Nadia Abu El Haj

Nadia Abu El-Haj
Born1966 (age 5859)
Occupation(s)Anthropologist, academic
Academic background
EducationBryn Mawr College (AB)
Duke University (PhD)
Academic work
InstitutionsBarnard College, Columbia University
WebsiteBarnard faculty profile

Nadia Abu El-Haj (Arabic: نادية أبو الحاج; born 1962) is an American anthropologist at Barnard College and Columbia University.

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. Abu El-Haj received tenure in November 2007.