Nadia Abu El-Haj has written on a variety of topics ranging from the history of archaeology in Palestine to the question of race and genomics today. She is the author of three books: Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society (2001), The Genealogical Science: The Search for Jewish Origins and the Politics of Epistemology (2012), and Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in post-9/11 America (2022).