About

Alice Mishkin is a doctoral student at the University of Michigan. She will receive her PhD in American Culture, with a specialization in Arab and Muslim American Studies and a certificate in Judaic Studies. She also holds an MSW and a certificate in Jewish Communal Leadership from the University of Michigan.

Alice has a background in international nonprofit work, higher education administration, dialogue, and activism. Her research and her teaching grow out of these experiences, particularly her work in Palestine and Israel.

Alice’s dissertation, entitled A Very Narrow Bridge: American Jews and the Palestine Solidarity Movement, addresses the complexity of Jewish American positionality within liberal, progressive, and leftist social movements for Israel/Palestine through a rich and comprehensive ethnography of IfNotNow, an American Jewish organization founded in 2014.

When Alice is not writing, reading or thinking about her research, she can be found gardening, baking, swimming and biking around town with her two small children, or engaged in local organizing and community building.