Bina Freiwald, PhD

Research and teaching interests

Critical theory; women’s writing; gender and sexuality; textual and visual auto/biographical practices & theorizations of subjectivity; nation and diaspora; Canadian literature; Israel/Palestine.

 
Recent Research Projects:
1. “The Diaspora’s Homeland(s): Identity and Belonging in Contemporary Jewish Canadian Writing.”

2. “Gender, Nation, and Self-Narration: The Construction of National and Diasporic Identities in Jewish Women’s Life Narratives in Palestine/ Israel and Canada 1880-1948.”

Education

BA, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
MA, McGill University
PhD, McGill University

Teaching

I teach classes on racial capitalism, colonialism and imperialism, decolonization and other social movements. My classes mainly focus on Philippine, Southeast Asian, Pacific, North American, Asian American, and global history. 

Publications

Monetary Authorities: Capitalism and Decolonization in the American Colonial Philippines (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022).

"New Directions in Political History," The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 22.1 (January 2023): 63 - 95.

"Left Alone With the Colony," For Antifascist Futures: Against the Violence of Imperial Crisis. Common Notions, 2022. or Critical Ethnic Studies

“Transpacific Migration, Racial Surplus, and Colonial Settlement,” Histories of Racial Capitalism (University of Chicago Press, 2022)

“Empire, Expansion, and its Consequences,” Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era: The Making of Modern America (Wiley Blackwell, 2017).