Donna Robinson Divine

Donna Robinson Divine is the Morningstar Family Professor Emerita of Jewish Studies and Professor Emerita of Government at Smith College, where she taught a variety of courses on Middle East Politics. Fluent in Hebrew, Arabic, and Turkish, he has held visiting appointments at Yale, Harvard, and the Hebrew University, fellowships from the National Endowment of the Humanities and Mellon Foundation, and won several Fulbright grants.

She is the author of many scholarly articles on a variety of topics in Middle East history and politics and the books Women Living Change (Women in the Political Economy) (with Susan C. Bourque), Politics and Society in Ottoman Palestine: The Arab Struggle for Survival and Power, and Postcolonial Theory and the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Her latest book is Exiled in the Homeland: Zionism and the Return to Mandate Palestine.

She was named the Katharine Asher Engel Lecturer at Smith College for the academic year in recognition of her scholarly achievements and Smith's Honored Professor for excellence in teaching.