Kimberly Arkin
Faculty Profiles
Kimberly Arkin
Assistant Professor
Office: 232 Bay State Road, #102B
Office Phone: 617-353-5016
E-mail: karkin@bu.edu
Spring Office Hours:
Wednesdays, 10 – 12 and 1 – 3
Dr. Arkin is a cultural anthropologist focusing on minority negotiations of national, ethnic, religious, and racial belonging and exclusion in Europe. She is interested in the construction of diasporic and transnational imaginaries and the implications of those imaginaries on contemporary European nation-states. She has done fieldwork in Paris with the children and grandchildren of North African Jewish immigrants. Her current book project, Rhinestones, Religion, and the Republic: Fashioning Jewishness in France, examines post-Second Intifada transformations in the relationship between national and ethno-religious identities among Parisian Jews. Her next project will explore the racialization of minority and majority religious affiliations in contemporary France.
View Professor Arkin’s Website
Courses:
- AN 101 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
- AN 461/761 Ethnography and Anthropological Theory I
- AN 316/716 Contemporary European Ethnography (area)
- AN 355/755 Religious Fundamentalism in an Anthropological Perspective
- AN 252 Ethnicity and Identity
Publications
“Rhinestone Aesthetics and Religious Essence: Looking Jewish in Paris.” American Ethnologist (Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 722-734, 2009).
Education
PhD University of Chicago
MA University of Chicago
BA Harvard University