Tami Amanda Jacoby

 

Education

 

2000

Ph.D., International Relations and Comparative Politics, York University

1993

M.A., International Relations and Political Science, Hebrew University

1989

B.A., Political Science and History, University of Manitoba

 

 

Positions Held

2005

Visiting Scholar
Taub Center for Israel Studies, New York University

2002-Present

Assistant Professor
Department of Political Studies, University of Manitoba

Research Fellow
Centre for Defence and Security Studies, University of Manitoba

2001

Visiting Fellow
Department of Political Science, University of Melbourne

1998-2002

Research Associate
Centre for Defence and Security Studies, University of Manitoba

1998-2002

Part-time Lecturer
Department of Political Studies, University of Manitoba

1999-2001

Part-time Lecturer
Department of Political Science, University of Winnipeg

1995-1998

Researcher
Centre for International and Security Studies, York University

1991-1993

Research Assistant
Department of Political Science, Hebrew University

 

 

Journal Articles

“Feminism, Nationalism and Difference: Reflections on the Palestinian Women’s Movement”, Women’s Studies International Forum, Vol. 22, No. 5, pp. 511-523, Fall 1999.

“Political Implications of the Death of Jordan’s King Hussein”, Civil Society in the Middle East: Democratization in the Arab World, Vol. 8, Issue 91, July, 1999.

“Gendered Nation: A History of the Interface of Women’s Protest and Jewish Nationalism in Israel”, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 382-402, 1999. Also presented at the Women and Society Conference at Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York, June 11-13, 1999.

“The 1999 Israeli Elections: Implications for Peace and Security in the Middle East”, Strategic Datalink #84, January 2000.

“Canadian Peacebuilding and the Middle East Peace Process: A Case Study of the Canada Fund in Israel/Palestine and Jordan”, Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, November, 2000.

 

Books

Jacoby, Tami Amanda, & Ayla Kilic. Maple Sands: Prospects and Legacies of Canada-Middle East Relations, under review.

 

Jacoby, Tami Amanda. 2005. Women’s Organizing in Zones of Conflict, McGill-Queens University Press: Montreal/Kingston, Canada.

 

Jacoby, Tami Amanda & Brent E. Sasley. 2002. Redefining Security in the Middle East, Manchester University Press: Manchester, UK.

 

Chapters in Books

Jacoby, Tami Amanda. Forthcoming. “From the Trenches: Dilemmas of Feminist IR Fieldwork”, in Researching Marginal Sites, edited by Brooke Ackerly, Maria Stern and Jacqui True. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.

 

Jacoby, Tami Amanda. 2003. “To Serve and Protect: The changing dynamic of military and policing functions in Canadian foreign policy”, in Challenge and Change for the Military: Social and Cultural Change, edited by David Last, Doug Bland, Frank Pinch, and Alan Okros. Queen's-McGill Press: Montreal.

 

Jacoby, Tami Amanda. 2002. “Introduction: New Approaches to ‘Security’ in the Middle East”, in Tami Amanda Jacoby & Brent E. Sasley (Eds.), Redefining Security in the Middle East. Manchester University Press: Manchester and New York.

 

Jacoby, Tami Amanda. 2002. “Gender Relations and National Security in the Middle East”, in Tami Amanda Jacoby & Brent E. Sasley (Eds.), Redefining Security in the Middle East. Manchester University Press: Manchester and New York.

 

Conference and Occasional Papers

“Reading, Writing and Rewriting the Human Bomb: Suicide bombers in Contemporary Warfare”, accepted for presentation at the Fifth Annual pan-European IR conference, September 9-11, 2004, the Hague.

 

“From the Trenches: Dilemmas of Feminist IR Fieldwork” presented at the ISA, Montreal, March 17-20, 2004

 

“Unwinnable Wars: Asymmetry and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”, presented at the ISA, Montreal, March 17-20, 2004.

 

“The Right to Fight in Israel: Dilemmas for Feminist Theory and Practice” presented at the Gender in the Mediterranean Conference, March 5-7, 2004, Nicosia, Cyprus and accepted for presentation at the Association for Israel Studies Conference, June 2004, Jerusalem.

 

“The Social Effects of Asymmetrical Warfare”, prepared for presentation at the Political Studies Students’ Conference Transformation of War in the 21st Century”, February 6, 2004, University of Manitoba.

 

 

“Terrorism and Liberal Democracy”, presented at the conference Canada and the Middle East: Politics in the Coming Era, September 27, 2003, University of Winnipeg.

 

“Asymmetric Warfare and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”, presented at the Asymmetric Threats: Canada and Beyond Workshop, July 11, 2003 at the University of Manitoba.

 

“The Implications of Irregular Warfare in the Israeli-Palestinian Context", presented at ISA Budapest, Hungary, June 26-28, 2003.

 

“From the Trenches: Dilemmas of Feminist IR Fieldwork”, presented at ISA 2003 Workshop: “Feminist Methodologies for International Relations: how do we actually do feminist IR?”, Portland, February 24, 2003 and accepted for presentation at ISA 2004 panel on Researching Marginal Sites.

 

“Constructing Crises in Foreign Policy: The Case of Canada and the Al-Aqsa Intifada”, (with Brent E. Sasley), presented at ISA, Portland, February 25-March 1, 2003

 

“Women's Engagement in Nationalist Movements”, Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA) annual meeting, Workshop on Women and Politics: The Civic Engagement of Women - Putnam’s Decline of Social Capital Thesis and Women's Political Engagement, May 29, 2002.

 

“Security and Methods: Reflections from Feminist IR Fieldwork”, presented at the International Studies Association meeting in New Orleans, March 23-26, 2002.

 

“The Politics of Women’s Resistance in Zones of Conflict: Reflections on the dynamics of human security and interethnic dialogue”, presented at the International Studies Association meeting in Chicago, February 21-25, 2001.

 

“The Politics of Representation in Feminist IR Fieldwork: a reintroduction of critical methods”, presented at the International Studies Association meeting in Los Angeles, March 16-20, 2000.

 

“Gendered Nation: A History of the Interface of Women’s Protest and Jewish Nationalism in Israel”, Women and Society Conference at Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York, June 11-13, 1999.

 

“State Building and the Social Construction of Sexual Difference in Israel: women in nationalism, the military, religion, and the family”, presented at the 40th Annual International Studies Association meeting in Washington, D.C., February 16-20, 1999.

 

“Remnants of the Other: Retracing ‘woman’ in the Israeli-Palestinian Politics of Protest”, presented at the Third Annual Pan-European International Studies Association, Vienna, September 16-19, 1998.

 

“Security as Contestation: Reflections on the diversity of women’s protest in Israel”, presented at the Sixth Annual YCISS Conference, “Identity, world view, and security studies, February 5-6, 1998, revised version “Security as Contested Identities: reflections on the diversity of women’s protest in Israel presented at the 39th Annual International Studies Association meeting in Minneapolis, March 17-21, 1998.

 

“Women, Identity and ‘Fundamentalism’ in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”, presented at the Fifth Annual YCISS Conference, “Culture, Identity and Global Security”, February 6-7, 1997.

 

“Issues of Gender and Palestinian Citizenship: Women’s Activism from National Liberation to Interim Self-Government”, YCISS Occasional Paper No. 49, July, 1997. Presented at the 38th Annual ISA meeting in Toronto, March 18-22, 1997, and presented at the Women in Zones of Conflict Network workshop in King City, Ontario, May 31-June 1, 1997.

 

“Gendered Nationalism and Palestinian Citizenship: reconceptualizing the role of women in state building”, YCISS Working Paper No.18, November 1996. Presented at the Citizenship and the State in the Middle East conference joint sponsored by the University of Oslo, University of Durham and University of Bethlehem in Oslo, Norway, November 22-24, 1996.

 

Book Reviews

Book Review of The Diplomacy of Prudence: Canada and Israel, 1948-1958, Canadian Journal of Political Science, XXXI: 3, September, 1998.

 

Honours, Grants, and Academic Awards

2005

University of Manitoba Internal Grants Program for Research on Israel’s Security Barrier

2004

Security and Defence Forum grant for research on Suicide Terrorism

2001-2002

Security and Defence Forum grant for research on Canadian foreign policy towards the Middle East

1999-2000

John Holmes Fund, DFAIT

1999

Canadian Department of National Defence grant for organizing an academic conference at McGill University

1993

Graduated Cum Laude, Hebrew University

1991

Dean’s Honour List, University of Manitoba

1987, 1989

I.H Asper Award for Academic Excellence

 1987, 1989

 Morris M. Pulver Scholarship

 

 

Teaching

Introduction to Politics, Introduction to International Relations, Introduction to Comparative Politics, Government and Politics of the New Europe, Law and Society, International Conflict and Conflict Resolution, Global Political Economy, Politics of International Economic Relations, and Politics of International Regions (Middle East), Special Topics: Middle East.

 

 

Research

Arab-Israeli Conflict, Women’s Protest Movements, Gender Politics and Nationalism, Middle East Issues, Canadian Foreign Policy and Peacekeeping, Zones of conflict, Terrorism.

 

 

 

 

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