Research Areas:
• Construction of National Identity
• Jewish and Palestinian Nationalisms
• Memory and Landscape
• Gender and Nationalism
Regional Interests:
• The Middle East
• The Silk Road
Courses taught at Middlebury College:
FYSE 1016 Landscape and Memory: Geographies of National
Identity
GEOG 0100 Introduction to Geography: A Modern Synthesis
GEOG 0206 Human Impact on the Global Environment
GEOG 0210 Geography of Development
GEOG 0211 Economic Geography
GEOG 0212 Urban Geography
GEOG 0220 Geopolitics of the Middle East
GEOG 0410 Seminar in Geography of Development (Women
in Development)
GEOG 0412 Seminar in Urban Geography (Women in the City)
GEOG 0413 Seminar in Population Geography (Refugee Migration)
GEOG 0415 Seminar in Political Geography (Cultural Pluralism and
the Nation-State)
GEOG 0436 Seminar in International Studies: Terrorism
Selected Publications (Since 2000):
Mayer, Tamar. Forthcoming. War on the Memory of Boundary: Nation, Borders and Gender in Jewish Israel. In Gender and Democratization in Societies at War, eds. J. Irvine and M. Hays-Mitchell.
Mayer, Tamar and Suleiman Mourad, eds. 2008. Jerusalem: Idea and Reality. London: Routledge.
Mayer, Tamar. 2008. Jerusalem In and Out of Focus: The City in Zionist Ideology. In Jerusalem: Idea and Reality, eds. T. Mayer and S. Mourad, 224-244. London: Routledge.
Mayer, Tamar. 2007. Military, Gender, and Homeland: The Dynamics of Jewish Nationalism in Israel, in War, Citizenship, Territory, eds. D. Cowen and E. Gilbert. London: Routledge.
Mayer, Tamar. 2005. National Symbols in Jewish Israel: Representation and Collective Memory. In Contested Ground: National Symbols and National Narratives, ed. M. Geisler, 3-34. University Press of New England.
Mayer, Tamar. 2004. Embodied Nationalism. In Mapping Gender, Making Politics: Feminist Perspectives on Political Geography, eds. L. Staeheli, E. Kofman, and L. Peake, 153-167. New York: Routledge.
Mayer, Tamar. 2004. A Perilous Line in the Sand, Opinion Section. Newsday, April 18.
Mayer, Tamar ed. 2000. Gender Ironies of Nationalism: Sexing the Nation. London, Routledge.
Mayer, Tamar ed. 2000. From Zero to Hero: Nationalism and Masculinity in Jewish Israel. In Gender Ironies of Nationalism: Sexing the Nation. London: Routledge.
Fellowships and Grants (Since 2001):
NEH Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Humanities, Department of Geography, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, 2008/9.
Fulbright-Hays, Faculty Research Abroad Program [in China], 2008.
Visiting Professor, Center for Anthropology and Folklore, Xinjiang University, China (Spring 2008).
Visiting Professor, Department of Geography, Frei Universitait, Berlin, Germany (Fall 2007).
NEH Summer Institute, The Silk Road: Globalization and Chinese Cultural Identity, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2006.
Presidential Fellow, Salzburg Seminars, European Responses to Terrorism, March 2006.
Mellon Foundation, Inter-institutional Grant - Memory and Monuments: Ethnic Identity in Western China and Inner Mongolia (project co-director, with Judith Goldstein of Vassar College), 2005.
Mellon Foundation Grant, Silk Road, 2004 (declined).
Research Associate, Department of Government, Smith College, Northampton, MA, 2001-2002.
Ford Foundation Grant, Crossing Borders Program, 2001.