Smadar Lavie is a Mizrahi Israeli anthropologist, author

Author

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, and activist specializing in the anthropology of Egypt, Israel and Palestine, with special emphasis on issues of race, gender and religion.http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520075528http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a912088515&db=all. Dr. Lavie was awarded the 2009 Gloria Anzaldua Prize from the American Studies Association for her paper titled, Staying Put: Crossing the Palestine/Israel Border with Gloria Anzaldúa.

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) http://web.archive.org/web/20091027044740/http://geocities.com/smadarlavie/. 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, which was later published by the University of California Press

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In 1990, Lavie became an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Critical Theory at the University of California, Davis,http://books.google.com/books?id=9R67z2G2kvMC&pg=PA444&lpg=PA444&dq=smadar+lavie+university+of+california+associate+professor&source=bl&ots=BUtw9WeXyB&sig=E2EEd75_OflT#v=onepage&q=smadar%20lavie%20university%20of%20california%20associate%20professor&f=falsehttp://www.suffolk.edu/college/30185.htmlhttp://www.cwru.edu/affil/sce/BellagioDec.html http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a912088515&db=all where she was promoted to an Associate Professorship in 1994 http://registrar.ucdavis.edu/ucdwebcatalog99_00/WebCatCrs/gc_ant.htmhttp://books.google.com/books?id=9R67z2G2kvMC&pg=PA444&lpg=PA444&dq=smadar+lavie+university+of+california+associate+professor&source=bl&ots=BUtw9WeXyB&sig=E2EEd75_OflT#v=onepage&q=smadar%20lavie%20university%20of%20california%20associate%20professor&f=falsehttp://books.google.com/books?id=7t25kKLwyiMC&pg=PA333&lpg=PA333&dq=smadar+lavie+university+of+california+associate+professor&source=bl&ots=QuaYFv4N76&sig=TDmKi0C94unuJ6m4ZmMXH6Q7ETc&hl=en&ei=R8SuS_rzMIGdlgfMk8yRAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CBQQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=smadar%20lavie%20university%20of%20california%20associate%20professor&f=false.

In 1999, for family reasons, she moved back to Israel, and taught at the Anthropology and Women's Studies departments of Beit Berl College.http://www.suffolk.edu/college/30185.html During academic years 2007-2009, she held the Hubert H. Humphrey Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Macalester College

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. For academic year 2009/10 Lavie is an associate professor visiting the University of Virginia's interdisciplinary Studies in Women and Gender program.

Activism

Professor Lavie is a member of the Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow Coalition

Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow Coalition

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, of Ahoti for Women in Israel, and of other political, feminist and anti-racist organizations.

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.