Thea Renda Abu El-Haj, Unsettled Belonging: Educating Palestinian American Youth After 9/11. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Thea Renda Abu El-Haj
Thea Renda Abu El-Haj is associate professor in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She is an anthropologist of education whose current research explores new questions about youth citizenship raised by globalization, transnational migration, and the “war on terror.” This ethnographic research focuses on how young Palestinian Americans and other Arab Americans grapple with questions of belonging and citizenship in the wake of 11 September 2001. She recently published a book about this project: Unsettled Belonging: Educating Palestinian American Youth after 9/11 (Chicago, 2015). Other publications about this research have appeared in Anthropology and Education Quarterly; Harvard Educational Review; Educational Policy; and Theory into Practice. Her first book, Elusive Justice: Wrestling with Difference and Educational Equity in Everyday Practice (Routledge, 2006), offers a critical account of the range of justice claims at play inside real schools, exploring several different, important dimensions of educational equity that are often ignored in contemporary educational policy debates.