David Motzafi Haller

Parcours

David Motzafi-Haller is a post-doctoral fellow at Neuchatel University working on the transimperial history of civil aviation and aeroscapes in the Middle East during the Interwar period. He received his Ph.D. (summa cum laude) from the Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID) and his work has been published in Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Humanity, Mashriq & Mahjar, Journal of Israeli History and Katedra with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Zeit Stiftung. His research on transimperial history draws on microhistory, social history, family history, border studies, and historical biography. He is the host and producer of The Transimperial History Podcast.

Projet de recherche

Projet FNS: Sea-Border and Air-Space Formation in the Interwar Middle East: A Trans-Imperial Perspective

Publications

Peer-reviewed articles

Jordi Tejel and David Motzafi-Haller (Revise and Resubmit) Imperial Connectors and Local Mediators: The Role of Maritime and Airspace Infrastructures in the Making of British Mandate Palestine’s borders, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History.
David Motzafi-Haller (Revise and Resubmit) Familiar Experts: The Rise of an Israeli Expert Class in Africa, Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development.
David Motzafi-Haller (Revise and Resubmit) Towards an international turn in the study of Israel’s Development Towns, Israel: Journal for the Study of Israel and Zionism – History, Culture, Society. In Hebrew.
Adeeb Naccache, David Motzafi-Haller and Alona Nitzan-Shiftan (Forthcoming) Levantine Modernism: The Production of a New Architectural Style in the Garden Mansions, Haifa 1936-1945, International Journal of Islamic Architecture.
David Motzafi-Haller (2022) Families and the Social Infrastructure of War: From Palestine to North Africa and Back Again, 1942–1944, Mashriq & Mahjar 9(2). DOI: https://doi.org/10.24847/v9i2
David Motzafi-Haller (2020) Androcentric amnesia and patronage micromanagement: the Mutchnicks from Nahalal to Yeruham, Journal of Israeli History 38(1): 103-122. DOI: 10.1080/13531042.2020.1793491.
David Motzafi-Haller (2019) Patronage and development in the Israeli Negev: Yeruham, 1952–1953, Middle Eastern Studies 56(2): 290-304. DOI: 10.1080/00263206.2019.1663503.

Edited Volumes

Cyrus Schayegh, with David Motzafi-Haller (eds.) Knowledge in Modern Transimperial History: Actors, Formations, Causes. Leiden: Leiden University Press, Under contract.