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Dr. Yehuda Sharim & Dr. Rebecca Golden-Timsar

Teaches at World Affairs Council of Greater Houston

Dr. Sharim is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Jewish Studies department at Rice University. His research chronicles the creation of a Sphardic-Mizarahi identity, uncovering ways that political and racial factors contributed to the identity's emergence. His upcoming book, tentatively titled The Struggle for Sephardic-Mizrahi Autonomy: Racial Identities in Palestine, 1918-1948, is concerned with interdisciplinary approaches to the question of race in Mandate Palestine. As a scholar trained in both cultural studies and Jewish studies, Dr. Sharim's main interest lies in exploring conversations between Jewish history, ethnic, and race studies. He is also a documentary filmmaker on the Houston-based refugee experience, and will be holding a screening of his film the night of the 18th. Feel free to check out the trailer for his film here!

Rebecca Golden-Timsar holds a PhD in anthropology from Tulane University (2012). Her research interests include gender, violence, youth, oil and extractive economies, religion, and contemporary African society. She received the WARA Pre-Doctoral Fellowship grant in 2004 for research in the Niger Delta. In 2009, Dr. Golden-Timsar served as a reviewer for the Fellowship Program of the West Africa Peace Initiative. She spent over ten years working in conflict zones such as Angola, the DRC, and Sierra Leone, as Head of Mission for Medecins sans Frontieres. Dr. Golden-Timsar was a Fulbright scholar in Nigeria in 2005, a peace scholar at the United States Institute of Peace in 2006, and a member of the board of Directors for the New Orleans based non-profit “In This Together.”

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