Smadar Lavie

Smadar Lavie is a professor emerita of anthropology at the University of California Davis, and a Mizrahi anthropologist, author, and activist.[5] In 1990, Lavie became an assistant professor of anthropology and critical theory at the University of California, Davis, where she was promoted to an associate professorship in 1994.[26] Lavie authored The Poetics of Military Occupation (UC Press, 1990), receiving the 1990 honorable mention of the Victor Turner Award for Ethnographic Writing,[5] and Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture (Berghahn Books 2014,[27] University of Nebraska Press 2018[28]) receiving the 2015 honorable mention of the Association of Middle East Women's Studies Book Award Competition.[29] Wrapped in the Flag of Israel's first edition was also one of the four finalists in the 2015 Clifford Geertz Book Award Competition of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion.[39] Lavie is co-signatory to the 1993 Bellagio Declaration for the protection collective indigenous and exilic cultural heritage as intellectual property.