Department/College/UnitArts Division

TitlePhD Student

AffiliationGraduate

Other UCSC Campus AffiliationCenter for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA)

Primary Office LocationPorter College Academic

Office HoursEmail me

Mail StopPorter Faculty Services

Biography, Education and Training

BA, Highest Honors in Social Theory & Practice, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Summary of Expertise

Contemporary Art of Palestine and the SWANA Region, Palestinian Visual Culture, Art as Resistance, Palestinian Futurism(s), Speculative Fiction and Sci-Fi, Media Studies

Awards, Honors and Grants

CMENA Arabic Language Study Graduate Fellowship, University of California, Santa Cruz (2025)

VS Travel & Research Grant, University of California, Santa Cruz (2025)

Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship, University of California, Santa Cruz (2024-2029)

Graduate Fellowship Program Award, SustainED Lab (2023)

Selected Presentations

Repurposing Crisis: Exploring (im)possibility in Palestinian Futurities of Larissa Sansour, UCLA Art History Graduate Symposium: In Crisis, University of California, Los Angeles (2024)

(Im)possible Imagination: Palestinian Futurism in Art & Film, University of Michigan (2022)