Kimberly Arkin
Office: 232 Bay State
Road
Office
Phone:
617-353-5016
E-mail: karkin@bu.edu
2014 Rhinestones, Religion, and the
Republic: Fashioning Jewishness in France.
Stanford: Stanford University Press.
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