Gil Eyal
Affiliations
- Faculty Fellow, Department of Sociology
- Director, Project on Expertise
Research
Gil Eyal is an associate professor of sociology. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1997. His work is on the sociology of expertise. He has recently written a book on the role played by Middle East experts in Israeli society (forthcoming in Stanford University Press, 2006), and is currently working on the structure of expertise in the field of Autism research, treatment and activism.
Selected Work
- The Disenchantment of the Orient: Expertise in Arab Affairs and the Israeli State Forthcoming in Stanford University Press, Summer 2006
- "Identity and Trauma: Two Forms of the Will to Memory," History and Memory, Vol.16, no.1 (spring/summer 2004), 5-36
See Also
- Research grant: Networks of Expertise and the Autism Spectrum
- Featured publication: The Disenchantment of the Orient: Expertise in Arab Affairs and the Israeli State





