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

About Tamar Mayer

Professor of Geography and the director of the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs and the Program in International and Global Studies at Middlebury College. She joined the faculty in 1985 and teaches courses on the Middle East, terrorism, development and the environment.

Mayer is the editor of Women and the Israeli Occupation: The Politics of Change (Routledge 1994), Gender Ironies of Nationalism: Sexism the Nation (Routledge 2000), and with Suleiman Mourad Jerusalem: Idea  and Reality (Routledge 2008).  Her research interests focus on the interplay among nationalism, landscape and memory.  She has recently changed her regional focus to Xinjiang, China where she studies Uighur identity.

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.