Sophie Richter-Devroe is Associate Professor in the Women, Society and Development Program at the College of Humanities and Social Science, Hamad Bin Khalifa University.  

Sophie's broad research interests are in the field of everyday politics and women's activism in the Middle East. 

She is the author of “Women's Political Activism in Palestine: Peacebuilding, Resistance and Survival" (University of Illinois Press, 2018) which won the National Women's Studies Association/University of Illinois Press First Book Prize. The book analyzes Palestinian women’s creative and often informal everyday forms of political activism after the Oslo Accords. 
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/35ghr7wd9780252041860.html

Sophie also conducted research on the oral histories, memories and narratives of women from the often forgotten Palestinian Naqab Bedouin population, and has worked with Dr Ruba Salih (SOAS) on a joint research on Palestinian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon and the West Bank. More recently, she has led a research project on Syrian refugees in Italy and Greece. The project investigates the impact of the Syrian refugee crisis on the family and family-making practices in a transnational context. 

Sophie’s research is based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan and Greece.