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Maura Finkelstein on Academic Freedom, Being Jewish, Zionism, and Palestine | Centering on Peace

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Maura Finkelstein on Academic Freedom, Being Jewish, Zionism, and Palestine | Centering on Peace

Host Faramarz Farbod talks with Dr. Maura Finkelstein, writer, ethnographer, anthropologist, and author of The Archive of Loss: Lively Ruination in Mill Land Mumbai (DUP 2019). Dr. Finkelstein was falsely accused of antisemitism and fired last May (2024) from her teaching position at Muhlenberg College in Allentown. We talk about the state of academic freedom, classrooms as ethnographic spaces, decanonization, being Jewish and anti-Zionist in the US, Zionism, Israel, misuses of antisemitism, Islamophobia, empire, and the present moment in history.

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I am a writer, ethnographer, and editor with a PhD in cultural anthropology (Stanford University, 2012). My first book, The Archive of Loss: Lively Ruination in Mill Land Mumbai (Duke UP, 2019), was shortlisted for the Victor Turner Prize in ethnographic writing. Other academic and scholarly writing has appeared in Anthological Quarterly, City and Society, Cultural Anthropology, American Anthropologist, Anthropology Now, and is forthcoming in The Anthropology of Work Review (AWR). My essays have been published by Post45, Electric Literature, Allegra Lab, Red Pepper Magazine, the Scottish Left Review, The Markaz Review, Mondoweiss, Middle East Eye, and Al Jazeera. I have been nominated for a Pushcart (2021), was a finalist for the Witness literary award (2022), was a Tin House Scholar (2023), and was recently the recipient of the 2024 New Directions Award from the General Anthropology Division (GAD) of the American Anthropological Association and the 2024 Courageous Voices Fellowship from the Scholars for Social Justice Executive Committee and the Advisory Committee for the Freedom and Justice Institute.

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