Dr. Julie Peteet is Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Director of Middle East and Islamic Studies at the University of Louisville. Her research has focused on Palestinian displacement, refugee camps, space and identity, mobility, and the policy of closure in the West Bank. She has authored three books: Space and Mobility in Palestine (Indiana University Press, 2017); Landscape of Hope and Despair: Palestinian Refugee Camps (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005); and Gender in Crisis: Women and the Palestinian Resistance Movement (Columbia University Press, 1991). She has published in a variety of journals including Anthropological Quarterly, Journal of Refugee Studies, Signs, American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Survival, Social Analysis, Journal of Palestine Studies, International Journal of Middle East Studies, and Middle East Report as well as contributed numerous chapters in edited volumes. Her research has been funded by SSRC, Wenner-Gren, Fulbright, the Mellon Foundation, CAORC, and PARC. She served on the Editorial Board of MERIP for many years and was an associate editor of the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures.