Who Got to Decide on Nadia Abu El-Haj's Tenure?

From: Academe | Date: January 1, 2008| Author: Shamir, Ronen; Rabinowitz, Dan | Copyright information

Should online petitions have a say?

The tension surrounding Barnard College's determination of whether to grant tenure to anthropologist Nadia Abu El-Haj was resolved this fall. Barnard reached a positive decision. The affair, however, leaves a number of important issues open. At the center of this controversy stands Abu El-Haj's first book, Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society. Published in 2001, it explores the relationship b...

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