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Bio
I am a sixth year graduate student and am currently doing field research in Clichy-sous-Bois, a suburb in the east of Paris. The focus of my ethnographic research is on subjectivity formation among Muslim and Afro-French communities living in marginal urban spaces within postcolonial France. My research sheds light on the complex relationships between bodies, subjectivities, spaces, movements, and urban technologies. In this research I trace the genealogy of racialization throughout the colonial history of French modernity to examine the current lifewords of French youth with Muslim, Maghreban, Sub-saharian and Caribbean origins.
Education
2001 M.S. Computer Engineering, University of Balamand, Beirut, Lebanon
1999 B.S. Computer Engineering, University of Balamand, Beirut, Lebanon
CERTIFICATES AND SUMMER INSTITUTES
2008 University of Leuven - Belgium Foucault Spring School, Taught by Profs. Lois McNay, Thomas Lemke, & Saul Newman
2007 Cornell University School of Criticism and Theory (Summer Institute), “The Logos and Pathos of Empire” taught by Prof. Ann Stoler
2006 University of Massachusetts Amherst, Graduate Certificate in Advanced Feminist Studies
Research
Comprehensive Exam 1: Translation and Governmentality in the Coverage of the New York Times
Comprehensive Exam 2: Exam on Nationalism, urban sociology, diasporic studies
Dissertation title: French Postcolonial Nationalisms and Afro-French subjectivities
Profs. Agustin Lao-Montes (chair), Joya Misra, Millie Thayer, Henry Geddes.
Publications:
Articles
2006: Media Is The Continuation Of War With Other Means: The New York Times’ Coverage Of The Israeli War On Lebanon. The MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 6, Summer. 126-140.
Work in Progress
“An Interview with R. Radhakrishnan” conducted in collaboration with Jed Murr.
“The New York Times: Dispatches from the ‘Orient’”
“Afro-French Diasporas: The politics of a signifier”
Encyclopedia Entries
2009: “Discourse” Entry in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literary and Cultural Theory. Eds. Michael Ryan and Gregory Castle. Malden, MA: Blackwell P. Forthcoming.
Research Assistant, Teaching and Learning in a Diverse Classroom with Prof. Ann Ferguson
Dec 2006 - May 2007
Teaching
Sociology 401- Sociological Theory, Spring 2007
Sociology 401- Sociological Theory, Fall 2007
Sociology 401- Sociological Theory, Spring 2006
Sociology 106 - Race, Class and Gender, Fall 2006
Sociology 241 – Criminology, Spring 2004
Sociology 103 – Social Problems, Fall 2004
Continuing Education
Sociology 224 - Social Inequality, Summer 2006
