Education

1964 B.A., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, majoring in Geography and History of the Middle East

1972 M.A. (Cum Laude), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

1977 Ph.D., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Academic Positions

1971–1974 Assistant, Department of Geography, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

1974 Instructor, Department of Geography, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

1974–1976 Visiting, Department of Geography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, N.C. (Fulbright Fellowship, Hebrew University Grant).

1977 Lecturer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

1981 Senior Lecturer (with tenure), Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Fall 1982/83 Research Fellow, Department of Geography, University College, London, England Fall

1986/87 Visiting Scholar, Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

1988 Associate Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Fall 1991/92 Visiting Scholar, Department of Geography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, N.C.

July 1992 Invited Senior Fellow, Oxford University

1993–1997 Adjunct Senior Teaching Fellow, The Technion, Haifa, Israel

Spring 1996 Recipient of the Brownstone Lecturer Fund Award, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H.

1996 Full Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

1999-2000 Visiting Scholar, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA and Center for Jewish Studies, Stanford University, Stanford, CA Prof

2008-2009 Member of the Executive Committee, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Spheres of Interest (updated October 2007) 

- Historical and cultural geography ·

- Regional and historical geography of Palestine/Israel and the Middle East, from 1800 to the present day

- Western civilization and the Holy Land including religious, cultural and material concepts of the Holy Land, interrelations and impacts, Churches, missions, consuls, settlers, pilgrimage and tourism

-Concepts of land and land ownership in traditional and civil societies including Palestine/Israel and the Middle East, 1800 to the present day

- Women: land and property in the ancient and modern world; Palestinian women in the private and public domain; Arab women in Israel—status and entrepreneurship · The History of Cartography of Palestine/Israel/the Middle East ·

- The history of land policy, planning and land ownership in Palestine/Israel and the Palestinian Authority ·

-Dissent and conflict surrounding landownership in Israel (Churches vs their lay communities, Bedouins vs the State, among others)