Joyce Dalsheim is a cultural anthropologist who studies nationalism, religion and the secular, and conflict in Israel/Palestine. She has her doctorate from the New School for Social Research, and has taught at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Wake Forest University, and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. In 2005, she held the Rockefeller Fellowship at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame.