Limor Samimian-Darash is a Senior Lecturer (US Associate Professor) of Anthropology, at
the Federmann School of Public Policy and Government at the Hebrew University. Her
research focuses on preparedness and biosecurity (in Israel and the US), the governance of
risk and uncertainty (in theory and practice), and scenario thinking/planning.
She was chosen as one the promising early-career social scientists for the Alon Fellowship
(for the years 2013–2016). She received her Ph.D. in anthropology and sociology from the
Hebrew University (2010). She was a visiting research scholar at the University of California,
Berkeley (2006–2008), post-doctoral fellow at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
(2010), and a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University (2010–2012), and a visiting
professor at UC, Berkeley (2016).
Her publications include Modes of Uncertainty: Anthropological Cases, (University of
Chicago Press, co-edited with Paul Rabinow); “Governing Future Potential Biothreats:
Toward an Anthropology of Uncertainty,” Current Anthropology; “Biosecurity as a Boundary
Object: Science, Society, and the State,” Security Dialogue; “Practicing Uncertainty:
Scenario-Based Preparedness Exercises in Israel,” Cultural Anthropology. Her current
research on Global Scenarios examines forms, practices, and conceptualizations of scenarios
in three distinct sites (health, energy, and security) and in global perspective.

Last name: Samimian-Darash
Institution: Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Unit/Department: Fedremann School of Public Policy and Government
Area of expertise: Risk, Uncertainty, Emergency Preparedness, Scenarios Planning,
Telephone: 054-4833682
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