Liora Halperin is Professor of International Studies and History, and Distinguished Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies, at the University of Washington. She is a historian of Palestine and Israel with interests in Jewish social and cultural history and collective memory. She is the author of The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past (Stanford University Press, 2021) and Babel in Zion: Jews, Nationalism, and Language Diversity in Palestine, 1920-1948 (Yale University Press, 2015).