Uri Mayer-Chissick - CV
October 2013
Personal Details:
Full name: Dr. Uri Mayer-Chissick
Date of birth: 20/7/1977
Country of birth: Great Britain
Nationality: UK, Israeli
Family status: Married +2
Permanent Address: Kibutz Neve-Eitan
Phone numbers: Work +972-522-976638 ; Res.: +972-46-063687
E-mail address: mayerchissick@gmail.com
Higher Education
2006 - 2011 Post graduate student, Haifa University, Land of Israel Studies.
2004 - 2006 Graduate Scholarship student, Haifa University, Land of Israel Studies.
2000 - 2003 Undergraduate studies - B.A. Haifa University, Jewish History Studies
Appointments at academic institutions
Lecturer at Haifa University
Lecturer at Ort Braude College
Positions in non-academic & research Institutions
Head of the Regimen of Health Studies at Dao College, Haifa
Membership in professional organizations
Representative of The Israel Consumer Council to The Standards Institution of
Israel's food committees, which deal with standardizing food products in Israel.
Research Grants
2009 - the Israeli Organization for the History of Medicine, Prof. Leibowitch reward for exceptional
research in the History of Medicine and science, “Scholarly Medicine and Popular Medicine,
Complexity and Simplicity in Philosophical Knowledge: the Test Case of the Humoural
System.”
2006 - Haifa University, A three year support scholarship for writing the Ph.D.
2006 - Department for Graduate Studies, Haifa University, Excellence Scholarship.
2005 - Yad Ben-Zvi Foundation, Excellence Scholarship for M.A. dissertation.
2005 - The Jewish National Fund, Excellence Scholarship for M.A. dissertation.
Teaching at Academic institutions
2012 -- Haifa University
2011 -- Braude College, Karmiel
2010-2011 Kibbutzim College, Tel-Aviv
2008-2009 – Tel-Hai Academic College – Food Sciences
2008-2009 – Tel-Hai Academic College – Nutritional Sciences
List of Publications
Dissertations
2006--2010
PhD. Title of Thesis: “Food and Balance: nutrition from theory to practice,
according to the houmoral system, in the eastern caliphate from the 9th to 14th centuries”,
under the supervision of Prof. Efraim Lev
2004 - 2006 Masters. Title of Thesis: “Food Preservation in the Land of Israel in Historical
Perspective: Trends and Technologies”, under the supervision of Dr. Efraim Lev
Popular Books
Mayer-Chissick Uri, "The Book of Local Food", Mapa publishing house, 2012
Mayer-Chissick Uri, "The Israeli Guide to Wild Edible Plants", Mapa publishing house, 2010
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Chapter in Collections
Mayer-Chissick Uri, " Between wild and agriculture: Wild edible plants in Levantine
Tradition", for a book about the cultivation of plants in the Levant, edited by Prof. Yaniv Z. and
Dr. Dudai N. (in process)
Articles in refereed journals
Mayer-Chissick Uri and Lev Efraim, '"A covenant of salt ": Salt as a major food preservative in
the historical Land of Israel.', Food & History, vol. 5, n 2 (2007), pp. 9-39.
Mayer-Chissick Uri and Lev Efraim, "A New Look on Old Food Provisions – Food
Preservation in the Land of Israel During the Middle Ages", Jerusalem and Eretz Israel,
accepted (in print)
Mayer-Chissick Uri and Dr. Efraim Lev, "Medicine, diet and culture, triangular function in
medieval Arab empire: bread as a case study." (In process).
Active Participation in Scientific Conferences
2011 – The conference on Food, Power & Meaning in the Middle East and the Mediterranean, Ben
Gurion University. Lecture subject: "Metamorphosis of Food Taste and Desertification of
Foodscape in Nazareth: The Construction of "Authentic" Palestinian Fast Food".
2011 – The International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds. Lecture subject: "Applying Cultural
Methods in Research on Medical History – Medieval Arab Medicine as a Case Study".
2010 – The annual departmental seminar at the Department of Hebrew & Comparative Literature, Haifa
University. Lecture subject: "Fire, Water, Air and Earth: The Four Elements and Their
Portrayal as a Medical Notion in the Classic Arab Literature".
2009 – The annual conference of the Israeli Society for the History of Medicine, in the Soroka medical
institution. Lecture subject: “Scholarly Medicine and Popular Medicine, Complexity and
Simplicity in Philosophical Knowledge: the Test Case of the Humoural System.”
2008 - The international congress of "Biomedical Science in Archaeology", held by the Department of
the History of medicine, in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Crete. Heraclion,
Hersonissos, Crete-Greece. Lecture subject: “The temperament of bread: A case study on the
function of medicine in the Medieval Arab diet and nutrition”.
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2008 – The 32nd annual conference of the Israeli Association for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies,
Haifa University. Lecture subject: “The temper of Bread”.
Current research
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Utilizing cultural research methods to historical and medical data, in order to achieve a better
understanding of the role that medicine played in everyday life through history.
Interpreting Medieval Levantine medical texts in their cultural and theoretical context.
Referees
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Prof. Efraim Lev, Haifa University and Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, the
Department of Israel Studies and the School of Public Health.
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Prof. Itamar Even-Zohar, Tel-Aviv University, Unit of Culture Research.
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Susan Weingarten, Tel Aviv University, Department of Jewish History, Israel,
Abrahamic Religions and Cultural History.
Additional Education, Training and professional certificates
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Certified nutrition consultant by the Medicollege, a part of The College for
Management Academic Studies.
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