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Maayan Hilel is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in Jewish & Israel Studies and Assistant Director of the Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies at Northwestern University. She holds a Ph.D. in History from Tel Aviv University (2019). Her research focuses on the cultural and social history of 20th-century Palestine/Land of Israel, particularly the role of leisure culture in shaping socio-cultural identities and intercommunal relations under British rule. She previously taught at the University of Limerick, Ireland, and specializes in conflict resolution with bi-national groups.
Her book project, Leisure and Pleasure in Mandate Palestine, examines modern leisure spaces like cinemas and cafés as arenas of cultural and political expression. Her new research explores childhood and youth in late Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine. She teaches courses on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Holocaust memory, and daily life in Israel/Palestine.
Her publications analyze topics like Palestinian cinema in Haifa, childhood leisure practices, and urban cultural transformations. She contributes to Middle East studies through multilingual archival research, situating Palestinian experiences within broader transnational contexts.
