Dr. Maha Natoor received the Migvan Scholarship from the Israeli Council for Higher Education in 2025 and joined the Department of Anthropology at the University of Haifa as a tenure-track faculty member this year. 

Prior to her time at the University of Haifa, Dr. Natoor was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Stanford University (2022-2023) and held postdoctoral fellowships at Tel Aviv University, funded by the Yonathan Shapiro Foundation and the Harry Bloomfield Postdoctoral Scholarship (2023-2024), and at the University of Haifa (2021-2023). Natoor also serves as research coordinator at the Interwoven Center within the School of Therapy, Counseling, and Human Development at the University of Haifa. For many years, she has worked as a pediatric occupational therapist. Her research explores psychological anthropology, culturally sensitive therapy, and minority therapists, with a focus on the Druze community, reincarnation beliefs, the phenomenon of Notq, and rituals of death and mourning.