CURRICULUM VITAE OF SMADAR LAVIE PROFESSOR EMERITA OF ANTHROPOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS ADDRESS Department of Ethnic Studies [email protected] 506 Barrow Lane University of California, Berkeley [email protected] Berkeley CA 94720 USA +1-651-343-3621 EDUCATION Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1989 M.A. Cultural Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1981 B.A. The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1980 Major: Sociology and Social Anthropology; Minors: Medieval Islamic Civilization, Musicology Specializations: (1) The interplay between neo-liberal state bureaucracies, citizenship, religion, and the race- or gender-based differential access to justice (legal, social, economic, political or cultural). (2) Comparative study of borderlands and diasporas (the Arab-Israeli, US-Mexican borders and the contemporary Muslim migration to Western Europe) through the optics of NGOs, social movements, as these relate to the emergence of Right Wing feminism(s). (3) World Anthropologies; qualitative research methodologies and the employment of the ethnographic method of research and writing in public policy. (4) Critical race theory, intersectionality, as these relate to the study of ritual, religion, performance, and of cultural rights in the context of conflict/post-conflict transitional justice. (5) The study of the Middle East – with emphasis on Egypt, Israel and Palestine, from a global comparative perspective. (6) Community building of non-profit transnational social movements and NGOs focusing on revising state bureaucratic ideologies and practices which are based on racial and gendered classification as a key to resolve ethno-nationalist conflicts Languages: Fluent English, Hebrew, and Arabic; semi-fluent French. ANTHROPOLOGICAL FIELDWORK • South Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, 1975-present • Palestine-Israel, 1988-present (with additional field research in Ann Arbor, MI (Apr 1991), Paris, France (Oct 1993), and Yemen (Aug 1996) • Aqaba, Jordan (South Sinai Bedouin) 1993-95, 2006-present EMPLOYMENT 2016-20 Visiting Scholar, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley. 2010-17 Visiting Scholar, Institute for Social Sciences in the 21st Century (ISS21), University College Cork, Ireland. Smadar Lavie 1 2014-16 Scholar in Residence, Beatrice Bain Research Group, University of California, Berkeley. 2013/14 Visiting Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley. 2012/13 Scholar in Residence, Beatrice Bain Research Group, University of California, Berkeley. 2011 Fellow, Centro Incontri Umani, Ascona, Switzerland, Mar-Aug. 2010-12 Visiting Scholar, Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota. 2010/11 Visiting Scholar, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota. 2009/10 Associate Professor, Studies in Women and Gender, University of Virginia at Charlottesville (nine-month visitorship). 2007-09 The Hubert H. Humphrey Distinguished Visiting Professor of International Studies for The Muslim World and the Middle East. Macalester College. 2001-07 Visiting Associate Professor, the Social Science Division, Beit Berl Teacher’s College. 1999/2000 Visiting Associate Professor, School of Media Studies, Sapir College of the Negev. Fall and Spring Semesters. 1994-99 Associate Professor of Anthropology and Critical Theory, with tenure, University of California at Davis. 1992-94 Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Critical Theory, University of California at Davis. 1990-92 Assistant Professor of Anthropology and of Comparative Studies in History, Culture and Society, University of California at Davis. 1985-89 Lecturer, University of California at Berkeley, Fall Freshmen Program. 1984 Lecturer, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA. HONORS 2018/19 The Simon and Riva Spatz Visiting Chair in Jewish Studies, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. 2018 Distinguished Guest Professorship, Center of Oriental Studies, Vilnius University. Apr. 2017 Distinguished Professorial Lectureship, Center of Oriental Studies, Vilnius University. 1-7 Apr. 2017 Distinguished Visiting Erasmus Professorship, Jagiellonian University, Institute of Sociology. Mar. 2015 Society for the Anthropology of Religion Clifford Geertz Prize finalist for Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture. 2015 Association of Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS) Book Award competition Honorable Mention for Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture. 2015 New York Book Festival Honorable Mention in the “Non-Fiction” category for Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture. 2015 USA Best Book Awards finalist in the “Social Change” category for Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture. Smadar Lavie 2 2015 San Francisco Book Festival Honorable Mention in the Biography/Autobiography Category for Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture. 2013 “Heart at East” Honor Plaque for committed excellence and lifetime service to the Mizrahi communities of Israel, given by a coalition of twenty NGOs working for equal distribution of cultural funds in Israel. 21 May. 2009 Gloria Anzaldúa Award Winner, the Women’s Committee of the American Studies Association, for the essay “Staying Put: Crossing the Palestine/Israel Border with Gloria Anzaldúa.” 2008 Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Suffolk University. 13-17 Oct. 1990 Honorable Mention, Victor Turner Award for Ethnographic Writing for The Poetics of Military Occupation: Mzeina Allegories of Bedouin Identity under Egyptian and Israeli Rule. 1989 Malcolm H. kerr Dissertation Award in Humanities, the Middle East Studies Association of North America. 1988 Second Prize, Paper Competition, U.S. Western Social Science Association: “When Leadership Becomes Allegory: Mzeina Sheikhs and the Experience of Occupation.” 1979 Yitzhaki Netzer Prize for Excellence in Bedouin Studies, The Ben-Gurion Desert Research Institute, Sde-Bokker, Israel. PUBLICATIONS Books Authored 2018 Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. In the series Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality. Updated and revised paperback edition of Wrapped in the Flag of Israel 2014, including an extensive afterword about the War on Gaza 2014 and Mizrahi Feminism. Book was published in Jul ‘18. First print sold out early Dec ’18. 2014 Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture. New York: Berghahn Book. 15 Apr 2014; third print sold out 31 Aug 2015. Since its April 2014 publication, the book has been reviewed in: Jan ’20 Jadaliyya “New Text Out Now.” Jan ’19 Tikkun Magazine 34(1): 127-130. keith Feldman. Apr ’18 E3W (Ethnic and Third World Literatures) 18: 8-9. Michael Reyes. Oct ’17 Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 17(1): 135-136. Yaacov Yadgar. Jan ’17 Asian Anthropology 16(1): 73-75. Sealing Cheng. Jan ’17 Peace and Change 42(1): 162-164. Leonie Fleischmann. Dec ’16 Arab Studies Quarterly 38(4): 716-723. Meir Amor. Dec ’16 Feminist Formations 28(3): 259-262. Brooke Lober. Nov ’16 Social Anthropology 24(4): 535-537. Johan Wollin. Nov ’16 Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 22(4): 1012-1013. Tobias kelly. Aug ’16 American Ethnologist 43(3): 580-581. Yulia Egorova. Jul ’16 Anthropological Quarterly 89(2): 603-606. William Beeman. Jul ’16 Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work 31(3): 392-393. Barbara Levy Simon. Jul ’16 Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 12(2): 264-266. Adi kuntsman. Jul ’16 Hypercultura E-Journal 6(15). “Bureaucracy, Thy Name is Israel.” Sorina Georgescu. Jun ’16 American Anthropologist 188(2): 436-437. Anne de Jong. Apr ’16 Cultural Studies 31(4): 602-609. “Bureaucratic Torture, Israeli Nationalism, and the Question of Palestine.” Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber. Smadar Lavie 3 Mar ’16 Social Security: Journal of Welfare and Social Security Studies (Bitahon Sotziali, Hebrew) 99: 156-159. Chen Misgav [Heb.]. Jan ’16 Allegra Lab Online Book Reviews. Anja Ryding. Nov ’15 Feminist Review 111: e12-e15. Frances S. Hasso. Spring ’15 Journal of Palestine Studies 44(3): 67-68. Simona Sharoni. Feb ’15 Jadaliyya “New Text Out Now.” Dec ’14 BRICUP (British Committee for the Universities of Palestine) Newsletter 82: 12-13, Malcolm Levitt. 1990 The Poetics of Military Occupation: Mzeina Allegories of Bedouin Identity Under Israeli and Egyptian Rule. Los Angeles: University of California Press. Since its December 1990 publication, the book has been reviewed in: • American Ethnologist • American Anthropologist • Times Literary Supplement • Washington Post • The Village Voice Literary Supplement • Journal of Palestine Studies • Quarterly Journal of Speech • MERIP (Middle East Research and Information Project) Review • Journal of Islamic Studies • MESA (Middle East Studies Association) Bulletin • Choice • The San Francisco Chronicle • Haaretz • Publisher’s Weekly • Middle East Journal • SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) Bulletin, A paperback edition has been available since July 1991 and is still in print and in demand. The book has become a required textbook in a variety of courses and disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. WRAPPED IN THE FLAG OF ISRAEL Invited Academic Talks 2019 5 Dec University of Notre Dame, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies 4 Dec University of Notre Dame, Keough School