Department/College/UnitArts Division

TitlePhD Student

AffiliationGraduate

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

Primary Office LocationKresge College Academic Building

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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

Awards, Honors and Grants

CRES Research/Travel Grant, UCSC Critical Race & Ethnic Studies Department (2025)

CART Summer Archives Workshop, UCSC Center for Archival Research & Training (2025)

Residential Writing Fellowship, Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism (2025)

CMENA Arabic Language Study Graduate Fellowship, UCSC Center for the Middle East and North Africa (2025)

Visual Studies Travel & Research Grant, UCSC Visual Studies Program (2025)

Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship, UCSC Division of Graduate Studies (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)