Dr. Noa Lavie is a senior lecturer and head of the Communication and Media Unit in the School of Government and Society at the Academic College of Tel Aviv-Jaffa. She is also head of the Youth Studies program at the College. She is a sociologist with expertise in sociology of culture and communication, media industries, art and television studies.

Dr. Lavie has published in high-ranked academic journals such as Poetics, Ethnicities, Television and New Media, Media Culture and Society, Cultural Sociology, Journal of Youth studies and others on topics that range from the discourse of taste and art on television, quality TV to minorities labor in the Israeli cultural industries and generational gaps in Israel. Her first book, ‘How Israeli Drama became an Art form’ was published in Hebrew in 2015 .

Dr. Lavie won several prestigious grants in the past years, among them the ISF (Israel Science Foundation) grant for a joint study with Prof. Amal Jamal about the lives and identity formation of Palestinian-Israeli actors and actresses on Israeli TV.

In 2021 Dr. Lavie won the BSF (Bi-national Science Foundation) grant for a joint study with Prof. Vicki Mayer from Tulane University.