Nadia Abu El Haj

Who is Nadia Abu El Haj?

Nadia Abu El Haj is an American academic with a PhD in Anthropology from Duke University. She is an associate professor of anthropology at Barnard College.

The author of Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society and The Genealogical Science: The Search for Jewish Origins and the Politics of Epistemology, Abu El Haj was the subject of dueling online petitions arguing whether she should be tenured during the 2006-07 academic year when she was recommended for tenure. Barnard granted Abu El Haj the faculty's tenure request in November 2007.