Dr. Tal Shamur is a Senior Faculty Member at the Shirley and Leslie Porter School of Cultural Studies at Tel Aviv University. His work draws on feminist approaches and affective-spatial analyses of the city, focusing on gendered, ethnic, and class relations. Through in-depth ethnographic documentation of marginalized neighborhoods, Dr. Shamur examines the gendered, ethnic, and class-based barriers faced by disadvantaged populations, particularly older women from disadvantaged ethno-class backgrounds, which become more pronounced in the context of migration and urban renewal processes.
Prior to joining Tel Aviv University, Tal held postdoctoral fellowships in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, UK; the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; and the School of Sustainability at Reichman University. His research has received funding from the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) and the International Sephardic Education Foundation (ISEF). He has also been awarded the Tel Aviv–Yafo Fellowship for Research on Urban Innovation and Urban Development.
His most recent research project, which traces the queer history of Tel Aviv–Yafo between 1960 and 2000, combines ethnographic and historical research methods. Conducted in collaboration with Prof. Iris Rachamimov of the Department of General History at Tel Aviv University, the project was recently awarded a grant from the Israel Science Foundation (ISF).
Besides academia, Tal is the author of three poetry books (in Hebrew):
If I Don't Say This Out Loud (Pardes Publishing, 2018)
Rami Superstar (Iton 77, Small Flame Lab, 2021)
The Ghost Club (Locus Publishing House, 2025)
