Tamar Katriel received her PhD from the department of Speech Communication at the University of Washington, Seattle in 1983. She has held a faculty position at the University of Haifa, Israel, ever since. Her areas of teaching and research include the Ethnography of Communication, Intercultural Communication and Discourse Studies. She has been a visiting scholar in a number of American Universities, including The University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern University, The University of Texas, Austin, Rutgers University, and Harvard University. She is author of several books and a range of articles that appeared in Communication, Sociolinguistics, Anthropology, and Education journals. Her published books include:

Dialogic moments: From soul talks to talk radio in Israeli culture (Wayne State University Press, 2004), Keywords: Patterns of Culture and Communication in Israel (Hebrew, University of Haifa Press, 1999), Performing the past: A study of Israeli settlement museums (Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997),  Communal webs: Communication and culture in contemporary Israel  (Albany: SUNY Press, 1991) and Talking straight: 'Dugri' speech in Israeli Sabra culture (Cambridge University Press, 1986).

The Political as Personal: Testimonial Rhetoric in Israeli Discourses of Dissent. Josephine Jones Lecture, Department of Communication, University of Colorado (April 2005).

On Cultural Ways of Speaking. Walker-Ames Lecture, The Graduate School, University of Washington (April 2006(.

Selected articles

Katriel, T. (forthcoming) "Soldiers as Witnesses: Inscribing Narratives of Occupation in Israeli Popular Memory." In M. Keren & H. Herwig, eds. War Memory and Popular Culture. McFarland Publishers.

Katriel, T. (2001) "'From Shore to Shore': The Holocaust, Clandestine Immigration and Israeli Heritage Museums." In B. Zelizer, ed. The Holocaust and Visual Culture. Rutgers University Press, pp. 198-211.

Katriel, T. (1999) "Rethinking the Terms of Social Interaction." Research on Language and Social Interaction, 32 (1&2), 85-101.

Katriel, T. (1995) "From 'Context' to 'Contexts' in Intercultural Communication Research." In International and Intercultural Communication Annual 19: 271-284.

Katriel, T. (1993) "'Lefargen': A Study in Israeli Semantics of Social Relations." Research on Language and Social Interaction 26(1):31-53.

Katriel, T. & Farrell, T. (1991) "Scrapbooks as Cultural Texts: An American Art of Memory." Text and Performance Quarterly 11:1-16.

Katriel, T. (1987) "Rhetoric in Flames: Fire Inscriptions in Israeli Youth Movement Ceremonials."  The Quarterly Journal of Speech  73: 444-59.

Katriel, T. & G. Philipsen (1981) "'What We Need is Communication': Communication' as a Cultural Category in some American Speech."     Communication Monographs  48, 301-317.