Smadar lavie biography of barack obama

Education

• Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley,
• M.A. Cultural Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley,
• B.A.

  The Hebrew University, Jerusalem,

• Major: Sociology and Social Anthropology; Minors: Medieval Islamic
• Civilization, Musicology

About

Smadar Lavie is a Mizrahi U.S.-Israeli anthropologist, author, and activist.

Smadar lavie biography of barack obama

She specializes in the anthropology of Egypt, Israel and Palestine, emphasizing issues of race, gender and religion. Lavie is the author of The Poetics of Military Occupation (UC Press ), receiving the Honorable Mention of the Victor Turner Award for Ethnographic Writing.

She coedited Creativity/Anthropology (Cornell ) and Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity (Duke ). Lavie is the winner of the American Studies Association’s Gloria Anzaldúa Prize and the recipient of the “Heart at East” Honor Plaque for her lifetime service on behalf of Mizrahi communities in the State of Israel.

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