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Scholar Affiliates

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.

Dr. Penny Green

Penny Green is Professor of Law and Globalisation and Head of the Law School at Queen Mary University of London. Professor Green has published eleven books and numerous articles.

Dr. Richard Falk

Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University, Chair of Global Law, Faculty of Law, at Queen Mary University London, Research Associate the Orfalea Center of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Fellow of the Tellus Institute.

Dr. Raz Segal

Dr. Raz Segal holds a Ph.D. in History from Clark University (the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 2013). He is Associate Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Endowed Professor in the Study of Modern Genocide at Stockton University, where he also serves as Director of the MA program in Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian

نادرة شلهوب-كيفوركيان

Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, a Palestinian feminist, is the Lawrence D. Biele Chair in Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Faculty of Law, Institute of Criminology, and Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare.

Dr. Aslı Ü. Bâli

Aslı Ü. Bâli is a Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Bâli’s teaching and research interests include public international law — particularly human rights law and the law of the international security order — and comparative constitutional law, with a focus on the Middle East.

Dr. Saree Makdisi

Saree Makdisi is Professor of English and Chair of the department at UCLA. His teaching and research are situated at the crossroads of several different fields, including British Romanticism, imperial culture, colonial and postcolonial theory and criticism, and the cultures of urban modernity, particularly the revision and contestation of charged urban spaces, including London, Beirut and Jerusalem.