Keren Friedman-Peleg is a senior lecturer and the Dean of the School of Behavioral Science and Psychology at the College of Management – Academic Studies, Israel. She obtained her PhD at Tel-Aviv University, in the department of Sociology and Anthropology and was a visiting scholar at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania (2016 and 2019), and a visiting assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology and of the Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley (2018 and 2021). Based on her ethnographic research on the politics of trauma in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, she published articles in leading journals, such as Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry and Transcultural Psychiatry (with Y. Bilu). Her book “A Nation on the Couch: The Politics of Trauma in Israel” was published by Magnes – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Press (2014), and by the University of Toronto Press (2017). Her new manuscript, "Shifting Battlegrounds: The Politics of Resilience on the Border of Israel and Gaza" is currently under review.