Dr. Eilat Maoz is an anthropologist working at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is currently a member of the Martin Buber Society of Fellows (MBSF), a joint German-Israeli program for postdoctoral fellows, supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). In her work, she studies the political economy of organized violence, crime, and policing, in colonial and post-colonial situations, focusing on the Caribbean and Palestine/Israel and employing a comparative historical framework.