Dr. Gil Rothschild Elyassi

Dr. Rothschild Elyassi’s research examines the genealogies and micro-dynamics of institutional knowledge formation in modern regimes that simultaneously employ both colonial and liberal logics of rule. Drawing on ethnographic methods, historical analyses, in-depth interviews, and embodied collaborative techniques, he investigates how institutions like penal supervision and policing are embedded within and reproduce racialized political economies while operating across carceral, welfare, and regulatory domains. His work further examines the institutional mechanisms through which formations of Whiteness circulate across space and time, shaping distinct yet interconnected articulations and embodiments of Blackness. Prior to joining Haifa, Gil completed his PhD at UC Berkeley in 2022 with a designated emphasis in critical theory, following an LLM from New York University.

• Sociology of law and legal institutions
• Sociology of knowledge, technology and science
• Penal supervision
• Policing
• Colonial rule and racial capitalism

• “Introduction: Local Blackness.” Theory & Criticism 59(1), 5-22 [Hebrew] (2024) (with Adane Zawdu Gebyanesh)
• “Who Do You Like Best? On Whiteness, Mizrahi Politics, and The Space in Between.” Theory & Criticism59(1), 169-182 [Hebrew] (2024)
• “Other than the Projects, You Stay Professional: Colorblind Cops and The Enactment of Spatial Racism in Routine Policing.”City & Community(2023) (with Nikki Jones, Kenly Brown, Eduardo Duran Bautista, Kaily Heitz, Jasmine Kelekay & Geoffray Raymond).
• “The Datafication of Law: How Technology Encodes Carceral Power and Affects Judicial Practice in the United States.”Law & Social Inquiry (2022)
• “The Symbiotic Tensions of the Regulatory-Carceral State: The Case of Cannabis Legalization.”Regulation & Governance(2021) (with Ely Aaronson).
• “The Law of the Street.”Law and Social Change, 5(1): 35-57 (2013) [Hebrew] (with Adi Blutner)
• “Actuarial justice in an algorithmic age.” In Mathieu Deflem (ed.), The Handbook of Social Control(2018). Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell (with Johann Koehler and Jonathan Simon)
• “The New Penology.”In Oxford Annotated Bibliographies. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2018) (with Johann Koehler and Jonathan Simon)

• על שיטור, כליאה וגזענות – במסגרת מפגשי למידה ושיח של ארגון ״שוברות קירות״
• The symbiotic tensions of the regulatory-carceral state: The case of Cannabis legalization – New Research in Regulation & Governance
• “Reading Punishment with Du Bois: From a One-World World to a Double Consciousness Hermeneutics”