Israel-Boycott Supporters

The professors below are Middle East studies academics and Moonlighters (non-specialists who teach and/or write about the Middle East) involved in the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI).

Middle East studies academics and Moonlighters (non-specialists who teach and/or write about the Middle East) involved in the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI):

Founding Members

Rabab Abdulhadi, San Francisco State University
Sondra Hale, University of California, Los Angeles (emeritus)
Lara Deeb, Scripps College
Magid Shihade, University of California, Davis

Organizing Collective

Cynthia Franklin, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
Jess Ghannam, University of California, San Francisco
Terri Ginsberg, The American University in Cairo
David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford University
Andrew Ross, New York University
C. Heike Schotten, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Advisory Board

Rabab Abdulhadi, San Francisco State University
Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University
Lawrence Davidson, West Chester University
Jasbir Puar, Rutgers University
Richard Falk, UC Santa Barbara
J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Wesleyan University
Robin D.G. Kelley, UCLA
Sunaina Maira, University of California, Davis

Endorsers include:

Rabab Abdulhadi, San Francisco State University
Thomas Abowd, Tufts University
Khaled Abou El Fadl, University of California, Los Angeles, Law School
Nadia Abu-El-Haj, Columbia University
Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia University
Hisham Ahmad, St. Mary’s College of California
Hamid Algar, University of California, Berkeley
Diana Allan, McGill University
Sa’ed Atshan, Brown University
Paola Bacchetta, University of California, Berkeley
Moustafa Bayoumi, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York
Elliot Colla, Georgetown University
Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University
Lawrence Davidson, West Chester University
Lara Deeb, Scripps College
Alireza Doostdar, University of Chicago
Richard Falk, UC Santa Barbara (emeritus)
Laila Farah, De Paul University
Keith Feldman, UC Berkeley
Zareena Grewa, Yale University
Sondra Hale, University of California, Los Angeles (emeritus)
Nubar Hovsepian, Chapman University
Pranav Jani, Ohio State University
Jennifer Lowenstein, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Sunaina Maira, University of California, Davis
Saree Makdisi, University of California, Los Angeles
Joseph Massad, Columbia University
Ali Mazrui, State University of New York, Binghamton
Minoo Moallem, University of California, Berkeley
Nadine Naber, University of Michigan
Anne Norton, University of Pennsylvania
Mira Nabulsi, San Francisco State University
Jasbir Puar, Rutgers University
Steven Salaita, Formerly of Virginia Polytechnic Institute
George Saliba, Columbia University
Vida Samiian, California State University, Fresno
Magid Shihade, University of California, Davis
Ella Shohat, New York University
Salim Tamari, Georgetown University
Lisa Wedeen, University of Chicago
Emrah Yildiz, Northwestern University

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