EDUCATION

Ph.D. Sociology, Stanford University, 1997
M.A. Sociology, Stanford University, 1990
M.A. Sociology (Magna Cum Laude), Tel Aviv University, 1989
B.A. Sociology and Anthropology, Political Science (Magna Cum Laude),
Tel Aviv University, 1986


POST-DOCTORAL ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2000 -- 2011 Lecturer, Stanford University
International Relations Program, School of Education, International Policy Studies Program
2002 -- 2011 Director, Stanford University
International Relations Honors Program
2010 Guest Scholar, Uppsala University
Uppsala Forum on Peace, Democracy and Justice
2010 Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Technion (Israel Institute of Technology)
Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management
2009 -- 2011 Lecturer, University of California at Berkeley
Department of Sociology
1997 -- 2000 Post-Doctoral Affiliate, Stanford University
Center for International Security and Cooperation
1997 -- 2000 Research Associate, Stanford University
Department of Sociology


AWARDS

2010 Hoefer Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Writing, Faculty Partnership Award, Stanford University
2007 Best Book Competition, Honorable Mention, Communication and Information Technologies Section of the American Sociological Association
2004 Barrington Moore Award for Best Book, Honorable Mention, the Comparative and Historical Section of the American Sociological Association
2001 Hoefer Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Writing, Faculty Partnership Award, Stanford University
1999 Bielefeld Prize for the Internationalization of Sociology, International Sociological Association


TEACHING

Appointments and Courses
Lecturer, Stanford University:
  Graduate level: The Transnational Workplace; Organizational Studies; Quantitative Methodology; World, Societal and Educational Change.
  Cross-listed, graduate and undergraduate: Globalization and Organizations; Science, Technology, and Development.
  Undergraduate level: Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Honors College; Honors Seminar (pre- and post-field).
Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley: Sociology of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Guest Lecturer, Technion (Israeli Institute of Technology): Complex Organizations
Lecturer, Open University: Introduction to Sociology

Special Teaching Opportunities
 - Scancor Ph.D. Workshop (The Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research in Copenhagen Business School, Helsinki School of Economics, IESE University of Navara)
September 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010
 - Polforsk Ph.D. Workshop (The Danish Political Science Research School at the University of Copenhagen)
November 2008


SPONSORED RESEARCH

2006 -- 2011 Topic: Technology incubators and science parks, a global survey
2009 -- 2011 Topic: Branding of the university, a comparative survey
With: Giuseppe Delmestri
2009 -- 2011 Topic: Strategy in the public sector, comparing sectors and countries
With: Eero Vaara
2008 -- 2009 Topic: Globalization of a European firm
With: Giuseppe Delmestri, Peter Walgenbach, David Courpasson, Olivier Givet
2007 -- 2010 Topic: Globalization of professional service firms
With: Hokyu Hwang
2005 -- 2007 Topic: Human rights education
Principal investigators: Francisco O. Ramirez, John W. Meyer.
2002 -- 2005 Topic: Globalization and human rights expansion
Principal investigators: John W. Meyer, Francisco O. Ramirez.
1998 -- 2002 Topic: Global education expansion and social progress
Principal investigators: John W. Meyer, Francisco O. Ramirez.
1993 -- 1998 Topic: Science, education, and national development
Principal investigators: John W. Meyer, Francisco O. Ramirez.
1990 -- 1994 Topic: At-risk youth-patterns of drug use, suicide, and school performance
Principal investigator: Jerald Herting.
1986 -- 1989 Topic: Political culture and public discourse, a comparative study of Israel and the U.S.
Principal investigator: Hanna Herzog (William Gamson).
1985 -- 1986 Topic: Science, technology, and national development
Principal investigator: Yehouda Shenhav.