Dalya-Yafa Markovich, Dr.
Her research fields include anthropology of visual and material culture; cultural heritage.
Dr. Markovich studied for her B.A at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the School of Education in the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Her doctoral thesis, submitted to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, was in Sociology of Education. In addition, she completed a B.A and an M.A at the Department of Art History at Tel Aviv University. She did her post-doctorate at the Department of Education at Ben-Gurion University in the Negev, under the supervision of Prof’ Ismael Abu Saad. She was a fellow at the Heschel Center for Society, Environment and Education and at the Mandel School for Educational Leadership in Jerusalem. Concurrently, she took a significant part in activism in the field of education. In addition, she was involved in editing various journals in the field of culture in general and modern art in particular – HaKivun Mizrach, Noga, Block, Iton 77 – which sought to shed light on the cultures of the different groups that comprise the Israeli society.
Recently she developed the “Shared Heritage program” – a research lab with students from both the M.A program in Art Education at the Midrasha and the MA program in Arts Management – PH Pädagogische Hochschule, Ludwigsburg, Germany. The research was published in an edited book. She was a research fellow/lecturer in Kunststiftung des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt Foundation, Germany; in GEI – Georg Eckert Institute, Germany; and Hochschule für Gestaltung – Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany.
Markovich, Y.D. (2019). Nationality and Ethnicity in an Israeli School: A Case of Jewish–Arab Students. Routledge: London and New York.
Markovich, Y.D., Golan, D., & Shalhoub–Kevorkian, N. (Eds.). (2019). Understanding Campus–Community Partnerships in Conflict Zones, Engaging Students for Transformation Change. Palgrave Macmillan Press: London.
Markovich, Y.D., & Dätsch, C. (Eds.). (2024). Shared Heritage Revisited. National and Postnational Dimensions on the Example of Germans, Palestinians and Israelis. transcript: Bielefeld. [In English and in German]
Markovich, Y.D. (2018). Culture Instead of Politics: Negotiating ‘Otherness’ in Intercultural Educational Activity. Intercultural Education, 29(2), 281-300.
Markovich, Y.D. (2016). Ethnicity vs. Nationality in one Nationalized Educational Site. Critical Studies in Education, 57(2), 238-253.
Markovich, Y.D. (2015). The Personal as Political: The Function of the Private Space in Contextualizing the “Other” in Jewish-Palestinian Encounters. Journal of Peace Education, 12(2), 167-181.
Markovich, Y.D. (2015). Internet, Labore, and Diaspora. Theory and Criticism 27, 253-262. [in Hebrew]
Markovich, Y.D., & Alon, K. (2015). Arna’s Children. Theory and Criticism 27, 209-214. [in Hebrew]
Markovich, Y.D., & Rapoport, T. (2013). Creating Art, Creating Identity: Under-Privileged Pupils in Art Education Challenge Critical Pedagogy Practices. International Journal of Education through Art, 9(1), 7-22.