Irene Calis Director, Arab World Studies CAS | CRGC | Critical Race Gender and Culture Studies
- Languages Spoken
- Arabic, French
- For the Media
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Teaching
Summer 2024
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AWST-115 Introduction to the Arab World
Fall 2024
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AWST-440 Palestine: Land, Life, Dignity
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CORE-105 Complex Problems Seminar: Being Indigenous
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CORE-105 Complex Problems Seminar: Being Indigenous
Spring 2025
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WGSS-225 Gender, Politics & Power
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WGSS-225 Gender, Politics & Power
Partnerships & Affiliations
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AntiRacist Research and Policy Center
Faculty Affiliate -
Al Shabaka
Policy Member -
Women for Women International
Research Advisory Council
Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities
Research Interests
emancipatory futures; indigeneity; culture & power; violence, precarity, and the everyday; the politics of resistance; decolonial feminisms; theory from the global South; philosophy of race; critical pedagogy; Palestine; the Arab World; Oceania.
Selected Publications
- Calis, Irene (2017). “Routine & Rupture: The Everyday Workings of Abyssal (Dis)Order in the Palestinian Foodbasket.” American Ethnologist, Vol 44 (1): 65-76. https://anthrosource-onlinelibrary-wiley-com.proxyau.wrlc.org/doi/full/10.1111/amet.12426
- Benessaiah, Nejm & Calis, Irene (2016). “African Trysts: Reimagining the Saharan Divide” in (eds.) Bosewell and Nyamnjoh’s Postcolonial African Anthropologies. Pretoria: HSRC Press.
- Calis, Irene (2015) “Beyond the Apartheid Analogy: Time to reframe Our Palestinian Struggle”, published by Al Shabaka January 13th https://al-shabaka.org/commentaries/beyond-the-apartheid-analogy-time-to-reframe-our-palestinian-struggle/
- Calis, Irene (2013) “Aid & Occupation: Maintaining the Status quo in Palestine.” Journal for Palestine Studies, Vol 42 (3): 10-28. Spring https://www-jstor-org.proxyau.wrlc.org/stable/10.1525/jps.2013.42.3.10?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents