Sondra Hale is Professor of Anthropology and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles

University of California, Los Angeles

The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...

 (UCLA); former Co-editor of The Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies and former Co-Chair, Islamic Studies.

Life

Prof. Hale was educated at UCLA, where she received her B.A. in English Literature, M.A. in African Studies and a Ph.D. in Anthropology. She has taught at the University of Khartoum

University of Khartoum

The University of Khartoum ia a multi-campus, co-educational university located in Khartoum. It is the largest and oldest university in Sudan. UofK was founded as Gordon Memorial College in 1902 and established in 1956 when Sudan gained independence...

 (Sudan), at California Institute of the Arts

California Institute of the Arts

The California Institute of the Arts, commonly referred to as CalArts, is located in Valencia, in Los Angeles County, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the United States created specifically for students of both the visual and the...

, and at California State Universities at Long Beach

California State University, Long Beach

California State University, Long Beach is the second largest campus of the California State University system and the third largest university in the state of California by enrollment...

 and Northridge

California State University, Northridge

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Prof. Hale has published Gender Politics in Sudan: Islamism, Socialism, and the State (1996) and many articles and book chapters on the topics of gendered war, conflict, and genocide; social movements; international gender studies; gender and citizenship; diaspora studies; cultural studies, and boycotts and academic freedom. Her regional interests are in Africa and the Middle East, focusing mainly on Sudan and Eritrea (where she has done research on women who were former guerrillas of the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front). Hale has co-edited an e-book on feminist art, From Site to Vision: The Woman’s Building in Contemporary Culture, which will be published by Otis College of Art and Design in 2011. Hale is currently co-editing Sudan’s Killing Fields: Perspectives on Genocide, with Laura Beny. Her other work in progress is on the politics of memory, gender and perpetual-conflict situations and political organizing in exile.

Prof. Hale is an activist academic who was a co-founder of Feminists in Support of Palestinian Women; founder and coordinator of the Darfur Task Force; founder and coordinator of California Scholars for Academic Freedom; and co-founder of U.S. Committee for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. Hale’s activism also includes various anti-war/anti-occupation activities (Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon), and civil rights/human rights issues. In addition to various teaching awards Prof. Hale was given the Fair and Open Academic Environment Award from UCLA (popularly known as the “diversity award”) and has received awards from National Science Foundation, American Association of University Women, National Endowment for the Humanities, Fulbright, and others. She has chaired or directed three Women’s Studies Programs, including UCLA’s.

Recent Journal Articles appear in Urban Anthropology

Urban Anthropology

Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development is a journal devoted to studies in urban anthropology and related areas. From 1972-1985 it was issued under the name Urban Anthropology....

, Cultural Dynamics, Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, Feminist Economics

Feminist Economics (journal)

Feminist Economics is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Routledge and the International Association for Feminist Economics in the field of feminist economics....

, Northeast African Studies, Amerasia Journal

Amerasia Journal

Amerasia Journal is an interdisciplinary academic journal covering Asian American studies. It was established in 1971 by the Asian American Studies Center Press at the University of California, Los Angeles....

, and New Political Science, among others. Books where her articles have appeared recently are: Gender, War and Militarism; Women and Globalization in the Arab Middle East; Gender and Citizenship in Muslim Communities; Race and Identity in the Nile Valley, and Female Circumcision and the Politics of Knowledge.

Books

• Gender Politics in Sudan: Islamism, Socialism, and the State, Boulder: Westview Press, 1996.
• (with Terry Wolverton
  Terry Wolverton
  Terry Wolverton is an American novelist, memoirist, poet, and editor. Her book Insurgent Muse: Life and art at the Woman’s Building, a memoir published in 2002 by City Lights Books, was named one of the “Best Books of 2002” by the Los Angeles Times, and was the winner of the 2003 Publishing...
  
  ) From Site to Vision: The Woman's Building in Contemporary Culture, 2004.