Dr. Nitsan Almog

Director of Specialization in Integration and Inclusion, Department of Education and Society

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Dr. Nitsan Almog is currently the Director of the Specialization in Integration and Inclusion in the Program of Education and Society. She has also served as a Lecturer in the School of Social Work at Bar Ilan University. Additionally, Dr. Almog is an advisor to the “Revolution in Higher Education Programs” of the National Insurance Institute. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Beit Izzie Shapira.  Previously, Dr. Almog held fieldwork positions including as Director of Disability Programs – Joint Israel and Commissioner for Employment of Persons with Disabilities in the Histadrut Labor Federation. Dr. Almog works to advance the field of disability studies in Israel and its inclusion in the country’s social and academic discourse.

Education

Ph.D.

Bar-Ilan University, School of Education (2011) "Academic and social adjustment of university students with visual impairment"

M.A.

Psychology (cum laude), Open University (2005)

Teaching Areas

Disability studies, integration, and inclusion in education, social policy, and qualitative research.

Research interests

Students with disabilities and higher education in Israel, policies on employment of people with disabilities, personal narratives of people with disabilities, invisible disability, and disability identity.

Selected Publications

Almog, N., Bar., N. And Barkai, S.A. (2019). Bride and Exclusion narratives - the family between the medical, social and primitive models. Inside: Comet, P.O. And Gilor A. (editorship). Nano - the family's act for a child with disabilities.
Almog, N. (2018). Something here is stopping me. Arch, 1, 31-65.
Almog, N. (2018). “Everyone is normal, and everyone has a disability”: Narratives of university students with visual impairment. Social Inclusion, 6(4), 218-229.
Tal, A., Almog, N. And cinnamon, c. (2017). Editors: Employment of people with disabilities - between vision and reality. Social Security, 102
Almog, N. And Gerber, J.A. (2016). Read Linton in Hebrew: Re-claiming Disability in Israel. Inside: Moore, S., Ziv, N.W. Canter, A. Eichengreen, a. And Mizrahi, n. (Eds.). Disability Studies: Reading. Jerusalem: Van Leer Institute Press. 139 - 147.
Eichengreen, A., Almog, N. And Breuer, N. (2016). Disability Cabinet: Get out, stay, break up. Inside: Moore, S., Ziv, N.W. Canter, A. Eichengreen, A. And Mizrahi, N. (Eds.). Disability Studies: Reading. Jerusalem: Van Leer Institute Press. 299-311.
Lavie-Ajai, M., Almog, N. & Krumer-Nevo, M. (2012). Chronic pain as a narratological distress: a phenomenological study. Chronic Illness.