Tamar Katriel is Professor (Emerita) at the University of Haifa, Israel. Her research lies at the intersection of the study of culture, language and communication in both public and interpersonal settings, combining analytical frameworks derived from the Ethnography of Communication, Discourse Studies and Cultural Anthropology. She is author of a wide range of articles in academic journals and book collections as well as the following books: Talking Straight (Cambridge University press, 1986); Communal Webs (SUNY Press, 1991); Performing the Past (Erlbaum, 1997); Keywords (Haifa University Press, 1999, in Hebrew); Dialogic Moments (Wayne State University Press, 2004); Defiant Discourse (Routledge, 2021). She is co-editor of Cultural Memories of Non-Violent Struggles (Palgrave, 2015), of a special issue of the journal of the Israeli Communication Association, Media Frames, on ‘Communication and Violence’ (2022), and of a special issue of Israel Studies on Language and Society on ‘Speaking after October 7’ (2024). She is the recipient of several awards, including the Golden Anniversary Award for Outstanding Scholarship for Talking Straight from the American National Communication Association (NCA) in 1987, and a Life Achievement Award from the Israeli Anthropological Association in 2022. In 2017, she was elected Fellow of the International Communication Association (ICA), and in 2024 she received Recognition for Intellectual Contribution from ICA’s Language and Social Interaction division. Her current research deals with issues of language and memory in the context of the cultural legacy of German-speaking Jews in Israel.