Biography
Professor Sarah Ihmoud is a sociocultural anthropologist whose research interests lie at the intersections of transnational feminisms; women of color theory; Indigenous and decolonial feminisms; critical race studies; carcerality; and Middle East and Arab American Studies. Drawing upon these fields, her research theorizes the racialization of Palestinian women in Palestine and the diaspora, transnational Palestinian feminism and Palestinian feminist epistemologies. She received her M.A. (2011) and Ph.D. (2017) in social/activist anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin, and B.A. (2006) from Sarah Lawrence College.
Dr. Ihmoud鈥檚 scholarship has been published in American Anthropologist, Feminist Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Feminist Studies, State Crime Journal, Jerusalem Quarterly and Biography. She has also co-authored monographs for UN Women鈥檚 Initiative on Access to Justice and the Rule of Law and Harvard University鈥檚 Carr Center for Human Rights. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Palestinian American Research Center (PARC), the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and the National Endowment for Humanities.
Her current book in progress, Almaqdasiyya: Palestinian Feminism and the Decolonial Imaginary, is a feminist ethnography centering Palestinian women鈥檚 resistance to colonial and patriarchal violence in occupied East Jerusalem. The book asks how a critical feminist lens reshapes our understanding of Israeli settler colonialism, Palestinian liberation and decolonization. She is also co-editing a volume, Fugitive Anthropology, with a collective of Black, Latinx, Indigenous and Queer feminist anthropologists to which she belongs. The volume, supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, centers the embodied experiences of racialized women, queer, trans, and gender non-conforming politically engaged researchers in the field, expanding the analytical and methodological tools for conducting decolonial anthropological fieldwork.
Dr. Ihmoud has taught the Anthropological Perspective, Theory in Anthropology, Coming of Age at the Border and Arab Women鈥檚 Worlds.