Full Professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Higher Education
1982-1985  Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Sociology, Bachelor of Arts (Cum Laude)
1988-1994 Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Sociology, Doctor of Philosophy (Cum Laude)

Employment
1988-1993 Municipality of Jerusalem, Head of Educational Evaluation Department
1995-2005 Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Sociology and Anthropology; School of Education
1995- Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Sociology and Anthropology

Fellowships
1994 University of Chicago, Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellowship
1996 Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Spencer Post-Doctoral Fellowship

Academic Rank
1995, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Lecturer
2002, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Senior Lecturer
2006, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Associate Professor / Reader
2015, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Full Professor

Visiting Professorship
2008-2008 Georg Eckert Institute for Textbook Research
2013-2013 Free University Berlin, Sociology, Visiting Professor
2017 Northeast Normal University, Moral and Ideological Education, Visiting Professor
2018-2020 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Sloan School of Management, Visiting Research Professor

Representative Publications

Books
1. Yair, G. On the Power of Education: From Key Experiences to Turning Points. Bnei Brak: Hakibbutz Hameuchad - Sifriat Poalim Publishing group, 2006.
2. Yair, G., and Michaela Soyer. The Golem in German Social Theory. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008.
3. Yair, G. Pierre Bourdieu: The Last Musketeer of the French Revolution. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009.
4. Yair, G. The Code of Israeliness: The Ten Commandments for the 21st Century. Jerusalem: Keter Books, 2011.
5. Yair, G. Love is not Praktish: The Israeli Look on Germany. Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad - Sifriat Poalim Publishing group, 2015.
6. Yair, G. The Israeli Journey. Rishon Le'tzion: Yediot Books, 2017.
7. Yair, G. The Unruly Mind: An Invitation to Israeli Science. Bnei B'rak: Hakibbutz Hameuchad - Sifriat Poalim Publishing group, 2020.

Edited Books
8. Yair, G., and Orit Gazit, editors. Globalization, States and Collective Identities. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2010.

Chapters in Books
9. Yair, G. "Sectarian Trends in Modern Israel," In: The Blackwell Companion to Jewish Culture, edited by Glenda Abramson, 688-691. Oxford: Wiley- Blackwell, 1989.
10. Yair, G. "Equal Excellence: The Attainment of Excellence and Equality in classrooms - a Multilevel Framework," In: Educational Advancement and Distributive Justice: Between Equality and Equity, edited by Reuven Kahane, 117-131. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1995.
11. Yair, G. "Decisive Moments and Key Experiences: Expanding Paradigmatic Boundaries in the Study of School Effects," In: The International Handbook on the Sociology of Education: An International Assessment of New Research and Theory, edited by Carlos Torres, Ari Antikainen, 124-142. Lanham, MD: Rowman, 2003.
12. Yair, G., and Didi Shamas. "Ethnic Bias or Academic Neutrality at the University: Consequences for Affirmative Action," In: Affirmative Action
and Equal Representation in Israel, edited by Anat Maor, 495-510. Tel Aviv: Ramot, 2004.
13. Yair, G., and Reuven Kahane. "Introduction: Emile Durkheim and his Methodological Contribution to Sociology," In: The Rules of Sociological Method, edited by Emile Durkheim, 1-20. Tel Aviv: Resling, 2006.
14. Yair, G., and Dan Inbar. "Standards in Education: Milestones or Hindrances," In: Toward Educational Revolution, edited by Dan Inbar, 130-145.
Jerusalem: Hakibbutz Hameuchad - Sifriat Poalim Publishing group, 2006.
15. Yair, G. "Ambivalence," In: The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by George Ritzer, 127-128. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2007.
16. Yair, G. "Meritocracy," In: The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by George Ritzer, 2954-2958. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2007.
17. Assa-Inbar, M., Tamar Rapoport, and Yair, G. "The Critical Gaze of Mobile Students: The Case of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem," In: Students, Staff and Academic Mobility in Higher Education, edited by Byram M., F. Dervin, 166-182. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.
18. Yair, G. "The Scissors Syndrome in the University: Expectations and Depressive Realism Amongst Female Doctoral Students," In: Gender and Ethnicity in Higher Education, edited by Rachel Hertz-Lazarovitsch, Izhar Oplatka, 77-93. Haifa: Pardes, 2009.
19. Yair, G. "The Golem of Measurement: Lessons from German Sociology," In: The Limits of Quantification: Critical Perspectives on Measuring and Grading People, their Behavious and Achievements, edited by Yoahai Hakak, Lea Kacen, and Michal Krumer-Nevo, 301-314. Beer Sheva: Ben Gurion University Press, 2010.
20. Yair, G. "Key Experiences in Informal Education," In: Social Order and Informal Codes, edited by Rapoport, Tamar, and Kahane, Ahuvia, 497-517. Tel Aviv: Resling, 2012.
21. Yair, G., and Michaela Soyer. "Golem," In: Encyclopadie Judischer Geschichte und Kultur Vol. 2, edited by Yair, G, 466-469. Stuttgart: Verlag
J.B. Metzler, 2012.
22. Yair, G. "Character, National," In: The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism, edited by John Stone, Xiaoshuo Hou, Rutledge Dennis, Polly Rizova, and Anthony Smith, 1-3. Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.
23. Yair, G. "Meritocracy," In: The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism, edited by John Stone, Xiaoshuo Hou, Rutledge Dennis, Polly Rizova, and Anthony Smith. Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.
24. Yair, G. "The national habitus: steps towards reintegrating sociology and group analysis," In: The Social Unconscious in Persons, Groups, and Societies, Vol. 3: The Foundation Matrix Extended and Re-Configured, edited by Hopper, Earl, and Weinberg, Haim, 47-63. London: Karnac Books, 2017.
25. Yair, G. "Managing Minds: The Challenges of Current Research Information Systems for Improving University Performance," In: Handbook of Operations Research and Management Science in Higher Education, edited by Zilla Sinuany-Stern. New York: Springer, 2021.
26. Yair, G. and Chen Ozeri, “A March for Power: The Variety of Political Programs on the Eurovision Stage.” Pp. 83- 95 in: Eurovision as a Cultural Phenomenon: From Concert Halls to the Halls of Academia, edited by A.D. Dubin, D. Vuletic, A.O. Garcia, Routledge, 2022.
27. Yair, G. “Political Culture and Educational Governance: Covid-19 and the Limits of Decentralization in Israeli Education.” In: The Global and Digital
Governance Futures Handbook, edited by Preeti Shroff, Jagdish Sheth, John Garrison and Shailendra Raj Mehta, Routledge, Forthcoming.

Journal Articles
28. Rapoport, Tamar, Yair, G., and Reuven Kahane, "Tutorial Relations - the Dynamics of Social Contract and Personal Trust," Interchange 20, 1 (1988): 14-26.
29. Yair, G., Marcella Elbert-Cleiman, and Annette Cleiman, "Founding Fathers versus Free-Riding Children: the Case of the Israeli Moshav," Rural Sociology 53, 4 (1988): 433-441.
30. Yair, G, "The Commitments to Long Distance Running and Levels of Activity: Personal or Structural?," Journal of Leisure Research 22, 3 (1990): 213-227.
31. Yair, G, "The Index of Entitlement - Three Paradoxes, and Empirical Analysis. Notes on Educational Policy in the Nineties," Megamot 34, 1 (1991): 5-26.
32. Yair, G, "What Keeps them Running? The Circle of Commitment of Long Distance Runners," Leisure Studies 11 (1992): 257-270.
33. Yair, G, "‘Unite Unite Europe' The political and cultural structures of Europe as reflected in the Eurovision Song Contest," Social Networks 17, 2 (1995): 147-161.
34. Yair, G., and Khattab, N, "Changing of the Guards: Teacher-Student Interaction in the Intifada," Sociology of Education 68, 2 (1995): 99-117.
35. Yair, G., and Maman, D, "The persistent structure of hegemony in the Eurovision song contest," Acta Sociologica 39, 3 (1996): 309-325.
36. Yair, G, "School Organization and Market Ecology: A Realist Sociological Look at the Infrastructure of School Choice," British Journal of Sociology of Education 17, 4 (1996): 453-471.
37. Yair, G, "Contexts as Switchmen: The Variable Effects of Formal and Informal Instructional Strategies on Student Achievement," Social Psychology of Education 1, 3 (1997): 269-295.
38. Yair, G, "Method Effects on Theory Testing: The Case of Organizational
Coupling in Education," Journal of Educational Administration 35, 4 (1997): 290-311.
39. Yair, G, "Teachers' Polarisation in Heterogeneous Classrooms and the Social Distribution of Achievement: An Israeli Case Study," Teaching and Teacher Education 13, 3 (1997): 279-293.
40. Yair, G, "When Classrooms Matter: Implications of Between-Classroom Variability for Educational Policy in Israel," Assessment in Education 4, 2 (1997): 225-248.
41. Yair, G, "Research Activity in Academic Colleges: Dream and Reality,"
Dapim 29 (1999): 144-146.
42. Yair, G, "Educational battlefields in America: the tug-of-war over students' engagement with instruction," Sociology of Education 73, 4 (2000): 247-269.
43. Yair, G, "Not Just about Time: Instructional Practices and Productive Time in School," Educational Administration Quarterly 36, 4 (2000): 485-512.
44. Yair, G, "Reforming motivation: How the structure of instruction affects students' learning experiences," British Educational Research Journal 26, 2 (2000): 191-210.
45. Yair, G, "Ex Cathedra: The Representation of American Society in ASA Presidential Addresses, 1906-98," Sociology 35, 2 (2001): 477-500.
46. Yair, G., and Golan Peleg-Fadida, "Not Studying in Silence: Evaluating the Silent Classroom for Meaningful Learning," Dapim 34 (2002): 79-106.
47. Yair, G., Khattab, N., and Benavot, A, "Heating-Up the Aspirations of Israeli Arab Youth," Research in Sociology of Education: Inequality Across Societies: Families, Schools and Persisting Student 14 (2004): 201-224.
48. Yair, G, "Democracy and Education: Local Authorities Caught between Parents and the Ministry of Education - Effects on Mayoral Elections," Megamot 43, 1 (2004): 217-241.
49. Yair, G, "In a Double Bind: Conflicts over Education and Mayoral Election Outcomes," Local Government Studies 31, 2 (2005): 176-193.
50. Yair, G, "Not Just Location: LEAs and Inequalities among Schools," Journal of Educational Administration 43, 3 (2005): 295-315.
51. Yair, G, "Against the Future," Dapim 39 (2005): 188-191.
52. Yair, G., and Noa Apeloig, "Sociology in Jerusalem: The Shadow of its History," Israeli Sociology 7, 1 (2005): 95-122.
53. Yair, G., and Michaela Soyer, "The Golem Narrative in Max Weber," Max Weber Studies 6, 2 (2006): 231-255.
54. Yair, G., and Orit Gazit, "Alienation from Learning at Home in Lower Class, Impoverished Ethiopian Immigrant Families in Israel," Research in Sociology of Education 15 (2006): 243-268.
55. Yair, G., and Noa Apeloig, "Israel and the Exile of Intellectual Caliber,"
Sociology 40, 1 (2006): 51-69.
56. Factor, R., David Mahalel, and Yair, G, "The Social Accident: A Theoretical
Model and a Research Agenda for Studying the Influence of Social,"
Accident Analysis and Prevention 39 (2007): 914-921.
57. Yair, G, "Existential Uncertainty and the Will to Conform: The Expressive Basis of Coleman's Rational Choice Theory," Sociology 41, 4 (2007): 681-
698.
58. Oliver, Amalya L., Yuval Kalish, and Yair, G, "Reflections on Brokerage and Closure," Social Networks 29 (2007): 330-339.
59. Factor, R., David Mahalel, and Yair, G, "Inter-Group Differences in Road- Traffic Crash Involvement," Accident Analysis and Prevention 40, 6 (2008): 2000-2007.
60. Yair, G, "Vive la (Sexual) Revolution: The Political Roots of Bourdieu's analysis of gender," Sociological Review 56, 3 (2008): 388-407.
61. Yair, G, "Can we Administer the Scholarship of Teaching? Lessons from Outstanding Professors in Higher Education," Higher Education 55, 4 (2008): 447-459.
62. Yair, G, "Key Educational Experiences and Self-Discovery in Higher Education," Teaching and Teacher Education 24, 1 (2008): 92-103.
63. Yair, G., and Michaela Soyer, "The Ghost is Back, Again: Karl Marx and the Golem Narrative," Journal of Classical Sociology 8, 3 (2008): 323-343.
64. Yair, G, "Insecurity, Conformity and Community: James Coleman's Latent Theoretical Model of Action," European Journal of Social Theory 11, 1 (2008): 51-70.
65. Alayan, S., and Yair, G, "The Cultural Inertia of the Habitus: Gendered Narrations of Agency amongst Educated Female Palestinians in Israel," British Educational Research Journal 36, 5 (2009): 831-850.
66. Yair, G., and Alayan, S, "Paralysis at the Top of a Roaring Volcano: Israel and the Schooling of Palestinians in East Jerusalem," Comparative Education Review 53, 2 (2009): 235-257.
67. Yair, G, "Key Educational Experiences in Israeli Families: Adventures, Trust and Self-Discovery," Journal of Comparative Family Studies 40, 5 (2009): 809-825.
68. Yair, G, "Gender, Discipline and Scientific Productivity: The Case of Israeli Doctoral Students," Equal Opportunities International 28, 1 (2009): 50-64. 
69. Yair, G, "Cinderellas and Ugly Ducklings: Positive Turning Points in Students' educational careers," British Educational Research Journal 35, 3 (2009): 351-370.
70. Blagojević, Marina, and Yair, G, "The Catch 22 Syndrome of Social Scientists in the Semi-Periphery: Exploratory Sociological Observations," Sociologija 52, 4 (2010): 337-358.
71. Factor, R., Yair, G., and David Mahalel , "Who by Accident? The Social Morphology of Car Accidents," Risk Analysis 30, 9 (2010): 1411-1423.
72. Factor, R., Yair, G., and Mahalel, David, "Acciphilia on the Road: An Analysis of Severe Collisions," Journal of Safety Research 42, 5 (2011): 367-
74 (2011).
73. Hazaz-Berger, H., and Yair, G, "The Social Structure of the Liquid Self: Lessons from Israeli Flight Attendants," Sociology 45, 6 (2011): 992-1007.
74. Girsh, Y., and Yair, G, ""Theology in the Guise of Pedagogy": Nietzsche's Educational Philosophy as a Discourse of Redemption," Tabor, 5 (2012): 151-172.
75. Toubiana, M., and Yair, G, "The salvation of meaning in Peter Drucker's oeuvre," Journal of Management History 18, 2 (2012): 178-199.
76. Yair, G., and Behzad Akbari, "From Cultural Trauma to Nuclear War? Interpreting the Iranian-Israeli Conflict," Human Figurations 3, 2 (2014).
77. Yair, G, "Pope Benedict XVI on Instrumental Reason: Lessons on the Hidden Theology of Critical Theory," Oxford German Studies 43, 2 (2014): 172-189.
78. Yair, G., Girsh, Y., Alayan, S., Heus, Henning, and Elad, Or, "WE DON'T NEED ANOTHER HERO: Heroes and Role Models in Germany and Israel," Comparative Education Review 58, 2 (2014): 269-295.
79. Sharona Odom, and Yair, G, "Israeli Diplomacy: The Effects of Cultural Trauma," The Hague Journal of Diplomacy 9, 1 (2014): 81-103.
80. Yair, G, "Neutrality, Objectivity and Dissociation: Cultural Trauma and Educational Messages in German Holocaust Memorial Sites," Holocaust and Genocide Studies 28, 3 (2014): 490-517.
81. Yair, G, "The Germans: Cultural Trauma and the Israeli Habitus," American Journal of Cultural Sociology 3 (2015): 254-279.
82. Yair, G, "The Israeli Existential Anxiety: Cultural Trauma and the Constitution of National Character," Social Identities: journal for the study of race, nation and culture 20, 4-5 (2015): 346-362.
83. Yair, G., and Reut Mirom, "White ribbon, black pedagogy: Israeli insights on German child-rearing practices," Megamot: Behavioural Sciences Journal 51, 1 (2016): 38-75.
84. Goldstein, K. L., Angela Vatalaro, and Yair, G, "Parent-Based Early Childhood Interventions Do Make a Difference!: A Rebuttal to See and Gorard 2015a," Journal of Children's Services 12, 4 (2017): 224-238.
85. Yair, G., Nofar Gueta, and Nitza Davidovich, "The Law of Limited Excellence: Publication Productivity of Israel Prize Laureates in the Life and Exact Sciences," Scientometrics 113, 1 (2017): 299-311.
86. Yair, G, "Douze Point: Euro-Visions and Euro-Divisions in the Eurovision Song Contest - Review of Two Decades of Research," European Journal of Cultural Studies 22, 5-6 (2018): 1013-1029.
87. Yair, G, "The Eurovision as a Key Educational Experience: Teaching European Politics and Identities with Impact," New Zealand Journal of Research on Europe (2019): 87-100.
88. Jiang, Fei, Yair, G. “A Journey to Israel—An Analysis of Israel’s Moral Education Practice Based on the Theory of Key Educational Experience,”
Journal of Northeastern Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition), 06 (2019): 105-110. [Chinese]
89. Sagiv, T., and Yair, G, "The end of ethnicity? Racism and ambivalence among offspring of mixed marriages in Israel," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 47, 4 (2019): 861-877.
90. Yair, G, "Culture counts more than money: Israeli critiques of German science," Social Studies of Science 49, 6 (2019): 898-918.
91. Yair, G, "The uncanny: How cultural trauma trumps reason in German-Israeli scientific collaborations," Historical Social Research 45, 1 (2019): 87-102.
92. Yair, G, "The conspiracist strategy: Lessons from American alternative health promotions," European Journal of American Studies 14, 2 (2019): 1-
19.
93. Yair, G, "Hierarchy versus symmetry in German and Israeli science,"
American Journal of Cultural Sociology 8, (2020): 214-245.
94. Yair, G., and Goldstein, K. L, "The Annus Mirabilis Paper: Years of peak productivity in scientific careers," Scientometrics 124, (2020): 887-902.
95. Rotem, N., Yair, G., and Shustak, e, "Open the gates wider: Affirmative action and dropping out," Higher Education 81 (2020): 551-566.
96. Rotem, N., Yair, G., and Shustak, E., "Dropping-out of master's programs: Objective predictors and subjective reasons," Higher Education Research and Development 40, 5 (2020): 1070-1084.
97. Yair, G., Rotem, N., and Shustak, E, "The riddle of the existential dropout: Lessons from an institutional study of student attrition," European Journal of Higher Education 10 (2020): 436-453.
98. Yair, G., "A different reason: How Israeli scientists think about careers and family life," Israel Studies 25, 1 (2020): 159-178.
99. Yair, G., Keith Goldstein, Nir Rotem, and Anthony Olejniczak, “The three cultures in American science: Publication productivity in physics, history and economics,” Scientometrics, 127 (2022): 2967-2980.
100. Yair, G. and Ohad Aviram, “The structured frustration of cultural aspirations: Selection to elite military units, symbolic violence, and trauma,” British Journal of Sociology of Education, (2022), Online First.

Electronic Article
101. Yair, G, "The last musketeer of the French Revolution: Exploring the republican political agenda of Pierre Bourdieu" The Open Sociology Journal (2008): 23-35. www.bentham.org/open/tosocij/articles/V001/23TOSOCIJ.pdf.
102. Yair, G., and Peleg-Fadida, Golan, "Learning - the Israeli way: Key educational experiences and classroom noise" British Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science, 3 (2013): 246-264. http://sciencedomain.org/abstract/1454