Omri Tubi

I’m a comparative-historical sociologist who is interested in public health, development and state building.

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My Work

I am a doctoral candidate at Northwestern's sociology department. My research focuses on the relationship between public health campaigns and state-formation. My dissertation examines the contribution of American Jewish public health organizations working in Palestine and Israel and maintained by American Jewish bodies to Israeli state formation. Specifically, I focus on the development of Israeli infrastructural power in the field of public health and on issues of elite relations and models of institutional development. I was a 2020-2021 recipient of a Global Impacts fellowship from Northwestern's Buffett Institute and I am currently the recipient of the 2021-2022 Crown Graduate Fellowship. My work appeared in the journals Theory and Society and Social Science and Medicine. This work won awards from the American Sociological Association.

Research Interests

Comparative-historical sociology

Global and transnational sociology

Sociology of development

Public health, medicine and science and technology

Political sociology

Jewish and Israel studies.

Publications

“Infrastructural Capital in the Israeli Vaccination Campaign Against COVID-19.”
Social Science and Medicine, 303.

“Kill me a Mosquito and I Will Build a State: Political Economy and the Socio-Technicalities of Jewish Colonization in Palestine, 1922-1940.”
Theory and Society, 50 (1): 97-124.

Other Publications

“Mosquitos, States and CHS.”
Trajectories: The Newsletter of the ASA Comparative and Historical Sociology Section, 33 (1): 45-47.

“Rockefeller Philanthropies and Malaria Control in Early 20th Century Palestine.”
Rockefeller Archives Research Reports.

Works in Progress

“From Disease to Development: The case of Israel.”

“State Formation Fever: Malaria and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882 - 1914.”

“Set in Motion Through a Great Calamity: Health, War and State Formation in Palestine 1918-1948.”

Alexandre White and Omri Tubi. “Vector Colonialism.” In preparation.

Awards and Grants

(complete list on CV)

Best Graduate Student Paper Award, Section on Comparative Historical Sociology, American Sociological Association.

Received for “Kill me a Mosquito and I Will Build a State: Political Economy and the Socio-Technicalities of Jewish Colonization in Palestine, 1922-1940.” June 2021.

Best Graduate Student Paper Award, Section on Global and Transnational Sociology, American Sociological Association.

Received for “Kill me a Mosquito and I Will Build a State: Political Economy and the Socio-Technicalities of Jewish Colonization in Palestine, 1922-1940.” August 2020.

Honorable Mention, Graduate Student Paper Award, Section on Peace, War and Social Conflict, American Sociological Association.

Received for “Cultural bellicism: Fighting mosquitos and building a state in mandatory Palestine and Israel.” August 2019.

Crown Center for Jewish and Israel Studies’ Graduate Fellowship, 2021-2022

5/2021

Buffett Institute for Global Studies Global Impacts Fellowship, 2020-2021

8/2020

Northwestern’s Sociology Department’s Fieldwork Fellowship

6/2020

Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, Winch Teaching Award, honorable mention

2017-2018