Eva Illouz
French-Israeli sociologist
Eva Illouz is a French-Israeli sociologist who studies how capitalism and culture shape emotions and intimate life. She is the author of Why Love Hurts.
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Born 1961 in Fez, Morocco
About Eva Illouz
Eva Illouz was born on April 30, 1961, in Fes, Morocco. She holds emerita status as a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and she is also a directrice d'études at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. Her research has looked at romantic love, consumer culture, popular media and the sociology of emotions. Her first book, Consuming the Romantic Utopia, examined how romance and consumer goods became tied together, drawing on films and magazine advertising from the 1930s. She has also written Cold Intimacies and Saving the Modern Soul. From 2012 to 2015 Illouz served as president of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, the first woman to hold that post. Her honors include the EMET Prize and the Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur, both in 2018.