Experience

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, SOAS, University of London.

Teaching Assistant, University of Minnesota.

Sample Courses

State Violence: Theories of Leviathan and Beyond (SOAS Spring 2022, course evaluations available)

This half-unit module seeks to critically engage with the politics and theory of state violence. We will commence by a close, slow, reading of theories seeking to understand some of the main orders of violence that begin with the state but then move beyond it: sovereignty and the nation state, imperialism, slavery, settler colonialism, and capitalism. We will continue by working through a case that concerns institutionalized state-violence: torture and specifically the Israeli use of torture. We will conclude by asking about the politics of epistemological violence.

Israeli Politics and Society: Settler Colonialism, Occupation, Struggles (UARK, Fall 2024)

In this course we will study three major themes in politics and society in Israel-Palestine: Settler colonialism, occupation, and struggles. “Settler colonialism” refers to the transfer of population as means of colonization. “Occupation” refers to the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the 1967 war. “Struggles” refers to societal struggles such as those by Mizrahi Jews, Ethiopian Jews, Feminists, LGBTQI+ people, and Palestinian citizens of Israel. We will analyze Israeli politics and society alongside these themes and ask: How do each of the themes shape Israelis? In other words, how does Israeli subject formation take place through settler colonialism, occupation, and struggle?

Israeli incarceration, torture, and subject formation (UARK, Spring 2025)

What can we learn from prisoners’ transcendence over carceral subjectification toward their own counter-subjectivation—and from their failures—for the purpose of expanding freedom in darkening times? In this course we will trace the contours of the Israeli incarceration and torture of Palestinian political prisoners. We will unpack the ways prisons are used as sites of subject formation meant to change the behavior, identity, and sense of self of incarcerated people. We will learn about Israeli torture of Palestinians and how it has changed over the years, including with regard to subject formation. Last, we will look at Palestinian political prisoners’ resistance to these processes and their use of prisons as sites of self-formation, political organizing, and education.