فلسطين -والامبراطورية- مهمين للدراسات العربية الأمريكية/دراسات جنوب غرب آسيا وشمال أفريقيا
Keywords:
Arab American studies
Palestinian diaspora
race
surveillance
Solidarity
censorship
community studies
SWANA
Author biography:
Louise Cainkar is professor of sociology and social welfare and justice at Marquette University, where she won the 2021 Marquette University Community Engaged Teaching Award. She also directs the major in peace studies and minor in Arab and Muslim American studies. She has published widely on Arab Americans and Muslim Americans. She is coeditor, with Michael W. Suleiman and Suad Joseph, of Arab American Women: Representation and Refusal (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2021) and of Sajjilu Arab American: A Reader in SWANA Studies, with Pauline Homsi Vinson and Amira Jarmakani, forthcoming from Syracuse University Press. Her book Homeland Insecurity: The Arab American and Muslim American Experience after 9/11 (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2009) was honored as Outstanding Adult Non-Fiction by the Arab American National Museum. She is a past president of the Arab American Studies Association and board member of the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies.