AIS KIMMERLING PRIZE FOR BEST GRADUATE PAPER

The Kimmerling Award for Best Graduate Paper

The Kimmerling Prize is awarded by the Association for Israel Studies for the best paper presented by a graduate student at the AIS annual meeting. This award honors the memory of Baruch Kimmerling (1939-2007), a leading public intellectual and sociologist in Israel. He wrote, published and edited more than a dozen books on Israel and the Palestinians, introducing new perspectives for the understanding of Israeli society.

Details about next year's awards will be announced at a later date. 


Past Recipients of the Kimmerling Prize:

- Paper presented at the 2022 meeting: Marie Behrendt (University of Potsdam), “Journalism and Democracy: Changes in Israeli Press Ethics as Reflected".

- Paper presented at the 2019 meeting: Hayim Katsman (University of Washington), “The Hyphen Cannot Hold: Contemporary Trends in Religious Zionism".

- Paper presented at the 2018 meeting: Netta Galnoor (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), “From Jewish Sentiments to Rational Exhortations: Battle Missives in the Israeli Defense Force 1948-2014”.

- Paper presented at the 2017 meeting: Adrian Krupnik (Tel Aviv University), “Between Return and a Hard Place: Argentinian Returnees from Israel in 1966”.

- Paper presented at the 2016 meeting: Geoffrey Levin (New York University), “Enlightening a Stained Democracy: The American Jewish Committee and Israel’s Palestinian Arab Minority, 1949-1966”.

- Paper presented at the 2015 meeting: Shaiel Ben-Ephraim (University of Calgary), "Allowing Kids to Become Goats: Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Territories”.

- Paper presented at the 2014 meeting: Shirly Bahar (New York University), "Un/believable Spec/tacles: Performances of Martyrdom and Masquerades of Terrorism in Mohammed Bakri’s Jenin Jenin and Since You Left".

- Paper presented at the 2013 meeting: Dana Gold (Western University, Canada), "The Politics of Emotion: A Case Study of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict".

- Paper presented at the 2012 meeting: Shay Hazkani (New York University), "Soldiers' Political Indoctrination in the IDF, 1948-1957".

- Paper presented at the 2011 meeting: Yoav Mehozay, "The FLuid Jurisprudence of Israel's Emergency Powers: Legal Patchwork as a Governing Norm."

- Paper presented at the 2010 meeting: Anat Stern, "Shortages and Civil Conduct: IDF Response to Civilian Criminality."

- Paper presented at the 2009 meeting: Ziv Rubinovitz, "Blue & White 'Black September': Israel’s Role in the Jordan 1970 Crisis."

- Paper presented at the 2008 meeting: Ben Herzog, "The Revocation of Citizenship in Israel."

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