Suad Joseph

She is founder and chair of the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association and the Association for Middle East Women's Studies (AMEWS). Her research focuses on issues of gender and citizenship, the state, the family, children and youth, trauma, and the cultural politics of identity in the Middle East, with a particular focus on her native Lebanon. She has received numerous awards including the UC Davis Award, the largest undergraduate teaching and research award in the United States; and has edited 12 books and published over 100 journal articles and books such as Reporting Islam: Muslim Women in the New York Times, 1979-2011 (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023); Handbook of Middle East Women (Routledge, 2023) or the award-winning Arab American Women: Representation and Refusal (Syracuse University Press, 2021). Joseph is also general editor of the award-winning Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. She is currently a Principal Investigator for multi-university collaborative Projects on STEM education, refugee mental health, and mapping knowledge production on women and gender in the Arab region.