I have been trained in critical race and ethnic studies, an interdisciplinary field that is both politically powerful and constantly contested.
I have completed coursework and scholarly training in Native American and Indigenous Studies with a focus on California Indian studies, and transnational approaches to Palestine studies. I have also supported organizing for critical race and ethnic studies in California schools.
I take seriously antisemitism as a form of racism that has manifested in different structural ways in different places and times. In my teaching, scholarship, and political organizing, I encourage the use of ethnic studies theories and methods to better understand antisemitism as a racial project and form of racism that is unexceptional and functions alongside other forms of structural racism, capitalism, and colonialism.
I have completed coursework and scholarly training in Native American and Indigenous Studies with a focus on California Indian studies, and transnational approaches to Palestine studies. I have also supported organizing for critical race and ethnic studies in California schools.
I take seriously antisemitism as a form of racism that has manifested in different structural ways in different places and times. In my teaching, scholarship, and political organizing, I encourage the use of ethnic studies theories and methods to better understand antisemitism as a racial project and form of racism that is unexceptional and functions alongside other forms of structural racism, capitalism, and colonialism.
Related publications
After many fits and starts, my scholarly examination of how Jewish studies could learn from critical race and ethnic studies' theories to better analyze antisemitism in the US has been published in Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies.
"Avoiding a Zero-Sum Game: Lessons for Jewish Studies from California’s Struggle over the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum." Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 42 (3): 208-234.
I covered the attempts to excise Arab-American studies and Palestine-related content from California's Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum for Jewish Currents from 2020-2021.
“Attacks From Pro-Israel Groups Threaten California’s Ethnic Studies Curriculum.” Jewish Currents, May 7, 2020
“California Compromises on Ethnic Studies.” August 21, 2020.
“Authors of California Ethnic Studies Curriculum Decry Cuts to Arab Studies,” February 3, 2021.
After many fits and starts, my scholarly examination of how Jewish studies could learn from critical race and ethnic studies' theories to better analyze antisemitism in the US has been published in Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies.
"Avoiding a Zero-Sum Game: Lessons for Jewish Studies from California’s Struggle over the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum." Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 42 (3): 208-234.
I covered the attempts to excise Arab-American studies and Palestine-related content from California's Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum for Jewish Currents from 2020-2021.
“Attacks From Pro-Israel Groups Threaten California’s Ethnic Studies Curriculum.” Jewish Currents, May 7, 2020
“California Compromises on Ethnic Studies.” August 21, 2020.
“Authors of California Ethnic Studies Curriculum Decry Cuts to Arab Studies,” February 3, 2021.
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I was a panelist on the round table “Ethnic Studies and Jewish Studies: Debates Over the California Ethnic Studies Curriculum,” hosted by USC Casden Institute and Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion Los Angeles, online, March 9, 2021.
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