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Susan Slyomovics is a Canadian-American anthropologist and Professor Emerita at UCLA whose research focuses on the expressive cultures of the Middle East and North Africa, gender and human rights, oral and written traditions, and visual anthropology. A 1971 graduate of Barnard College, she earned her Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and taught at Brown University and MIT before joining UCLA in 2006. She has received Fulbright, Guggenheim, and National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships. Her books include The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village (1998), which received the Albert Hourani Book Award and the Chicago Folklore Prize. She retired from teaching in 2026 after a 40-year academic career.