Zohar Kampf is a Professor of Language and Communication at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of two books and of more than 80 chapters and articles in leading discourse, communication, and international studies journals. His scholarly work aims to understand one of the most fundamental puzzles of human communication—the relationship between words and deeds. It concerns questions such as how speech acts construct our social realities under conditions of publicity and how mediated interactions can transform political processes. Since 2017 he has served as an associate editor for the Journal of Pragmatics.