Prof. Liat Kozma is a researcher of the modern Middle East. Her studies address the history of women in the margins and of women's movements; of medical knowledge of sexology, as applied in the Jewish community in Palestine as well as in Egypt; and of global movements of people, ideas and commodities in the Middle East at the turn of the 20th century. In recent years, she has focused on the history of physicians and medicine in the Middle East; in 2017-2023 she coordinated a research group on this subject funded by the EU Research Council. Kozma's first book, Policing Egyptian Women (2011) addressed precolonial Edypg's coping with women in the margins - mainly women slaves and women in prostitution. Her second book, Global Women, Colonial Ports (2017) was about prostitution and women trafficking in the Middle East, and the global oversight on women trafficking by the League of Nations. Kozma's third book, Palestinian Doctors (2025), coauthored with Dr. Yoni Furas, addressed the development of the Palestinian doctor community in the Mandate era.

Courses taught:

History of Colonialism in the Middle East; Women and Gender in the History of the Middle East; The History of Medicine in the Middle East

Recent Publications:

Nuriely, Benny, and Liat Kozma. 2024. “Monopoly on Doubt: Post-Mortem Examinations in Israel, 1950s–1980s.” Social History of Medicine 37 (2024): 516–536. 
Kozma, Liat. 2025. “Between the Temporary and Permanent: The International Red Cross and the Palestinian Refugee Camps, 1948–1950.” Palestine/Israel Review 2: 215-244. https://doi.org/10.5325/pir.2.2.0002
בילסקי, ליאורה וליאת קוזמא. “לקראת היסטוריה משולבת של ביזה”. 2024. משפט, חברה ותרבות, 7.