2020-2021 Research Funded by the Africa Centre:
Project Details | Recipient |
Subject: "The Unintended Consequences of Chinese Projects in Africa, Reflections from Below: The Case of the Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway". | Sharon Bar David Ph.D. Student Department of Politics and Government |
Subject: childhood experiences in French West Africa between 1930 and 1946 | Na’ama Morag Zamonski Ph.D. Student Department of General History |
Subject: Females Sexuality Practices in rural areas of Uganda. | Tsahala Sermoneta Ph.D. Student Department of Sociology and Anthropology |
Subject: "The Early History of MASHAV Carmel International Training Center (MCTC): An Inward and Outward Look on Discourse and Practice in International Development (1961- 1973)". | Shahar Re'em Ph.D. Student The Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research |
Subject: "Take them down everywhere": The Diffusion of Fallist Movements’ Struggle Against Coloniality and White Supremacy. | Carmit Wolberg Ph.D. Student Department of Politics and Government |
Subject: Political Economy of Public Transportation Projects in Developing Countries: Case study of Challenges facing the implementation of Proposed Bus Rapid Transit System in Nairobi, Kenya. | Francisco Achwoka Ph.D. Student The Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research |
Subject: Assessment of Health Population Needs in Neno District, Malawi, in an Era of Ongoing Climate Crisis | Shahar Livne MEM student Department of Emergency Medicine |
Subject: Moving Mountains Moving Oceans: a comparison between the Eko Atlantic Urbanization Project in Lagos, Nigeria and the Urban Construction Projects in Jerusalem, Israel. | Dr. David Goss The African Studies Program |
Subject: Development of a Sustainable Food Source - the Cultivation of Duckweed and Fish Farming | Prof. Samuel Appelbaum and Prof. Gideon Oron The Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research |
Subject: Decolonizing Independence: Statecraft in Nigeria’s First Republic and Israeli Interventions. | Prof. Lynn Schler The African Studies Program |
2019-2020 Research Funded by the Africa Centre:
Project Details | Recipient |
Subject: Disarmament and Women, Peace and Security: The Case of South Sudan | Liat Biron Ph.D. Student Department of Politics and Government |
Subject: A Regional Analysis of Sustainable Access to Clean Water in Siaya County, Kenya | Ornit Avidar Ph.D. Student Department of Politics and Government |
Subject: Impact of Chinese investments on Africa in various aspects | Sharon Bar David Ph.D. Student Department of Politics and Government |
Subject: State Schooling of Refugee Children in Uganda | Maria (Manya) Kagan Ph.D. Student Department of Education |
Subject: Minors' Forced Labour in French West Africa between 1920 and 1946 | Na’ama Morag Zamonski Ph.D. Student Department of General History |
Subject: The Relationship Between Family Intimacy and Sorcery through Family Photos in Ghanaian Society | Dr. Elad Ben Elul The African Studies Program Faculty |
Subject: Providing Care with the Ghosts of Hope: the Experiences of Healthcare Worker in Zimbabwe. | Dr. Anat Rosenthal The Department of Health Systems Management |
Subject: Social Discrimination and its Impact on the Mental Health of Darfur Asylum Seekers in Israel | Prof. Vered Slonim-Nevo Department of Social Work |
2018-2019 Research Funded by the Africa Centre:
Project Details | Recipient |
Subject: The Formation of the Eritrean Refugee Leadership in Israel | Noa Gluskinos B.A. Student The Inter-University Program in African Studies |
Subject: Between Haifa and Nairobi: Israeli-African Development in the Educational Field. | Michal Cohen M.A. Student Department of Politics and Government
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Subject: Comparative Analysis of Communal Sanitation Facilities in Kibera, Nairobi: Performance, Perception and Financing. | Tomas Simiyu Masinde M.A. Student The Albert Katz International School for Desert Studies |
Subject: Borderline Youth: Independent Child and Youth Migrants at the Zimbabwean – South African Borderland. | Noa Levy Ph.D. Student Department of Politics and Government |
Subject: A Regional Analysis of Sustainable Access to Clean Water in Siaya County, Kenya | Ornit Avidar Ph.D. Student Department of Politics and Government |
Subject: Impact of Chinese investments on Africa in various aspects | Sharon Bar David Ph.D. Student Department of Politics and Government |
Subject: State Schooling of Refugee Children in Uganda | Maria (Manya) Kagan Ph.D. Student Department of Education |
Subject: Minors' Forced Labour in French West Africa between 1920 and 1946 | Na’ama Morag Zamonski Ph.D. Student Department of General History |
Subject: The Effect of Exposure to Refugee Children from Israel on the Educational Perceptions of Educators in Uganda | Dr. Rami Gudovitch Department of Social Work
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Subject: Maasai on the Phone: Ethnicity, Modernity, and Tourism in Zanzibar | Prof. Nir Avieli Department of Sociology and Anthropology |
2017-2018 Research Funded by the Africa Centre:
Project Details | Recipient |
Subject: SACCOs and Social Impact in Tanzania | Aviva Shemesh M.A. Student Department of Politics and Government |
Subject: Critical pedagogy and NGO-led teacher training in Burundi | Maria (Manya) Kagan M.A. Student Department of Education |
Subject: Colonial medicine under British rule in the "golden coast" (the territory of the state of Ghana today) | Yevgeny Cherp Ph.D. Student Department of General History |
Subject: Football Academies in Ghana | Itamar Dubinsky Ph.D. Student Department of Politics and Government |
Subject: Minors' Forced Labour in French West Africa between 1920 and 1946. | Na’ama Morag Zamonski Ph.D. Student Department of General History |
Subject: Chinese Investments in Africa | Sharon Bar David Ph.D. Student Department of Politics and Government |
Subject: A Regional Analysis of Access to Clean Water Through a Holistic Causality Model in Siaya County, Kenya | Ornit Avidar Ph.D. Student Department of Politics and Government |
Subject: The History of Suffering, Martyrdom and Disappointment Among Catholic Missionaries | Dr. Leonardo Cohen The African Studies Program Faculty |
Subject: Art, Craft and Design as a way to Achieve Sustainable Economic Independence, and Local Creator’s Acceptance into the Contemporary Global Art and Design Discourse
| Dr. David Goss The African Studies Program Faculty |
2016-2017 Research Funded by the Africa Centre:
Project Details | Recipient |
Subject: SACCOs and Social Impact in Tanzania | Aviva Shemesh M.A. Student Department of Politics and Government |
Subject: Unique adaptation of the endemic Namib spider Leucorchestris arenicola to the desert | Ibrahim Salman M.A. Student Institute for Desert Research |
Subject: Type 2 diabetes mellitus and its management, in irregular Sub-Saharan African Immigrants living in Israel | Brenda Sierra M.A. Student Department of Health Systems Management |
Subject: The use of football in the decolonization of Ghana as well as in the process of creating a new nation | Daniel Livny M.A. Student Department of General History |
Subject: Colonial medicine under British rule in the "golden coast" (the territory of the state of Ghana today) | Yevgeny Cherp Ph.D. Student Department of General History |
Subject: Unaccompanied Child and Youth Migration from Zimbabwe to South Africa | Noa Levy Ph.D. Student Department of Politics and Government |
Subject: Football Academies in Ghana | Itamar Dubinsky Ph.D. Student Department of Politics and Government |
Subject: A Regional Analysis of Access to Clean Water Through a Holistic Causality Model in Siaya County, Kenya | Ornit Avidar Ph.D. Student Department of Politics and Government |
Subject: Music and transnationalism in post-colonial Africa | Yair Hashachar Ph.D. Student The African Studies Program Faculty |
Subject: Arab Eritrea | Dr. Avishai Ben-Dror The African Studies Program Faculty |
Subject: Financial inclusion and the sustainable implementation of development | Dr. Miri Stryjan Department of Economics |
2015-2016 Research Funded by the Africa Centre:
Project Details | Recipient |
Subject: Kenyan Immigrants in Israel | Francisco Achwoka M.A. Student Israel Studies International Program (WSISIP) |
Subject: The writings of Jesuits in Ethiopia | Dr. Leonardo Cohen The African Studies Program Faculty |
Subject: Political and social institutions in the southern bank of the Zambezi basin in the sixteenth to nineteenth century | Dr. Gai Roufe The African Studies Program Faculty |
Subject: Music and transnationalism in post-colonial Africa Colonialism and Islam in Herar, Ethiopia | Dr. Avishai Ben-Dror The African Studies Program Faculty |
Subject: Examining the immune systems of Ebola virus patients who recovered in Uganda | Dr. Leslie Lobel Department of Immunology, Faculty of Health Sciences |
2014-2015 Research Funded by the Africa Centre:
Recipient | Project Details |
Noa Levy Ph.D. student, the Department of Politics and Government | Subject: Unaccompanied child and adolescent migration in Southern Africa |
Itamar Dubinsky Ph.D. student, the Department of Politics and Government | Subject: Football Academies in Ghana |
Ornit Avidar Ph.D. student, the Department of Politics and Government | Purpose: Conference attended: “Technology and Management at the Interface of Cultures,” Nairobi, Kenya |
Amit Savaia Ph.D. student, the Department of Life Sciences | Subject: M. vollenhovenii growth performances, population structure and stock improvement in Senegal (ongoing) and in Nigeria (initial steps) |
Polina Habubolin Ph.D. student, the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics in the Faculty of Health Science | Subject: Filoviridae family of viruses and its ecosystem in Africa, mainly in Uganda |
Yael Askira Ph.D. student, the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics in the Faculty of Health Science | Purpose: Conference attended: "Ebola and other Filoviruses,” Mozambique |
Yaara Kislev Ph.D. student, the Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics in the Faculty of Health Science | Purpose: Conference attended: "Ebola and other Filoviruses,” Mozambique |
Dr. Leonardo Cohen The Inter-University Program in African Studies | Subject: David Thomas (ed.), Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History (1500-1900), vol. 7 (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming) |
David Goss The Inter-University Program in African Studies | Purpose: Fieldwork in Ethiopia Subject: The Function of Liminality in Contemporary Design: The invention of a (chair) Tradition in Ethiopia |
Dr. Eli Aflalo Department of Life Sciences and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev | Subject: M. vollenhovenii growth performances, population structure and stock improvement in Senegal (ongoing) and in Nigeria (initial steps) |
Dr. Anat Rosenthal The Department of Health Systems Management | Book Title: Health services in Malawi |
Dr. Guy Roufe The Inter-University Program in African Studies | Article: "Narratives of suffering, disillusion, and martyrdom literature during the Early Modern period.” |
2013-2014 Research Funded by the Africa Centre:
Project Details | Recipient |
Purpose: Academic Publication Local Perceptions of the Political Systems of the Southern Bank of the Zambesi Valley in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Century | Dr. Guy Roufe The Inter-University Program in African Studies |
Purpose: Academic Publication The Catholic Kingdom of Ethiopia: Father Manuel de Almeida's Account of the imperial Conversion Ceremony", Lusitania Sacra The last Years of the Jesuit Mission in Ethiopia: Explaining and Understanding the defeat", The council of Trent: Reform and Controversy in Europe and Beyond (1545-1700) | Dr. Leonardo Cohen The Inter-University Program in African Studies |
Purpose: Participation in the conference "Sports in Africa and the Global South" in Ohio University, April 10-12, 2014. | Itamar Dubinsky M.A student, the Department of Politics and Government |
Purpose: Field trip to Uganda, collection of blood samples from Sudan Ebola virus survivors | Yaara Kislev |
Purpose: Ongoing M.A. and Ph.D. research on biological eradication of bilharzia in northern Senegal with sweet water crayfish | Amit Savaia Alkalay |
2012-2013 Research Funded by the Africa Centre:
Project Details | Recipient |
Location: Ethiopia Description: Post- Colonial Humanitarian work among Jewish and Israeli youth | Adi Maya M.A student, Sociology and Anthropology |
Location: Israel- Archives Description: The Algerian War in printed media with an emphasis on Soviet presses | Yevgeny Cherp M.A student, General History |
Location: Ghana Description: Football Academies contribution to local communities and the integration of sport and development | Itamar Dubinsky M.A student, Politics and Government |
Location: Senegal Description: Biological eradication of bilharzia in northern Senegal with sweet water crayfish | Amit Savaia Alkalay M.A student, Life Sciences and the desert Institutes |
Location: Nigeria Description: The function of art souvenirs in contemporary African culture Exhibition will be held in the African Studies Gallery in Tel Aviv from Nov 2013 | David Goss Adjunct Lecturer The African Studies Program |
Location: Israel & Portugal - Archives Description: The research yielded two accepted papers: "How to fill the myth gaps in the scriptures; Pedro Paez critique on Ethiopian commentary": in Archivum Historicum Societatis IESU, 164, (2013) "The Catholic Kingdom of Ethiopia: Father Manuel De Almeida's account of the imperial conversion ceremony": in Lusitania Sacra (forthcoming) | Dr. Leonardo Cohen Adjunct Lecturer The African Studies Program |
Location: Tanzania Description: The international urban development plan (SCP) in Dar es Salaam, successes and failures | Dr. Yael Abessira Adjunct Lecturer The African Studies Program |
Location: Israel & Ethiopia Description: Israeli Architecture in Ethiopia during the 1960-70's | Dr. Haim Yacobi Senior Faculty, Politics and Government |
Location: Namibia Description: Animal burrow systems and the atmosphere: exploring novel physical mechanisms in cooperation with the National Museum of Namibia | Prof. Berry Pinshow the Desert Institute |
2011-2012 Research Funded by the Africa Centre:
Project Details | Recipient |
Location: France Description: Presentation of research paper: “Hunting the Visual: Anthropology of Safari Tourists who Capture the Uncertain” at the 12th EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists) Biennial Conference: “Uncertainty and Disquiet | Rachel Ben David M.A student, Sociology and Anthropology |
Location: England Description: Presentation of research paper: “Border and Space in Rendille Land – The Rendille Approach Toward Local and National Borders” at the Annual ASEN Conference: “Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Boundaries” at the London School of Economics | Hila Segal M.A student, Politics and Government |
Location: South Africa Description: Ecology research project entitled “Predator-Prey Interactions from the Predator’s Perspective” at Lajuma Research Centre in South Africa | Keren Embar PhD student, Desert Ecology |
Location: Sierra Leone Description: Participation at the “Sierra Leone: Past and Present, International Conference” 2012 | Dr. Ella Keren Adjunct Faculty, African Studies |
Location: Ghana Description: Conducted first stage of research on the production of art souvenirs in African culture for the Ghana Souvenir Project | David Goss Adjunct Faculty, African Studies |
Location: Israel Description: Translation of manuscript submitted to the Stanford University Press entitled “This is Not Africa” which explores Israel, Africa, and the Colonial/neo-colonial nexus | Dr. Haim Yacobi Senior Faculty, Politics and Government |
Location: Namibia Description: Conducted a cooperative research project with Dr. Scott Turner of SUNY Syracuse and Dr. Eugene Marais of the National Museum of Namibia on the ventilation of ant nests | Professor Berry Pinshow Senior Faculty, Desert Ecology |