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Fatima El-Tayeb (Head of working group) |
Fatima El-Tayeb is Professor of Ethnicity, Race & Migration and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. Her research interests include Black Europe, comparative diaspora studies, queer of color critique, critical Muslim studies, decolonial theory, transnational feminisms, visual culture studies, race and technology, and critical European studies. She is the author of three books and numerous articles on the interactions of race, gender, sexuality, religion and nation. Her current research projects explore the intersecting legacies of colonialism, fascism, and socialism in Europe and the potential of (queer) people of color alliances in decolonizing the continent. |
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Sam Jones |
Sam Jones is a Ph.D. student in French and African-American Studies at Yale University. His research centers on African-American artists and writers traveling in Europe and their encounters and exchanges with the Europeans they meet on these travels, especially Black Europeans. He is particularly interested in the ways in which white mainstream European consumption of African American cultural productions shapes conceptions of race in Europe and serves as a tool to obscure and erase the past and present conditions of a Black European population. |
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Tunay Altay |
Tunay Altay is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology and gender studies at Humboldt University’s Department of Diversity and Social Conflict. Informed by queer feminist scholarship and activism, Tunay’s research focuses on the experiences of border crossing and migration and how they shape queer and non-normative sexual expressions and subjectivities in Germany and Turkey. In his cumulative dissertation project, Tunay focuses on three queer migrant* groups: sex workers, drag performers, and activists. |
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Sara Bolghiran |
Sara Bolghiran is a PhD Candidate at Leiden University, department of Religious Studies. She is interested in Muslim Futurism, researching how Muslims use theories and theologies of liberation, social justice, and ethics to imagine and work towards realizing their future. Muslim futurism is a global youth movement with a considerable number of active online participants in the Netherlands, and she is following three groups who are congregating offline - meeting covertly, they engage in spiritual developments through non-dogmatic means. |
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Rebecca Ajnwojner |
Rebecca Ajnwojner completed her studies in Psychology in Heidelberg and her studies in Dramaturgy and Directing in Frankfurt am Main and Tel Aviv. She is working on her PhD project on “representational critique and strategic essentialism in German theatre.” Her research interests include critical theory, critical race theory, gender and sexuality studies and questions of representation in the arts and culture, particularly in theatre and performance. She is a ELES research fellow and is affiliated with the German Department at Yale University. |
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Fadila Habchi |
Fadila Habchi is a Lecturer in African American Studies and American Studies at Yale. Her research explores the literature, culture, and history of the African diaspora in the Caribbean and Europe. She examines the relationship between space, race, gender and literature, colonial history, postcolonial memory, and contemporary decolonial movements. Her current project investigates memory projects of the Algerian war of liberation and anti-slavery struggles in Martinique and France. |
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Lauren Crawford |
Lauren Crawford is a third-year PhD student in Modern Europe History at Yale. Her dissertation concerns what institutionalization of Holocaust commemoration/memory (both at a German federal level and at the level of institutions of international governance such as the EU/UN) has meant for discourses on racism in Europe, specifically Germany, from the late 1970s onward. Prior to her PhD, she taught English for a year in Zwickau, Germany and worked as an Educator at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, a social and cultural immigration history museum in New York. |
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Quan Tran |
Quan Tran is a Senior Lecturer and Senior Program Coordinator in the Ethnicity, Race, and Migration Program at Yale. She holds a PhD in American Studies. Her interdisciplinary research and teaching interests include critical refugee studies; Vietnamese boat people; Asian American studies; diaspora and transnational studies; relational ethnic studies; migration studies; memory studies; and food studies. |
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Leslie Gross-Wyrtzen |
Leslie Gross-Wyrtzen is a Lecturer with the Council on African Studies and Council on Middle East Studies in the MacMillan Center for International Studies at Yale University (New Haven, CT). She is a feminist geographer whose work focuses on the relationship between borders, race, and political economy between Africa and Europe. Her first book project, entitled Bordering Blackness: Race and the Political Economy of Migration Control, draws on 11 months of ethnographic research among West and Central African migrants moving through or contained within Morocco. |
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Tim Yuen Lingk (Research Assistant) |
Tim Yuen Lingk is studying Political Science and Chinese at Yale College. He is particularly interested in comparative government and transnational queer studies. Please feel free to reach out to Tim with any questions regarding the working group. |
