Smadar Lavie Explained

Smadar Lavie is a professor emerita of anthropology at the University of California Davis, and a Mizrahi anthropologist, author, and activist. She specializes in the anthropology of Egypt, Israel and Palestine, emphasizing issues of race, gender and religion. She received her doctorate in anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley (1989).

Academic life

Lavie received her BA in social anthropology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1980 (majors: sociology and social anthropology; minors: medieval Islamic civilization, musicology).[1] 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"[2] which was later published by the University of California Press,[3] [4] and received the 1990 honorable mention of the Victor Turner Award for Ethnographic Writing.[5]

In 1990, Lavie became an assistant professor of anthropology and critical theory at the University of California, Davis, where she was promoted to an associate professorship in 1994.[6] [7] [8] Lavie held visiting professorships at Diablo Valley College (1984), University of California, Berkeley's Fall Freshman Program (1985–1989), Stanford University (1994), Beit Berl College (2001–2007),[9] [10] Macalester College (2007-2009)[11] [12] University of Virginia (2009–2010)[13] and the University of Minnesota (2010–2012).[14] Professor Lavie was the recipient of residential fellowships at the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio (1993),[15] Stanford Humanities Center (1993-1994)[16] [17] Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota (2010–2011),[18] Cento Incontri Umani Ascona (2011),[19] the University College Cork (2010–2016),[20] the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley (2013-2014),[21] the Beatrice Bain Research Group, University of California, Berkeley (2012-2016),[22] [23] the Simon and Riva Spatz Visiting Chair in Jewish Studies, Dalhousie University (2018/2019),[24] the Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley (2016-2020),[25] and the Institute of Asian and Transcultural Studies, Vilnius University (2017, 2018, 2022).[26]

Recognition

Lavie authored The Poetics of Military Occupation (UC Press, 1990), receiving the 1990 honorable mention of the Victor Turner Award for Ethnographic Writing, and Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture (Berghahn Books 2014,[27] University of Nebraska Press 2018[28]) receiving the 2015 honorable mention of the Association of Middle East Women's Studies Book Award Competition.[29] Wrapped in the Flag of Israel first edition was also one of the four finalists in the 2015 Clifford Geertz Book Award Competition of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion. Lavie won the American Studies Association's 2009 Gloria Anzaldúa Prize for her article, "Staying Put: Crossing the Palestine-Israel Border with Gloria Anzaldúa",[30] published in Anthropology and Humanism (2011).[31] In 2013, she won the "Heart at East" Honor Plaque for lifetime service to Mizraḥi communities in Israel-Palestine.[32] [33] [34] [35] Her 2019 article "Gaza 2014 and Mizrahi Feminism" was awarded certificates as a top downloaded paper for 2018 to 2022,[36] 2020, and 2021 to 2022 by Wiley Publishing. In 2022, she was elected a senior Fulbright scholar at the Institute of Asian and Transcultural Studies at Vilnius University in Lithuania.[37] [38]

Activism

Lavie is a member of many political, feminist and anti-racist organizations. In 2013, she won the "Heart at East" Honor Plaque for committed excellence and lifetime service to the Mizrahi communities of Israel, given by a coalition of twenty NGOs working for equal distribution of cultural funds in Israel.[32] [33] [34]

Lavie was co-founder and a member of CAFIOT (the Berkeley Committee for Academic Freedom in the Israeli Occupied Territories) from 1982 to 1989.[39]

Lavie is co-signatory to the 1993 Bellagio Declaration for the protection collective indigenous and exilic cultural heritage as intellectual property.

Lavie has served a number of roles at Ahoti (Sister) for Women in Israel, Israel's feminist of color movement. From January 2003 to January 2005, she served on the board of directors. From 2002 to 2003, she both served as the liaison to the New Israel Fund and was a member of the newsletter's editorial collective. From 2003-2004, she was the liaison to the FFIPP (Educational Network for Human Rights in Palestine/Israel).

Lavie co-founded the Coalition of Women for Mothers and Children and served as co-director of this coalition of many NGOs from 2003 to 2006.

Lavie has been a member of the Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow Coalition (MDR) since 2002. She served on the Culture Committee from 2002 to 2004, the Committee on Education and the Core Curriculum from 2002 to 2003, and was the MDR Representative to the Coalition of NGOs against Racism from 2005 to 2007.

Lavie has been an Advisory Board Member of Israel's Women's Parliament since 2002.[40]

Lavie co-founded the Mizrahi-Palestinian Coalition Against Apartheid in Israeli Anthropology (CAAIA) and was a member from 2002 to 2008.[41] [42] [43] [44] [45]

Lavie is a member of Jewish Voice for Peace.

Select publications

Books

Selected articles

Selected public anthropology articles

Selected video lectures

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Smadar Lavie — People in the Social Science Departments at UC Davis. anthropology.ucdavis.edu. en. 2020-02-12.
  2. Web site: Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Awards . https://web.archive.org/web/20140125123058/http://www.mesa.arizona.edu/awards/malcolm-kerr-dissertation.html . January 25, 2014 . 1 April 2014 . Middle East Studies Association.
  3. Book: The Poetics of Military Occupation, UC Press. October 1990 . University of California Press. 9780520075528 . 11 Feb 2020.
  4. Web site: Middle East Studies Association - Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Awards - Smadar Lavie . 2024-06-16 . Middle East Studies Association . en.
  5. Web site: Past Victor Turner Prize Winners Society for Humanistic Anthropology . 2024-06-16 . sha.americananthro.org.
  6. Book: Lavie, Smadar . Women Writing Culture . University of California Press . 1995 . 9780520202085 . 31 March 2014.
  7. Web site: Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity . 31 March 2014 . Duke University Press.
  8. Book: Grossberg . Lawrence . Cultural Studies: 10:1 Controversies in Cultural Studies . Radway . Janice . 2005-06-27 . Routledge . 9781134759408 . 31 March 2014.
  9. Web site: Beit Berl . https://web.archive.org/web/20210925111624/https://server.math.umanitoba.ca/~lukacs/Smadar_Lavie/Beit_Berl_status.png . September 25, 2021 . 1 April 2014.
  10. News: טיימס . ניו יורק . כתבת "" . 2007-03-18 . כנס לזכר ויקי שירן במכללת בית ברל . 2024-06-16 . הארץ . he.
  11. Web site: World . American Jewish . 2014-04-09 . Israel's single mothers from the East . 2024-06-16 . American Jewish World . en-US.
  12. News: Fall 2008 . WGSS Faculty and their Inter-Disciplines . June 16, 2024 . Intersections.
  13. Web site: Visiting Professor Illuminates Plight of Mizrahi Women in Israel in Light of the Palestine-Israel Conflict. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140407081132/http://news.virginia.edu/node/11151?id=11151. 2014-04-07.
  14. Lavie. Smadar. The Knafo Chronicles: Marching on Jerusalem With Israel's Silent Majority. Affilia. 2012. 27. 3. 10.1177/0886109912443958. 146866104.
  15. Web site: The Bellagio Declaration (must use continue to selected page link) . 20 January 2015.
  16. Web site: Fellows: 1993-1994 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220501022755/https://shc.stanford.edu/people/current-center-fellows/1993-1994 . May 1, 2022 . 11 Feb 2020 . Stanford Humanities Center.
  17. Web site: Smadar Lavie Stanford Humanities Center . 2024-06-16 . shc.stanford.edu . en.
  18. Web site: Tuesdays with a Scholar. 14 January 2011 . University of Minnesota. 11 Feb 2020.
  19. Web site: Centro Incontri Umani Ascona.
  20. Web site: ISS21 Visiting Scholars . 2024-06-16 . University College Cork . en.
  21. Web site: CMES Newsletter. Fall 2013. 21 January 2015. CMES Newsletter. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150906204545/http://cmes.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/CMES-news_Fall-13_for-web.pdf. 6 September 2015.
  22. Web site: BBRG Visiting Scholars. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20121115194137/http://bbrg.berkeley.edu/scholar_lavie.html. 2012-11-15.
  23. Web site: Visiting Scholars Program . 2024-06-16 . ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu.
  24. Web site: Introducing the 2018‑19 Spatz Visiting Chair in Jewish Studies. Dalhousie News. 2020-02-12.
  25. Web site: Wrapped in the Flag of Israel Reading Religion (please see author bio). readingreligion.org. 2020-02-12.
  26. Web site: Smadar Lavie . June 17, 2024 . Vilnius University.
  27. Book: Lavie, Smadar . Wrapped in the Flag of Israel . April 2014 . Berghahn Books . 978-1-78238-222-5 . 16 December 2015.
  28. Web site: Wrapped in the Flag of Israel - University of Nebraska Press . 2020-02-12 . Nebraska Press . en-US.
  29. Web site: 2015 AMEWS Book Honorable Mentions . 16 December 2015 . Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University.
  30. Web site: The Gloria E. Anzaldua Award for Independent Scholars, Contingent or Community College Faculty 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140407080345/http://www.theasa.net/prizes_and_grants/page/anzaldua_award_for_independent_scholars/ . 7 April 2014 . 31 March 2014 . American Studies Association.
  31. Lavie . Smadar . 2011 . Staying Put: Crossing the Israel–Palestine Border with Gloria Anzaldúa . Anthropology and Humanism . 36 . 1 . 101 . 10.1111/j.1548-1409.2011.01083.x.
  32. Web site: Lavie . Smadar . Heart At East Letter to Smadar Lavie .
  33. Web site: 'Wrapped in the Flag of Israel' Author Earns Heart at East Award .
  34. Web site: Lavie . Smadar . Anthropology News . 20 January 2015.
  35. Web site: Lavie . Smadar . The Heart at East Ceremony: Powerpoint Biographic Presentation . 2016-01-21 . www.academia.edu.
  36. Web site: Smadar Lavie: South/South Feminist Coalitions and the Art of Staying Put: Crossing the Palestine/Israel Border with Gloria Anzaldua . 1 April 2014 . Macalester College.
  37. Web site: Smadar Lavie Fulbright Scholar Program . 2024-06-15 . fulbrightscholars.org.
  38. Web site: Smadar Lavie . 2024-06-15 . www.fsf.vu.lt.
  39. Web site: Curriculum Vitae. Lavie. Smadar. Academia.edu. 11 February 2020.
  40. Web site: מי אנחנו. bigsister13. פרלמנט נשים. he-IL. 2020-02-12.
  41. Where Have All the Palestinians Gone?. Daas. Ruba. 2008. International Journal of Critical Pedagogy. 22 January 2016. Bar Shalom. Yehuda. https://web.archive.org/web/20170808004812/http://freireproject.org/wp-content/journals/TIJCP/Vol1No2/66-184-1-PB.pdf . 2017-08-08 .
  42. Israeli Anthropology and American Anthropology. Lavie. Smadar. January 2005. Anthropology News. 46. 8. 10.1525/an.2005.46.1.8. 21 January 2015.
  43. On the Progress of Affirmative Action and Cultural Rights for Marginalized Communities in Israel. Lavie. Smadar. November 2006. Anthropology News. 10.1525/an.2006.47.8.6. 21 January 2016. Shubeli. Rafi. 47. 8. 6–7.
  44. Web site: Israeli Anthropology and American Anthropology: Our "Special Relations" / Prof. Smadar Lavie. 2012-11-18. הקשת הדמוקרטית המזרחית. he-IL. 2020-02-12.
  45. Web site: Complaint of the Israeli Universities, from the Coalition to End Apartheid in Israeli Anthropology. 2012-11-18. הקשת הדמוקרטית המזרחית. he-IL. 2020-02-12.
  46. Web site: Society for Humanistic Anthropology Prize Winners . 2014-03-18 . Society for Humanistic Anthropology.
  47. Web site: AMEWS Book Award AMEWS . 2024-07-01 . en-US.
  48. Web site: Hill . Jonathan D. . Letter from 2015 Geertz Prize Committee . 16 December 2015.
  49. Bedouin in Limbo: Egyptian and Israeli Development Policies in Southern Sinai . 10.1111/j.1467-8330.1984.tb00661.x . 1984 . Lavie . Smadar . Young . William C. . Antipode . 16 . 2 . 33–44 . 1984Antip..16...33L .
  50. When Leadership Becomes Allegory: Mzeina Sheikhs and the Experience of Military Occupation . 10.1525/can.1989.4.2.02a00010 . 1989 . Lavie . Smadar . Cultural Anthropology . 4 . 2 . 99–136 .
  51. Blow-Ups in the Borderzones Third World Israeli Authors Gropings for Home. New Formations . 18 . 84–106 . January 1992 . Lavie . Smadar .
  52. Notes on the Fantastic Journey of the Hajj his Anthropologist and her American Passport. American Ethnologist . 20 . 2 . 363–384 . Lavie . Smadar . Hajj A. . Rouse . Forest.
  53. Book: Border Poets Translating by Dialogue. Women Writing Culture . Ruth Behar . Deborah A. Gordon . 412–427 . Lavie . Smadar .
  54. Between and among the boundaries of culture: Bridging text and lived experience in the third timespace . 10.1080/09502389600490501 . 1996 . Lavie . Smadar . Swedenburg . Ted . Cultural Studies . 10 . 154–179 .
  55. Book: Colonialism and Imperialism Zionism. Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Cultures . 6 . 9–15 . Lavie . Smadar .
  56. Mizrahi Feminism and the Question of Palestine. Journal of Middle East Women's Studies . 7 . 2 . 56–88 . Lavie . Smadar . 2011 . 10.2979/jmiddeastwomstud.7.2.56 . 145667897 .
  57. Web site: Staying Put Crossing the Israel-Palestine Border with Gloria Anzaldua.
  58. The Knafo Chronicles . 10.1177/0886109912443958 . 146866104 . 2012 . Lavie . Smadar . Affilia . 27 . 3 . 300–315 .
  59. Writing against identity politics: An essay on gender, race, and bureaucratic pain . 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01395.x . 2012 . Lavie . Smadar . American Ethnologist . 39 . 4 . 779–803 .
  60. Gaza 2014 and Mizraḥi Feminism . January 2019 . 10.1111/plar.12284 . 150473862 . en . Lavie . Smadar . PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review . 42 . 85–109 .
  61. Lavie . Smadar . 2024-06-26 . Presence and Absence in Enemies, a Love Story: An Essay on Familism, Traditionalism and Ultranationalism . Palestine/Israel Review.
  62. Arrival of the New cultured Tenants: Soviet Immigration to Israel and the Displacing of the Sephardi Jews. Times Literary Supplement . 4602 . June 14, 1991 . 11 . Lavie . Smadar .
  63. Lily White Feminism and Academic Apartheid in Israel Anthropological Perspectives. Anthropology News . October 2003 . 10–11 . Lavie . Smadar . 10.1111/an.2003.44.7.10 .
  64. Israeli Anthropology and American Anthropology. Anthropology News . 2005 . 46 . 1 . 8 . Lavie . Smadar . 10.1525/an.2005.46.1.8 .
  65. Web site: Rachel Gamliel: A Palestinian-Jew from Jerusalem.
  66. Web site: Operations 'Summer Rains' and 'Adequate Pay' - Yet Other Acts in the Mizrahi-Palestinian Tragedy.
  67. On the Progress of Affirmative Action and Cultural Rights for Marginalized Communities. Anthropology News . 2006 . 47 . 8 . 6–7 . Lavie . Smadar . Shubeli . Rafi . 10.1525/an.2006.47.8.6 .
  68. Web site: Dry Twigs. 28 July 2007 .
  69. Web site: Sacrificing Gaza - Revive Israel's Labor Party. 18 January 2009 .
  70. Web site: New Texts Out Now: Smadar Lavie, Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture. جدلية. Jadaliyya-. Jadaliyya - جدلية. en. 2020-02-13.
  71. Web site: Revisiting Israeli Anthropology and American Anthropology: Our 'Special Relations' #Palestine. Allegra. 2016-01-22. en-US.
  72. Web site: Smadar Lavie, Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture, Revised Edition with a New Afterword by the Author (New Texts Out Now). جدلية. Jadaliyya-. Jadaliyya - جدلية. en. 2020-02-12.
  73. Web site: Mizrahim as Commodity/Signs, Mizrahim as Authors: Cultural Property Rights and the Racial Formations of Israel's Academe-Regime. www.academia.edu. en. 2020-03-11.
  74. Web site: Smadar Lavie - Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture. https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211220/xeGFOcdLulk . 2021-12-20 . live. Youtube.com. 29 October 2015 . 10 March 2020.
  75. Web site: Ahoti (=Sistah): Portraits of Mizrahi Feminists. www.academia.edu. en. 2020-03-11.
  76. The Zionist Movement and Mizrahi Women: Right Wing Feminism of Color in the State of Israel Jewish Voice for Peace Bay Area is grateful to host Professor Smadar Lavie speaking on The Zionist Movement and Mizrahi Women: Right Wing Feminism of ... By Jewish Voice for Peace Bay Area Facebook . en . 2024-06-15 . www.facebook.com.

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