Shaundel Sanchez is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Syracuse University. She earned her Master’s Degree in Public Administration at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School in 2014. Shaundel’s research interests include citizenship, belonging, and mobility. Her current research focuses on the question of belonging for US-citizen Muslim residents in the United Arab Emirates. This study analyzes a community of people who frequently travel between their country of citizenship and a Muslim-majority country where they have resided for over 25 years. This research follows these highly mobile people during a time when many countries are seeking to enforce state borders. She has conducted ethnographic research since December 2015, following research participants in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, and throughout various locations in the United States. Her publications can be found in American Anthropologist, Current Anthropology, and Anthropology News, among others. Shaundel has presented this work in various conferences, including the Society for Applied Anthropology, the Society for Cultural Anthropology, the Middle East Studies Association, and the American Anthropological Association. She has a Certificate in University Teaching (CUT) and is a Certified Atlas.ti Student Trainer (CAST).

Anthropology

Gulf Studies

Transnationalism

Ethnography

Gulf

UAE

Citizenship

Belonging

Gulf Cooperation Council Countries

English (native)