dena harry saleh

  • Ph.D. Student
  • ETHNIC STUDIES
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Office Location: Ketchum 355

Pronouns: they / them

 

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Education                         

B.A., The New School, New York City - Non-Fiction & Fiction Writing, 2008
M.A., University of 欧美口爆视频 Denver - Human Development and Learning, 2015                      

Research Interests

Queer and Trans Palestinian Studies, Diaspora Studies, Abolitionist Frameworks, Decolonial methodologies, Arab Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Indigenous Knowledges, Anti-Colonial/Anti-Imperial Social Movements, Trans and Queer Muslim Studies 

Through my research, I will seek to understand and delineate the many ways in which Trans and Queer Palestinians assert our existence into a world that wants to annihilate us. I will research diasporic Palestinians as well as native Palestinians, and, through cultural productions, show how Queer and Trans Palestinians create our own decolonial onto-epistemologies, which includes being at the forefront of the massive social change and yet simultaneously invisibilized. I seek to theorize about the subjectivity of refugee-as-settler in colonial contexts, and the short and long-term effects of displacement vis-a-vis war and planned erasure. I also wish to add to the growing body of knowledge surrounding the creation of Queer and Trans Palestinian Decolonial Cosmologies.