Department of Politics and Government
Ben Gurion University
Be’er Sheva, Israel
ayas@post.bgu.ac.il
+972502292979
EDUCATION
2014-present Ben Gurion University, Israel
Ph.D. Candidate, Politics and Government
Expected completion: June 2020
2014 Ben Gurion University, Israel
M.A., Politics and Government, with Distinction
2010 Yale University
B.A., Ethics Politics & Economics, Magna Cum Laude with Distinction
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journal Articles
Shoshan, Aya. (2018). Habitus and Social Movements: How Militarism Affects Organizational Repertoires. Social Movement Studies, 17(2): 144-158.
Shultziner, Doron, & Shoshan, Aya. (2017). A Journalists’ Protest? Personal Identification and Journalistic Activism in the Israel Social Justice Protest Movement. International Journal of Press/Politics, 23(1): 44-69.
Works in Progress
The Cultural Impact Scale: A New Model for Assessing the Cultural Consequences of Social Movements
How Movement Framing Shapes Political Outcomes: The Case of the Occupy Movement in Three Countries
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2015-2016 Erasmus Mundus PhD Scholarship, European Union (€9,000)
2014-2018 Negev Scholarship for Distinguished PhD Students, Ben Gurion University ($70,000, 4 years)
2014 Dean’s Honors for Distinguished Master Students, Ben Gurion University ($1,000)
2010 Charles P. Howland Fellowship for Research in International Relations, Yale University ($20,000)
2007 Townsend English Department Prize for Best Essay, Yale University ($750)
INVITED LECTURES
2019 Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, “How Habitus Shapes Protest Movements’ Organizational Repertoires,” Nov 13.
2019 Van-Leer Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, “Post-Capitalism: Imagining Life Without the Profit Principle” Oct 3.
2017 University of California, Irvine, Center for the Study of Democracy, “Democracy in Social Movements: Organizational Habitus in the Spanish and Israeli 2011 Social Protests,” November 3.
2013 Bi-Annual Workshop on Science, Technology and Society, The Israeli Society for History and Philosophy of Science, Sde Boker, Israel, “Between Network Protest and Network Society: Transferring Knowledge of Horizontal Decision-Making,” March 16.
2012 Sapir Annual Conference on the Future of Alternative Politics, Sapir College, Israel. “Between Tahrir and Madrid: Democratic Aspirations and Practices,” January 11.
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
Panels Organized
2017 Israeli Sociological Society Annual Meeting, “Movement in Time and Place: Contemporary Protests and Struggles in Israel,” Ra’anana, Israel, January 30.
Papers Presented
2018 Mobilization Annual Conference, “Social Movement Diffusion Through Education: The Spanish Teachers’ Movements and the 15M/Indignados.” San Diego, May 5.
2017 Association for Israel Studies Annual Meeting, “Organizing Dissent in Israel: The Influence of Militarist Culture on Social Protests,” Boston, June 14.
2017 Israel Political Science Association Annual Conference, “Habitus and Social Movements: How Militarism Affects Organizational Repertoires,” Tel Aviv-Yafo, May 18.
2017 American Culture Association & Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, “Democracy in Social Movements: How Culture Shapes Organizational Practices,” San Diego, April 14.
2017 Israeli Sociological Society Annual Meeting, “Democracy in Social Movements: Habitus and Movement Repertoires,” Ra’anana, Israel, January 30.
2015 Ben Gurion University Graduate Students Conference in Politics and Government, “Democracy in Social Movements: A Comparative Study,” Be’er Sheva, Israel, May 26.
2014 10th Annual Graduate Conference in Political Science, International Relations and Public Policy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “Democratic Practices in Social Movements: The Case of Israel and Spain,” Jerusalem, December 9.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2017-2018 Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Democracy, University of California, Irvine; Supervised by Professor Francesca Polletta
2016 Assistant to Professor Doron Shultziner, research on media coverage of the 2011 Israeli social justice protests, Hadassah Academic College, Israel
2012-2013 Assistant to Professor Neve Gordon, research on the effects of the Goldstone Reporton Israeli human rights organizations, Ben Gurion University, Israel
2010-2011 Middle East Research Fellow and research assistant to Professor Shlomo Ben Ami, Toledo International Center for Peace, Madrid, Spain
2009 Research intern, Parque de La Memoria: Monument to the Victims of State Terrorism, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2006-2008 Archival assistant, Furtonoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University
PUBLIC SERVICE
2014-present Board member at Comet-ME: Non-Profit Organization Promoting Sustainable Energy and Clean Water in Palestinian Communities
2011-2012 Organizer in the Israeli Social Justice Protest Movement
2006-2010 Founder and Chairperson of Students for Palestinian-Israeli Peace at Yale
LANGUAGES
Native Hebrew
Fluent English
Fluent Spanish