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I am a cultural and semiotic anthropologist. My research focuses on the institutional transformations of modern creative agency and modern creative practice. Specifically, I am interested in the ways in which modern normative ideals of rationality, on the one hand, and creativity, on the other hand, are negotiated in different institutional settings in the U.S. and Israel. This interest has led me to pursue a number of research projects. First, I am interested in the organizational cultivation of creativity, especially as it finds expression in forms of art socialization that take place in rationalized bureaucratic settings such as colleges and universities and any institutional setting that relies on standardized and rationalized curricula and pedagogies. This strand of research touches upon and problematizes a long-held dichotomy in anthropological theory between rule-governed or imitative social behavior and spontaneous or creative social action. As part of this research, I conducted a two-year ethnographic fieldwork in creative-writing workshops in Israel and a two-year ethnographic fieldwork in collegiate jazz music programs in the U.S. These research projects resulted in a number of publications in which I approached these questions through different foci such as embodied practice (2010), the materiality of semiotic forms (2011), new media technologies (2012), the intersection of charismatic education and professional training (2013), and sensory agency (forthcoming); a book-length manuscript is in preparation.
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