This event is part of the Culture, Power, and Social Change speaker series presented by the Anthropology Department.

State-building, Genocide, and Plans: Researching Israel’s Distribution of Stability and Violence with Dr. Kareem Rabie

Thursday, April 3, 2025

12:15 – 1:30pm (Lunch served at 12pm)

Haines Hall Room 352, UCLA

Bio: Kareem Rabie is Associate Professor of Anthropology at The University of Illinois, Chicago. His first book, Palestine is Throwing a Party and the Whole World is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank was published by Duke University Press in 2021. It focuses on privatization, urban development, and the state-building project in the West Bank. Kareem’s current research is on the complex social, economic, and imaginative geographies between the West Bank and China, and has been supported by the American Council on Learned Societies, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Graham Foundation for Advancement in the Fine Arts, the University of Oxford Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS), The University of Chicago Beijing Center, and the UIC Institute for the Humanities. Previously, he was Assistant Professor of Anthropology at American University in Washington, DC; Harper-Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago; and Marie Curie Fellow/Senior Researcher at COMPAS.