Dr. Orit Hirsch-Matsioulas, PhD
Dr. Orit Hirsch-Matsioulas is an anthropologist specializing in human-animal relations and modern Greece. She is a lecturer at the Multidisciplinary Department at UoH and a research associate at the Tech4Animals Lab, Department of Information Systems at UoH. She is also a co-founder and a steering committee member of the Israeli Human-Animal Studies Academic Community and the human-animal relations research group at Tel Aviv University. She completed her doctoral studies at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel, under the supervision of Professor Nir Avieli, Professor Nitza Berkovitch, and Professor Haim Hazan (Tel Aviv University). Her PhD topic was human-canine relations and politics of belonging in a Greek island during the economic crisis. Her post-doctoral study at the Buchmann Faculty of Law, Israel, under the supervision of Professor Daphna Hacker, focused on the sense of loneliness, welfare, and rights of elders and their companion animals in senior citizen housing.
Research Interests:
- Human-animal studies (HAS)
- Animal-computer interaction (ACI)
- Multispecies ethnography
- Politics of belonging and ‘otherness’
- Sense of loneliness, welfare and rights of elders and companion animals
- Anthropology of modern Greece
Keywords:
Human-animal relations; Multispecies ethnography; More-then-human animals; Animal-computer interaction; Old age; Belonging; Otherness; Modern Greece.
SDG Keywords:
Justice; Ageism and Speciesism; Marginalized; Knowledge sharing; Reducing mortality; Disability; Vulnerable; Social protection
She can be contacted at: ohirsh@staff.haifa.ac.il
