Email: dmolwan@syr.edu----------------------
Women's & Gender Studies
308 E Bowne Hall
Phone: 315-443-1360
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Dana M. Olwan
Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies
Research and Teaching Interests
Transnational Feminist Theories of Race, Gender, and Religion; Gendered and Sexual Violence and the Honor Crime; Representations of Arab and Muslim women; Indigenous and Feminist Solidarities
Courses
WGS 101 Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies WGS 400/600 Selected Topics: Gender, Sexuality, and Islam WGS 795 Practices of Transnational Feminism
Education
Publications
Book Project: Dishonorable Crimes: Murder, Rescue, and the Politics of Canadian Multiculturalism. (in preparation) Edited Book: Muslim Mothering: Local and Global Histories, Theories, and Practices. Bradford: Demeter Press, 2013. Articles: “‘From Jerusalem to the Grand River, Our Struggle are One’: Challenging Canadian and Israeli Settler Colonialism.” (with Mike Krebs). The Journal of Settler and Colonial Studies. 2. 2 (2012): 138-164. “Triumphant Discourses, Legal Obligations, and the Honour Crime in Canada.” In Gill, Aisha, Karl Roberts, and Carolyn Strange, eds. In the Name of ‘Honour’: Responding to Violence Against Women From Socio-legal and Policing Perspectives. (Forthcoming: Palgrave MacMillan, 2013). Online Publications: “Reframing the Discussion: Concluding Thought on the Forum on Muslim Feminisms.” (with Sophia Azeb). The Feminist Wire. August 5, 2012. http://thefeministwire.com/2012/08/reframing-the-discussion-concluding-thoughts-on-the-forum-on-muslim-feminisms/. “Muslim Feminisms Forum: An Introduction.” (with Sophia Azeb). The Feminist Wire. August 1, 2012. http://thefeministwire.com/2012/08/muslim-feminisms-forum-an-introduction/. “The Unfairness of Bill 94 Unveiled.” Rabble. May 12, 2010. http://rabble.ca/news/2010/05/unfairness-bill-94-unveiled.
“Revisiting the Politics of Solidarity in Suheir Hammad’s ‘First Writing Since’.’” Zine, Jasmin and Lisa Taylor, eds. (accepted) Muslim Women, Transnational Feminism and the Ethics of Pedagogy: Contested Imaginaries in post-9/11 Cultural Practice (Forthcoming: Palgrave-MacMillan 2012)
“‘‘Bodies that Matter in Death: Honour Killings in Canada Racial Logics.” Canadian Journal of Sociology. Special Issue: “Race,” edited by Augustine Park and Madalena Santos. (Forthcoming: TBA)