Nadia Abu El Haj
Nadia Abu El Haj (born 1962) is an American academic with a Ph.D in Anthropology from Duke University. She is an associate professor of anthropology at Barnard College.The author of Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society (2001) and The Genealogical Science: The Search for Jewish Origins and the Politics of Epistemology (2012), Abu El Haj was the subject of dueling online petitions arguing whether she should be tenured during the 2006–07 academic year when she was recommended for tenure. Barnard granted Abu El Haj the faculty's tenure request in November 2007.