Donna Robinson Divine

Donna Robinson Divine is the Morningstar Family Professor of Jewish Studies and Government Emerita at Smith College, where she taught courses on Middle East politics. Able to draw on material in Hebrew, Arabic, and Turkish, her books include Women Living Change: Cross-Cultural Perspectives; Essays from the Smith College Research Project on Women and Social Change, Politics and Society in Ottoman Palestine: The Arab Struggle for Survival and Power, Postcolonial Theory and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, and Exiled in the Homeland: Zionism and the Return to Mandate Palestine, and Word Crimes: Reclaiming the Language of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. She has been a visiting professor at Harvard’s Middle East Center, Yale University, the University of Sydney, the University of Hamburg, and the University of Geneva. Named Smith’s Engel lecturer in the 2012–13 in recognition of her scholarly achievements, she was also designated as Smith’s Honored Professor for the excellence of her teaching. She was president of the Association for Israel Studies from 2017-2019 and named to Algemeiner’s 2019 list of the top 100 people “positively influencing Jewish life”.