Maya Wind is a President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Departments of Black Study and Media & Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside, and a fellow at the Freedom and Justice Institute of Scholars for Social Justice. She received her PhD in American Studies from NYU, and was previously a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research council, and the Killam Laureates Trust., and her writing has appeared in public and academic journals including Cultural Anthropology and South Atlantic Quarterly. Her first book, Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom (Verso 2024), won the American Educational Researcher Association outstanding book award in curriculum studies.
TOWERS OF IVORY AND STEEL
Foreword by Nadia Abu El-Haj
Afterword by Robin D. G. Kelley
Outstanding Book Award in Curriculum Studies
~American Educational Researcher Association
Israeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as liberal bastions of freedom and democracy. Drawing on extensive research and making Hebrew sources accessible to the international community, Maya Wind shatters this myth and documents how Israeli universities are directly complicit in the violation of Palestinian rights.
As this book shows, Israeli universities serve as pillars of Israel's system of oppression against Palestinians. Academic disciplines, degree programs, campus infrastructure, and research laboratories all service Israeli occupation and apartheid, while universities violate the rights of Palestinians to education, stifle critical scholarship, and violently repress student dissent.