Seidel, Timothy - EMU Personnel Profile

Biography

Timothy Seidel is an associate professor of peacebuilding, development, and global studies. His peacebuilding and development experience includes serving for several years with Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) in Palestine-Israel, as director for Peace and Justice Ministries in the U.S., and as director of the Center for Interfaith Engagement at EMU. Seidel previously taught at American University and Lancaster Theological Seminary, and has organized and led several learning delegations from the United States to Palestine-Israel for organizations such as MCC, Interfaith Peace-Builders, Lancaster Theological Seminary, and EMU. He holds an MTS from Wesley Theological Seminary and a PhD from the School of International Service at American University in Washington, DC. He is co-editor of Resisting Domination in Palestine: Mechanisms and Techniques of Control, Coloniality, and Settler Colonialism (I. B. Taurus/Bloomsbury, 2024) and Political Economy of Palestine: Critical, Interdisciplinary, and Decolonial Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).

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Publications

	Citation	Pub. Date
1405	Journal Articles “Not a Solution but a Struggle: Anticolonial Connectivity and Steadfastness against Replacement,” International Politics 61, no. 2 (2024): 399-406. “Prayer and Song, Worship and Struggle for Gaza,” Anabaptist Witness 11, no. 2 (2024): 37-46. “‘Emigrantes, Palestinos, Estamos Unidos’: Anticolonial Connectivity and Resistance along the ‘Palestine-Mexico’ Border,” Postcolonial Studies 26, no. 1 (2023): 94-111. “Anticolonial Connectivity and the Politics of Solidarity: Between Home and the World” (with Alina Sajed), Postcolonial Studies 26, no. 1 (2023): 1-12. “Neoliberal Developments, National Consciousness, and Political Economies of Resistance in Palestine,” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 21, no. 5 (2019): 727-746. “Introduction: Escaping the Nation? National Consciousness and the Horizons of Decolonization” (with Alina Sajed), Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 21, no. 5 (2019): 583-591. “‘We Refuse to Be Enemies’: Political Geographies of Violence and Resistance in Palestine,” Journal of Peacebuilding and Development 12, no. 3 (2017): 25-38. “‘Occupied Territory Is Occupied Territory’: James Baldwin, Palestine and the Possibilities of Transnational Solidarity,” Third World Quarterly 37, no. 9 (2016): 1644-1660. [Winner: 2016 Edward Said Award, Global Development Section, International Studies Association.] “Development, Religion, and Modernity in Palestine-Israel,” CrossCurrents 62, no. 4 (2012): 424-441.	80
1409	Book Chapters “History, Knowledge, and Power in Peace and Conflict Studies” (with Maia Carter Hallward) in The SAGE Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies, eds. M.C. Hallward, J.E. Kim, C. Mouly, T. Seidel, and Z. Wai (London: SAGE, 2025). “Case Studies in Peace and Conflict Studies: Illustrating Alternative Perspectives” (with Maia Carter Hallward) in The SAGE Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies, eds. M.C. Hallward, J.E. Kim, C. Mouly, T. Seidel, and Z. Wai (London: SAGE, 2025). “Settler Colonial Violence and Indigenous Struggle: Land, Resistance, and Refusal in Masafer Yatta” (with Federica Stagni) in Resisting Domination in Palestine: Mechanisms and Techniques of Control, Coloniality and Settler Colonialism, eds. A. Tartir, T. Seidel, and T. Dana (London: I. B. Taurus/Bloomsbury, 2024). “Resisting Domination in Palestine” (with Tariq Dana and Alaa Tartir) in Resisting Domination in Palestine: Mechanisms and Techniques of Control, Coloniality and Settler Colonialism, eds. A. Tartir, T. Seidel, and T. Dana (London: I. B. Taurus/Bloomsbury, 2024). “The Political Dimensions of Culture and Religion in Mediation” (with Mohammed Abu-Nimer) in The Routledge Handbook of Intercultural Mediation, ed. D. Busch (New York: Routledge, 2022). “Settler Colonialism and Land-Based Struggle in Palestine: Towards a Decolonial Political Economy” in Political Economy of Palestine: Critical, Interdisciplinary, and Decolonial Perspectives, eds. A. Tartir, T. Dana, and T. Seidel (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). “Palestinian Political Economy: Enduring Struggle against Settler Colonialism, Racial Capitalism, and Neoliberalism” (with Tariq Dana and Alaa Tartir) in Political Economy of Palestine: Critical, Interdisciplinary, and Decolonial Perspectives, eds. A. Tartir, T. Dana, and T. Seidel (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). “Sovereign Bodies, Sovereign States: Settler Colonial Violence and the Visibility of Resistance in Palestine” in Palestine and Rule of Power: Local Dissent vs. International Governance, eds. A. Tartir and T. Seidel (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). “The Rule of Power in Palestine: Settler Colonialism, Neoliberal Governance, and Resistance” (with Alaa Tartir) in Palestine and Rule of Power: Local Dissent vs. International Governance, eds. A. Tartir and T. Seidel (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). “Introduction: The Hizmet Movement and Peacebuilding” (with Mohammed Abu-Nimer) in The Hizmet Movement and Peacebuilding: Global Cases, eds. M. Abu-Nimer and T. Seidel (Lanham, Md.: Lexington/Rowman & Littlefield, 2018). “Religion, Politics, and Conflict Transformation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories” (with Mohammed Abu-Nimer) in Conflict Transformation and the Palestinians: Dynamics of Peace and Justice under Occupation, eds. A. Özerdem, C. Thiessen, and M. Qassoum (London: Routledge, 2017). “Culture, Religion, and Politics in International Mediation” (with Mohammed Abu-Nimer) in The Handbook of Mediation: Theory, Research and Practice, ed. A. Georgakopoulos (London: Routledge, 2017). “Peace and Reconciliation Processes” (with Mohammed Abu-Nimer) in The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism, eds. J. Stone, X. Hou, R. M. Dennis, P. S. Rizova, and A. D. Smith (Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015). “Development as Peacebuilding and Resistance: Alternative Narratives of Nonviolence in Palestine-Israel” in Nonviolent Resistance in the Second Intifada: Activism and Advocacy, eds. M. Carter Hallward and J. Norman (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). “Conflict Resolved or Conflict Created?” in Conflict Transformation and Restorative Justice Manual: Foundations and Skills for Mediation and Facilitation, 5th ed., eds. M. E. Armster and L. Stutzman Amstutz, (Akron, Pa.: Mennonite Central Committee, 2009). “Independence or Nakba?: A Sketch of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict,” “Getting Grounded: The Land Belongs to God,” “Palestinian Christians: The Forgotten Faithful” in Under Vine and Fig Tree: Biblical Theologies of Land and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, ed. A. Epp Weaver (Telford, Pa.: Cascadia Publishing, 2007).	79
1416	Book Reviews “Review of Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank by Kareem Rabie,” American Anthropologist 126, no. 1 (2024): 168-169. “Review of Faith-Based Organizations in Transnational Peacebuilding by Tanya B. Schwarz,” Journal of Social Encounters 6, no. 2 (2022): 180-184. “Review of The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank: The Theatrics of Woeful Statecraft by Michelle Pace and Somdeep Sen,” Middle East Policy 27, no. 2 (2020): 178-181. “Religion and the Postsecular Challenge in Peacebuilding and Reconciliation: A Review of Atone: Religion, Conflict, and Reconciliation, eds. B. D. Lundy, A. G. Adebayo, and S. W. Hayes,” Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology 25, no. 3 (2019): 271-272. “Review of The Rise and Fall of Human Rights: Cynicism and Politics in Occupied Palestine by Lori Allen,” H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews (February 2014).	69
1581	Edited Books The SAGE Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies, co-edited with Maia Carter Hallward, Ji Eun Kim, Cécile Mouly, and Zubairu Wai (London: SAGE, 2025). Resisting Domination in Palestine: Mechanisms and Techniques of Control, Coloniality and Settler Colonialism, co-edited with Alaa Tartir and Tariq Dana (London: I. B. Taurus/Bloomsbury, 2024). Political Economy of Palestine: Critical, Interdisciplinary, and Decolonial Perspectives, co-edited with Alaa Tartir and Tariq Dana (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). Palestine and Rule of Power: Local Dissent vs. International Governance, co-edited with Alaa Tartir (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). The Hizmet Movement and Peacebuilding: Global Cases, co-edited with Mohammed Abu-Nimer (Lanham, Md.: Lexington/Rowman & Littlefield, 2018).	99
1610	Guest Editor Guest co-editor with Alina Sajed of Special Issue, “Anticolonial Connectivity and the Politics of Solidarity: Between Home and the World,” Postcolonial Studies 26, no. 1 (2023). [Winner: 2024 THEORY Edited Volume, Special Issue, or Symposium Award, Theory Section, International Studies Association.] Guest co-editor with Alina Sajed of Special Issue, “Escaping the Nation? Anti-colonial Imaginaries and Postcolonial Settlements,” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 21, no. 5 (2019).	89

Scholarly Presentations and Abstracts

“Sumud and Struggle: Representations of Violence, Nonviolence, and Political Subjectivity in Palestine,” International Studies Association, Chicago, IL, March 2025.
“On Settler Colonialism and Imperialism” (roundtable), International Studies Association, Chicago, IL, March 2025.
"History, Development, and Dispersion of Peace and Conflict Studies," International Studies Association, San Francisco, CA, April 2024.
"Racial Hierarchies and Accountability: The Place of Palestine in the International" (roundtable), International Studies Association, San Francisco, CA, April 2024.
"Sumud and Solidarity: Violence, Nonviolence, and Resistance in Palestine” (invited), Eastern Mennonite University Colloquium, Harrisonburg, VA, September 2023 [EMU Podcast].
"Settler Colonialism, Non/Violence, and Struggle: Politics and Theologies of Steadfastness Against Replacement," International Studies Association, Montreal, QC, March 2023.
“Political Economy of Palestine: Critical, Interdisciplinary, and Decolonial Perspectives” (with Ibrahim Shikaki), Peace and Justice Studies Association, University of Mount Union, OH, October 2022.
"From Violence to Peacebuilding: Mennonite Peace Theology and Peace Practice” (invited), Catholic University of America’s Institute for Interreligious Study & Dialogue, Washington, DC, May 2022.
“Settler Colonial Violence and Indigenous Struggle: Land and Subjectivity, Resistance and Refusal,” International Studies Association, Nashville, TN, April 2022.
“Settler States and Indigenous Struggles: Theologies of Replacement and Political Economies of Steadfastness” (invited), Theology and Peacebuilding in Anabaptist Perspective: Consultation II, Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA, April 2022 & Anabaptist Center for Religion and Society, Harrisonburg, VA, October 2021.
“Settler Colonialism, Political Economy, and Land-Based Struggle in Palestine,” Middle East Studies Association, Montreal, QC, October 2021 & International Studies Association, [online], April 2021.
“‘No Act of Nonviolence Ever Goes Unpunished’: Representations of Violence, Nonviolence, and Political Subjectivity in Palestine,” International Studies Association, Honolulu, HI, March 2020.
“Theology and Peacebuilding: Decolonial and Postsecular Explorations?” (invited), Theology and Peacebuilding (Consultation), Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS), Elkhart, IN, March 2020.
“Violence, Nonviolence, and the Work of Binaries in Peace and Conflict Studies” (invited), Peace and Conflict 3.0: Redefining Knowledge and Practice in our Field (Consultation), George Mason University and Middlebury College, Washington, DC, October 2019.
“Book Talk: Palestine and Rule of Power: Local Dissent vs. International Governance” (invited), Palestine Center, Washington, DC, May 2019.
“Borders, Barriers, and Walls that Act upon Flesh: The Violence of Borders, the Politics of Movement in the Palestine-Israel and U.S.-Mexico Borderlands,” International Studies Association, Toronto, ON, March 2019.
“Violence, Nonviolence, and the Possibilities of Political Subjectivity,” Peace and Justice Studies Association, Philadelphia, PA, September 2018.
“‘Emigrantes, Palestinos, Estamos Unidos’: Anti-Colonial Connectivity and Resistance along the ‘Palestine-Mexico’ Border,” International Studies Association, San Francisco, CA, April 2018.
“Sovereign Bodies, Sovereign States: The Violence and Visibility of Resistance in Palestine,” International Studies Association, San Francisco, CA, April 2018.
“Neoliberal Developments, National Consciousness, and Political Economies of Resistance in Palestine,” International Studies Association, Baltimore, MD, February 2017.
“‘Improving People’s Lives Is Resistance’: Geographies of Violence and Resistance in Palestine,” International Studies Association, Baltimore, MD, February 2017.
“The Claims of Modernity: Liberal Peace, Sacred Violence, and State Sovereignty,” International Studies Association, Atlanta, GA, March 2016.
“‘Occupied Territory Is Occupied Territory’: James Baldwin, Palestine, and the Possibilities of Transnational Solidarity,” International Studies Association, Atlanta, GA, March 2016 & Peace and Justice Studies Association, Harrisonburg, VA, October 2015.

Church, Community and Professional Service

Chair/Vice-Chair, Global Development Section (GDS), International Studies Association, 2022-2024.
Steering Committee, Mennonite Action, 2024-present.
Board of Directors, Fairfield Mediation Center, Harrisonburg, VA, 2023-present,
Teaching Assistant, Skyline Literacy, Harrisonburg, VA, 2023.
Anti-oppression and Racial Equity Task Force/Committee (chair), Community Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg, VA, 2019-2021.
Teacher, Christian Education Program, Community Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg, VA, 2017-2021.
Board of Directors, Peace and Justice Studies Association, 2014-2018.
Steering Committee, Mennonite Palestine Israel Network, 2013-2017.
Intergroup Dialogue Facilitator, Center for Diversity and Inclusion, American University, Washington, DC, 2014-2015.
Teacher, Christian Education Program (Senior Youth and Adult), Community Mennonite Church, Lancaster, PA, 2013-2016.
Delegation Leader, Interfaith Peace-Builders, Washington, DC-Palestine-Israel, 2012.
Justice and Spirituality Committee (chair), Community Mennonite Church, Lancaster, PA, 2010-2012.
Board of Directors, Lancaster Interchurch Peace Witness, Lancaster, PA, 2009-2012.
Historic Peace Churches/ Fellowship of Reconciliation Consultative Committee (chair), 2009-2012.

Honors, Awards and Grants

THEORY Edited Volume, Special Issue, or Symposium Award (with Alina Sajed), Theory Section, International Studies Association, 2024.
Visiting Researcher, Birzeit University, 2023.
Lilly Faculty Fellow, Eastern Mennonite University, 2020-21.
Teaching and Learning for Campus-wide Interfaith Excellence Grant (Project Director), Association of American Colleges & Universities and Interfaith Youth Core, 2020-21.
Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Languages Grant (Project Director), U.S. Department of Education, 2018-20.
Dissertation Award, Peace and Justice Studies Association, 2017.
Edward Said Award, Global Development Studies Section, International Studies Association, 2016.
Alan Taylor Memorial Award for Excellence in Middle Eastern Studies and University Service, American University School of International Service, 2016.
Randall Research Scholarship, Nonviolence International, 2014-15.

Professional Memberships

International Studies Association (ISA)
Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA)
Middle East Studies Association (MESA)
Palestinian American Research Center (PARC)

Courses Taught

"Exploring Conflict and Peace."
"Introduction to Global Studies."
"Social and Political Economy."
"History of the Middle East."
"Understanding Violent Conflict."
"Globalization and Justice."
"Social Sciences Capstone."
"Global Development."
"Foundations for Justice and Peacebuilding II" (co-instructor).
"Global Challenges, Local Struggles."
"International Intercultural: Middle East" (six-week travel, co-instructor and co-organizer).

Timothy Seidel

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