An event with Associate Professor of Sociology, Heba Gowayed, of CUNY Hunter College, as part of the "Contextualizing Israel/Palestine" Series.
Professor Gowayed's research centers the lives of cross-border migrants, and the unequal and often violent institutions they face. She is the author of Refuge, which explores how states shape the potential of people pursuing refuge within their borders. Gowayed's talk will focus on her forthcoming second book, The Cost of Borders, which theorizes borders as a series of costly, and often deadly, transactions. Gowayed's global, comparative research, includes a focus on how to conceptualize and potentially re-conceptualize borders within Israel/Palestine.
Her writing appears in academic journals including Gender & Society, Ethnic & Racial Studies, American Behavioral Scientist, and Sociological Forum, and in public outlets including Slate, Al Jazeera English, The New Humanitarian, and Teen Vogue.
