Director
Emmaia Gelman
Founding Collective (partial list)
Rabab Abdulhadi, AMED Studies Program, San Francisco State University/Teaching Palestine
Jessie Daniels, PhD, Professor, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Emmaia Gelman
Christine Hong, Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Literature, UC Santa Cruz
Amira Jarmakani, Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, San Diego State University
Jennifer Kelly, Feminist Studies and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, UC Santa Cruz
Alana Lentin, Professor of Cultural and Social Analysis, Western Sydney University
Sean Malloy, Professor of History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, UC Merced
Jennifer Mogannam, Assistant Professor, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, UC Santa Cruz
Dylan Rodriguez, University of California
C. Heike Schotten, University of Massachusetts Boston/USACBI
Lara Sheehi, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
Advisory Board (partial list/list in formation)
Hil Aked
Alexander Aviña, Associate Professor of History, Arizona State University
Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Professor of Modern Culture & Media and Comparative Literature, Brown University
Solomon Brager
Judith Butler, University of California-Berkeley
Umayyah Cable, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Karma R. Chávez, Bobby and Sherri Patton Professor, Mexican American and Latina/o Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
Huma Dar, Adjunct 2 Professor, Critical Studies Program, California College of the Arts
Lisa Duggan, NYU
Stacy D. Farenthold, Professor of History and Middle East/South Asia Studies, University of California Davis
Keith P. Feldman, UC Berkeley
Maura Finkelstein
Cynthia Franklin, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
Bikrum Gill, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Virginia Tech
Terri Ginsberg, Rutgers University / USACBI / South-centered Image and Media Collective (SCIMA)
Alyosha Goldstein, Professor of American Studies, University of New Mexico
Robin D G Kelley, Professor of History, UCLA
Sara Kershnar, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network
Arun Kundnani
Marisol LeBrón, Associate Professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UCSC
Ronit Lentin, Associate Professor (ret), Trinity College Dublin
David Lloyd, Distinguished Professor of English, UC Riverside; Founding member and Advisory Board of USACBI
Geo Maher, W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction
Karen Miller, LaGuardia Community College
Jamal Nabulsi, Griffith University
Sheryl Nestel, Independent Jewish Voices
Donna Nevel, Jewish Voice for Peace-South Florida
Shaista Aziz Patel, UCSD, Assistant Professor of Critical Muslim Studies
Celine Qussiny, Palestinian Youth Movement
Andrew Ross, NYU and USACBI
Sherene Seikaly, UC Santa Barbara
Barry Trachtenberg, Rubin Presidential Chair of Jewish History, Wake Forest University
Anna-Esther Younes
Emeritus/Founding members
M. Muhannad Ayyash, Professor of Sociology, Mount Royal University
Lara Kiswani, Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC)
Dov Baum Ph.D., Director of Corporate Accountability and Research, AFSC
Abdeen Jabara, Past National President, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
Lesley Williams, Jewish Voice for Peace
Sherene H. Razack, UCLA
Sarah Schulman
Tallie Ben Daniel, Managing Director, Jewish Voice for Peace
Mandy Turner, Professor of Conflict, Peace and Humanitarian Affairs, University of Manchester, UK
2023 Conference Planning Collective