Questions about your research? Trying to shape a project? Navigating the fraught space of academia? ICSZ offers office hours with established scholars. Office hours are open to any researcher in Critical Zionism Studies, whether community-based, student, or faculty-level. Initial appointments are made for a one-time consultation rather than an ongoing commitment. Meetings between mentors and researchers will be scheduled by ICSZ staff.
To request an office hours meeting, use the form below.
Mentors
Each mentor has offered a number of 30-minute meeting spots for the 2026-27 academic year.
Natalie El-Eid
Visiting Scholar, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University
Subject Areas: Transnational Arab identities, cultures, and lived experiences across racial and ethnic frameworks and solidarities, Druze communities, empire, war, trauma, memory, and gender
Emmaia Gelman
Exec. Dir., Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism
Subject Areas: Regimes of race/queerness/rights; Zionist organizations; resistance to Zionism; Cold War, neoconservatism, MAGA; hate crimes framework & policing
Bassam Haddad
Founding Dir. of Middle East & Islamic Studies, Associate Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University
Subject Areas: MENA history & politics, political economy, economic reform, authori-tarianism, theories of state, network analysis, US foreign policy, “war on terror,” pedagogy
Alana Lentin
Professor in Cultural & Social Analysis, University of Western Sydney
Sean Malloy
Professor of History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, UC Merced
Subject Areas: Zionist organizations, critical university studies, U.S. foreign policy
Jennifer Mogannam
Assistant Professor in the department of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and an affiliate of the Center for the Middle East and North Africa, UC Santa Cruz
Subject Areas: Palestine studies, refugees, resistance, Palestinian movements and institution building, and regional dimension and context
Joshua Sealy-Harrington
Chair in Palestinian Human Rights in Canada at the University of Windsor, Faculty of Law
Subject Areas: Application of Critical Race Theory to Palestinian activism, repression, discourses of antisemitism and uncivility, academic freedom, law and marginalized communities
Barry Trachtenberg
Rubin Presidential Chair of Jewish History, Wake Forest University
Subject Areas: History of Zionism in Europe, Jewish nationalism, antisemitism and weaponization of its accusations
Melissa Weiner
Professor of Sociology, College of the Holy Cross
Subject Areas: Historical Zionism and Palestine (esp.1917-1967), racism and Zionism, publishing, navigating academia with Palestine-related research, Palestine liberation struggles, open to other topics
To request an office hours appointment, fill out the form below.