University of Massachusetts Amherst

Search Google Appliance

Links

Sophie Schor

Photo of Sophie Schor

Professional Title: 

PhD Candidate

Office: 

Thompson 512

Email: 

Degree: 

B.A. in Government and Middle Eastern Studies, Smith College; M.A. in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies from Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Bio: 

I am a PhD Candidate in Political Science with a focus on Comparative Politics. My research studies the politics of everyday infrastructure through ground-up ethnographic analysis of public transportation infrastructure in Israel and Palestine. I am interested in feminist research methods, political ethnography, conflict studies, and political geography.