Hagar Hazaz Berger is a Ph.D candidate at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. She is also a Lecturer at the Occupational Therapy School at the Hebrew University and at College of Management Academic Studies and nursing Schools. She is interested in meaning, identity, protest, searching for meaning, everyday life, suffering, and emotions.
Her current research project is searching for meaning and identity construction during social protest. Hagar is a co-founder of the Israel Psychological anthropology section in the Israeli Anthropological Association and a co-editor of the Israeli sociological Association newsletter.
Amir Hampel received his PhD from the University of Chicago’s Department of Comparative Human Development in 2017. His research has focused on young professionals in China who are studying public speaking and social skills. This work analyzes self-help psychology in the context of rapid social change, and the role of a globalizing self-help in local cultural politics. He is now studying therapeutic massage for children in China. This project asks how various experts produce knowledge about children’s psychosocial development.
Gil Hizi is a Humboldt postdoctoral fellow in anthropology in the Global South Study Centre at the University of Cologne (PhD University of Sydney, 2018). He studies social change in China with the focus on concepts of personhood, interpersonal ethics and emotions. His field research has been mostly based in psychotherapeutic centres and extracurricular programmes of personal development. Gil has published his work in journals of Anthropology and Asian Studies, including Ethos, Social Analysis, Asian Studies Review, and Hau.
Andrew Hodges runs an editorial and translation business in the UK. He had a former career as a social anthropologist. His areas of expertise include the anthropology of football fan cultures, and the post-socialist transformation of work in Serbia and Croatia. He translates from Croatian, German, and Spanish into English. He is a transactional analysis trainee interested in psychotherapy, and has worked as research project evaluator for the European Association for Transactional Analysis (EATA).
For ENPA, Andrew is the person in charge with the IT/Web & mailing list.
Using a novel approach to existing methods in cognitive anthropology, Mirjam Holleman developed an intra-culturally sensitive yet cross-culturally replicable and comparative way of measuring attitudes toward people with physical disabilities in order to assess the social integration of this group in the mental maps of non-disabled citizens and in society. Her field research in Poland provides a pilot study for these methodologies, which she hopes to apply on a larger and more comparative scale in other regions throughout Europe.
