Elizabeth Bentley

Elizabeth Bentley (she/her) is a Mellon/ACLS Emerging Voices Postdoctoral Fellow and co-Assistant Director of NYU’s Public Humanities Initiative. Her research focuses on environmental politics and visual culture with a primary geographic focus on Palestine/Israel. She is at work on her first monograph, “The Last Crocodile in Palestine: Envisioning Extinction in the Ruins of Empire.” The project, which emerged from dissertation research at the University of Arizona, has received support from the American Association of University Women (AAUW), the Palestinian American Research Center (PARC), and the U.S. Department of Education. Her recent publications include an article in Jerusalem Quarterly and the co-edited volume Religion, Secularism and Political Belonging (Duke University Press 2021).