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.
Women’s and Gender Studies, Syracuse University
2020Sociology and Anthropology Program, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
2015-2018Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Syracuse University
2012-2015Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, Simon Fraser University
2011-2012Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Queen’s University
2009-2011Queen’s University (Kingston, Canada)
2009Georgetown University (Washington, DC)
2003La Roche University (Pittsburgh, PA)
2001Yarmouk University (Irbid, Jordan)
1998The Ohio State University Press, Spring 2021
2021Local and Global Histories, Theories, and Practices. (with Margaret Aziza Pappano). Toronto: Demeter Press, 2016. (297 Pages)
2016Women’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
2015Canadian Journal of Sociology. 38. 4 (2013): 533-555
2013Feral Feminisms. 4 (Summer 2015): 89-102
2015“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