Education: PhD, University of Calfornia at Santa Barbara, 2000. Major: History; Dissertation Title: Gender and Colonialism in Palestine 1800-1948: Encounters Among English, Arab and Jewish Women MA, University of Calfornia at Santa Barbara, 1995. Major: History Certificate, University of Oxford, 1993. Major: Jewish Studies BA, California State University, Chico, 1992. Major: History (honors, cum laude), Religious Studies (minor)