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Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi CURRICULUM VITAE Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi CURRICULUM VITAE San Francisco State University / College of Ethnic Studies 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132 [email protected] EDUCATION 2000 Ph.D., Department of Sociology, Yale University 1998 M Phil, Sociology, Yale University 1995 MA, Sociology, Yale University 1994 BA, Summa Cum Laude, Special Honors Curriculum, Sociology and Women’s Studies, Hunter College, City University of New York ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2007- Director and Senior Scholar, Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies (AMED); Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies & Race and Resistance Studies; Affiliated Faculty, Sexuality Studies and Queer Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA 2004-06 Director, Center for Arab American Studies & Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan Dearborn, USA 2001-03 Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, Affiliated Faculty, Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near East Studies, New York University, New York, NY, USA 2000-01 Assistant Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, and Egyptology (SAPE) Member, Joint Steering Committee, Program in Forced Migration and Refugee Studies (FMRS) American University (AUC), Cairo, Egypt 1997-2000 Acting Instructor, Department of Sociology, and Women’s and Gender Studies Program, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA 1999-2000 Adjunct Professor, Department of Sociology and Women’s Studies Program, Hunter College-CUNY, New York, NY, USA Adjunct Professor, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Westchester Community College-SUNY, Valhalla, NY, USA 1998 Visiting Professor, Women’s Studies Program, Birzeit University, Birzeit, Palestine ACADEMIC & COMMUNITY HONORS, AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS 2020 Georgina M. Smith Award by the Association of American University Professors 2019 Named, San Francisco Bay Area Visionary, National Women’s Studies Association Annual meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA (November 16, 2019) The Lucius Walker Community Organizing Award by the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organizing (October 26, 2019) Annual Alex Odeh Memorial Award, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) (October 12, 2019) 2018 Exceptional Level of Service to Students Award, SFSU Academic Senate Steadfastness Award, Al-Awda: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition Convention 2017 Courage Award, American Muslims for Palestine, National Convention Visiting Scholar, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Centre d’Analyse et d'Intervention Sociologiques (CADIS) 2015 Community Leadership Award, American Muslims for Palestine, Silicon Valley, Santa Clara, CA, USA 2012 The Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Arab American Book Award for Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence and Belonging, awarded by RAWI (Radius of Arab American Writers, Inc.) and the Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI, USA 2011 Palestinian Women’s Leadership Award, Arab Feminist Union, (Al-Ittihad Al-Nisa’ii) Headquarters, Nablus, Palestine 2005 Featured, Global Feminisms Project, University of Michigan, Dearborn, MI, USA (1 of 40 feminists featured worldwide) 2004-05 New Century Scholarship, J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, Focus: Toward Equality: Global Empowerment of Women, Co-chair: “Negotiating Citizenship and Diversity: Gender, Nation, and Diasporas”, Individual project, “From Self-Determination to Self-Rule (and Back to Occupation): What Prospects for Palestinian Women?” - $83,000.00 2004 Jury of Conscience, World Tribunal on Iraq with Arundhati Roy, Desmond Tutu, Slavoj Zizek, Kai Lumumba, Barbara Lee, Shirin Neshat, Mary Robinson, Richard Falk, Sinan Antoon, Naomi Klein, and Patti Smith, Cooper Union, New York, NY, USA 2003 Featured Faculty, Women’s Herstory Month 2003, “Gender Prof Espouses Feminism: Armed with Experience, Activist Enlivens Lectures”, Washington Square News 2001 Finalist, Fellows Program, Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs 1997-98 Henry Hart Rice Research Fellowship, Yale Center for International and Area Studies, Dissertation Field Research Fellowship, New Haven, CT, USA 1996 Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship, Yale Center for International and Area Studies, New Haven, CT, USA 1995 Elected to Phi Beta Kappa 1994-96 Sterling Prize Fellowship, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA (Awarded to 30 out of 6000 graduate school applicants) 1994 The Elise Underhill Eaton Award, Women’s Studies Program for “Best Paper Award for “Feminism and Nationalism: Uneasy Tension or Opportunities for Liberation?”, Hunter College of the City University of New York, New York, NY, USA The Suzanne Keller Award, Department of Sociology for Outstanding Honors’ Paper, “Disciplinary Acts: The Discursive Formation of Incarceration and Punishment in the Middle East”, Hunter College of the City University of New York, New York, NY, USA Most Outstanding Graduating Senior, Sidney Wolff Memorial Scholarship for Graduate Study, Dean’s Committee on Senior Scholarship, Hunter College of the City University of New York, New York, NY, USA Frances Morehouse Alpha Chi Alpha Award, Most Outstanding Graduating Senior in the Division of Social Sciences, Hunter College of the City University of New York, New York, NY, USA 1993 Melani Scholarship Fund for Academic Achievement and Community Service, awarded by City University of New York Faculty Women’s Coalition, New York, NY, USA GRANTS, CONTRACTS & RESEARCH INITIATIVES 2019 Instructionally Related Activities Grant, “AMED Film Series”, Student Affairs, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA 2018 Instructionally Related Activities Grant, “AMED Film Series”, Office of the Provost, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA 2016 Development of Research and Creativity Grant, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA Support Grant for the 2016 US, Prisoner, Labor and Academic Delegation to Palestine, awarded by the Hasib Sabbagh Foundation, Instructionally Related Activities Grant, “AMED Film Series”, Office of the Provost, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA Awarded, Research Fellowship, Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon [Unable to accept] Invited, Visiting Scholarship for 2016-2017, Faculty of Communications, Journalism Department, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, Cyprus [Unable to accept] Invited, Visiting Scholar (September 2016-May 2017), Department of Development Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, London, United Kingdom [Unable to accept] Invited, One year Visiting Scholarship, Intersections of Gender and Race in the MENA Region, Afro-Middle East Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa [Unable to accept] Invited, Affiliated Scholarship of Consciousness and Revolution (2016-2017), Center for Place, Culture and Politics, City University of New York Graduate Center, New York, NY, USA 2014-16 “Living Archives: Queer and Feminist Transnational Solidarities” – Research Working Group supported by the Center for Race and Gender, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Research Initiative: “Islamophobia: Gender, Sexuality and Racism”, Center for the Study of Race and Gender, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA 2014-15 “Small Research Grant”, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA “Symposium” co-organized for the World Congress of Middle East Studies, small grant award, Hasib Sabbagh Foundation 2013 “Archiving Transnational Feminist Histories”, A cluster project supported by the Center for Race and Gender at the University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA 2005-14 Research Initiative: “Mapping Arab Diasporas”, Funded by following grants and programs: - One Nation Foundation Grant, “Community Conversations & Intergenerational Dialogue: Stories of Palestinian Diasporas”, Collaboration with Buena Vista Community Institute, 2013-2014 - California Council for the Humanities Grant, “Stories of Palestinian Diasporas Oral History Project”, co-sponsored by the Buena Vista Community Institute (BVCI) and the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies (AMED) at San Francisco State University, 2012-2013 - One Nation Foundation Grant, “Stories of Palestinian Diasporas Oral History Project” in Collaboration with the Buena Vista Community Institute, California Council for the Humanities, 2012-2013 - Instructionally Related Activities Grant, “Picturing Arabs and Muslims”, Office of the Provost, San Francisco State University, 2009-2011 - Research Grant, “Mapping Arab Diasporas Archival Project”, Office of the Vice President for Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2005-2006 - Diversity Challenge Grant, “Arab Diasporas/Comparative Diasporas Film Series”, Office of the Provost, University of Michigan-Dearborn, 2005 - Text-in-Community Grant, Office of the Provost, University of Michigan-Dearborn, 2005 - Distinguished Faculty and Graduate Student Seminar Grant, Arab & Arab American Writers Series, Office of the Vice President for Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2004-2006 2007-10 Three Year Research and Institution Building Grant to create an international Center for the Study of Arab and Communities, College of Ethnic Studies, Office of the Provost and the Office of the Dean of the College of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA Research Initiative: “Islamophobia in Systems of Knowledge”, Project included following:
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