Dana M. Olwan |Hamad Bin Khalifa University
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Dana M. Olwan

Dr. Dana M. Olwan (PhD)


Associate Professor
Middle Eastern Studies Department (MESD)
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Master of Arts in Women, Society and Development

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Biography

Dana Olwan joins the Master of Arts in Women, Society, and Development from Syracuse University where she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies. Her work is located at the nexus of feminist theorizations of gender violence, transnational solidarities, and critical feminist pedagogies. She is the recipient of a Mellon Emerging Faculty Leader Award from the Institute of Citizens and Scholars, a Future Minority Studies postdoctoral fellowship, and a Palestinian American Research Council grant. Her work has appeared in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Feminist Formations, the Journal of Settler Colonial Studies, American Quarterly, and Feral Feminisms. She is co-editor with Margaret A. Pappano of Muslim Mothering: Local and Global Histories, Theories, and Practices (Demeter Press, 2016). Her first book Gender Violence and The Transnational Politics of the Honor Crime was published by Ohio State University Press in 2021. She is currently working on a new project that is centered on marriage and divorce laws and citizenship practices in the Arab world, with a specific focus on Jordan and women’s access to personal status rights. She teaches courses on feminist theory, comparative settler colonialisms, and gender politics in the Middle East and North Africa. She is co-editor (with Chandra Talpade Mohanty) of Comparative Feminist Studies from Palgrave Macmillan.

 


Research Interests

  • Gender violence (with a particular focus on discursive constructions of gender violence and transnational anti-violence activism and resistance).
  • Gender, citizenship practices, and the law (focus on personal status issues such as marriage and the right to divorce in Jordan and Palestine).
  • Comparative settler colonialisms and feminist solidarities (between the US, Canada, and Palestine).
  • Genealogies of Women’s and Gender Studies (field formations, institutional co-optations, and radical histories).
  • Feminist pedagogies (curricular development and transformation).

Experience

Associate Professor

Women’s and Gender Studies, Syracuse University

2020
  • Assistant Professor

    Sociology and Anthropology Program, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies

    2015-2018
  • Assistant Professor

    Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Syracuse University

    2012-2015
  • Ruth Wynn Woodward Junio Chair in Gender

    Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, Simon Fraser University

    2011-2012
  • Assistant Professor

    Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Queen’s University

    2009-2011

Education

Ph.D. in English Literature

Queen’s University (Kingston, Canada)

2009
  • MA in English Literature

    Georgetown University (Washington, DC)

    2003
  • BA in English Literature

    La Roche University (Pittsburgh, PA)

    2001
  • BA in English Literature

    Yarmouk University (Irbid, Jordan)

    1998

Selected Publications

  • Gender Violence and the Transnational Politics of the Honor Crime

    The Ohio State University Press, Spring 2021

    2021
  • Muslim Mothering:

    Local and Global Histories, Theories, and Practices. (with Margaret Aziza Pappano). Toronto: Demeter Press, 2016. (297 Pages)

    2016
  • “Sexual Divestments from Empire:

    Women’s Studies, Institutional Feeling and the ‘Odious’ Machine.” (with Anna M. Agathengelou, Tamara L. Spira and Heather Turcotte). Feminist Formations. 27.3 (Winter 2015): 136-167

    2015
  • “Gendered Violence, Cultural Otherness, and Honour Crimes in Canadian National Logics.”

    Canadian Journal of Sociology. 38. 4 (2013): 533-555

    2013
  • “On Assumptive Solidarities in Comparative Settler Colonialisms.”

    Feral Feminisms. 4 (Summer 2015): 89-102

    2015
  • Other Publications

    “Why BDS is a Feminist Issue.” Al Jazeera. November 24, 2015

    http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2015/11/essay-bds-feminist-issue-151124063536327.html