Dr. Mira Sucharov

Associate Professor of Political Science, Carleton University

Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israeli politics, Jewish politics, Social media

Media

Mira Sucharov on the Politics of Netflix and the Importance of Engaged Scholarship

What are the politics of Netflix and its myriad of content, and how does the political assumptions of the films, television shows and documentaries we consume impact our own political reality? These questions and more will tackled in a unique first year seminar that will be held in the winter semester here at Carleton by Professor Mira Sucharov.

A world-renowned expert in the politics of Israel and Palestine and prolific author of scholarship and media alike, Professor Sucharov is one of the most beloved members of our community here at the Department of Political Science at Carleton University. Last week Professor Sucharov also achieved a major publication milestone with the release of ‘Borders and Belonging’, a memoir capturing her experiences in activism and academia in Canada, Israel and beyond.

As she celebrates the release of her new book, we talk with Professor Mira Sucharov about the task of writing memoirs, the importance of engaged scholarship and the politics of Netflix on this week’s episode of the Carleton University Political Science Podcast.

Biography

Dr. Mira Sucharov is Associate Professor of Political Science at Carleton University. She holds a PhD in Government from Georgetown University, an MA in Political Science from the University of Toronto, and a BA in Middle East Studies from McGill University. She is the author of Public Influence: A Guide to Op-Ed Writing and Social Media Engagement (University of Toronto Press, 2019), and The International Self: Psychoanalysis and the Search for Israeli-Palestinian Peace (SUNY Press, 2005). She is co-editor (with Aaron Hahn Tapper) of Social Justice and Israel/Palestine: Foundational & Contemporary (University of Toronto Press, forthcoming 2019), and the author of articles on Israeli-Palestinian relations and Diaspora Jewish politics, emotions and international relations, auto-ethnography, pedagogy, and reflections on the craft of being a scholar-blogger.

Sucharov is a four-time teaching award winner, having received a 2004 Carleton University Teaching Achievement Award, the 2011 Provost Fellowship in Teaching, a 2015 Faculty of Public Affairs Award for Excellence in Teaching, and a 2017 OCUFA award for teaching excellence — the highest university teaching award in Ontario. At Carleton, she has developed courses on Israeli-Palestinian relations, graphic novels and political identity, and op-ed writing. She is also an award-winning columnist. Her many op-ed pieces have appeared in Haaretz, The Forward, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, The Ottawa Citizen, The Daily Beast, Huffington Post,+972 Magazine and The Walrus. Her current projects include a co-edited volume called Emotions and Methodology in International Relations (with Eric Van Rythoven and Brent Sasley — Routledge Press, under contract); and a memoir book manuscript (under consideration by a university press). She is currently the Jewish Politics Division co-chair for the Association for Jewish Studies, and is co-editor, along with Chaya Halberstam, of AJS Perspectives.

Expertise

  • Political Science
  • Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
  • Israeli Politics
  • Jewish Politics
  • Social Media