Shira Robinson
Title — Assistant Professor of History and International Affairs
Address — 801 22nd St. NW #314, Washington D.C. 20052
Office — 801 22nd St. NW #314
Phone — (202) 994-2457
E-mail — snrobins@gwu.edu
Areas of Expertise —
Shira Robinson works on the social and cultural history of the Modern Middle East, with an emphasis on colonialism, citizenship, nationalism, and cultures of militarism after World War I. She is currently revising her manuscript, Liberal Dispossession: Palestinian Citizenship under Military Rule, 1948-1967, which examines the Israeli state's imposition of military rule on the Palestinian Arabs who remained within its borders after 1948. This book is based on her dissertation, which in 2006 won the Halpern Biennial Dissertation Award from the Association for Israel Studies. Professor Robinson's research has been funded by the Fulbright Institute, the Social Science Research Council, the Mellon Foundation, and the Palestinian American Research Center. Affiliated with GW's Institute for Middle East Studies, she arrived in 2007 after two years on the faculty at the University of Iowa and one year as Visiting Fellow at the Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University.
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Education
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2005.
Publications
"Local Struggle, National Struggle: Palestinian Responses to the Kafr Qasim Massacre and its Aftermath, 1956-1966." International Journal of Middle East Studies 35, no. 3 (August 2003): 393-416.
Revised edition: "Commemoration under Fire: Palestinian Responses to the 1956 Kafr Qasim Massacre." In Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa, ed. Ussama Makdisi and Paul Silverstein, 103-132. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006.
"My Hairdresser is a Sniper." Middle East Report 223 (June 2002): 48-49.
Reprinted in The Struggle for Sovereignty in Palestine and Israel, 1993-2004, ed. Joel Beinin and Rebecca L. Stein, 237-240. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006.
"The Ghetto vs. the Gun." Review of Idith Zertal's Israel's Holocaust and the Politics of Nationhood. In Middle East Report 240 (Fall 2006): 42-43.
Classes Taught
Hist 194: The Middle East in the Twentieth Century
Hist 297: Graduate Readings in Modern Middle Eastern History
Hist 297: Graduate Readings in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict