Shoham is interested in the politics of demography, eugenics, and fertility policy under the 20th Century welfare-nation state. A central concern of her work is the construction of gendered and racialized bodies in multi-ethnic national milieu. Her Masters thesis, “The Janus Face of the Demographic Threat: Gender, Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Politics Of Fertility in Israel in the 1950s” (Tel Aviv University, 2002), studied the ethno-gendered logic of Israeli fertility policy during the 1950s and the ways in which fertility stereotypes generate ethno-gender identities in the Israeli context. (B.A. magna cum laude, Sociology & Anthropology, and Film & Television Studies, Tel Aviv University, 1998; M.A. magna cum laude, Sociology & Anthropology, Tel Aviv University, 2002.)
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| E-mail: | shoham.melamed (at) yale.edu |