The Charlotte Newcombe Foundation, in conjunction with the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, has awarded him a 2019-20 doctoral dissertation fellowship to complete work on "Foundations of Inequality: Construction, Political Economy, and the Senses in Israel/Palestine, 1918-1993." His committee consists of Eve Troutt Powell (chair), Kathy Brown, Heather Sharkey (Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations), Sherene Seikaly (University of California at Santa Barbara) and On Barak (Tel Aviv University).