Tamar Mayer: Uighur Identity, Jewish and Palestinian Nationalism
Tamar Mayer
Professor of Geography
McCardell Bicentennial Hall 314
Topics she can discuss include: - Uighur identity
- Xinjiang Province, China
- construction of national identity
- Middle East politics
- Jewish and Palestinian nationalism
- gender and nationalism
- terrorism
Tamar Mayer is a professor of geography at Middlebury College. She joined the faculty in 1985 and teaches courses on the Middle East, terrorism, development, and the environment.
Mayer is an expert on Uighur identity and recently spent half a year living in Urumqi, capital of the Chinese province of Xinjiang, where she studied the Uighur language. Through her extensive travels in the province she became very familiar with Uighur culture and identity.
Recent publications include "War on the Boundary of Memory: State and Gender in Jewish Israel" and " Gender Ironies of Nationalism: Sexing the Nation."
A native of Israel, Mayer graduated from University of Haifa in Israel, and received her master's and doctorate from University of Wisconsin in Madison.
