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Smadar Lavie Smadar Lavie ( ) is a Mizrahi Israeli anthropologist , author , and activist specializing in the anthropology of Egypt, Israel and Palestine, with special emphasis on issues of race, gender and religion.¹ She is a visiting fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley (2013–14), and a visiting professor at the Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century, University College Cork (2011–14).² Lavie received her doctorate in Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley (1989) and spent nine years as Assistant and Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. 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 2014). Lavie won the American Studies Association’s 2009 Gloria Anzaldúa Prize for her article, “Staying Put: Crossing the Palestine-Israel Border with Gloria Anzaldúa,” published in Anthropology and Humanism (2011). In 2013, Smadar Lavie won the “Heart at East” Honor Plaque for lifetime service to Mizraḥi communities in Israel-Palestine.³ Center for Middle Eastern Studies . University of College Cork . The Society for Critical Exchange .⁴ Society for Humanistic Anthropology .⁵

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Smadar Lavie is an anthropologist and author . A Mizrahi Jew born and raised in Israel , she received her BA in Social Anthropology from the Hebrew University in 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. She specializes in the anthropology of Egypt, Israel and Palestine, with special emphasis on issues of race, gender and religion. In 1990, Lavie became an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Critical Theory at the University of California, Davis, [4] [5] [6] [7] where she was promoted to an Associate Professorship in 1994 [8] [9] [10] . In 1999, for family reasons, she moved back to Israel, and taught at the Anthropology and Women's Studies departments of Beit Berl College. [11] During academic years 2007-2009, she held the Hubert H. Humphrey Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Macalester College . [12] Professor Lavie is a member of the Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow Coalition , of Ahoti for Women in Israel , and of other political, feminist and anti-racist organisations.

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Smadar Lavie Smadar Lavie is a Mizrahi U.S.-Israeli anthropologist , author , and activist. She specializes in the anthropology of Egypt, Israel and Palestine, emphasizing issues of race, gender and religion. Lavie is a Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis , and a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley . Lavie received her doctorate in Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley (1989) and spent nine years as Assistant and Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. 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 , University of Nebraska Press 2018 ) receiving the 2015 Honorable Mention of the Association of Middle East Women's Studies Book Award Competition. Wrapped in the Flag of Israel 's 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. She also co-edited Creativity/Anthropology (Cornell UP, 1993) and Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity (Duke UP, 1996). Lavie won the American Studies Association's 2009 Gloria Anzaldúa Prize for her article, “Staying Put: Crossing the Palestine-Israel Border with Gloria Anzaldúa,” published in Anthropology and Humanism (2011). In 2013, Smadar Lavie won the “Heart at East” Honor Plaque for lifetime service to Mizraḥi communities in Israel-Palestine. Society for Humanistic Anthropology .

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Smadar Lavie Smadar Lavie is a Mizrahi U.S.-Israeli anthropologist , author , and activist. She specializes in the anthropology of Egypt, Israel and Palestine, emphasizing issues of race, gender and religion. Lavie is a professor emerita of anthropology at the University of California, Davis, and a visiting scholar at the Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Lavie received her doctorate in anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley (1989) and spent nine years as assistant and associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Davis. 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, University of Nebraska Press 2018 ) receiving the 2015 Honorable Mention of the Association of Middle East Women's Studies Book Award Competition. Wrapped in the Flag of Israel 's 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. She also co-edited Creativity/Anthropology (Cornell UP, 1993) and Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity (Duke UP, 1996). Lavie won the American Studies Association's 2009 Gloria Anzaldúa Prize for her article, “Staying Put: Crossing the Palestine-Israel Border with Gloria Anzaldúa,” published in Anthropology and Humanism (2011). In 2013, Smadar Lavie won the “Heart at East” Honor Plaque for lifetime service to Mizraḥi communities in Israel-Palestine. Society for Humanistic Anthropology .

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Israeli anthropologist Smadar Lavie ( Hebrew : סמדר לביא ‎; born 5 March 1955) is an Israeli Mizrahi anthropologist , author, and activist. She is professor emerita of anthropology at the University of California, Davis . She specializes in the anthropology of Egypt , Israel and Palestine , emphasizing issues of race, gender and religion.

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