How can academic researchers partner with communities during unprecedented crises? To Pull Up is a partnership designed to provide support and co-created knowledge for recovery in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack with surviving members of Kibbutz Be’eri, where 101 civilians were killed and 32 abducted.
Professor Dassi Postan-Aizik, PhD, will share ethical, methodological, and practice insights from a photovoice project produced by 11 Kibbutz Be'eri survivors. The resilience-focused model was developed to acknowledge trauma and document everyday life reflected in 68 Photovoice works. The works present coping processes, memories, and hopes for the future, illustrating the magnitude of loss, challenges to adapt, and sources of resilience.
Date: Tuesday, Jan. 21
Time: 12:45-1:45 p.m.
Location: SSW/Baltimore | Room 2W11
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Presenter Bio
Dassi Postan-Aizik, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Social Work at Max Stern Yezreel Valley College and a research fellow at the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Poverty and Social Exclusion at the University of Haifa.
Her academic career includes a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Maryland School of Social Work, where she worked under the guidance of Professors Michael Reisch, PhD, MSW, MA, and Corey Shdaimah, PhD, LLM, LLB.
Postan-Aizik leads the longstanding partnership among the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), the University of Haifa, and Yezreel Valley College, which is now in its 13th year. This collaboration has fostered strong relationships with faculty and students from UMB. Her ongoing academic endeavors involve continued teaching and research collaborations with Shdaimah and other colleagues, contributing to the fields of social work and social policy. Postan-Aizik's work at the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Poverty and Social Exclusion underscores her commitment to addressing critical social issues through research and academia.