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In 2015, on the 40th anniversary of the Agudah, Ziv was included on the list of the 40 most influential people in LGBT history in Israel.

In 2005, she completed her PhD. Her dissertation was titled "The Construction of the Female Subject in Pornographic Fiction". She then went on to do post-doctoral research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, on queer activism in Israel. Included in this research was the topic of lesbian parenting. Ziv lectures in the department of literature at Tel Aviv University, and has been a faculty member of the Gender Studies Program at Ben Gurion University since 2008. As of 2016, she is the head of the program. In addition, Ziv is a member of the editorial committee and editorial board of the academic journal "Theory and Criticism" (תיאוריה וביקורת), published by the Van Lir Institute.

In 1992, Ziv completed her MA in comparative literature at Brown University. When she returned to Israel in 1993, she established a gay-and-lesbian and queer theory study group at the Agudah (Israel's first LGBT center) in Tel Aviv. In 1996, together with Aeyal Gross and Miki Gluzman, she started the Queer Reading Group at Tel Aviv University. In 2001, while doing her PhD at Tel Aviv University, together with Gross and Daphna Hirsch, she founded the Sex Acher ("An Other Sex") LGBT Studies & Queer Theory annual conference, which held its 18th edition in 2018. In 2003, she edited the first book of queer essays in Hebrew, with Yair Kedar and Oren Kanar, Beyond Sexuality (Me'ever LeMiniyut מעבר למיניות).

Ziv is one of the most noted figures in feminist and queer history in Israel. She was one of the founders of Hazman Havarod (Pink Times), the pioneering LGBT newspaper. In the 1990s, Ziv wrote about LGBT and feminist topics in mainstream newspapers and journals. She also wrote and published her poetry. Some of her poems were set to music and recorded.

Amalia Ziv (in Hebrew: עמליה זיו; born December 14, 1964) is an Israeli academic and researcher. Her research areas are pornography and sexual representations, queer culture, queer activism, and queer kinship. Because of her activism and research, Ziv is considered a prominent member of the LGBTQ and feminist communities in Israel.