About

Dr Ronit Lentin, (retired) associate professor of sociology,  Trinity College, Dublin.

Ronit was born in Haifa Mandatory Palestine and has lived in Ireland  from 1969 to 2023. She is a political sociologist and a writer of fiction and non-fiction books. Ronit  was head of Department  (2009-12) and director of the MPhil in Race, Ethnicity, Conflict (1997-2012), Department of Sociology, and co-founder of the Trinity Immigration Initiative, Trinity College, Dublin. Ronit was chairperson of Academics for Palestine (2016-2019) and is a member of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign.

Ronit has published extensively on race, Palestine and Israel, racism in Ireland, gender and genocide, and gender and the Holocaust.

Research

Race, Israel and Palestine; racism and immigration in Ireland; migrant-led activism; Israel, gender and the Holocaust; gender and genocide; feminist research methodologies.

Books & Publications