Nadia Abu El-Haj

Nadia Abu El-Haj is Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Anthropology at Barnard College and Columbia University. She is co-director of the Center for Palestine Studies and chair of the Governing Board of the Society of Fellows/Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia.

Abu El-Haj is the author of Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society (2001), which won the Albert Hourani Book Award, and The Genealogical Science: The Search for Jewish Origins and the Politics of Epistemology (2012). 

She has received awards from the MacArthur Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and the Wenner Gren Foundation, among others. Abu El-Haj's current research focuses on shifting psychiatric and public understandings of the trauma of American soldiers.