Ronit Lentin was born in Haifa

Haifa

Haifa is the largest city in northern Israel, and the third-largest city in the country, with a population of over 268,000. Another 300,000 people live in towns directly adjacent to the city including the cities of the Krayot, as well as, Tirat Carmel, Daliyat al-Karmel and Nesher...

 in 1944, prior to the establishment of the State of Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

, and has lived in Ireland

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

 since 1969. She is a political sociologist and a writer of fiction and non-fiction books. She is Head of Sociology, the director of the MPhil in Race, Ethnicity, Conflict, Department of Sociology

Sociology

Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...

 and founder member of the Trinity Immigration Initiative, Trinity College, Dublin

Trinity College, Dublin

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Lentin has published extensively on racism

Racism

Racism is the belief that inherent different traits in human racial groups justify discrimination. In the modern English language, the term "racism" is used predominantly as a pejorative epithet. It is applied especially to the practice or advocacy of racial discrimination of a pernicious nature...

 and identity

Identity (social science)

Identity is a term used to describe a person's conception and expression of their individuality or group affiliations . The term is used more specifically in psychology and sociology, and is given a great deal of attention in social psychology...

 in Ireland, Israel and Palestine

Palestine

Palestine is a conventional name, among others, used to describe the geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, and various adjoining lands....

 and on gender

Gender

Gender is a range of characteristics used to distinguish between males and females, particularly in the cases of men and women and the masculine and feminine attributes assigned to them. Depending on the context, the discriminating characteristics vary from sex to social role to gender identity...

 and genocide

Genocide

Genocide is defined as "the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group", though what constitutes enough of a "part" to qualify as genocide has been subject to much debate by legal scholars...

 and the Holocaust. While an exploration of 'identity' forms a key part of her academic work, one self-declared aspect of her own identity is as being an Irish Jew.

Research fields

Racism

Racism

Racism is the belief that inherent different traits in human racial groups justify discrimination. In the modern English language, the term "racism" is used predominantly as a pejorative epithet. It is applied especially to the practice or advocacy of racial discrimination of a pernicious nature...

 and immigration

Immigration

Immigration is the act of foreigners passing or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence...

 in Ireland; Israel-Palestine conflict; gender and genocide / violence; feminism

Feminism

Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women. Its concepts overlap with those of women's rights...

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Books and publications

• Interviews: Conversations with Palestinian Women (Jerusalem: Mifras 1982)

• Night Train to Mother (Dublin: Attic Press 1989) ISBN 0946211728

• Songs on the Death of Children (Dublin: Poolbeg Press 1996)
• Israel and the Daughters of the Shoah: Reoccupying the Territories of Silence (Oxford and NY: Berghahn Books 2000) ISBN 1-57181-774-3
• Gender and Catastrophe(London: Zed Books 1997)Editor ISBN 1-85649-445-4

• (Re)searching Women: Feminist Research Methodologies in the Social Sciences in Ireland (Dulbin: IPA 2000) co-editor, with Anne Byrne.
• Racism and Anti-racism in Ireland (Belfast: Beyond the Pale 2002) co-editor, with Robbie McVeigh, ISBN 1-900960-16-8

• Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation: Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation (Oxford and NY: Berghahn Books 2002) co-editor, with Nahla Abdo. ISBN 1-57181-498-1
• Women’s Movement: Migrant Women Transforming Ireland(2003) co-editor,with Eithne Luibhéid.
• Re-presenting the Shoah for the 21st Century(Oxford and NY: Berghahn Books. 2004), editor.ISBN 1-57181-802-2

• After Optimism? Ireland, Racism and Globalisation (Dublin: Metroeireann Publications. 2006) with Robbie McVeigh. ISBN 0-9553385-0-6

• Race and State (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press. 2006) co-editor, with Alana Lentin. ISBN 1-84718-001-9

• Performing Global Networks (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2007) co-editor, with Karen Fricker

• Thinking Palestine (London: Zed Books, 2008) editor

• Co-memory and Melancholia: Israelis Memorialising the Palestinian Nakba (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010)

External links

• Dr Ronit Lentin on Sociological Research Online
• Mphil in Race, Ethnicity, Conflict, Trinity College, Dublin Department of Sociology - University of Dublin