Sherena Razek

Education:

B.A., History and Theory of Art, University of Ottawa; M.A., Art History, Visual Art, and Theory, University of British Columbia; Ph.D., Modern Culture and Media, Brown University

Dissertation:

Nakba Ecologies: On Elemental Intifada in Colonized Palestine

Thesis Advisor:

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Comparative Literature, Brown University

Research Topic:

Nakba Ecologies: On Elemental Intifada in Colonized Palestine deconstructs common anthropocentric assumptions that cast settler colonization and climate disaster within distinctive trajectories of study. Each chapter contends with what I am calling ‘the Palestinian elemental’—its materialities, its methodologies, its toxicities, and its transformative capacities—as a framework that disrupts the foreclosures of the horizon of Palestinian liberation and its planetary reverberations.

Mentor:

Sherene Razack, Professor of Gender Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Current Position:

President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Gender Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

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