Emmaia Gelman is the founding director of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism, which examines the political and ideological work of Zionist institutions in Palestine and transnational contexts. She researches the history of ideas about race, queerness, safety, and rights, and their production as political levers in the realm of hate crimes policy, surveillance, anti-terror measures, and war. Her teaching has spanned NYU, Sarah Lawrence College, freedom schools, encampments, and other community spaces. She is the author of a critical history of the Anti-Defamation League as a Cold War neoconservative institution (UC Press, forthcoming) and co-editor of a volume of social justice movement writings and academic research on resistance to the ADL (Pluto Press, forthcoming). She is chair of the American Studies Association Caucus on Academic and Community Activism, and a longtime activist in New York City.