Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
ABOUT
I am a historian of the modern Middle East who is particularly interested in applying the analytics of gender and race to the modern Middle East. Currently, I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. My dissertation is tentatively titled “Watching Whiteness Work?: The Racialization of Jewish Women in Iraq and Israel/Palestine, 1941-1966.” My research and teaching interests include: modern Middle East history, gender analytics, race analytics, intersectionality, gender and race in the Middle East, the woman question, Islamic feminism, Iraqi history, Arab Jews, history of Jews in the Middle East, and Mizrahi studies.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Middle East/Near East Studies
Gender/Women's Studies
19th-21st Centuries
Colonialism
Identity/Representation
Minorities
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iraq
Israel
Ottoman Empire
Palestine
The Levant
Specialties
Arab Jews Of Iraq And Israel
Race And Gender As Categories Of Analysis In Moder
Intersectionality
Languages
Hebrew (fluent)
Arabic (advanced)
Turkish (intermediate)
French (intermediate)
English (native)
Education
MA
| 2013
| Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
| Brandeis
BA
| 2011
| Middle Eastern History
| UCLA
Abstracts
On A Contemporary Notion of Arab Jewish Identity: Reading Haviva Pedaya Intersectionally
Intersectionality, Belonging and the Immigration of Arab Jewish Women: Reading Louise Cohen, Shoshana Levy and Shoshana Almoslino between Iraq and Israel
"A Girl So Quiet Will Do Everything We Tell Her:" The Authority of Emotions for Zionism in 1940s Iraq
"What Kind of Agreement Was Even Possible": Zionist Imperial Whiteness, The Iraqi Communist Party, and the Disparate Future of Iraq's Jews
Zionist Racism from the Standpoint of its Jewish Victims: Iraqi Jews, Israeli Immigration Camps, and the Construction of Racial Difference
