Dr. Doron Shiffer-Sebba

Dr Doron Shiffer-Sebba is an incoming Assistant Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University (starting September 2024). Dr Doron Shiffer-Sebba researches the intersection of family and wealth, focusing on intergenerational extended families, and develops novel computational methods for the social sciences. Having received a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2022, he has spent the last two years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University’s Institute for Policy Research and sociology department. Shiffer-Sebba has received awards from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility and the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and his work has been funded by the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation.

While at DeZIM, Shiffer-Sebba will seek to understand how pedestrians in Berlin embody racialized attitudes. In collaborative work with the Institute, he we will film multiple public sidewalks under four experimental conditions, using two confederates standing in the middle of a sidewalk in each condition: two male White Germans, two female White Germans, two male Muslim Germans, and two female Muslim Germans. The team will film these vignettes using a 3D camera and analyze the videos using 3DSR (Goldstein, Legewie, and Shiffer-Sebba 2023), enabling the accurate determination of distances and angles between individuals, to better understand subtle differences in embodied behavior towards White and Muslim Germans in Berlin.