Smadar Lavie
Smadar Lavie is a Mizrahi Israeli anthropologist, author, and activist specializing in the anthropology of Egypt, Israel and Palestine, with special emphasis on issues of race, gender and religion.[1][2]. Dr. Lavie was awarded the 2009 Gloria Anzaldua Prize from the American Studies Association[1] for her paper titled, Staying Put: Crossing the Palestine/Israel Border with Gloria Anzaldúa.[2]
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Academic Life
Dr. Lavie received her BA in Social Anthropology from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1980 (Majors: Sociology and Social Anthropology; Minors: Medieval Islamic Civilization, Musicology) [3]. Lavie received her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California-Berkeley in 1989 and was awarded the Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award from the Middle East Studies Association for her dissertation titled, The Poetics of Military Occupation: Mzeina Allegories of Bedouin Identity under Israeli and Egyptian Rule,[3] which was later published by the University of California Press.[4]
In 1990, Lavie became an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Critical Theory at the University of California, Davis,[4][5][6] [7] where she was promoted to an Associate Professorship in 1994 [8][9][10].
In 1999, for family reasons, she moved back to Israel, and taught at the Anthropology and Women's Studies departments of Beit Berl College.[11] During academic years 2007-2009, she held the Hubert H. Humphrey Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Macalester College. For academic year 2009/10 Lavie is an associate professor visiting the University of Virginia's interdisciplinary Studies in Women and Gender program.[5]
Activism
Professor Lavie is a member of the Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow Coalition, of Ahoti for Women in Israel, and of other political, feminist and anti-racist organizations.
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Books
- Lavie, Smadar, and Ted Swedenburg. 1996. Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 0822317206
- Lavie, Smadar, Kirin Narayan, and Renato Rosaldo. 1993. Creativity/Anthropology. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. ISBN 0801495427
- Lavie, Smadar. 1991. The Poetics of Military Occupation: Mzeina Allegories of Bedouin Identity Under Israeli and Egyptian Rule. Los Angeles: University of California Press. ISBN 0520075528
Articles
- Lavie, Smadar. 2010. De/Racinated Transcendental Conversions: Witchcraft, Oracle and Magic among the Israeli Feminist Left Peace Camp. Holy Land Studies 9:71-80.
- Lavie, Smadar. 2006. Mediating Feminist Homes and Exiles: Gendering Racial Formations during the Al-Aqsa Intifada. Holy Land Studies: A Multidisciplinary Journal 5 (2):217-226.
- Lavie, Smadar, and Rafi Shubeli. 2006. On the Progress of Affirmative Action and Cultural Rights for Marginalized Communities in Israel. Anthropology News 47 (8):6-7.
- Lavie, Smadar. 2006. Transnational English Tyranny. Anthropology News 47 (4):9-10.
- Lavie, Smadar. 2005. Israeli Anthropology and American Anthropology. Anthropology News 46 (1):8.
- Lavie, Smadar. 2003. Lily White Feminism and Academic Apartheid in Israel. Anthropology News 44 (7):10-11.
- Lavie, Smadar. 2002. Academic Apartheid in Israel and the Lilly White Feminism of the Upper Middle Class. Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal 3 (1).
- Lavie, Smadar, and Forest Rouse. 1993. Notes on the Fantastic Journey of the Hajj, His Anthropologist, and Her American Passport. American Ethnologist 20 (2):363-384.
- Lavie, Smadar, and Ted Swedenburg. 1996. Between and among the Boundaries of Culture: Bridging Text and Lived Experience in the Third Timespace. Cultural Studies 10 (1):154-179.
- Lavie, Smadar. 1992. Blow-Ups in the Borderzones: Third World Israeli Authors' Gropings for Home. New Formations 18:84-106.
- Lavie, Smadar. 1991. The Bedouin, the Beatniks, and the Redemptive Fool. Quarterly Review of Film and Video 13 (1-3):23-44.
- Lavie, Smadar. 1989. When Leadership Becomes Allegory: Mzeina Sheikhs and the Experience of Military Occupation. Cultural Anthropology 4 (2):99-136.
- Lavie, Smadar. 1988. Sinai for the Coffee Table: Birds, Bedouins and Desert Wanderlust. Middle East Report (Jan-Feb):40-44.
- Lavie, Smadar, and William C. Young. 1984. Bedouin in Limbo: Egyptian and Israeli Development Policies in Southern Sinai. Antipode 16 (2):33-44.
References
- ^ American Studies Association. 2010. The Gloria E. Anzaldúa Award for Independent Scholars and Contingent Faculty: Gloria E. Anzaldúa Award Recipients. Accessed 16 October 2010.
- ^ Studies in Women & Gender at the University of VIrginia. 2009. SWAG Announcements. Accessed 16 October 2010.
- ^ Middle East Studies Association. 2010. Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award Recipients, 1982-2009. Accessed 13 October 2010.
- ^ University of California Press. 2010. Publisher's Book Page. Accessed 13 October 2010.
- ^ Andrew, Katie (2 March 2010). "Visiting Professor Illuminates Plight of Mizrahi Women in Israel in Light of the Palestine-Israel Conflict". UVA Today. University of Virginia. http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=11151. Retrieved 27 March 2010.
