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, Associate Professor, Women's Studies and Comparative Literature
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Jewish Cultures in the Middle East, Israeli Culture and Hebrew literature (Biblical Studies, Colonialism and Modernity, Cultural/Symbolic Anthropology, Ethnography and Folklore, Feminist Theory, Film and Popular Culture, Gender and Ethnicity, Language Learning Strategies and Acquisition, Radical/Absurd Theater, Sex/Gender Cultures, Women's Studies, Zionism)
- Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
- MA, University of California, Berkeley
- BA, Haifa University
- LS&A Instructional Technology Grant, University of Michigan, for AnthroCulture 335/HJCS 335 (Tokyo-Tel Aviv: City, Nation, and Identity in Japan and Israel), October 2005.
- CRLT, Multimedia Teaching Grant, University of Michigan, for AnthroCulture 335/HJCS 335 (Tokyo-Tel Aviv: City, Nation, and Identity in Japan and Israel), October 2005.
- Frankel Center for Jewish Studies, Faculty Summer Grant (research in Tel Avivi), University of Michigan, "National Unhistory: War Museums and the Aesthetics of Erasure in Japan and Israel," April 2005.
- The Stains of Culture: Karaite Jewish Women in the Bay Area (2005), Wayne State University Press, 2006.
- "Baghdad-Tel Aviv: Roundtrip to the Promised Land," Anthropological Quarterly, 79:1, 2006.
- "'A Land That Devours its People:' Mizrahi Writing from the Gut," Body & Society, Vol. 12, 2: 25-55, 2006.
- "Reading it, Naming it, and Talking it: The Karaite Niddah, 'Ada and the Language of Menstruation," in Folklore Interpreted: Essays in Honor of Alan Dundes, Edited by Regina Bendix and Rosemary Levi Zumwalt, Garland Publishing, 1995, pp. 375-400.
- "The Search for Home: Films by and About Middle Eastern and North African Jews," Independent Jewish Film: A Resource Guide, Edited by Janis Plotkin, Caroline Libresco, and Josh Feiger, The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, 1996, pp. 22-24. Also published in http://www.sfjff.org/guide/sephardic2.html 1999-2000 (3rd edition).
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