Occupation
Assistant Professor
ABOUT
I am an assistant professor of Political Science and Literature, Cultures, and Languages at the University of Connecticut. Before starting my position at the University of Connecticut, I was the Harold Grinspoon Research Fellow at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandies University (2018-2019). I was also concurrently an associate fellow at the Middle East Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School, where I was a postdoctoral fellow for the academic year 2017-2018. I received my Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Washington in 2018. My research has appeared in academic journals such as Politics and Gender, Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, The Journal of the Middle East and Africa, Egypte/Monde Arabe, and Muslim World Journal of Human Rights. I have also written for the Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS), The Crown Center Middle East Briefs, The Washington Post's Monkey Cage blog, Jadaliyya, and Mada Masr. My curriculum vitae is enclosed.
Discipline
Political Science
Sub Areas
Gender/Women's Studies
State Formation
Human Rights
Nationalism
Identity/Representation
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Iran
Tunisia
Specialties
Human Rights, Transnational Law, Women's Rights, R
State Feminism, Women's Rights Movements
Feminist Theories Of The State
Languages
Arabic (native)
Persian (elementary)
French (elementary)
Education
PhD
| 2018
| Political Science
| University of Washington
Abstracts
Survivors and not Victims: The movement against public sexual violence beyond the politics of recognition.
The Triumph of Sovereignty over Legitimacy: The weakening of the Judiciary in Post-revolutionary Egypt.
The Arab Spring and Arab Academics: Unequal Patterns of Knowledge production
Veiled Transgressions: Afterlives of the Hijab Ban and the Paradoxes of State Feminism in Tunisia
