Georgetown University: School of Foreign Service in Qatar

Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf is a Visiting Associate Professor of Anthropology and author of Transforming Displaced Women in Sudan: Politics and the Body in a Squatter Settlement (U.ofChicagoPress2009); Female Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives (Ed.). (University of Pennsylvania Press 2006) and Wanderings (Cornell UniversityPress2002). She is the editor of 2010 special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly (Duke University Press).

In addition to numerous book chapters and essays, some of her articles appeared in the Sciences, South Atlantic Quarterly, Differences, Anthropology and Humanism, History and Anthropology, Oriental Anthropology, International Migration, Radical Philosophy Review and Anthropology News and a forthcoming piece in Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences.

She was a recipient of Postdoctoral and Senior fellowships at Durham University in the U.K., Brown and Harvard. Her work was supported by Guggenheim Foundation, the Royal Anthropological Institute, the Sir William Luce Memorial Fellowship, Andrew Mellon and MIT Center for International Studies and Rockefeller Bellagio Study Center, Qatar University College of Arts and Sciences. Abusharaf's work was also featured in media interviews with NPR, Voice of America, Progressive Radio, Ontario Public TV and more recently Africa and the World Documentary Film Series. She writes on culture and politics, anthropology of gender, human rights, migration and diaspora issues in Sudan, the Gulf, the U.S., Canada and Liverpool, UK.

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