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I am an Associate Professor of International Studies, History, and Jewish Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle, where I also hold the Jack and Rebecca Benaroya Endowed Chair in Israel Studies in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.
My ongoing research focuses on Jewish cultural history and collective memory, the history of Zionism and Zionist settlement, particularly during the interwar period and the first decades of Israeli statehood.
My forthcoming book, The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past (Stanford, 2021), is a history of local memory and the politics of commemoration in and around the Jewish agricultural colonies established in late nineteenth century Ottoman Palestine, known in Zionist historiography as the period of the "First Aliyah."
My first book, Babel in Zion: Jews, Nationalism and Language Diversity in Palestine, 1920-1948, was published by Yale University Press and was awarded the 2015 Shapiro Prize from the Association for Israel Studies for Best Book in Israel Studies. I have also published a number of peer reviewed articles and book chapters.
I teach courses on the history of Israel/Palestine, Jewish History, and the Modern Middle East, as well as comparative courses on history and memory, diaspora, and urban studies.
I've lectured widely to university and community audiences, including at the University of Chicago, Yale, Oxford, UCLA, the University of Southern California, Berkeley, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Minnesota, Middlebury College, and Bard College and in a variety of public venues.
My ongoing research focuses on Jewish cultural history and collective memory, the history of Zionism and Zionist settlement, particularly during the interwar period and the first decades of Israeli statehood.
My forthcoming book, The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past (Stanford, 2021), is a history of local memory and the politics of commemoration in and around the Jewish agricultural colonies established in late nineteenth century Ottoman Palestine, known in Zionist historiography as the period of the "First Aliyah."
My first book, Babel in Zion: Jews, Nationalism and Language Diversity in Palestine, 1920-1948, was published by Yale University Press and was awarded the 2015 Shapiro Prize from the Association for Israel Studies for Best Book in Israel Studies. I have also published a number of peer reviewed articles and book chapters.
I teach courses on the history of Israel/Palestine, Jewish History, and the Modern Middle East, as well as comparative courses on history and memory, diaspora, and urban studies.
I've lectured widely to university and community audiences, including at the University of Chicago, Yale, Oxford, UCLA, the University of Southern California, Berkeley, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Minnesota, Middlebury College, and Bard College and in a variety of public venues.
