The Racial Violence Hub

The Genocidal Assault on Palestine: A Transnational Feminist Call to End Colonialism and War

Presenters

Dr. Sherene H. Razack

Distinguished Professor and the Penny Kanner Endowed Chair Emerita in Gender Studies Her most recent book is: Nothing Has to Make Sense: Upholding White Supremacy Through Anti-Muslim Racism (2022).

Dr. Inderpal Grawal

Professor Emeritus of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. She is one of the founders of the field of transnational feminist studies, and known for her work on transnational feminism, cultural theory, feminist theory, and her extensive research on cultures of colonialism and empire.

Dr. Loubna Qutami

Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at the UCLA. Qutami’s research examines transnational Palestinian youth movements after the 1993 Oslo Accords through the 2011 Arab Uprisings

Dr. Elora Shehabuddin

Professor of Gender & Women Studies and Global Studies and Director of the Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies at UC Berkeley. 

Dr. Evelyn Alsultany

Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion (2022).

Dr. Caren Kaplan

Professor Emerita of American Studies at the University of California at Davis. She is the author of Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above (Duke 2018), Life in the Age of Drone Warfare (Duke 2017).

Dr. Sherene Seikaly

Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her book Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2016) explores economy, territory, the home, and the body

Dr. Nadine Naber

University of Illinois at Chicago in Gender and Women’s Studies, Global Asian Studies, and Anthropology. She is the author of Arab and Arab American Feminisms (Syracuse University Press, 2010).

Dr. Minoo Moallem

Professor of Gender and Women Studies and an affiliated faculty with several departments and centers at UC Berkeley. She is the author of Persian Carpets: The Nation As a Transnational Commodity, Routledge, 2018.