Callie Maidhof

Callie Maidhof received a PhD in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2016. Her current project, "Borderline Settlers: Building the Suburban Israeli State in Palestine's West Bank," is an ethnographic inquiry into secularism and everyday life in Israel's West Bank settlement project. Based on twenty months of fieldwork in and around the settlements, her research considers the work of dispassionate anti-politics in the expansion and entrenchment of the Israeli state. She writes against the grain of a debate dominated by narratives of religious radicalism and extremist violence, refocusing instead on the structural violence undergirding the transformation of the West Bank from a war zone into the homogeneous, ethnically exclusive landscape of suburbia. This research has been supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the Sultan Program in Arab Studies at University of California at Berkeley's Center for Middle East Studies.