research

  • U-M article on Mellon Fellowship

    The University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School wrote a wonderful article on my Mellon Fellowship at the Arab American National Museum: “Gaining Perspective: The Mellon Fellowships at Rackham.”

  • The Humanities Ph.D. Project

    During the summer of 2016, I had the opportunity to participate in a U-M committee of faculty and doctoral candidates that considered the future of the humanities doctorate. In this group, we discussed reimagining U-M doctoral curricula, training opportunities, and interdisciplinary programming in order to support both a wider range of outcomes for humanities doctorates and a…

  • U-M Community of Scholars Fellowship

    I’m so grateful to have received a Community of Scholars fellowship from the University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

  • Mellon Foundation Public Humanities Fellowship

    I was blessed to spend eight weeks (May – July 2015) working as a Mellon Public Humanities Fellow at the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. The Rackham Graduate School at U-M featured my work in this article. Photo by Bruce Harkness I collaborated with a team of educators in order to survey their existing educational materials,…

  • Academic article publication

    I’m happy to announce that my academic article, “Counter Fictions and Imaginary Topographies: Auto/Biographical Methodologies and the Construction of Group Knowledge in Evelyn Shakir’s Bint Arab: Arab and Arab American Women in the United States,” appears in Volume 12, Issue 2-3 (2014) of Hawwa: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World.

  • Humanity & Society Article

    I’m happy to report that the article I co-authored with Lora Lempert, Laura Freeman, and Lesia Liss—“’What Is It that these People Want? Are We Part of Some Kind of Experiment?’: Mentoring in a Women’s Prison”—has been published in Volume 36, Number 1 of Humanity and Society.

  • Upcoming Publications

    I’ve recently received word that two of my essays have been accepted for publication. “What Prison is to the Body” will appear in the Fall 2011 issue of Third Coast. “What is it That These People Want?  Are We Part of Some Kind of Experiment?: Mentoring in a Women’s Prison,” co-authored with Dr. Lora Bex…

  • Searching for Najla

    Searching for Najla:  Moving from private history to public narrative Lecture and Fiction Reading Date: Friday, November 5, 2010 Time: 12:30 – 1:45 p.m. Location: 2039 CB (Sandy Conference Room) University of Michigan 4901 Evergreen Road Dearborn, MI 48128 Lunch will be provided.  RSVP to Sharie Beard at sbeard@umd.umich.edu. In the early 1980s, Princeton historian Alixa…