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Ruth Tsoffar is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan, with an affiliation as a Faculty Associate at the Frankel Institute for Advanced Jewish Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from the University of California, Berkeley (1993). Her interdisciplinary research focuses on gender, ethnicity, colonialism, and literary analysis within Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian contexts. She is particularly known for her ethnographic work on Karaite Jewish women and Mizrahi identities.
Education: Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley (1993). Previous academic positions include a faculty role at the University of Utah before joining the University of Michigan.
Research Interests: Feminism, sexuality in multicultural societies, colonialism, poetry and poetics, Israeli/Palestinian/Jewish literatures, ethnography, and biblical narratives. Her work often explores intersections of body politics, identity, and cultural memory.
Awards: Winner of the Elli Kongas-Maranda Prize (2005) and American Folklore Society Book Awards (2006) for her book *The Stains of Culture*, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Women's Studies (2006).
Teaching and Grants: Offers courses on topics like 'Home, Homeland and Homelessness: Israel and Palestine' and 'Women, Bible, Reading.' Her scholarship includes grants related to Middle Eastern studies and cultural research.
Ongoing Projects: Includes a book on 'Cannibal Ideology' exploring textual and bodily violence in Hebrew cultures, and an ethnographic memoir on Jamusin, a Palestinian neighborhood in Tel Aviv transformed by resettlement and urbanization.
