Aviad Raz

Aviad Raz is an Israeli professor of sociology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Academic career Aviad Raz earned his B.Sc. and Ph.D. from Tel-Aviv University. He was a Post-doctoral Fellow at Harvard and held fellowships from the Japan Foundation and the Israeli Academy of Sciences. Aviad Raz was a Visiting AICE Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of California, San Diego in 2012-13.

Published works Riding the Black Ship: Japan and Tokyo Disneyland, Harvard University Press (1999). Emotions at Work: Normative Control, Organizations, and Culture in Japan and America, Harvard University Press (2002). Organizational culture, The Open University of Israel (2004) The Gene And The Genie: Tradition, Medicalization, and Genetic Counseling in a Bedouin Community in Israel, Carolina Academic Press (2005). Community genetics and genetic alliances: eugenics, carrier testing and networks of risk (Genetics and Society) (2009), Routledge,