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Julia Chaitin September 2009
Curriculum Vitae and List of Publications
Personal Details
Date and place of birth: October 20, 1952, New York
Immigration to Israel: May 1972
Work address & telephone number: Dept. of Social Work, Sapir Academic College, D. N. Hof Ashkelon;
08-6801591 (Dept. office)
E-mail and
Home address & telephone number: Kibbutz Urim, D.N. Hanegev; 08-9920445
Education
B.A. 1985 – 1989 - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel, Behavioral Sciences department (with honors)
M.A. 1990 – 1995 - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel, Behavioral Sciences department - Organizational Psychology (with honors) Advisor – Prof. A. Paul Hare
Thesis: “The Relationship of Working through Consequences of the Holocaust and Group Interaction in the Third Generation”
Ph.D. 1996 - 2000 – Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel, Behavioral Sciences – Social Psychology
Advisors - Prof. Dan Bar-On and Prof. A. Paul Hare Dissertation: “The Past in the Present: Generations of Families of Survivors Confront the Holocaust”
Academic Employment History
2006 – Present Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Work, Sapir Academic College
April – September Visiting scholar – Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ben
2006 Gurion University of the Negev
2003 - 2006 Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution and Peace Studies, Department of Conflict Analysis and Resolution (DCAR), Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nova Southeastern University (continuing contract – non-tenured university)
2002 - 2003 Lecturer – Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
1996 - 2000 Lecturer – Faculty for Humanities and Social Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
1990 – 1993 Teaching Assistant - Interpersonal Interaction in Small Groups (SYMLOG), Introduction to Sociology
1989 – 1992 Research assistant to Prof. Dan Bar-On and Prof. A. Paul Hare
Professional Activities:
Positions in Academic Administration:
2009 Organizing Committee Member and Panel Organizer –"Recognition and Dialogue": Symposium in memory of Professor Dan Bar-On, Ben Gurioun University of the Negev
Scientific Committee Member – 4th Israeli national Conference on Qualitative Methodologies
2008 - present Co-investigator/organizer "Research in Conflict Arenas" together with Research Triangle Institute (USA) and Israeli Palestinian Science Organization (Israel/Palestine)
Member International Social Work Track, Sapir College
2007 Scientific Committee Member – 3rd Israeli national Conference on Qualitative Methodologies
2005 - 2006 NSU Institutional Review Board (IRB) member (Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences representative)
2005 Internal Review Committee – PhD program in the Department of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Nova Southeastern University
Scientific Committee Member – 2nd Israeli National Conference on Qualitative Methodologies
2004 Chair and Initiator of Summer Institute – Dialog with Self and Other – and International Conference – Storytelling, Listening and Change - Nova Southeastern University (cancelled, due to funding problems)
2004 Proposal reviewer - President’s Faculty Research and Development Grant Awards, Nova Southeastern University
NSU committee member – Development of On line teaching
Member Scientific Committee – 1st Israeli Interdisciplinary Conference on Qualitative Methodologies
2002 - 2003 Co-director (together with Dr. Michal Krumer-Nevo) Israeli Center for Qualitative Methodologies (ICQM), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
1999 - 2003 Advisor & Faculty Member - Israeli Center for Qualitative Methodologies (ICQM), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Committee for Proposal of M.A. & Ph.D. program in Conflict Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Professional Functions outside Universities/Institutions
March 2007 – Resource and program development – The Negev Institute for present Strategies of Peace and Development (NISPED)
August 2006 – Resource development - The Negev Forum for Coexistence
March 2007 and Civil Equality
1994 – 1997 Interviewer for Yad Tabenkin Research Center
Interviewer for the Visual History of the Holocaust Foundation.
Editor or Member of Editorial Board of Scientific or Professional Journal:
2007 - present Editorial board, The Open Families Study Journal
2006 - present Editorial Board Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships
Reviewer for the following journals: Journal of Traumatic Stress, Social Science and Medicine, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Journal of Applied Development, Qualitative Health
2004 Manuscript reviewer: Troublemakers or Peacemakers? Siobahn McEvoy-Levy (ed.)
2003 - present Editorial Board The Qualitative Report
2003 – 2008 Editorial Board Peace and Conflict Studies
2001 - present Editorial board (Israel), International Journal of Qualitative Methodologies
Membership in Professional/Scientific Societies
2008 International Society of Political Psychology
2006 – 2007 Organizing Committee - International Conference: Ethnicity, Belonging, Biography and Ethnography. The Center of Methods in Social Sciences, Georg-August-University, Goettingen, Germany
Israeli Society for Qualitative Research
2005 – 2008 Association of Jewish Studies
2005 – Present International Association for Qualitative Research
2004 – Present American Psychological Association – Peace Psychology Division (Division 48)
2003 – present Project participant – Intractable Conflict Knowledge Base, University of Boulder, Colorado
1999 – 2008 Israeli Center for Qualitative Methodologies
Educational Activities:
Courses taught
· Conflict Management and Resolution: Theories and Perspectives (MA)
· The psycho-social effects of the Holocaust on the 2nd & 3rd generations (BA and MA)
· The effects of Israeli social traumas on the family (BA)
· Interpersonal interaction in small groups/SYMLOG (BA)
· Introduction to sociology (BA)
· Introduction to qualitative research (MA)
· Gender and the family (BA)
· Introduction to a multi-disciplinary approach to conflict and negotiations (BA)
· Introduction to social science research and methods (BA)
All the above courses taught at Ben Gurion University of the Negev
· Introduction to psychology (BA)
· Introduction to qualitative research (BA)
· Using academic resources and academic writing (BA)
· Violence prevention and intervention (BA)
· Third year seminar – Social trauma and collective identity (BA)
All the above courses taught at Sapir Academic College
· Studies in War and Peace (BA)
· Middle Eastern Politics (BA)
· Terrorism in the 21st Century (guest lecturer - BA)
All the above courses were taught at the University of Missouri-Saint Louis
· Introduction to Qualitative Research and Design I (Ph.D. level)
· Introduction to Qualitative Research and Design II (Ph.D. Level)
· Research Design (MS level)
· Group Facilitation: Theory and Practice (MS and PhD level)
· Violence Prevention and Intervention (MS and PhD level)
· Introduction to Dispute Resolution (Undergraduate Level)
· Researching Conflict (MS and PhD) – together with Dr. Marie Olson-Lounsbery
· Society, Culture and Conflict in the Negev (MS and PhD)
· Qualitative Methods for the Study of Identity and Conflict (MS and PhD) – together with Prof. Dr. Gabriele Rosenthal, Dr. Michaela Koettig & Dr. J.P. Linstroth
All the above courses were taught at Nova Southeastern University - NSU (on-line and residential formats)
Research Students
2005 LeAnn Pitch – MS, Nova Southeastern University (NSU), co-chair with Dr. Marie Olson-Lounsbery (completed)
2004 - present Tony Gaskew – Ph.D. candidate. NSU - Committee member with Dr. J.P. Linstroth and Dr. Mark Davidheiser (completed)
Cyril Adonis – Ph.D. candidate. NSU – Committee Chair.
John Zivojinovic - Ph.D. candidate. NSU – Committee Member with Dr. J.P. Linstroth and Dr. Mark Davidheiser
Patrick Hiller – Ph.D. candidate NSU – Committee member with Dr. J.P. Linstroth
Tami Rafidi – PhD candidate. NSU – Committee member with Dr. John Linstroth
Jacqueline Font – PhD candidate. NSU – Committee member with Dr. John Linstroth
Denese Edsall – Ph.D. candidate. NSU – Committee member
with Dr. Marcia Sweedler.
Olga Kenney – Ph.D. candidate. NSU – Committee member with Dr. J.P. Linstroth
Awards, Citations, Honors, Fellowships
Honors, Citation Awards
2004 Nova Southeastern University, American Express Recognition Award from Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
1999 The Federation of Polish Immigrants and The Ghetto Fighter’s House – Award for work on doctoral dissertation
1998 Yad Vashem – Award for work on doctoral dissertation.
1996 Yad Vashem – Award for work on doctoral dissertation
1992 The Rabb Center for Holocaust and Redemption Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev for work on Masters thesis: “The Relationship of Working through Consequences of the Holocaust and Group Interaction in the Third Generation”.
1991 The Ovadia Margalit Fund - Award for work on research “Morality and Consequences of the Holocaust on Young Jewish and Arab Israelis”
Fellowships
2001 – 2002 The Center for International Studies, University of Missouri, St. Louis (UMSL), $24,000 - Theodore Lentz Post-Doctorate Fellowship in Peace and Conflict Resolution Research,
2000 - 2001 Adler Center, Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, $12,000 - Post doctorate with Prof. Zahava Solomon
Peace Research Institute in the Middle East (PRIME), Israel/Palestine, $15,000 - Post doctorate with Prof. Dan Bar-On & Prof. Sami Adwan
Scientific Publications
Authored books
1. Chaitin, J. (2007). Inside-Out: Personal and Collective Life in Israel and the Kibbutz. Lanham, MA: University Press of America.
2. Adwan, S., Bar-On, D., Obeidi, F. & Chaitin, J. (2004) A Study of Palestinian and Israeli Environmental NGOs 2000-2001. Beit Jala, PNA: Peace Research Institute of the Middle East
3. Bar-On, D. & Chaitin, J. (2001) Parenthood and the Holocaust. Yad Vashem, Jerusalem.
Editorship of collective volumes
1. Solomon, Z. and Chaitin, J. (eds.) (2007). Children in the Shadow of the Holocaust.
Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Ha’meuchad (in Hebrew).
Chapters in collective volumes
1. Chaitin, J. (2009) From prophecies of war to possibilities of peace: Building bridges between Jewish-Israelis and Palestinians. In C. Rittner & S. Smith (Eds.) No Going Back: Letters to Pope Benedict XVI on tThe Holocaust, Christian-Jewish Relations and Israel. New York: Continuum Press.
2. Litvak-Hirsch, T., Bar-On, D. & Chaitin, J. (forthcoming). Thematic and form methods in qualitative research in the field of identity construction and otherness. In L. Kacen & M. Krumer-Nevo (Eds.) Methods of data analysis in qualitative research. Beer Sheva: Ben Gurion University Press.(In Hebrew)
3. Litvak-Hirsch, T., Bar-On, D. & Chaitin, J. (May, 2008)). Whose house is this? The Palestinian other and the construction of Jewish Israeli identity in Majority cultures and the politics of ethnic difference (B. Petersson & K. Tylor, Eds.) Palgrave Macmillan Press.
4. Chaitin, J. (2005). Post-war adaptation and value patterns among generations of families of Holocaust survirors. In A. Paul Hare, Endre Sjovold, Herbert G. Baker, and Joseph Powers (Eds.), Analysis of social interaction systems: SYMLOG research and applications (pp. 240 – 259). Lanham, MD: University Press of America.
5. Chaitin, J. & Bar-On, D. (2004). Remembering and talking, remembering (?) and silence: Emotional memories of parent-child relationships during the Holocaust. In B. Bannasch (ed.) Verbot der Bilder – Gebot der Erinnerung. Frankfurt-Main: Campus Verlag. (in German)
6. Chaitin, J. (2002). Children and grandchildren face the Holocaust: The case of Paradoxical Relevance. Holocaust Citizenship and Education. Budapest: Hannah Arendt Foundation and Goethe Institute. (in Hungarian)
7. Bar-On, D., Hare, A.P. & Chaitin, J. (1997). Working Through the consequences of the Holocaust in Israeli and German Student Seminars, in D.Bar-On, A.P. Hare & K.Brendler (eds). Das ist etwas kaputtgegangen an den wurzeln:Identitatsformation deustcher und israelischer Jugendlicher im Schatten des Holocaust. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag. (in German)
Refereed articles and letters in scientific journals
1 Chaitin, J. (accepted for publication, forthcoming). A-political research? Methodological issues in joint Israeli-Palestinian research. Journal of Research Practice.
2 Chaitin, J., Linstroth, J.P. & Hiller, P.T. (2009) Ethnicity and belonging: An overview of a study of Cuban, Haitian and Guatemalan immigrants to Florida. [63 paragraphs]. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 10(3), Art. 12, http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0903122
3 Cooper, R., Edsall, D., Riviera, D., Chaitin, J. & Linstroth, J.P. (2009) “My country” / “This country”: Ambivalent belongings of Cuban Americans in South Florida. Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 10(3)
4 Cooper, R., Linstroth, J.P. & Chaitin, J. (2009) Negotiating the transnationality of social control: Stories of immigrant women in South Florida. Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 10 (3)
5 Chaitin, J., Awwad, E. & Andriani, C. (2009) Belonging to the Conflict: Collective Identities among Israeli and Palestinian Émigrés to the United States. Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, 15(2), 207-225.
6 Chaitin, J. (2008) Bridging the impossible? Confronting barriers to dialogue between Israelis and Germans and Israelis and Palestinians. The International Journal of Peace Studies, 13 (2)
7 Chaitin, J. & Steinberg, S. (2008). "You should know better": Expressions of empathy and disregard among victims of massive social trauma. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma, 17 (2), 197 – 226.
8 Lazar, A., Litvak-Hirsch, T. & Chaitin, J. (2008). Between culture and family: Young Jewish-Israelis’ modes of relating to the Holocaust. Traumatology, 14(3): 110 – 119.
9 Litvak-Hirsch, T., Bar-On, D. & Chaitin, J. (2007). Constructing Self, Constructing Others: Jewish Israeli Perceptions of Palestinians and Germans. Israel Studies Forum, 22 (2): 3 - 27.
10 Kacen, L. & Chaitin, J. (June 2006). “The times they are a changin'”: Undertaking qualitative research in ambiguous, conflictual and changing contexts. The Qualitative Report, 11 (2).
11 Litvak –Hirsch, T., Bar-On, D. & Chaitin, J. (accepted for publication). Perceptions of Palestinian and German "others" within the construction of Jewish- Israeli identity Eyunim Behinuch (in Hebrew).
12 Chaitin, J. (2004). My Story, My Life, My Identity. International Journal of Qualitative Methodologies Vol 3 (4).
13 Chaitin, J. (2004). The relevance and meaning of the Holocaust for children and grandchildren of survivors: The case of Paradoxical Relevance. Children in War. The International Journal of Evacuee and War Child Studies, Vol. 1(1), 79-89.
14 Chaitin, J., Obeidi, F., Adwan, S. & Bar-On, D. (2004). Palestinian and Israeli NGOs: Work during the “Peace Era”. International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 17 (3), 523 – 542.
15 Lazar, A., Chaitin, J., Gross T. & Bar-On, D. (2004). A journey to the Holocaust: Modes of understanding among Israeli adolescents after a visit to Poland. Educational Review, 56 (1), 13 –30.
16 Litvak-Hirsch, T., Bar-On, D. & Chaitin, J. (2004). Using dilemmas to trace identity construction and perception of others: The Israeli case. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 1 (3): 219 – 257.
17 Sawada, A., Chaitin, J. & Bar-On, D. (2004). Surviving Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Experiences and psycho-social meanings. Psychiatry, 67(1), 43 – 60.
18 Lazar, A., Chaitin, J., Gross, T. & Bar-On, D. (2004). National identity and lessons of the Holocaust among Jewish Israeli teenagers. Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 18 (2): 188-204.
19 Chaitin, J. (2003). Living with the past: Coping and value patterns in families of Holocaust survivors. Family Process, 42(2), 305 – 323.
20 Chaitin, J. (2003). “I wish he hadn’t told me that: Methodological and ethical issues in social trauma and conflict research. Qualitative Health Research, 13 (10): 1 – 10.
21 Litvak-Hirsch, T., Bar-On, D. & Chaitin, J. (2003). Whose house is this? Dilemmas of identity construction in the Israeli-Palestinian context. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 9 (2), 127-148.