Nadia Abu El-Haj | |
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Born | 1966 (age 58–59) |
Occupation(s) | Anthropologist, academic |
Academic background | |
Education | Bryn Mawr College (AB) Duke University (PhD) |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Barnard College, Columbia University |
Website | Barnard faculty profile |
Nadia Abu El-Haj (Arabic: نادية أبو الحاج; born 1962)[1] is an American anthropologist at Barnard College and Columbia University.[2]
The author of Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society (2001) and The Genealogical Science: The Search for Jewish Origins and the Politics of Epistemology (2012), Abu El-Haj was the subject of dueling online petitions[3] arguing whether she should be tenured during the 2006–07 academic year[4] when she was recommended for tenure. Abu El-Haj received tenure in November 2007.[5]