Katya Gibel Azoulay

Katya Gibel Azoulay was born in NYC, made aliya in 1970 after graduating from The Brearley School. During that period, she married, had three children, earned a B.A. and M.A. from Hebrew University; she returned to the U.S. in 1991 to pursue a Ph.D. at Duke University and was invited Grinnell College in 1996 where she is currently Associate Professor in Anthropology & American Studies. Dr. Gibel Azoulay is author of Black, Jewish and Interracial: It’s Not the Color of Your Skin but the Race of Your Kin and Other Myths of Identity, co-editor of the “Jewish Women of Color” issue of Bridges: Journal of Jewish Feminists, and has published articles in various journals including Cultural Studies, Developing World Bioethics, Identities. Research in African Literatures as well as review essays in American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist and Biography.