Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
ABOUT
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).
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
Gulf Studies
Transnationalism
Ethnography
Geographic Areas of Interest
Gulf
UAE
Specialties
Citizenship
Belonging
Gulf Cooperation Council Countries
Languages
English (native)
Education
MPA
| 2014
| Department of Public Administration
| Syracuse University
BA
| 2009
| Department of Anthropology
| California State University, Chico
Abstracts
Doing the State’s Work: Self-Governing Practices by US Citizens Living in the United Arab Emirates
Noncitizen Belonging: US-Citizen Muslims in Sharjah