Gili S Drori is a professor of sociology and anthropology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. She earned her academic education at Tel Aviv University (BA 1986; and MA 1989) and Stanford University (PhD, 1997, sociology). She served as Director of IR Honors Program and taught at Stanford University for a decade. She also taught at the University of California Berkeley, the Technion (Israel), and University of Bergamo (Italy) and was a guest scholar at Uppsala University (Sweden). Gili’s publications speak to her research interests in: globalization and glocalization; organizational change and rationalization; world society theory; science, innovation and higher education; technology divides; and, culture and policy regimes. 

Research Areas: The History of Israel’s Foreign Policy, Great Power Status in the International System.