The Jewish Question Again

Joyce Dalsheim, Gregory Starrett

Joyce Dalsheim is a cultural anthropologist and Professor of Global Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her fieldwork in Israel/Palestine on questions of identity, citizenship, and sovereignty has yielded a trilogy of books on nationalism and the Israeli settlement project, including Unsettling Gaza (2011), Producing Spoilers (2014), and Israel Has a Jewish Problem (2019). She co-edited a brief Prickly Paradigm pamphlet, The Jewish Question Again (2020). and has been researching the far right in the U.S., including fieldwork at the events in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021. 

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Gregory Starrett is Professor of Anthropology in the College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has conducted field research in Egypt and the United States on the cultural politics of Islamic education and popular culture, and he teaches courses on religion, the Middle East, the history of anthropology, and the development of anthropological theory. He has served as the editor of the Middle East Studies Association’s journal Review of Middle East Studies, as the President of the Faculty at UNC Charlotte, and as the Chair of the Anthropology Department. His research has appeared in some of anthropology’s most important journals, including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology, and the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

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