Suad Joseph

Suad Joseph is professor of Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies at the University of California, Davis. She is the founding director of the Middle East/South Asia Studies

program at UC Davis. Her research has focused on her native Lebanon, on the politicization of religion, on women in local communities, on women, family and state, and on questions of self, citizenship, and rights. Her current research is a long-term longitudinal study on how children in a village of Lebanon learn their notions of rights, responsibilities, and citizenship in the aftermath of the civil war. She is founder and facilitator of the Arab Families Working Group (AFWG). She is founder and first president of the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS)

 

and co-founder of AMEW’s Journal for Middle East Women’s Studies (JMEWS) published by Indiana University Press. She is also founder and facilitator for the American University of Beirut, the American University in Cairo, the Lebanese American University, the University of California, and Birzeit University Collaborative Initiative. She was awarded the Distinguished Scholarly Public Service Award and the Graduate Mentor Award at UC Davis. She has received grants from the Ford Foundation, the International Development Research Center, the Population Council, the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council/American Council of Learned Societies, and the Doha International Foundation for Family Studies and Development.

 

Research Project: Transnational Lebanese Families and Youth: Moveable Citizenship

 

Links: http://sjoseph.ucdavis.edu, http://mesa.ucdavis.edu

 

Selected Publications

 

    * General Editor, Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Volumes I-VI, Leiden, Brill, 2003-2007.

    * Editor, Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East (NY: Syracuse University Press), 2000.

    * Editor, Intimate Selving in Arab Families (NY: Syracuse University Press), 1999.

    * Co-Editor, Gender and Citizenship in Lebanon (Beirut: Al-Jadid), 1999.

    * Co-Editor, Women and Power in the Middle East (PA: University of Pennsylvania Press), 2001.