Talia Shiff is a first year PhD student in Sociology at Northwestern. Talia’s research interests include law and society, identity, collective memory and comparative-historical sociology. In particular, she is interested in the varying ways collective identity and national consciousness structure the law, focusing on situations of social and political transition. Before coming to Northwestern, Talia earned her MA in Sociology from Tel-Aviv University in Israel. Her thesis dealt with the relationship between the socio-political climate in which a given text is composed, and the kind of personal and collective narrative that emerges from it. In Israel she had been an active member in a bi-national Palestinian-Israeli peace movement, Combatants for Peace, whose main purpose is to hold a dialogue based on the various ways in which both sides have coped with the stories of their pasts.

taliashiff@u.northwestern.edu