Occupation
Adjunct Professor
Contact
ABOUT
Randa Kayyali is an Adjunct Professor at George Washington University (Anthropology and International Relations) and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University. She is currently working on a project titled,"Finding Islam in U.S. Official Records on Ancestry, Ethnicity and Race" and conducts archival research at the the U.S. Census Bureau, the National Archives, and the Library of Congress.
She received her doctorate in Cultural Studies in May 2013 with a dissertation on Arab Christian identifications in the U.S. She has also taught Arab World Studies at American University in Washington DC and TAed and taught Anthropology, U.S. History and Global Studies classes at George Mason University. In addition to many articles, she has authored The Arab Americans (Greenwood Press 2006), and El-Amerikeun El-Arab. (Arab Institute for Research and Publishing, 2007). She serves on the Board of the Arab American Studies Association.
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
Anti-Racism
Arab Studies
Christian Studies
Cultural Studies
Ethnic American Studies
Gender/Women's Studies
Globalization
Identity/Representation
Islamic Studies
Minorities
Transnationalism
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Arab States
North America
Specialties
Arab Americans
Census Categories
Public History
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (intermediate)
Education
PhD
| 2013
| Cultural Studies
| George Mason University
MA
| 1996
| Sociology/Anthropology
| American Univ. in Cairo
BA
| 1993
| Politics
| Oberlin College
Abstracts
A Compatible Match: Interdisciplinarity, Cultural Studies and Arab American Studies
The Middle East outside the Middle East: Arab American Identity in a Global World
“Jihad Jane” as “good” American and “bad” Arab girl: navigating feminisms, citizenship and gendered strategies of acceptance
Ancestry, Ethnicity and Language: Mapping the U.S. Census Bureau’s classifications of Middle Eastern Americans since 1910
Remembering the 1967 War: transnational politics, memory and identity
