Dr. Gil Rothschild Elyassi

Dr. Rothschild Elyassi draws on ethnographic methods, historical analysis, and collaborative research techniques to investigate institutions and technologies such as carceral supervision, mobility control, policing, higher education, drug regimes, criminal law, and digital surveillance. Across these sites, he examines the infrastructural relations between liberal and carceral forms of governance, particularly in settler colonial and imperial contexts including North America and Palestine/Israel. His work is motivated by the question of how some forms of life, movement, and relation are governed as free and exploitable, while others are incarcerated, rendered violable, and made disposable. He also asks how people, technologies, and knowledge inhabit these arrangements, exceed them, refuse them, and return.

Prior to joining Haifa, Gil completed his PhD at UC Berkeley with a designated emphasis in critical theory, following an LLM from New York University.