CV
(abridged)
Education
The American University in Cairo Sep 2018 – May 2020
Master of Arts, Gender and Women’s Studies in the Middle East/North Africa
Specialization: Gendered political economies; summa cum laude
Gettysburg College Aug 2012 – Dec 2015
Bachelor of Arts, English
Minors: Education and Middle East Studies; summa cum laude
Integrated study abroad:
School for International Training, Rabat, Morocco - Field studies in journalism
Residencies/workshops/courses:
Home Workspace Program 2022, Ashkal Alwan, 'The Conflict in Montage' workshop Mar 2022
Film Futura '21, No Evil Eye Cinema, an alternative satellite film school June – Aug 2021
Teaching
Cairo Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences Jan 2022 – Present
Teaching Fellow
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Spring 2022: Contesting the visual/visible: the image as critical and creative method
The American University in Cairo Sep 2018 – May 2020
Mohamed Taymour Fellow
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Writing Center instructor
St. Andrew's Refugee Services Sep 2016 – Apr 2018
External Projects Coordinator/Senior Community Teacher
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Community outreach and organization workshops
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Grant writing course
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Academic discussion and English courses
Previous experiences: Teaching fellow, Tomorrow's Youth Organization; Community teacher, Casa de la Cultura; Research and instruction assistant, Musselman Library
Research
The American University in Cairo Sep 2020
MA thesis, The Cynthia Nelson Institute for Gender and Women's Studies
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Urban space and politics of the everyday: thinking through and with the image in contemporary Cairo (link)
The American University in Cairo July 2019
Research grant, School of Graduate Studies
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Travel and research funding for the completion of archival work at Arsenal Archive (Berlin, Germany)
School for International Training Dec 2015
Independent study project, fieldwork in Tangiers, Morocco
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A feature-length news article on the Tanger-Med port, published in U.S. News & World Report (link)
Gettysburg College Mar 2015
Conference presentation, American Society of 18th-Century Studies
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Presentation on postcolonial revisionist literature
Previous experiences: BA honors thesis, "'For the blink of an eyelid:' refocusing Daniel Defoe's narratives through J.M. Coetzee's Foe;" BA capstone thesis, "Struggling towards salvation: narrative structure in James Baldwin's Go tell it on the mountain"