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Recent publication in the Israel Studies Review, available open-access for three months: The Palestinians, Israel, and BDS: Strategies and Struggles in Wars of Position, coauthored with Ian Lustick.
About
I am currently a visiting lecturer (VAP) in the Political Science Department at Wellesley College. Beginning in Fall 2024, I will be a VAP in Political Science at Amherst College.
Previously, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the UCLA Younes & Soraya Nazarian Center for Israel Studies and I received my PhD in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2022. From 2020-2022 I worked as a visiting instructor at Bryn Mawr College in the Department of Political Science & Middle Eastern Studies Program.
My research and teaching interests span the Political Science subfields of comparative politics, international relations, and political theory, with a primary regional focus on the Middle East. I work on the politics of self-determination, nationalism and ethnic politics, peace and conflict studies, settler colonialism and indigenous politics, decolonization, and democratic theory. I also have interests in philosophy of the social sciences, methodology, and disciplinary histories.
Contact: ns106@wellesley.edu