History of employment

Curriculum Vitae

Laurie King
EDUCATION
2002. Ph.D. in Anthropology. Indiana University-Bloomington.

1987. M.A. in Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies. Indiana University.

1981. B.A. in English Literature. Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA.
HISTORY OF EMPLOYMENT
2015- . Associate Professor of Teaching, Department of Anthropology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC

2011-2015.Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.

2007-2009. Managing Editor, Journal of Palestine Studies, Washington, DC.

2007-2010. Adjunct Faculty Member, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and Department of Anthropology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.

2006-2007. Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC.

2005-2006. Translator and Editor, Arab Reform Initiative, Madrid, Spain.

2003. Consultant and Analyst, World Bank/UN Habitat Multi-Sectoral Needs Assessment for Iraqi Cities.

2002–2004. Assistant Editor, Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa.

2001–2004. Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

1998-2001. Editor-in-Chief, Middle East Report Magazine (MERIP), Washington, DC.

1996-1998. Director, Office of Development and Public Relations, University of Balamand, Lebanon.

1994-1996. Editor-in-Chief, Al-Raida, the quarterly journal of the Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon.

1993-1997. Lecturer, Civilization Sequence, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon.

1987-1990. Senior Programs Coordinator, National Council on US-Arab Relations, Washington, DC.

ACADEMIC HONORS
2012. Doyle Faculty Fellowship, Georgetown University.

1994–95. United States Institute of Peace grant recipient for “Acknowledgement, Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Alternative Approaches to Conflict Resolution in Lebanon,” a conference, held in April 1994 at Beirut University College.

1991–1993. Fulbright Dissertation Scholarship for anthropological field research in Nazareth, Israel.

PUBLICATIONS
Universal Jurisdiction for Humanitarian Crimes: The Belgian Experiment (London: Routledge Press, Ltd.). Forthcoming.
”Exiled to a Liminal Legal Zone: Are we all Palestinians Now?” in Richard Falk, Balakrishnan Rajagopal, and Jacqueline Stevens, eds., International Law and the Third World: Reshaping Justice (London: Routledge-Cavendish, 2008).

 

“Kinship, Ethnicity, and Social Class: Strategies for Survival in the Middle East,” Chapter 10 in Deborah Gerner and Jillian Schwedler, eds., Understanding the Contemporary Middle East, Third Edition (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008).

“The Millennial Medina: Discourses of Time, Space, and Authenticity in Projects to Market and Renovate Beirut and Nazareth,” in Hagar Critical Urban Studies Journal, Summer 2007.
“A Nixed, not a Mixed, City: Mapping Obstacles to Democracy in the Nazareth/Natzrat Illit Conurbation in the Galilee,” in Danny Rabinowitz and Dan Monterescu, eds., Mixed Towns, Trapped Communities: Historical Narratives, Spatial Dynamics, Gender Relations and Cultural Encounters in Ethnically Mixed Towns in Israel/Palestine (London: Ashgate, 2007).
“Iraq: A Look Back – from the 19^th Century until Today,” in Orbis, Winter 2007.
Academic Freedom and Professional Responsibility after 9/11: A Handbook for Scholars and Teachers. (New York, NY: Taskforce on Middle East Anthropology, 2006). Co-authored with Tom Abowd, Fida Adely, Lori Allen, Laura Bier, Amahl Bishara, Christine Cuk, Rochelle Davis, Ilana Feldman, Rhoda Kanaaneh, Katayoun Sadeghi, and Jessica Winegar.
 “To Reconcile, or to be Reconciled? Agency, Accountability, and Law in the Resolution of Middle Eastern Conflicts.” In the Hastings International and Comparative Law Review, Vol. 28, No. 3, Spring 2005 (pp. 369-386).
“Advocacy, Accountability, and Academia: Is Human Rights Activism within Anthropology’s Jurisdiction?” in John Borneman, ed., The Case of Ariel Sharon and the Fate of Universal Jurisdiction (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004).
 “From Program to Practice: Towards Women’s Meaningful and Effective Political Participation in Jordan and Lebanon,” in Haleh Esfandiari and Mahnaz Afkhami, eds., Middle Eastern Women on the Move (Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2003).
“Ethnicity in the Contemporary Middle East,” Chapter 15 in Ray Scupin, ed., Ethnicity and Ethnic Identity in the Contemporary World (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall Publishers, 2002).
“The Power of Transformation and the Transformation of Power: Rituals of Reconciliation and Processes of Empowerment in Post-War Lebanon,” in I. William Zartman, ed., African Conflict “Medicine”: Traditional Cures for Modern Conflicts (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000), pp. 129-140.
al-‘itiraaf bil-aakhir, at-tasaamuh, wal-musaalahaat: druus min lubnan (Acknowledgement, Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Lessons from Lebanon), (Beirut: Lebanese American University Press, 1996; in Arabic).