Emeritus Professor of Anthropology – University of Arkansas Fayetteville

Dr. Swedenburg received his Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from the University of Texas in 1988. His dissertation, a study of popular memories of the 1936-39 revolt in Palestine, was based chiefly on interviews with elderly peasants living in Palestinian villages in the Galilee (Israel) and the West Bank. The book based on his dissertation, Memories of Revolt: The 1936-39 Rebellion and the Palestinian National Past, was published in 1995 by the University of Minnesota Press. 

He taught at the University of Washington-Seattle between 1988 and 1991 and at the American University in Cairo from 1992 to 1996. He joined the University of Arkansas in 1996. Since then he has also done stints as a visiting professor at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, and at Georgetown University. He currently is co-editer of an Indian University Press book series, Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa.

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