Liora Sion

Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Sociology

Areas of Interest: Gender; Conflict and Violence; Ethnography; Qualitative Research; Israel/Middle East

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1808 Chicago Ave., Room 202

Evanston, IL 60208-1330

Phone: (847)491-5536

Fax: (847) 491-9907

l-sion@northwestern.edu

Office Hours: By Appointment

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Current Courses: Fall Quarter 2007

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Liora Sion 2008: " Dutch Peacekeepers and Host Environments in the Balkans: An Ethnographic Perspective." International Peacekeeping 15(2): 201-213.

Liora Sion (forthcoming October 2008): "Peacekeeping and the Gender Regime: Dutch Female Peacekeepers in Bosnia and Kosovo," Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 37(1).

Liora Sion and Eyal Ben-Ari, E. 2007: "Imagined Masculinity: Body and Family among Reserve Soldiers in Israel," Israeli Sociology (in

Liora Sion 2007: "Reinterpreting Combat Masculinity: Dutch peacekeeping in Bosnia and Kosovo," Sociologie, the Netherlands 3(1): 95-111.

Liora Sion 2006: "'Too innocent and sweet for war': Dutch Peacekeepers in Bosnia and Kosovo" Armed Forces and Society Spring, 32(1): 454-474.

Liora Sion and Eyal Ben-Ari 2005: "Hungry, Weary and Horny": Joking and Jesting Among Israel's Combat Reserves,"

Liora Sion 1997: Images of Manhood among Combat Soldiers: Military Service in Israel's Infantry Brigades as a Rite of Passage. Shaine Institute, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem (in Hebrew).