Rema Hammami

studied Political Science at the University of Cincinatti and Cultural Anthropology at the Temple University in Philadelphia. At the same university she earned her PhD in 1994 with the dissertation Between Heaven and Earth; Transformation in Religiosity and Labor among Peasant Refugee Women in South Coastal Palestine/Gaza Strip 1922-1992. Hammami is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Institute of Women's Studies of the Birziet University in Palestine. On Thursday 20 April 2006 she will accept her appointment to the Prince Claus Chair in Development and Equity 2005/2006 with her inaugural address Human Agency at the Frontiers of Global Inequality: An Ethnography of Hope in Extreme Places. Hammami has been nominated for the chair because of her impressive academic contribution as an intellectual protagonist for peace and co-existence in Palestine.