Dr. Joseph Kaplan Weinger is an Academy Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. He holds a doctorate from the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research, situated in political sociology, examines the history of colonial state-making. He examines the depredation wrought by colonial settlement and the institutions erected in its wake. Specializing in late-modern and contemporary Palestine, his current project examines the causes and consequences of coercive territorial redistribution and the wavering relations between settlers and the Israeli state.
Dr. Joseph Kaplan Weinger is an Academy Scholar Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. He holds a doctorate from the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research, situated in political sociology, examines the history of colonial state-making. He examines the depredation wrought by colonial settlement and the institutions erected in its wake. Specializing in late-modern and contemporary Palestine, his current project examines the causes and consequences of coercive territorial redistribution and the wavering relations between settlers and the Israeli state.