Omri Grinberg

I study violence, its representations - their production and circulation - and struggles over the ethical and political meaning of witness testimonies and archives. In particular, I am interested in interactions between state - politicians and bureaucrats - and non-governmental organizations, and how different actors try to shape the meanings of violence through media, art, and other discourses. I have a PhD in Anthropology and Jewish Studies (University of Toronto) and am currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Martin Buber Society of Fellows (2022-2026). My past and current research is concerned with human rights NGOs in Israel/Palestine, examining how their relevance is sustained despite wide-acknowledgements of profound problems and even failure in the "human rights industry". I aim to write ethnographically, based on case-specific methodological combinations of (mainly) Socio-Cultural, Legal-Political, and Linguistic Anthropology, Postcolonial and Settler Colonial theories, and Archive Studies.