Areej Sabbagh-Khoury is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Senior Lecturer (equivalent to Associate Professor) in Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research focuses on political and historical sociology, settler colonialism, Indigenous studies, and memory.
She is the author of Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba (Stanford University Press, 2023), a pioneering sociological study of settler colonialism in Palestine. Sabbagh-Khoury’s work has been published in leading journals including Sociological Theory, Politics & Society, Theory and Society, and Current Sociology.
She is a member of the General Assembly and Academic Research Committee of Mada al-Carmel – Arab Center for Applied Social Research, co-founder of the Carmel Forum, and a member of Academia for Equality. In May 2021, she co-founded the Emergency Line for students in Israeli universities to support Palestinians facing discrimination.
