Womens Studies
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Isis Nusair
| Affiliation | Faculty | | Title | Assistant Professor, Women's Studies/International Studies | | Email | Nusairi@denison.edu |
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Isis Nusair, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and International Studies at Denison University. She has earned a bachelors degree in Social Work from Tel-Aviv University, a Masters degree in International Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame, and a doctorate in Women’s and Gender Studies from Clark University. Her doctoral research is on the gendered politics of location of three generations of Palestinian women in Israel, 1948-1998. She teaches courses on transnational feminism; feminism in the Middle East and North Africa; and gender, war and conflict. Her current research focuses on the impact of war and displacement on Iraqi women refugees in Jordan. Isis previously served as a researcher on women’s human rights in the Middle East and North Africa at Human Rights Watch and at the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network. She is the co-editor with Rhoda Kanaaneh of an anthology on Palestinian in Israel (forthcoming from SUNY Press). She is also a contributor to the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures and Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa.
Her other publications include:
“Orientalism and the Gendered Politics of Torture at Abu-Ghraib.” Feminism and War. Eds. Chandra Mohanty, Minnie Bruce Pratt, and Robin Riley. London: Zed Books, 2008.
The Integration of the Human Rights of Women from the Middle East and North Africa in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (with Rabea Naciri). Denmark: Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network, 2003.
“Gendered Politics of Location: Generational Intersections.” Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation: Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation. Eds. Nahla Abdo and Ronit Lentin. London: Berghahn Books, 2002. 89-99.
“Women and Militarization in Israel: Forgotten Letters in the Midst of Conflict.” Frontline Feminisms: Women, War, and Resistance. Eds. Marguerite Waller and Jennifer Rycenga. London: Routledge, 2001. 113-128.
Forthcoming:
“Gender Mainstreaming and Feminist Organizing in the Middle East and North Africa.” Women, War and Reconstruction. Eds. Nadje Al-Ali and Nicola Pratt. London: Zed Books, 2009.
“Gendered Politics of Location of Three Generations of Palestinian Women in Israel, 1948-1998." Palestinians in Israel Revisited. Eds. Rhoda Kanaaneh and Isis Nusair. New York: Suny Press, 2009.
Kanaaneh, Rhoda, and Isis Nusair. “Introduction.” Palestinians in Israel Revisited. Eds. Rhoda Kanaaneh and Isis Nusair. New York: Suny Press, 2009.
