Contact
Marquette University
Languages, Literatures and Cultures
P.O. Box 1881
Milwaukee
WI
53201
ABOUT
Dr. Enaya Othman is Associate Professor at Marquette University. She is the founder of Arab and Muslim Women’s Research and Resource Institute, AMWRRI. She serves as the President of AMWRRI Board of Directors. Her research interest focuses on Arab and Muslim feminism, immigration, cultural encounter in colonial and diaspora contexts, gendered disabilities and body politics. She is the author of Negotiating Palestinian Womanhood: Encounters Between Palestinian Women and American Missionaries, 1880s-1940s along with a number of articles including “Building a Community among Early Arab Immigrants in Milwaukee, 1890s-1960s.” Wisconsin Magazine of History; “Meeting at Middle Ground: American Quaker Women’s Two Palestinian Encounters” Jerusalem Quarterly; “Strategies of Recognition’ and Palestinian Immigrant Women’s Cultural Dress: Forging Communities and Negotiating Power Relations,” Journal of New Middle East Studies. She also developed and acted as the principle organizer of the Milwaukee Public Museum exhibit: “Beyond the Veil: Dress, Identity and Tradition Through the Eyes of the Muslim and Arab Women of Greater Milwaukee.”
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Arab Studies
Cultural Studies
Arabic
Ethnic American Studies
Identity/Representation
Islamic Studies
Gender/Women's Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Arab States
North America
Palestine
Specialties
Amer Hist/Ethnicity
ME Hist
Arab And Muslim Women
Languages
Arabic (native)
English (advanced)
Education
PhD
| 2009
| History
| Marquette
MA
| 1998
| Hist
| U of Wisconsin
Abstracts
American Palestinian Women’s Marriages Within and Beyond Borders: Contestation, Negotiation, and Agency
Crossroad Imagination: the thob Mediating between Palestinian Material Culture and Gendered Activism
Disability and Female Body: Reflections of American Muslim Women with Disability
