RESOURCES
RESEARCH PAPERS SERIES
AEN’s Research Paper Series allows AEN faculty members to write and disseminate original research on topics relevant to the AEN mission before they are formally published in peer-reviewed academic journals and in university presses.
Each academic year, the Research Paper Series will feature three to four papers authored by AEN members in collaboration with AEN’s leadership team and distributed widely via online and print formats. The intended audience for the Research Paper Series ranges from academics to practitioners, advanced graduate students, and the informed public. Research Paper authors will be encouraged to revise their work for submission to peer-reviewed journals and academic presses in their respective fields.
To submit a proposal for the Research Paper Series, please fill out the form below. Please be sure to include a 1-2 page abstract broadly describing your research topic, methodology, connection to and fit with AEN’s mission and goals, and potential publication outlets for the paper. Successful proposals will be those which address previously unexplored aspects of AEN’s key issues and have a high potential for subsequent publication in a peer-reviewed journal or academic press. We particularly welcome proposals from junior and/or non-tenured faculty.
Proposals will be reviewed on a rolling basis by the AEN leadership team. Authors will receive an honorarium upon completion and distribution of their Research Paper. Further inquiries should be directed to AEN Executive Director Miriam Elman.
We look forward to receiving your proposals!
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Not in Kansas Anymore: Academic Freedom in Palestinian Universities
(NIKA) by AEN member Cary Nelson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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From Scholarship to Swastikas: Explaining Campus Antisemitic Events
by AEN member Ayal Feinberg, Texas A&M University–Commerce
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Experimental Estimates of the Impacts of a Study Abroad Program to Israel on Perceptions of Antisemitism and Attitudes about Israel
by AEN members Mattie Harris, University of Arkansas; Albert Cheng, University of Arkansas; and Jay Greene, The Heritage Foundation
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Constructing the Zionist Fiend at Counterpunch
by AEN Member Ernest Sternberg, SUNY-Buffalo
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Anti-Israel Divestment Campaigns on U.S. Campuses After October 7
by AEN Member Andrew Pessin, Connecticut College
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PAMPHLET SERIES
The Pamphlet Series addresses AEN’s primary concerns through adapted articles, lectures, and speeches. Authors include AEN faculty members and other noted scholars and thinkers who contribute to the discourse on these subjects. Certain pamphlets may also be accompanied by discussions with the author in the form of recordings or podcasts.
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Cynthia Saltzman, Lecturer, Rutgers University – Camden
AEN’s tenth pamphlet, “Revisiting the Boycott Campaign at the American Anthropological Association: A Divisive and Destructive Effort to Delegitimize Israel and Undermine the University Mission,” by Cynthia Saltzman of Rutgers University – Camden, focuses on the American Anthropological Association’s academic boycott against Israel that reflects part of a growing trend in the United States to isolate Israel in the international community of scholars.
Revisiting the Boycott Campaign at the American Anthropological Association
by Cynthia Saltzman (November 2024)
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Michal Cotler-Wunsh, Israel’s Special Envoy for Combatting Antisemitism
AEN’s ninth pamphlet, “Combating Antisemitism with Human Rights and International Law,” by Michal Cotler-Wunsh, is an adaptation of a series of talks she gave in April 2023. In this pamphlet, Cotler-Wunsh describes how the anti-Israel movement has manipulated and coopted the language of human rights and international law to delegitimize the Jewish State and defame its supporters, a pernicious set of developments made all the more relevant in the wake of the October 7, 2023 terrorist attacks.
Combating Antisemitism with Human Rights and International Law
by Michal Cotler-Wunsh (December 2023)
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Michael Saenger, Professor of English, Southwestern University
AEN’s eighth pamphlet, “Finding Common Ground: A Strategy for Combating the Anti-Israel Movement in the U.S. Academy,” by Michael Saenger of Southwestern University, offers some conceptual and political bridges between the many groups engaged in combating BDS on campus and in the academy.
Finding Common Ground: A Strategy for Combating the Anti-Israel Movement in the U.S. Academy
by Michael Saenger (September 2022)
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Gil Troy, Distinguished Scholar in North American History, McGill University
AEN’s seventh pamphlet, “Why I am a Zionist,” by Gil Troy of McGill University, invites readers into a new conversation about Zionism. Building on Troy’s book, The Zionist Ideas, this conversation is aspirational and inspiring, not defensive or apologetic. And it is rooted in what Zionism actually is and was, while imagining all that it can be: a constellation of history, values, and visions; a model of constructive, democratic, liberal nationalism that not only mobilizes Jews to build a better world but helps individuals associated with the movement find deep meaning amid fulfilling communal affiliations.
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R. Amy Elman, Weber Professor in Social Science, Kalamazoo College
AEN’s sixth pamphlet, “BDS & the Queer Appropriation of Pinkwashing,” by R. Amy Elman of Kalamazoo College, follows from research Elman conducted as a Fulbright scholar in Haifa (2017-2018). Portions of it were first presented at the conference, “Israel at 70: Complexity, Challenge, and Creativity,” hosted by the Michael and Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel at Michigan State University, September 16-17, 2019.
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Einat Wilf, Independent Scholar
AEN’s fifth pamphlet, “Arguing Israel Contra BDS,” is adapted from a keynote presentation at AEN’s second national conference by Einat Wilf, author, lecturer, and former Member of Knesset for the Labor Party. Wilf’s pamphlet challenges progressives’ opposition to Zionism and Israel by asserting that the story of Jewish self-determination can serve as a model for other oppressed peoples to challenge entrenched structures of power.
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S. Ilan Troen, the Stoll Professor of Israel Studies, Emeritus (Brandeis University), and the Lopin Professor of Modern History, Emeritus (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
AEN’s fourth pamphlet, “Countering the BDS Colonial Settler Narrative,” is adapted from a keynote presentation at AEN’s second national conference by Ilan Troen, the Stoll Professor of Israel Studies, Emeritus (Brandeis University), and the Lopin Professor of Modern History, Emeritus (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev). Troen’s pamphlet rejects the settler-colonial paradigm in the case of Israel and emphasizes the rights of Jews as a people to self-determination in their historic homeland.
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Janet Freedman, Resident Scholar, Brandeis University Women’s Studies Research Center
AEN’s third pamphlet, “Feminism and Zionism,” expands on remarks made at AEN’s second national conference in 2017 by Janet Freedman, Resident Scholar at the Brandeis University Women’s Studies Research Center. Freedman’s pamphlet describes her experiences at the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA), which passed a resolution supporting the BDS movement in 2015. As a Zionist and a founding member of the Jewish Caucus of the NWSA, she also writes of antisemitism and anti-Zionism in the association, and offers suggestions for how to confront these issues.
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Cary Nelson, Jubilee Professor Emeritus of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
AEN’s second pamphlet, “Conspiracy Pedagogy on Campus: BDS Advocacy and Academic Freedom,” is adapted from a keynote presentation at AEN’s first national conference by Cary Nelson, Jubilee Professor Emeritus of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Nelson’s pamphlet criticizes the “political corruption” of some humanities and social science disciplines that have elevated the rationale behind the BDS movement to an incontrovertible truth.
Conspiracy Pedagogy on Campus: BDS Advocacy and Academic Freedom
by Cary Nelson (January 2017)
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David Hirsh, Lecturer, Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London
AEN’s first pamphlet, “Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) and Antisemitism,” is adapted from a keynote presentation at AEN’s first national conference by David Hirsh, a Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and the founder of Engage, a campaign against academic boycotts of Israel. Hirsh’s pamphlet emphasizes the need to return the discourse on Israel to the “democratic realm of rational politics” while opposing antisemitism on both the left and the right.