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Banu Bargu (History of Consciousness) published Disembodiment: Corporeal Politics of Radical Refusal with Oxford University Press. A panel at the American Political Science Association (APSA) in September was dedicated to this work.
Jennifer Derr (History) is a fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute in 2024-2025.
Lydia Barrett (Music) began fieldwork in Tangier in early September with support from the US Fulbright Commission and the Moroccan-American Commission for Educational & Cultural Exchange (MACECE). They were also awarded a multi-country fellowship from the Council of Overseas Research Centers (CAORC).
Yasmeen Daifallah (Politics) presented a paper entitled “Concept Invention as Political Critique: The Political Theory of Taha Abdurrahman” at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA) in September.
Robin Jones (History of Consciousness) received funding from the Humanities Institute as well as the Center for Labor and Community to conduct his dissertation research on Syrian left-wing opposition organizations from the 1970s to the 1990s. He is currently conducting research in Berlin.
Alma Heckman’s (History) book The Sultan’s Communists: Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging (Stanford University Press, 2020) was reviewed in the American Historical Review in September. An Arabic translation was published by Dar Abi Rakrak Press.
Thomas Serres (Politics) was awarded a fellowship from the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM) and will be in Tunis for fall 2024 and winter 2025. He published an article in Middle East Critique entitled “Diasporic Democratic Future: The Algerian Hirak in Tunis, Paris, and the Bay Area.”
Mark Fathi Massoud was a Berlin Prize Fellow in the spring of 2024. The prize is awarded annually to US-based scholars, writers, composers, and artists who represent the highest standards of excellence in their fields, from the humanities and social sciences to journalism, public policy, fiction, the visual arts, and music composition.
Yasmine Benabdallah’s (Film and Digital Media) film “How to reverse a spell, the promise of an archive” was screened as part of “Beyond The Seventh Gate: Contemporary Moroccan artists’ moving image” at the Glasgow Short Film Festival.
Jack Davies (History of Consciousness) submitted his dissertation, “Wages of Settlers: An Intellectual History of Colonialism and Capitalist Development,” and has begun a postdoctoral fellowship at Georgetown University.
Elaine Sullivan’s (History) book Constructing the Sacred: Visibility and Ritual Landscape at the Egyptian Necropolis of Saqqara (Stanford University Press, 2022) received ‘Honorable Mention’ in the ACLS and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award competition. The award recognizes open access Humanities books published between 2017-2022 that were deemed exceptional, innovative, and open humanities scholarship.