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.
Women, Society and Development Program, College of Humanities and Social Science, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
2018 - presentEuropean Centre for Palestine Studies, University of Exeter, UK
2016 - presentDepartment of Politics and International Relations, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
2016 - 2018Center for Palestine Studies, Columbia University
2015Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, UK
2010 - 2016University of Exeter, UK
2010SOAS, UK
2005University of Cambridge, UK
2004South Atlantic Quarterly, Vol. 117, No. 1. Salih, R., Richter-Devroe, S. 2018
2018A Naqab Bedouin Woman’s Narrative of Displacement, Expulsion and Escape in Historic Southern Palestine, 1930s-1970s HAWWA, Vol. 14, No. 3. 2017
2017Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies, Vol. 15, No.1. 2016
2016On the Politics of Art, Aesthetics, and Affect Arab Studies Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1. Salih, R. and Richter-Devroe, S. 2014
2014Different Generations, but One Identity, The Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Institute of International Studies, Birzeit University, Palestine. 2013
2013Palestinian Refugees’ Narratives on the Right of Return Refugee Survey Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 2. 2013
2013Palestinian Women’s Popular Resistance after the Second Intifada International Feminist Journal of Politics, Vol. 14, No. 1. 2012
2012Between Normality and Normalization Journal of International Women’s Studies, Vol. 12, No. 2. 2011
2011Palestinian Women’s Activism in Conflict Resolution and Nonviolent Resistance in Al-Ali, N. and Pratt, N. (eds) Women and War in the Middle East: Transnational Perspectives, London, Zed Books. 2009
2009Journal of Middle Eastern Women's Studies, Vol. 4, No. 2. 2008
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