Professor Uzi Baram

New College of Florida

Bio

Uzi Baram is professor emeritus at New College of Florida where, for 25 years, he taught courses in archaeology and cultural anthropology. Dr. Baram received his BA in Anthropology from SUNY Binghamton and MA and PhD in Anthropology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Among his publications are studies on the archaeology of the Ottoman Empire, the intersection of art and archaeology, the implications of tourism on archaeology, public archaeology, and college pedagogy.

Beyond the American Anthropological Association: The Antizionism Virus Spreading Across Anthropology and Inverting Archaeology

Abstract

This paper examines the implications of the American Anthropological Association’s boycott of Israeli higher education for anthropology’s subfield of archaeology. Archaeology has sought to be an inclusive field, attempting to locate the common human experience in the past for all people, but a social media movement is inverting those goals of archaeology. The paper documents an increasingly hostile campaign against professional archaeological organizations for including Israelis and Israel.