Maya Mikdashi

Maya Mikdashi (TBA:16 Guest Scholar) is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She received her PhD in Anthropology from Columbia University. Her current research/manuscript focuses on law, citizenship, secularity, religious conversion, sexual difference, and the war on terror. She has been a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow from 2014-2016 at Rutgers University, and a Faculty Fellow/Director of Graduate Studies, Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University (2012-2014). She has published widely in journals including International Journal of Middle East Studies, Comparative Study of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, Gay and Lesbian Quarterly, and the American Indian Culture and Research Journal. She is a co-founding editor of Jadaliyya.com, co-director of the feature length documentary About Baghdad (2004) and co- founding member of filmmaking cooperative Quilting Point Productions. A film she co-conceptualized and co-wrote with Carlos Motta, Deseos, is screening at the 2016 TBA Festival.


Events

TBA:16 LECTURE: Theatre in the Alleys of CrisisTBA:16 LECTURE: Archival Refusal: War, Law, and Memory in LebanonTBA:16 FIELD GUIDE: Ali ChahrourTBA:16 ARTIST DIALOGUE: Ali ChahrourTBA:16 Carlos Motta DESEOS  ⁄ تابغر [DESIRES]TBA:16 ARTIST DIALOGUE: Introducing TBA:16 Guest Scholars