Aviad E. Raz

Background

Aviad Raz was born on the 24th of July in 1968.

Education

Aviad Raz attended Tel-Aviv University (TAU) where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology in 1993. He also obtained there a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Sociology and Anthropology in 1996. Aviad was a Post-doctoral Fellow at Harvard University in 1996-97.

Career

Aviad Raz began his career as a teaching assistant of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel-Aviv University (TAU) in 1993-95. In 1995 he moved to Tokyo, Japan where he served as a Research Associate at Institute for Culture Studies until 1996.

In 1997 Aviad Raz joined the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev where he was a lecturer of Behavioral Sciences at first. In 2000 he took the position of a senior lecturer of Behavioral Sciences there. In 2001 he became a senior lecturer with tenure of Behavioral Sciences and its associate professor of Sociology and Anthropology in 2005. From 2009 he is a Full Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Ben-Gurion University. He also was AICE/Schusterman Professor of Sociology at the University of California San Diego in 2012-14.

Aviad Raz’s first book "Riding the Black Ship: Japan and Tokyo Disneyland" was written in 1999. He also wrote "Emotions at Work: Normative Control, Organizations, and Culture in Japan and America" in 2002, "Organizational culture" in 2004, "The Gene And The Genie: Tradition, Medicalization, and Genetic Counseling in a Bedouin Community in Israel" in 2005, "Community Genetics and Genetic Alliances" in 2009, "Cousin Marriages: Between Tradition, Genetic Risk and Cultural Change" in 2015, "Comparative Empirical Bioethics: Dilemmas of Genetic Testing and Euthanasia in Israel and Germany" in 2016.

Achievements

• Aviad Raz has written seven books and over 43 articles and book chapters on topics in organizational and medical sociology, anthropology, culture, and science.
  
  Raz is a recipient of the numerous scholarships and fellowships, among them are Dean's Scholarship for Academic Excellence in 1993, The Morris M. Pulver Scholarship in 1994, The Ben-Gurion Scholarship in 1995. In 1995-96 he was Japan Foundation Doctoral Fellow and got The Horowitz Institute Fellowship in 1996, Alon Fellowship for outstanding scientists in 1998-01.

Works

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  • Cousin Marriages: Between Tradition, Genetic Risk and Cultural Change

    (This book deals with an important, rich and understudied ...)

    2015
  • Comparative Empirical Bioethics: Dilemmas of Genetic Testing and Euthanasia in Israel and Germany

    (This book is a comprehensive, empirically-grounded explor...)

    2016
  • Riding the Black Ship: Japan and Tokyo Disneyland

    (In 1996 over 16 million people visited Tokyo Disneyland, ...)

    1999
  • Emotions at Work: Normative Control, Organizations, and Culture in Japan and America

    (Our work life is filled with emotions. How we feel on the...)

    2002
  • The Gene And The Genie: Tradition, Medicalization, and Genetic Counseling in a Bedouin Community in Israel

    (Raz (Ben-Gurion U. of the Negev, Israel) explores issues ...)

    2005
  • Community Genetics and Genetic Alliances 2009