Lauren Palmieri is a Ph.D. student of modern Arab history, focusing on gender and labor in Occupied Palestine throughout the 1970s and 1980s. She examines the expansion of subcontracted factory labor into the West Bank and its impact on the family economy and the gendering of space. Her work also engages with union mobilization, rural v. urban dynamics, and commodity chains.

Prior to Rice, Lauren completed a Master's thesis titled "Articulating Resistance: Gender, Class, and Sumud in the Occupied West Bank, 1967-1987," which studied a new wave of mass mobilization and grassroots organizing and analyzed how these women's committees engaged with questions of labor compared to the lower class communities that they sought to mobilize. Lauren's other projects have also engaged with female literary networks and colonial mapping.