Academic Curriculum Vitae

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2023 - Independent scholar

2019-Present Associate Professor, Humboldt State University

2015-2019 Assistant Professor, Humboldt State University

2014-15 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, Rice University

2013-14 Postdoctoral Fellow, Taub Center for Israel Studies, NYU

Spring 2013 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Sewanee

Fall 2012 Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Palestine Studies, Columbia University

Spring 2012 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Oberlin College

EDUCATION

2012 Ph.D. History and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University (NYU)

2007 M.A. Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, NYU

2003 LL.B. Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS

2020 HSU Faculty Research Incentives Program

2018 The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Award for Faculty

California Humanities, Humanities for All Quick Grant

2017 The Palestinian American Research Center (PARC) and National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) FPIRI Fellowships, Fall 2017

President Alistair McCrone Promising Faculty Scholars Award, HSU

HSU Diversity Program Funding Grant, Spring

The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Visiting Professor

2016 HSU Undergraduate Research/Creative Activity Fellowship Award

2013 Mellon/National History Center Decolonization Seminar

2012 The Palestinian American Research Center (PARC) Fellowship

Israeli Studies Grant, Mada al-Carmel and Institute for Palestine Studies

2008 International Dissertation Research Fellowship of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), AY 2008/9

PUBLICATIONS

Book Manuscript

Under review “Living Through the Nakba: Nazareth's Palestinians in the Transition from British Mandate to Israel” (in revision after first review with Stanford University Press)

In progress “Not Red Alone: Palestinian Communist Internationalist Nationalism”

Peer Refereed Articles and Book Chapters

Under Revision “Irrigating Nazareth, Leveraging U.S. Aid: Water and Point Four Local Politics in the Middle East” (JPS)

2021 “Nakba and Survival: A History of Palestinians Who Remained” Majalat al-Dirasat al-Filastiniyya (Arabic)

2020 “Surviving the Nakba: On Palestinians’ Political Possibilities and Limitation in 1948” (Review Article, The American Historical Review)

2016 “Persevering through Colonial Transition: Nazareth’s Palestinian Residents after 1948” (Journal of Palestine Studies).

2015 “Troubled Waters: Governing Water and Struggling for Citizenship in Nazareth” (International Journal of Middle East Studies).

2015 “The Al-Ard Movement.” In The Palestinians in Israel Readings in History, Politics and Society. 2nd Volume. Edited by Nadim Rouhana and Areej Sabbagh-Khoury,.

2013 “Making Citizenship Count: Nazareth in the Transition between the Mandate and Israel” in Nazareth: Archeology, History and Cultural Heritage, eds. Mahmoud Yazbak and Sharif Sharif

2009 “Political Mobilization of Palestinians in Israel: The Movement al-’Ard.” Displaced at Home: Ethnicity and Gender among Palestinians in Israel, eds. Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh and Isis Nusair

Other Articles

2018 “25 Years Later: The Oslo Accords and the Palestinian Citizens of Israel.” Palestine Square, September 13

2016 “Local Elections, National Questions: Local Politics in Nazareth During the Mandate.” Ha’aretz, June 15 (Hebrew)

2014 “The Battle for Nazareth” Middle East Report (MERIP) blog, March 4.

2013 “Assaf, Palestine and the ‘Forgotten Palestinians’” MERIP blog, June 24.

Review of Nahla Abdo, Women in Israel: Race, Gender and Citizenship in Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 42, No. 2 (Winter 2013), 100-101.

2012 “Alternative Political Struggle Strategies: From al-’Ard to the ‘Future Vision’ Documents,” Jadaliyya, September 3 (Arabic).

INVITED LECTURES

2022 Participant. “Back to 1948 - Sociology of Academic Knowledge, Teddy Katz’s Research, and the film Tantura” Haifa University.

2021 Participant. “Palestinians, Israelis, 1948, and Now: On Researching, Teaching, and Asserting the Reality of the Nakba.” Foundation for Middle East Peace. (Online)

Discussant, Book launch Zionism or the Zionist Question: The First Academic Study on Zionism in Arabic by Muhammad Ruhi Khalidi. The Institute for Palestine Studies (Arabic. Online)

2020 Discussant, Book launch of The Optimist: A Social Biography of Tawfiq Zayyad. The Pennsylvania State University, PA

2019 “Working through War: Palestinian Labor Defying Colonialism.” World War II and The Middle East. The Pennsylvania State University, PA

2018 “Despite the Nakba: Palestinian Nazareth in Israel.” IMES Annual Conference 2018 - Nakba: Past and Present. George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

“Here We Stay: Palestinians under the Military Regime.” Israel in the First Decade: Socio-Historical Research. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem (Hebrew)

“Digging in Every Archive: The Search for Palestinian History in Israeli Archives.” Association for Israeli Archivists Annual Meeting, Ramat Gan, Israel (Hebrew)

2017 “Nazareth: The City that Survived the Nakba.” Kenyon Institute, Jerusalem

“Early Encounters, Future Possibilities.” 6 Days, 50 Years: 1967 and the Politics of Time. Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley

“Between Nation and State: Nazareth’s Palestinian Citizens’ legal Strategies in Israel.” Law and (In)Justice in the Middle East. Cornell University. Ithaca, NY

2016 “For the Homeland: Nazareth Municipal Elections during the Mandate.” Nazareth: Archaeology, History and Cultural Heritage. University of Haifa. Nazareth, (Arabic)

“If All Else Fails, Ask America: Facing Colonial Exclusion in Nazareth.” International Seminar on Decolonization Reunion Conference, D.C.

“We the Toilers: Communist Activists among Workers and the People.” Birzeit University, Birzeit (Arabic)

2014 “Negotiating Exclusion: Drawing the Line of Citizenship in Colonial Transition.” Alien Nations: Identity and Empires in Global History. Warwick University, UK

Pre-circulated paper “Working for Palestine: Nazareth Labor Mobilization in the 1940s.” New Directions in Palestinian Studies, Brown University, RI

2013 “Unbearable Suffering: The Struggle Over the Water Project in Nazareth During Israel’s First Decade.” Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel (Hebrew)

Pre-circulated paper “Surviving Partition: Nazareth’s Palestinian Residents after 1948.” Partitions: Towards Transnational History of Twentieth Century Territorial Separatism, Stanford University, CA

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2021 “Shaping Citizenship from Below: Palestinians in Israel’s First Years.” The 53rd Deutscher Historikertag 2021 (online)

2021 “Archives of the Radical, Anti-Zionist Left in Israel.” Archival Methods and Global Palestine in the 1960s and 1970s. Roskilde University (online).

2020 Organizer and Presenter. “Neither Heroes nor Traitors: Palestinian Communists in Israel.” AHA. New York, NY.

2017 “For a United Front: Palestinians Confronting Colonial Sectarian Policies.” Arab Traditions of Anti-Sectarianism. UH/Rice University. Houston, TX.

Organizer and Presenter. “Here We Stay: Palestinians’ Exclusion and Resistance in the Early Israel State.” AHA. Denver, CO

Organizer and commentator. “Israelis, Americans, Arabs and Palestinians and the Historical Peace Process in the Middle East.” AHA. Denver, CO

2016 “When U.S. Aid didn’t Come to The Rescue: Nazareth, the Israeli state and water politics.” Middle East Studies Association Meeting (MESA), Boston, MA

Participant, “Roundtable on Violations of Academic Freedom in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.” AHA, Atlanta, GA

2015 “Decolonization Interrupted: Nazareth Across the 1948 Divide.” MESA, Denver, CO

Organizer and Presenter. “Negotiating the ‘Helping-Hand’: Local Decolonizations and American Aid in the Early Cold War.” AHA, NY

2014 Co-organizer and presenter. “Defying the Rupture, Affirming Presence: Palestinians in Nazareth Surviving 1948.” MESA, Washington, DC

“Unsettled Citizenship: Nazarene Polity and Identity During Colonial Transition.” Brown Bag Seminar, Rice University, Houston, TX

“Citizens Subjected: Identity and Exclusion in Palestinian Nazareth at Israel’s Birth.” Emerging Scholars in Israel Studies, NYU, NY

2013 “The Local is National: Municipal Elections, Colonial Authorities and National Leadership in Nazareth.” Law and Society Annual Conference, Boston, MA

2012 “Nazareth: A Palestinian City in Transition between the Mandate and Israel.” The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute Workshop, Jerusalem

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Humboldt State University (Developed an interdisciplinary Middle East curriculum)

MA Thesis Advisor, The Environment & Community Program

The Arab-Israeli Conflict

Colonialism/Decolonization (Graduate Seminar)

Conflicts in Settler-Colonial Societies

The Modern Middle East

Middle Eastern Cities

Islamic Societies

Imperialism to Decolonization

Senior Seminar in History

Historical Methods

Rice University

The Arab-Israeli Conflict

History of the Middle East

New York University

Palestine: Nationalism, Narrative, and Conflict

Reader, Doctoral Committee, dissertation in Israel Studies on Palestinians in Israel

Oberlin College

The Arab-Israeli Conflict

The Modern Middle East

Comparative Conflicts: Palestine/Israel, Algeria, South Africa and Ireland

SERVICE

Service to the Profession

2021 Reviewer, IDRF Competition, Social Science Research Council

2019-2021 Member, Steering committee, Historians for Peace and Democracy

2018- 2021 Member, Committee for Academic Freedom, the Middle East Studies Association.

Book and Article Reviewer

2021 External Thesis Reader, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2020 Book proposal, Princeton University Press

2018 Journal of Palestine Studies

Radical History Review

2017 Journal of Palestine Studies

2016 International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies

Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change series

2015 International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies

Humboldt State University

2020- 2021 Advisor, History Club

Member, Sustainable Futures Series Planning Committee

Member, Professional Leave Committee

2018- 2020 Member, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council

Fall 2019 Advisor, Women’s Resource Center, Spring 2019

Spring 2019 Member, Enrollment Management Implementation Team

Spring 2018 Member, Retention Council

2017-2018 Member, Constitution and Bylaws Committee

2106-2018 Chair, Award Committee, Barnum Award

2016-2017 Chair, Award Committee, Johnston-Aronoff History Scholarship

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT AND MEDIA APPEARANCES

2022 Presenter. “Tantura: On the Politics and History; Memory and Denial.” DocAviv Film Festival. May 31.

2021 Podcast interview, “A Day Trip from Jerusalem: Nazareth in the 20th Century.” Jerusalem Unplugged, November 17.

Presenter. “The Second Intifada in Its Historical Context.” Baladna Cultural Center, Nazareth, Israel. October 30. (Arabic)

Interviewer. “Ofer Cassif Is Fighting Israeli Extremism from Within the Knesset.” The Jacobin Magazine, May 27.

Interviewer. “Mustafa Barghouti: Palestine Will Be Free.” The Jacobin Magazine, May 25.

Interviewee. “The history behind the Gaza-Israeli conflict.” RNZ Saturday Morning, May 21.

Podcast interview, “East Jerusalem is Under Attack.” Unsettled. May 18

Interviewee. “Sheikh Jarrah Evictions and Palestinian Rights.” The Jacobin Magazine, May 11.

2020 Organizer. “Let’s Talk about the Middle East” Film Series. Arcata, CA

2019 Organizer. “Let’s Talk about the Middle East” Film Series. Arcata, CA

Interviewee, “Homeland Lesson,” historical miniseries by Anat Zeltzer and Modi Bar-On, Hot 8. December 26. (Hebrew)

Interviewee, Israelism (film about Jewish American attitudes towards Israel), April 12.

Interviewee, Times Standard, “‘Let’s Talk about the Middle East’ film series continues April 4.” March 30,

Podcast interview, Refugees: Gaza, Unsettled Podcast, February 4.

2018 Organizer. “Let’s Talk about the Middle East” Film Series. Arcata, CA

Interviewee, You Are Here, KMUD radio, February 22.

Interviewee. Hala TV, October 10, 23, and 31. (Arabic)

2017 Podcast interview, “Jerusalem.” Unsettled. December 12.

Presenter, “Syrian Refugees: Escaping the Horrors of War.” Humboldt Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. April 15

Interviewee, KHUM Radio February 21

Organizer. “Let’s Talk about the Middle East” Film Series. Arcata, CA

Interviewee, KHSU Radio, Magazine. January 31

2016 Organizer. “Let’s Talk about the Middle East” Film Series. Arcata, CA

“Let's Talk About It: The Safety Pin,” North Coast Journal, November 16

Presenter, “Understand Islam, A Community Conversation.” United Congregational Christian Church, Eureka, CA. May 1

Interviewee, KAEF TV Channel 23. March 22

2015 Interviewee, KHSU Radio, Thursday Night Talk. December 10

Interviewee, North Coast News. December 3

LANGUAGES

Arabic, Hebrew, and English- fluent; French and Spanish- Basic reading knowledge

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Middle East Studies Association (MESA); American Historical Association (AHA).

NON-ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2021- Consultant. The Arab Center for Alternative Planning (ACAP)

2003-4 Project Coordinator, The Alternative Information Center, Jerusalem,

2003 Passed the Israeli Bar Exam

2002-03 Legal Intern, Balter, Guth, Aloni & Co. Law Firm, Jerusalem