Kimberly Arkin

 

 

Office: 232 Bay State Road

 

Office Phone: 617-353-5016

 

E-mail: karkin@bu.edu

 

 

BOOKS

 

2014 Rhinestones, Religion, and the Republic: Fashioning Jewishness in France.  Stanford: Stanford University Press.

 

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS (refereed unless otherwise noted)

 

i.p.             Comment on Mikaela Rogozen-Soltar’s “Striving Toward Piety.”  Current Anthropology*

 

2018          “Talking about Anti-Semitism in France Before and After Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher.” Jewish History 32(1): 77-97.

 

2018          “Historicity, Peoplehood, and Politics: Holocaust talk in 21st Century France.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 60(4): 968-997.

 

2017          “Jews, Jesus, and the problem of postcolonial Frenchness,” Public Culture 29(3): 457-480.

 

2016          “Defining France and Defending Israel: Romantic Nationalism and the Paradoxes of French Jewish Belonging.”  In Re-examining the Jews of Modern France: Images and Identities.  Kaplan, Zvi and Nadia Malinovich, eds.  Boston: Brill.

 

2014          “The Vanishing State: Religious Education and Intolerance in French Jewish Schools.”  In Religious Education and the Challenge of Pluralism.  Seligman, Adam, ed.  Oxford University Press.

 

2011          Laïcité, Fraternité, and Nationalité: discontinuities in French Jewish discourse.”  AJS Perspectives, Spring*

 

2009          “Rhinestone Aesthetics and Religious Essence: Looking Jewish in Paris.” American Ethnologist 36(4): 722-734.

 

* indicates a non-refereed publication

 

WORK IN PROGRESS

 

“What can words do?  Debating a ‘good death’ in French palliative care,” under review after R&R with Anthropological Quarterly

 

“From Liberté to Dignité: Medical Authority and Secular Morality on the French Mediterranean Coast,” under review after R&R with JRAI

 

Etre ou Faire? Thinking about Different Forms of Difference in a Southern French Hospital manuscript in preparation for French Culture, Society and Politics

 

From Liberté to Dignité: Secularity and Medical Ethics on the French Mediterranean, book project