across the world, 1816-2001. American Sociological Review. 75(5):764-90. *Best Article Award. ASA Comparative and Historical Sociology section. 2011. Co-Winner. Ben-Eliezer, Uri and Yuval Feinstein. 2009. Politics of borders and the borders of politics: sovereignty and autonomy around Israel s human rights abuses in the Separation Barrier project. Mobilization: The International Quarterly Review of Social Movement Research. 14(3): 357-374. Ben-Eliezer, Uri & Yuval Feinstein. 2007. The Battle over our home: reconstructing/deconstructing sovereign practices around Israel s Separation Barrier on the West Bank. Journal of Israel Studies, 12(1): 171-92. --- Reprinted in Gabriel Sheffer and Oren Barak (eds.). Militarism and Israeli Society. Indiana University Press (2010). Book chapters Feinstein, Yuval. 2007. Activists squeezed between the Apartheid Wall and the Separation Fence : The radicalism/pragmatism dilemma of social movements: the case of the Israeli separation barrier. In Elisabeth Marteu (ed.) Civil Organizations and Protest 2
Yuval Feinstein Updated June 7, 2016 Page 3 Movements in Israel: Mobilization around the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Palgrave MacMillan: 107-126. Book reviews Feinstein, Yuval. 2015. Review of When Peace is Not Enough: How the Israeli Peace Camp Thinks about Religion, Nationalism, and Justice, By Atalia Omer. American Journal of Sociology 120(5):1592-4. ARTICLES UNDER REVIEW War that Feels Good: How Nationalist Emotions Lead Americans to Rally Behind the President. *Elise M. Boulding Graduate Student Paper Award competition. ASA Peace, War, and Social Conflict section. 2010. Winner. *Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award competition. ASA Sociology of Emotions section. 2010. Winner. The rise and decline of "gender gaps" in public support for military action: Patterns among U.S. residents from 1986-2011 Strange bedfellows: A spiralling model of democracy and war in the case of Israel [with Uri Ben-Eliezer] When are observed variables preferable to latent variables? The case of pride and patriotism OTHER RESEARCH PROJECTS (temporary titles) Popular ethnicity, nationalism and political attitudes among Jewish and Arabs in Israel. Varieties of collective identification among ethnic minorities: A comparative analysis of the United States and Israel (With Bart Bonikowski, Harvard) How did states gain stateness? Using a new data set to uncover the condition and processes that increased state-capacity in the 19 th and 20 th centuries (with Andreas Wimmer, Princeton) GRANTS, AWARDS, AND HONORS 2012-2016 Marie Curie Career Integration Grant, European Union 100,000 2012-2014 United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (With Bart Bonikowski) $150,000 2012-2013 Seed funding. Research Authority, University of Haifa $10,000 2012 Best Doctoral Student Paper Award. Nationalism Section of the Association for the Study of Nationalities $100 2012 Elise M. Boulding Graduate Student Paper Award. ASA Peace, War, and Social Conflict section $250 3
Yuval Feinstein Updated June 7, 2016 Page 4 2012 Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award competition. ASA Sociology of Emotions section $250 2011/12 Dissertation Year Fellowship. UCLA Graduate Division $34,118 2011 Best Article Award. ASA Comparative and Historical Sociology section. 2011 Dissertation Research Improvement Grant. United States National Science Foundation $9,000 2010 Elise M. Boulding Graduate Student Paper Award. ASA Peace, War, and Social Conflict section $100 2010 Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award competition. ASA Sociology of Emotions section $400 2010 Phi Beta Kappa International Graduate Student Award $1500 2009/10 Fellowship by the Pauley Foundation 2009 Fellowship by UCLA Sociology Department (winter) 2008 Summer Stipend by UCLA Department of Sociology 2008 Summer Stipend by UCLA Department of Sociology 2007 Israeli Sociological Association, Honorary Mention for Master s Thesis 2007 Summer Stipend by UCLA Department of Sociology 2006/7 Fellowship by the Shapiro Foundation 2006/7 Fellowship by the Pauley Foundation 2006/7 Fellowship by UCLA Department of Sociology 2005 The Wolf Foundation to Promote Science and Art for the Benefit of Mankind, Scholarship for M.A. Candidates 2005 Yad-Tabenkin: Research Center of the Kibbutz Movement, Scholarship 2005 Dean of Graduate Studies' Award, University of Haifa 2004 Dean of Graduate Studies' award for the Best M.A. Candidate of the Sociology Department, University of Haifa 2004 Dean of Graduate Studies' Award, University of Haifa 2003 Dean of Social Sciences' Award for the B.A Degree (Summa Cum Laude) 4
Yuval Feinstein Updated June 7, 2016 Page 5 2003 Dean of Social Sciences' Award 2002 Dean of Social Sciences' Award 2000/1 Fellowship for first year B.A. candidates at the University of Haifa's Honors Program CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 2016 Democracy and war in Israel. Annual meeting of the Israeli Sociological Association. Tel Aviv-Yaffo Academic College. January 25,2016. 2015 What caused the Jewish Israeli citizens to rally around the flag during operation "Protective Edge? An examination of theoretical explanations with panel study. Annual meeting of the Israeli Political Science Association. Ashkelon Academic College, Ashkelon. May 7, 2015. 2015 How did national identification shape political attitudes in Israel during the 2014 Israel-Gaza Conflict? Annual meeting of the International Association for the Study of Nationalities. Columbia University, New York. April 25, 2015. 2015 The anatomy of rallying around the flag in Israel during the 2014 Gaza War. From Operation Protective Edge to the 2015 Elections: Jews-Arabs-State relations, academic research and view from the field. Western Galilee College, Akko. March 3, 2015. 2014 National attachment, xenophobia, and the state of the economy. The Association for the Study of Nationalities Meeting. Budapest. June 13, 2014. 2014 Is there a gender gap in public opinion about military actions in the United States? The The Annual Meeting of the Israeli Political Science Association. Be er Sheva. May 8, 2014. 2014 Is there a gender gap in public opinion about military actions in the United States? The Israeli Sociological Association s Annual Meeting. Tel-Aviv. February 3, 2014. 2013 The rise and decline of "gender gaps" in support for military actions. The Social Science History Association s Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL. November 22, 2013. 2013 The rise and decline of "gender gaps" in support for military actions. The American Sociological Association s Annual Meeting. New York, NY. August 2013. 2013 What motivates Americans to support military Action in International 5
Yuval Feinstein Updated June 7, 2016 Page 6 conflicts? The role of national identity-based emotions. The Annual Meeting of the Israeli Political Science Association. The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. May 2, 2013. 2012 Nationalism and Popular Support for War: New Evidence from a Survey- Experiment. The American Sociological Association s Annual Meeting. Denver, Col. August 2012. 2012 Nationalism and Popular Support for War: New Evidence from a Survey- Experiment. The Association for the Study of Nationalities Annual Convention. New York. April 19-21. 2012 Rallying around the president: When and why do Americans close ranks behind their presidents during international crisis and war? Mini-Conference on Security at the Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting. New York. February 23. 2012 American Nationalism and Popular Support for War: New Evidence from a Survey-Experiment. Mini-Conference on Security at the Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting. New York. February 23. 2011 Pathways from Conflict Abroad to Rally at Home: A Configurational Analysis of a New Dataset, United States 1950-2003. The Social Science History Association s Annual Meeting. Boston, MA. November 17, 2011. 2011 Pathways from Conflict Abroad to Rally at Home: A Configurational Analysis of a New Dataset, United States 1950-2003. Historical Sociology/Processes: Theory & Method in the Study of Historical Events & Processes." (Regular session). The American Sociological Association s Annual Meeting. Las Vegas, NV. August 2011. 2011 Why did Americans Rally behind George W. Bush? Nationalist Emotions in the Rally-Round-The-Flag Phenomenon. UC Research on International Conflict and Cooperation, IGCC Southern California Symposium. University of California, Irvine. January 14. (poster) 2010 War the Feels Good: A New Explanation to the Rally-Round-The-Flag Phenomenon. The American Sociological Association s Annual Meeting. Atlanta, GA. August 14. 2010 War that Feels Good: A New Explanation to the Rally-Round-The-Flag Phenomenon. 6 th Annual UCI Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD) Graduate Student Conference. Irvine, CA. May 10. 2010 Nationalism s Rise to Power Across the World: An Event History Analysis of nation-state formation, 1816-2001. 15th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities. New York. April 16. (with Andreas Wimmer) 6
Yuval Feinstein Updated June 7, 2016 Page 7 2009 The Global Spread of the Nation-State: An Event History Analysis of nationstate formation, 1816-2001. Social Science History Association Annual Meeting. Long Beach, California. November 14. (with Andreas Wimmer) 2009 Money and Sympathy: Exploring Multiple Roles and Statuses of U.S. Veterans Who Participate in a Work-Therapy Program. The American Sociological Association s Annual Meeting. San-Francisco, California. August 10. 2006 Activists squeezed between the Apartheid Wall and the Separation Fence : The influence of different frames of action against the Israeli separation barrier. Social and Political Mobilization in the Israeli-Palestinian Context. Jerusalem: Centre de Recherché Français de Jerusalem. April 24. 2006 Anarchists, Soldiers and the Fence between them: A Symbolic Battle over the Political Space. The Israeli Sociological Association s Annual Conference. Bar-Ilan University, February 23. [Hebrew] 2005 The Double-Edge Sword of Human Rights Discourse: Paradox of Universalism and Particularism in Contentions over the Construction of a Separation Barrier between Israel and Palestinian Occupied Territories. Reframing Human rights. Berlin: WZB Social Science Research Center & Humboldt University. October 4. 2005 The dilemma of Radicalism vs. Pragmatism in Grassroots Activities Opposed to the Construction of the Israeli Separation Barrier. Military, Politics and Society in Israel: Toward disengagement? The Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem. May 24. [Hebrew] 2005 The Civic Criteria Vs. the Military Criteria: Dynamics of Contention Against the Construction of Separation Barrier Between Israel and Palestine, Causes of Success and Failure. Civil-Military Relations in Israel. Neve-Ilan. March 18. [Hebrew] COLLOQUIUM TALKS AND OTHER INVITED LECTURES "One flag, two rallies: Mechanisms of public opinion in Israel during the 2014 Gaza war." Communication Studies, University of Haifa. 29.6.2015. "Hurray USA! When and Why do Americans Rally behind the Sitting President in Times of War and Crisis? The Role of Nationalist Emotions." Conflict Management program, School of Political Science, University of Haifa. November, 26, 2014 Popular Nationalism and Attitudes toward Immigrants: A Multistage Investigation of Popular Nationalism and its Effects on Attitudes toward Labor Immigrants and Asylum Seekers in Israel. Europe Day at the University of Haifa. May 15, 2014. 7
Yuval Feinstein Updated June 7, 2016 Page 8 Hurray USA! When and Why do Americans Rally behind the Sitting President? The Role of Nationalist Emotions. Departmental Seminar, School of Political Science (Division of Public Administration and Policy), University of Haifa, Haifa. January 2, 2014. Hurray USA! When and Why do Americans Rally behind the Sitting President? The Role of Nationalist Emotions. Departmental Seminar, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy, and Strategy, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzlia December 30, 2013. The People s Commander-in-Chief? The Dramatic (?) Effect of War Events and Security Crises on the Popularity of United States Presidents. A Comparative Historical Analysis. Departmental Seminar, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Haifa, Haifa. March 12, 2013. What motivates Americans to support military Action in International conflicts? The role of national identity-based emotions. Departmental Seminar, Department of Communication, University of Haifa, Haifa. November 27, 2012. War that Feels Good: Nationalist emotions and rallying around the flag. Departmental Seminar, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem. December 20, 2010 War that Feels Good: Nationalist emotions and rallying around the flag. Departmental Seminar, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The University of Haifa, Haifa. December 20, 2010 Why did Americans rally behind President Bush and his foreign policy in the aftermath of 9/11 and later following the invasion of Iraq? News and Public Opinion Seminar, American Jewish University, Los Angeles. April 12, 2010. Nationalism s Rise to Power Across the World: An Event History Analysis of nation-state formation, 1816-2001. Plenary Session of ASA Comparative History Section s conference. Berkeley California. August 12, 2006 (with Andreas Wimmer). RESEARH EXPERIENCE PRIOR TO TENURE TRACK 2011-2012 Research Assistant to Frank Gilliam Jr. and Mark Sawyer, UCLA 2007-2012 Principal Investigator, Department of Veterans Affairs, Greater Los Angles (without compensation) 2007-2012 Research Assistant to Andreas Wimmer, UCLA 2003-2006 Research Assistant to Uri Ben-Eliezer, University of Haifa 8
Yuval Feinstein Updated June 7, 2016 Page 9 COURSE TAUGHT Selected Topics in the Sociology of the Israeli Society (for MA students), University of Haifa, Sociology and Anthropology, Spring 2013, Spring 2014. Nationalism and the Nation-State, University of Haifa, Sociology and Anthropology, Spring 2013, Spring 2014. Comparative Ethnicity and Race, University of Haifa, Sociology and Anthropology, Winter 2012, Winter 2013, Winter 2014. How do Ethnic and National Identities Affect Political Attitudes in Israel? A research seminar. Winter 2014. Statistical and Computer Methods for Social Research, UCLA, Sociology, Summer 2010, Summer 2011, Summer 2012 Introduction to Research Methods, UCLA, Sociology, Winter 2010, Summer 2010 Quantitative Data Analysis (Graduate Course, Teaching Assistant), UCLA, Sociology, Fall 2010 Winter 2011 Classic Sociologic Theories (Teaching Assistant), UCLA, Sociology, Winter 2009 Introduction to Research Methods (Teaching Assistant), UCLA, Sociology, Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Winter2008, Spring 2011 Introduction to Sociology (Teaching Assistant), University of Haifa, Sociology and Anthropology, Fall 2004, Fall 2005, Fall 2006 PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND MEMBERSHIP IN ACADEMIC ORGANIZATIONS 2016- Member of the International Political Science Association 2015- Member of the University of Haifa Senate. 2015- Substitute Member of the University of Haifa s Disciplinary Committee. 2015 Chair of Regional and National Identity. Association for the Study of Nationalities' Annual Convention. Tel-Aviv. April 24, 2015. 2014- Member of the Social Science Faculty Teaching Committee. 2014 Chair of Between State and Society: Struggles for Inclusion, Recognition, and Allocation. The Israeli Sociological Association s Annual Meeting. Tel- Aviv. February 2, 2014. 2013- Elected Representative at the Senior Academic Staff Union 9
Yuval Feinstein Updated June 7, 2016 Page 10 2013- Member of the Israeli Sociological Association 2013 Chair of Israel as a Jewish and Democratic State: It is a Western Democracy? Professor Sammy Smooha s retirement conference. Haifa, December 16, 2013. 2013 Members of the organizing committee of Professor Sammy Smooha s retirement conference. Haifa, December 16, 2013. 2013 Organizer and chair of author meets critics session Waves of War: Nationalism, State Formation, and Ethnic Exclusion in the Modern World (by Andreas Wimmer). The Social Science History Association s Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL. November 24, 2013. 2013 Discussant in Isms as Culture: Ideologies of Collective Publics session, American Sociological Association s Annual Meeting. New York, NY. August 2013. 2013 Member of the Israel Political Science Association 2013 Member of the Elise Boulding Student Paper Award Committee, ASA Peace, War and Social Conflict Section 2012 Member of the Association for the Study of Nationalities 2012 Member of the Eastern Sociological Society 2011 Organizer and chair of Violence and Political Legitimacy session, Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Boston (November 17, Boston) 2011 Chair and discussant of How things change: Fashion, ideology, measurement session, Social Science History Association Annual Meeting (November 18, Boston) 2011 Member of the Elise Boulding Student Paper Award Committee, ASA Peace, War and Social Conflict Section 2011 Presider at a Peace, War, and Social Conflict Section s roundtable, ASA. 2009-2010 Research Workshop in Political Psychology, UCLA 2009 Chair of Peace and War Session. Israel in the 21st Century: New Hopes, New Challenges. San Diego: San Diego State University. May 10. 2007- Member of the American Sociological Association 2007- Member of ASA s section of Peace, War, and Social Conflict 2007- Member of ASA s section of Comparative and Historical Sociology 10
Yuval Feinstein Updated June 7, 2016 Page 11 2009- Member of the Social Science History Association 2005-2007 Member of the Israeli Sociological Association 2004-2006 Research Workshop on Civil-Military Relations in Israel, The Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem REVIEW ACTIVITIES Acta Sociologica American Sociological Review American Journal of Sociology Armed Forces & Society Comparative Political Studies Ethnicities Hagira - Israeli Journal of Migration International Journal of Middle East Studies Journal of Public Opinion Research Mobilization: An International Quarterly Review of Social Movement Research Sociological Forum Social Science Research Theory and Criticism (Teoria uviqoret) Theory and Society 11
Yuval Feinstein Updated June 7, 2016 Page 12 ACADEMIC SUPERVISION Inbal Raz (doctoral dissertation in progress) Ameer Fakhoury (MA thesis + doctoral dissertation in progress) Anan Zaher (MA thesis in progress) Meital Barak (MA thesis in progress) Dana Sabag (MA thesis in progress) Yaara Vered (MA thesis in progress) Maha Shade (MA thesis in progress) Yossi Nachmani (MA thesis in progress) LINGUISTIC PROFICIENCY Hebrew: mother tongue; English: fluent SOFTWARE PROFICIENCY Stata, EQS, SPSS, fsqca, Mplus 12