Rana Barakat

Rana Barakat is an Associate Professor of History at Birzeit University and Director of the Birzeit University Museum in Palestine. Her research focuses on colonialism, nationalism, and resistance cultures, with a particular emphasis on Indigenous temporal and spatial frameworks in Palestinian contexts. She has published in journals such as the Journal of Palestine Studies, Jerusalem Quarterly, Settler Colonial Studies, and Native American and Indigenous Studies.

Her forthcoming book, Ongoing Return: Storytelling as a Map of Return to Lifta and Palestine, explores Indigenous understandings of time, space, and memory. In Fall 2025, she will be a Belknap Long-Term Visiting Fellow at Princeton University's Humanities Council and Department of Anthropology, teaching the course Colonialism on Display: Museums, Archives, and Memory in Palestine.