Dr. Terri Ginsberg received her doctorate in Cinema Studies from New York University. She taught most recently at North Carolina State University.
Dr. Ginsberg taught previously in the Jewish Studies Program at Dartmouth College and the Cinema Studies Program at Rutgers University. She has published numerous scholarly texts, including the volume Perspectives on German Cinema (with Kirsten Moana Thompson).
Dr. Ginsberg is a member of The International Jewish Solidarity Network, a growing international network of Jews whose Jewish identities are not based on nationalism but on a plurality of histories and experiences. IJSN is committed to the struggle against the colonization of Palestine and the building of a Zionist Jewish state that began in 1948.
Dr. Ginsberg is also the author of a recent monograph entitled Holocaust Film: The Political Aesthetics of Ideology (Cambridge Scholars Publishing).
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09/18/2007 - 4:56 a.m. CST -- by Dr. Terri Ginsberg 
Aid for Iraqi Students: Global Partnership for the International University of Iraq turns "reconstruction" on its feet
Whereas the 2003 U.S.-led invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq is largely responsible for the current devastation of Iraqi higher education, that country’s formerly world-class educational system had already been severely degraded under the U.S.-backed regime of international sanctions implemented by the UN Security Council following Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990 and at U.S. insistence maintained until after its occupation of Iraq in 2003. The ongoing U.S.-led war and occupation have today brought nearly complete destruction of the country’s educational infrastructure, including museums, libraries, and cultural institutions. As a result, thousands of Iraqi students and faculty are without means for engaging in formal research, teaching, and learning.
IUI was envisaged during a 2003 academic conference in North Cyprus at the International Center for Co... [Read More] |
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06/26/2007 - 9:36 a.m. CST -- by Dr. Terri Ginsberg
Protesting Norman Finkelstein’s Tenure Denial; or, Academic Freedom Declines across the U.S. – Part II
By Terri Ginsberg
NEW YORK, 26 June 2007, (Arabisto.com)
As U.S.-backed military actions in the Middle East become increasingly destructive, with thousands of Arab and Muslim civilians dead at the hands of allied troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, and Palestinians suffering to an unprecedented degree under brutal Israeli occupation, scholarly intellectuals have become increasingly vocal in their criticism of attempts by pro-Zionist and neoconservative spokespersons to pressure government bodies and educational institutions to curb opposition and suppress dissent regarding such actions.
Nearly three weeks have passed since one such intellectual, Norman Finkelstein, an Assistant Professor of Political Science at DePaul University in Chicago, was denied tenure by that school’s University Board on Tenure and Promotion. The decision to deny Finkelstein tenure was upheld by DePaul’s president, the Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider, despite a majority (9-3) recommendation by the departmental tenure committee and a unanimous (... [Read More]
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