Vice President Academic Affairs

Netta Avineri

vpaa@gsa.asucla.ucla.edu

Born in Beer Sheva, Israel, Netta moved with her family to Southern California when she was a young child. Netta earned her master's degree in Applied Linguistics/TESL at UCLA in 2007; her master's thesis was focused on socialization into moral reasoning practices within a Torah school classroom. She is currently working on a PhD in Applied Linguistics/TESL. Her research focuses on heritage language socialization, language ideologies, and classroom discourse analysis within the current Yiddish language revitalization movement. Specifically, she is interested in the ways that languages are discursively constructed as needing revitalization and how language ideologies manifest themselves within the structure of educational interactions. In addition to teaching in Applied Linguistics, Anthropology, Sociology, and ESL, she is currently the Service Learning Program Coordinator at the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies. In this capacity, she places undergraduate and graduate students with various community partners such that the students apply academic skills and receive academic credit for doing service in the larger community.

Quirky fact about Netta:
Netta has a collection of over 100 elephant figurines.