Meet the 2021 Institute Participants
[Logistical constraints require us to limit the number of overall participants and bring new participants in each year. The 2021 iteration features applicants admitted for the 2020 iteration, which was canceled due to the pandemic, along with new applicants admitted for 2021.]
Sara Dima Abi Saab
Institution:
Department Middle East and Islamic Studies, New York University
Dissertation Title:
Municipal Decentralization: Dialectics of Power and Durability in Post- War Lebanon
PhD Examination Fields :
Culture and Representation in the Middle East; Theories of Power and Biopolitics; Theories of Space
Department Middle East and Islamic Studies, New York University
Dissertation Title:
Municipal Decentralization: Dialectics of Power and Durability in Post- War Lebanon
PhD Examination Fields :
Culture and Representation in the Middle East; Theories of Power and Biopolitics; Theories of Space
Brent Eng
Institution:
Department of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley
Dissertation Title:
Of Bakeries: Life, Bread, and Repair amongst Syrians in Tripoli
PhD Examination Fields :
Anthropology of Islam; Anthropology of Symbolic Forms; Anthropology of the Body
Department of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley
Dissertation Title:
Of Bakeries: Life, Bread, and Repair amongst Syrians in Tripoli
PhD Examination Fields :
Anthropology of Islam; Anthropology of Symbolic Forms; Anthropology of the Body
Cyma Farah
Institution:
Department of History, Rice University
Dissertation Title:
Michel Chiha’s Minority Politics in Lebanon during the French Mandate (1920-1943)
PhD Examination Fields:
Modern Middle East; US in the Middle East; World History
Department of History, Rice University
Dissertation Title:
Michel Chiha’s Minority Politics in Lebanon during the French Mandate (1920-1943)
PhD Examination Fields:
Modern Middle East; US in the Middle East; World History
Ellis Garey
Institution:
Departments of History and Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies, New York University
Dissertation Title:
Becoming Workers: Labor Activism and Mass Politics in Greater Syria 1880–1936
PhD Examination Fields:
Modern Middle East History; Global Histories of Capitalism
Departments of History and Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies, New York University
Dissertation Title:
Becoming Workers: Labor Activism and Mass Politics in Greater Syria 1880–1936
PhD Examination Fields:
Modern Middle East History; Global Histories of Capitalism
Jonathan Hassine
Institution:
Department of History, Sorbonne University
Dissertation Title:
The Civil War Through the Lebanese Army's Lenses: Between the Barracks, the Militia and Home
PhD Examination Fields:
Modern Middle East History; Lebanese Civil War; Civil-Military Relations
Department of History, Sorbonne University
Dissertation Title:
The Civil War Through the Lebanese Army's Lenses: Between the Barracks, the Militia and Home
PhD Examination Fields:
Modern Middle East History; Lebanese Civil War; Civil-Military Relations
Maya El Helou
Institution:
Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto
Dissertation Title:
Queer and Feminist Insurgencies in Urban Beirut
Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto
Dissertation Title:
Queer and Feminist Insurgencies in Urban Beirut
Sintia Issa
Institution:
History of Art and Visual Culture, University of California Santa Cruz
Dissertation Title:
Visual Culture and the Politics of Waste: The Toxic Legacy of Post-war Neoliberalism in Lebanon
PhD Examination Fields:
Lebanese Contemporary Art & Aesthetic Experiments; Critical Waste Studies; Speculative Ecologies & Aesthetics
History of Art and Visual Culture, University of California Santa Cruz
Dissertation Title:
Visual Culture and the Politics of Waste: The Toxic Legacy of Post-war Neoliberalism in Lebanon
PhD Examination Fields:
Lebanese Contemporary Art & Aesthetic Experiments; Critical Waste Studies; Speculative Ecologies & Aesthetics
Joseph Leidy
Institution:
Department of History, Brown University
Dissertation Title:
On Young Shoulders: Migration, Mobilization, and the Emergence of Youth in Lebanese Society, 1850 – 1950
PhD Examination Fields:
Modern Middle East History; The Middle East and the Americas; Environmental History
Department of History, Brown University
Dissertation Title:
On Young Shoulders: Migration, Mobilization, and the Emergence of Youth in Lebanese Society, 1850 – 1950
PhD Examination Fields:
Modern Middle East History; The Middle East and the Americas; Environmental History
Mone Makkawi
Institution:
Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University
Dissertation Title:
The Others' City: Refugees and Migrants in Urban Lebanon
PhD Examination Fields:
Space and Infrastructure; Lebanon, Urbanism, and (Palestinian) Refugeehood
Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University
Dissertation Title:
The Others' City: Refugees and Migrants in Urban Lebanon
PhD Examination Fields:
Space and Infrastructure; Lebanon, Urbanism, and (Palestinian) Refugeehood
Evelyn Richardson
Institution:
Department of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago
Dissertation Title:
Positivism and Poiesis: The Remote Past in Arabic Literature, 1805–1914
Department of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago
Dissertation Title:
Positivism and Poiesis: The Remote Past in Arabic Literature, 1805–1914
Anthony Rizk
Institution:
Department of Anthropology, Graduate Institute of Geneva
Dissertation Title:
Salvageable Life: Political Economy of Pathogens in Lebanon’s Laboratory Sciences
PhD Examination Fields:
History and Anthropology of Science; Medical Anthropology
Department of Anthropology, Graduate Institute of Geneva
Dissertation Title:
Salvageable Life: Political Economy of Pathogens in Lebanon’s Laboratory Sciences
PhD Examination Fields:
History and Anthropology of Science; Medical Anthropology
Rachel Rosenbaum
Institution:
Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona
Dissertation Title:
Recycling Residues of Violence: Infrastructure Politics in Beirut
PhD Examination Fields:
Topics and Theory in Infrastructure Studies; Historicizing the State; Producing Urban Citizenship; Cultural and Economic Politics of Environment(s)
Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona
Dissertation Title:
Recycling Residues of Violence: Infrastructure Politics in Beirut
PhD Examination Fields:
Topics and Theory in Infrastructure Studies; Historicizing the State; Producing Urban Citizenship; Cultural and Economic Politics of Environment(s)
Samee Sulaiman
Institution:
Department of Anthropology, Brown University
Dissertation Title:
An Ethnography of Disability Rights and Displacement in Lebanon in the Aftermath of War
PhD Examination Fields:
Sovereignty, Citizenship, and Ethics; The Politics of movement and the Movement of Politics in the Middle East; Disability and the Body
Department of Anthropology, Brown University
Dissertation Title:
An Ethnography of Disability Rights and Displacement in Lebanon in the Aftermath of War
PhD Examination Fields:
Sovereignty, Citizenship, and Ethics; The Politics of movement and the Movement of Politics in the Middle East; Disability and the Body
Lama Tawwakol
Institution:
Political Studies, Queen's University
Dissertation Title:
The Power, Politics and Paradoxes of Global (Water) Governance: A Political Economy Analysis of Humanitarian-Development Aid Flows to Lebanon and Jordan Post-2011
PhD Examination Fields:
International Relations; Political Theory
Political Studies, Queen's University
Dissertation Title:
The Power, Politics and Paradoxes of Global (Water) Governance: A Political Economy Analysis of Humanitarian-Development Aid Flows to Lebanon and Jordan Post-2011
PhD Examination Fields:
International Relations; Political Theory
Co-Convener: Ziad Abu-Rish |
Co-Convener: Nadya Sbaiti |
Co-Convener: Andrew Arsan |
Ziad Abu-Rish is Visiting Associate Professor of Human Rights at Bard College, where he directs the MA in Human Rights and the Arts. His research interests focus on state formation, economic development, and social mobilization in the mid-twentieth-century Levant. Abu-Rish earned his PhD from the Department of History at the University of California Los Angeles, and his MA in Arab Studies from the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University. He serves on the editorial teams of the Arab Studies Journal and Jadaliyya e-zine. He also directs the Arab Studies Institute's Lebanon Project. Abu-Rish's publications include "Lebanon beyond Exceptionalism" (A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa, 2020), "Garbage Politics" (Middle East Report, Winter 2015), and “Protests, Regime Stability, and State Formation in Jordan,” as well as two co-edited volumes: The Dawn of the Arab Uprisings: End of an Old Order? (Pluto Press, 2012) and Critical Voices On and From the Middle East (Tadween Publishing, 2015).
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Nadya Sbaiti is Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies at the American University of Beirut (AUB). She earned her MA in Arab Studies and her PhD in History from Georgetown University and specializes in the social and cultural histories of the modern Middle East. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled “Pedagogical Constituencies and Communities of Knowledge in Mandate Lebanon,” which examines the central role of education to the formation of multiple national narratives and the production of history in Lebanon under French mandate. Her recent publications include “ A Massacre Without Precedent’”; “‘If the Devil Spoke French’: Strategies of Language and Learning in French Mandate Beirut,” and has written articles that guide researchers through Lebanon’s postwar archival terrain. Additional research interests include spatial manifestations of colonial and national projects; colonial methods of social control through prisons and asylums; the production of history as both discursive and material practice; tourism and heritage; and contemporary popular culture (music, film, game shows, and reality television). Sbaiti has taught introductory surveys of modern Middle Eastern history, courses on women and gender in the Middle East, the history of education, the Middle East and World War I, aspects of colonialism and nationalism, as well as nonwestern urban history. In addition, she is a co-editor of Jadaliyya e-zine, and served as co-editor of the peer-reviewed Arab Studies Journal.
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Andrew Arsan is Senior Lecturer in Modern Middle Eastern History in the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge. He is a political, cultural, and intellectual historian of the modern Middle East. He is the author of two books, Interlopers of Empire: The Lebanese Diaspora in Colonial French West Africa (2014) and Lebanon: A Country in Fragments (2018), and the editor with Cyrus Schayegh of the Routledge Handbook of the History of the Middle Eastern Mandates (2015). He is now at work on two book projects: a synoptic history of the lands that we now call Lebanon; and a new history of the Arab twentieth century.
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