ACOR Proudly Presents: “The Landscape of Research in Jordan and in the Arab Region: Challenges, Transformations, Prospects An ACOR online lecture by Dr. Seteney Shami (Arab Council for the Social Sciences)Delivered via Zoom on May 17, 2021 Simultaneous translation into Arabic was provided by Ala Abusharif/Pegasus Events and Conference Preparation. About the Lecture: What are…
المركز الأمريكي للأبحاث يقدم وبكل فخر :مشهد البحث في الأردن والمنطقة العربية” “التحديات، والتحوّلات، والآفاق محاضرة عامة تلقيها الدكتورة ستناي شامي (المجلس العربي للعلوم الاجتماعية)يوم الإثنين الموافق 17 أيار/مايو :عن المحاضرة نأمل ان نراكم قريباً ومحاضرة جديدة مع أكور Related Links: The Arab Council for the Social Sciences Website 2021–2022 ACOR Fellowship and Scholarship Awardees
Dr. José Ciro Martínez is an ACOR-CAORC post-doctoral fellow for summer 2019, and also Title A Research Fellow at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. During his ACOR fellowship, Dr. Martínez will be completing his first monograph, based on his PhD dissertation. It is provisionally entitled, The Politics of Bread: Performing the State in Hashemite Jordan….
Rawan Arar is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and a ACOR-CAORC Fellow for the spring of 2018. With an emphasis on refugees, Rawan’s research contributes to scholarly debates about states, rights, and theories of international immigration. She critiques global inequality and studies the interrelated politics between states….
Dr. Frances S. Hasso is an ACOR-CAORC Post Doctoral Fellow in residence at ACOR in the Spring of 2018. She is an Associate Professor in the Program in Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke with secondary appointments in the History Department and the Sociology Department and an affiliate appointment in the Duke Middle East Studies…
Place Matters: Understanding Aid Work in Jordan through Cafe Interviews Patricia “Trish” Ward is an ACOR-CAORC Fellow, Fall 2017 and a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at Boston University. Her research looks at questions related to humanitarian aid, migration management, and labor in contexts considered crisis zones. She writes below about her experiences interviewing aid workers…
Frances S. Hasso is an Associate Professor in Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke University with secondary appointments in the faculties of Sociology and History. She is an Editor of the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies. Before she joined Duke University in 2010, she taught for 10 years as a faculty member at…