Anthropology, History, and the Question of Palestine

Honor research at the Elliott School and join us for the 2024 Research Celebration, featuring this year's Michael Brown Research Prize winner, Professor Ilana Feldman.

Each year, the Michael Brown Prize honors a faculty member who has made an outstanding contribution to the scholarly and policy relevant understanding of important international issues. We are honored to have Dr. Feldman as this year's recipient. She is a leading scholar of the Middle East who has made significant contributions to the fields of Anthropology, History, and International Affairs through her focus on government and bureaucracy, humanitarianism, policing, and the Palestinian experience. In this year's keynote, she'll speak to the history of this scholarship and to the question of Palestine.

This will be a hybrid, recorded event. Guests are welcome to join us in-person at the Elliott School of International Affairs, Room 602, or online via Zoom. Please register to receive more information on accessing the event in-person or online. The event will be open to members of the GW community and the general public. It will be closed to the media.

About the Event

• 4:15PM, Opening Remarks, Alyssa Ayres, Dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs
• 4:20PM, Keynote Lecture, Ilana Feldman, Professor of Anthropology, History, and International Affairs.
• 4:50PM, Q&A
• 5:15PM, Reception

About the Speaker

Ilana Feldman is Professor of Anthropology, History, and International Affairs at George Washington University and the former Vice Dean of the Elliott School. Her research has focused on the Palestinian experience, both inside and outside of historic Palestine, examining practices of government, humanitarianism, policing, displacement, and citizenship. She is the author of Governing Gaza: Bureaucracy, Authority, and the Work of Rule, 1917-67 (2008), Police Encounters: Security and Surveillance in Gaza under Egyptian Rule (2015), Life Lived in Relief: Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics (2018); and co-editor (with Miriam Ticktin) of In the Name of Humanity: The Government of Threat and Care (2010).

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