{"id":495,"date":"2012-04-04T15:01:53","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T19:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/?page_id=495"},"modified":"2012-05-07T19:37:56","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T23:37:56","slug":"as-jessica-winegar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/contemporary-issues\/as-jessica-winegar\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Winegar"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Education
\n<\/strong>2003 Ph.D. in Anthropology, New York University
\n2001 M.Phil. (with distinction) in Anthropology, New York University
\n1995 M.A. in Anthropology, New York University
\n1993 B.A. (summa cum laude) in Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania<\/p>\n

Present
\n<\/strong>Winegar currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University.\u00a0 At Northwestern University she teaches courses on: State and Subject, Anthropology of the Middle East, Middle Eastern Popular Culture, Art and Material Culture, and Culture and Consumption. \u00a0Winegar is also a founding member of the Task Force for Middle East Anthropology, a group dedicated to increasing the relevance, visibility, and application of anthropological perspectives on the Middle East.<\/p>\n

Topics of Study
\n<\/strong>Winegar’s research interests include:\u00a0cultural politics and culture industries, material and visual culture, nationalism, religion, social class, youth, gender, the politics of anthropology, anthropological theory, Middle East and North Africa.
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\n<\/strong><\/span>Publications<\/strong><\/span>
\n<\/strong><\/span>Her first book,\u00a0Creative Reckonings: The Politics of Art and Culture in Contemporary Egypt,<\/em>\u00a0was published in 2006. She is currently working on two new books. \u00a0One of the new books, which is tentatively titled Culturing Youth: Democracy, Creativity, and Development in the Middle East<\/em>, tracks the rise, successes, and challenges of state and NGO cultural development programs directed towards poor and working class youth in Egypt.<\/p>\n

Winegar is also writing, with anthropologist Lara Deeb, a book entitled Anthropology\u2019s Politics: Discipline and Region through the Lens of the Middle East.<\/em> \u00a0This book examines the post-Cold War Middle East and looks at how anthropologists have responded to the confluence of shifts in intellectual thought, the corporatization of the university, the militarization of knowledge, and the \u201cWar on Terror\u201d in ways that reshape the relationship between discipline and region.<\/p>\n

Winegar has also published numerous scholarly and popular articles on Middle Eastern visual arts and artists, North African visual culture, U.S. consumption of Middle Eastern arts, U.S. and media coverage of the Middle East.<\/p>\n

Her articles have appeared in American Ethnologist,<\/em> Cultural Anthropology, Anthropological Quarterly, Review of Middle East Studies, Middle East Report, Contemporary Practices, Critical Interventions <\/em>and online at Jadaliyya <\/em>and ArteEast.<\/em><\/p>\n

Summaries of Relevant Scholarly Articles
\n \u201cThe Privilege of Revolution: Gender, Class, Space, and Affect in Cairo.\u201d American Ethnologist<\/em>. \u00a0<\/em>2012.<\/a><\/strong>
\n<\/a> In this article, Winegar discusses how the iconic image of the revolutionary in the Egyptian revolution is that of a young man.\u00a0 Suggesting that the dominance of this image is problematic since it excludes the experiences of other people involved in the uprising.\u00a0 She discusses how she was in Egypt during the start of the revolution and many foreign academics and journalists asked her about the role of women in the revolution. \u00a0While she did not personally go to Tahrir during the start of the revolution because she had to take care of her child and was afraid of the threat of violence and antiforeigener rhetoric in the state media, \u00a0Winegar argues that fieldwork on major political events should also take place in the home since it allows researchers to track the effect of revolutions on day-to-day practices.\u00a0 She states that, “These practices, far from public centers of protest, are not as dramatic and moving as the fervent, demonstrative, and, at times, celebratory calls for dignity, social justice, and freedom, that ring out in places like Tahrir. But everyday domestic experiences are crucial for the public staging of claims to these abstract principles and their potential (always partial) realization in the aftermath of dramatic events.”<\/p>\n

The article discusses the role of women in the revolution including the actions of women activists, as well as the actions by women who were not in the news who cooked for the activists, donated medical supplies for them, and took care of the houses and children of people who were protesting and concludes by stating, “The women and men who could not go to Tahrir constitute the hidden majority, which will ideally continue the revolution in the coming years. \u00a0Focusing on only the iconic revolutionary–and, by extension, iconic notions of revolution–means missing the myriad everyday ways that social transformation is experienced, enabled, and perhaps impeded, always in relationship to space, gender and class”.<\/strong>
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\nAwards
\n<\/strong><\/span>Winegar has received grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, Social Science Research Council, Fulbright, and the Mellon Foundation.\u00a0 She has participated in postdoctoral fellowships at the University of California at Berkeley, Cornell University, and the School for Advanced Research.<\/p>\n

Selected Publications<\/strong>
\n Creative Reckonings: The Politics of Art and Culture in Contemporary Egypt.\u00a0<\/em>Stanford University Press, 2006.
\nWinner of the 2007 Albert Hourani Book Award, given by the Middle East Studies Association for the best book in Middle East studies, and the Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award from the Arts Council of the African Studies Association.<\/p>\n

Forthcoming\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThe Politics of Middle East Anthropology,\u201d\u00a0Annual Review of Anthropology<\/em>, Volume 12, 2012.\u00a0 Co-authored with Lara Deeb.<\/p>\n

2012\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThe Privilege of Revolution: Gender, Class, Space, and Affect in Cairo.\u201dAmerican Ethnologist\u00a0<\/em>39(1), 67-70.<\/p>\n

2011\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201cTaking Out the Trash: Youth Clean Up Egypt After Mubarak,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>MiddleEast Report<\/em>\u00a0259:32-35.\u00a0<\/em>To be reprinted in 2012 in\u00a0Revolution, Protest and Social Change in Egypt, 1999-2011\u00a0<\/em>(Verso).<\/p>\n

2011\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cEgypt: A Multigenerational Revolt,\u201d\u00a0Jadaliyya<\/em>,
\nhttp:\/\/www.jadaliyya.com\/pages\/index\/703\/egypt_a-multi-generational-revolt<\/p>\n

2010 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201cCulture is the Solution: The Civilizing Mission of the Egyptian State,\u201d\u00a0Review of Middle East Studies<\/em>\u00a043(2):189-197.<\/em><\/p>\n

2010\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThe Culture Concept in Political Struggle,\u201d\u00a0Introduction to Special Section, co-edited and co-authored with Amahl Bishara.\u00a0\u00a0Review of Middle East Studies\u00a0<\/em>43(2):164-167.<\/em><\/p>\n

2009\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThe Question of Africanity in North African Visual Culture,\u201d Special issue of\u00a0Critical Interventions:\u00a0 Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture<\/em>, Issue 5.\u00a0 Co-edited with Katarzyna Pieprzak.\u00a0 Co-authored introductory essay entitled\u00a0\u201cAfrica North, South, and In Between.\u201d<\/p>\n

2008\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201cPurposeful Art Between Television Preachers and the State,\u201d\u00a0ISIM Review\u00a0<\/em>(International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World)\u00a022:28-29.<\/p>\n

2008\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThe Humanity Game: Art, Islam, and the War on Terror,\u201dAnthropological Quarterly<\/em>, 81(3):651-681.<\/p>\n

2006\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201cCultural Sovereignty in a Global Art Economy: Egyptian Cultural Policy and the New Western Interest in Art from the Middle East,\u201d\u00a0Cultural Anthropology<\/em>\u00a021(2):173-204.<\/p>\n

2005\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201cOf Chadors and Purple Fingers: U.S. Visual Media Coverage of the Iraqi Elections,\u201d\u00a0Feminist Media Studies<\/em>\u00a05(3):391-395.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a>\u00a0to read about Jessica Winegar’s book and radio appearances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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