טליה פריד

I am an anthropologist of science and post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. My specializations are Science and Technology Studies (STS), waste studies, and anthropology of neurodivergence and mental health. I completed my Ph.D. in 2020 at the Graduate Program in Science, Technology and Society at Bar Ilan University, where I was a President’s and Rector’s Fellow. My dissertation on the anthropology and history of household waste recycling in Israel won the Max Gluckman Prize for the best doctoral dissertation of the Israeli Anthropological Association. I hold an MA in social psychology from Tel Aviv University (summa cum laude), and a BA in Sociology and Ethnic and Minority Relations from the University Professors Program at Boston University (summa cum laude). Recent publications:Shani, Fried & Fischer (2025) Becoming amphibious: scientists’ identities and affective relations in the swamp of computational biology. Science as Culture. DOI: 10.1080/09505431.2025.2513879Fried (2024) The waste of nations: Household trash and the affective politics of recycling in Israel. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. DOI: 10.1177/25148486241270096Plotkin-Amrami & Fried (2024) Sensitive child, disturbed kid: Stigma, medicalization, and the interpretive work of Israeli mothers of children with ADHD. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry. DOI: 10.1007/s11013-023-09831-7Fried (2024) What do we do with Latour in feminist science studies? Israeli Sociology. https://www.israeli-sociology.sites.tau.ac.il/_files/ugd/4e278c_d0e827dd3f1d48cf8fd261c585d8e2fa.pdfFried (2023) Gendered Perspectives on Waste in Israel. Heinrich Böll Foundation. https://il.boell.org/en/2023/09/07/gendered-perspectives-waste-israelFried & Plotkin-Amrami (2023) Not all diagnoses are created equal: Mothers’ narratives of children, ADHD, and comorbid diagnoses. Social Science & Medicine. DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115838