Jess P. Weinberg, College Assistant Professor of Women's Studies

Office Hours: online

Education: Ph.D. expected, Anthropology and Linguistics, 2009 (University of Arizona); M.A., Linguistics, 1998 (University of Arizona); B.A., Anthropology, 1993 (University of Maryland-College Park)

Teaching Interests: women, gender, and sexuality in the Arab/Muslim world and Israel, in Judaism and Islam, and in transnational contexts; the Palestine/Israel conflict; LGBTQ and sexuality studies; feminist, anthropological, and postcolonial approaches to war/conflict/peace, nationalism, and transnationalism; border issues; feminist and queer theoretical approaches to the study of language, interaction, and power; sociolinguistics and film studies of the Arab/Muslim world and Israel; feminist, queer and anthropological theories and research methods.

Courses Taught: Feminism, War, and Peace; Women and Gender in the Middle East and North Africa; Women in Palestine and Israel; Introduction to LGBTQ Studies; Women Crossing Borders; Feminist Linguistics (also taught as Language, Gender, and Sexuality); Gender in Judaism; Introduction to Women's Studies; Introduction to Anthropology

Research Interests: Most of my research interests are in the context of Palestine/Israel and the United States, including feminism and feminist peace activism; nationalism, racism, and national belonging; border crossings and transnationalism; language ideologies and practices; constructions of identities; media representations; bi/multilingualism, language shift, and language revitalization; structural aspects of Hebrew, Arabic, English, and Native American languages

Upcoming Presentations for 2009-2010

"An Ethnolinguistic Critique of Israel by Jewish and Palestinian Feminist Peace Activists" to be presented in a panel co-organized with Char Ullman, called "Linguistic Citizenship: Ideologies of Language Practice and the End/s of the Nation" at the American Anthropological Association annual meetings in Philadelphia, PA, Dec. 2-6, 2009

Publications:

"'The most basic threat ... to Israeli and Palestinian women is ... the occupation': Enduring Strategies and Shifting Tactics of Israeli and Palestinian Feminist Peace NGOs in the Post-9/11 World." NWSA Journal (19:2), Summer 2007.
"Language and gender research: Not just for women anymore." Transforming the disciplines: A women's studies primer, Elizabeth L. MacNabb, ed., New York: Haworth Press, 2001.