Rana Barakat is an associate professor of history at Birzeit University and director of the Birzeit University Museum in Palestine. Her research interests include the history and historiography of colonialism, nationalism, and cultures of resistance. She has published in notable venues including the Journal of Palestine Studies, Jerusalem Quarterly, Settler Colonial Studies, and Native American and Indigenous Studies. Her forthcoming book, Ongoing Return: Storytelling as a Map of Return to Lifta and Palestine, advances an Indigenous understanding of time, space, and memory in Palestine.
Barakat will be a Belknap Long-Term Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Department of Anthropology in Fall 2025. She will teach the course “Colonialism on Display: Museums, Archives, and Memory in Palestine.”
