Judith Friedlander has done anthropological research on questions of ethnic identity in Mexico, the American Southwest and France. In addition to "Being Indian in Hueyapan," she is best known for having written "Vilna on the ""Seine"": Jewish Intellectuals in ""France"" Since 1968" and for translating works by the French public intellectual Alain Finkielkraut. Since 1972, Friedlander has taught Anthropology at SUNY Purchase, Hunter College/the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the New School for Social Research. She has also served as an academic dean at these three instit...