Dr. Tal Shamur is a lecturer (Assistant Professor, tenure track) in the NCJW women and gender studies program at the Shirley and Leslie Porter School of Cultural Studies, Tel Aviv University. His current work applies integrative feminist and emotional analysis to ethnoclass and gender relations in the urban sphere. Tal provides a thick ethnographic description of liminal neighborhoods, focusing on the barriers faced by women, people from underprivileged ethnoclass background, and senior citizens, intensified by migration and gentrification. He completed his PhD at Haifa University and held postdoctoral positions at the University of Cambridge, Ben Gurion University, and Reichman University. Tal's Research was supported by the Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Israel Scholarship Education Foundation (ISEF), and the Tel Aviv-Yaffo Research Scholarship for Urban Innovation and Development.
Besides academia, Tal is the author of three poetry books (in Hebrew):
If I Don't Say This Out Loud (Pardes Publishing, 2018)
Rami Superstar (Iton 77, Small Flame Lab, 2021)
The Ghost Club (Locus Publishing House, forthcoming)