Assistant Professor
About
Charlotte Karem Albrecht received her Ph.D. in 2013 in Feminist Studies from the University of Minnesota. Her research interests coalesce around issues of power and subjectivity for Arab Americans and how Arab American experiences, historical narratives, and cultural production have been formed in relation to other minoritized communities. Her analytical approach is particularly concerned with questions of sexuality, race, and gender. Karem Albrecht's first book, "Peddling an Arab American History," is in progress. It traces the anxieties surrounding Arab American migrant peddlers and their economic networks at the turn of the twentieth century and argues that this profession, which employed large numbers of men and women, constituted Arab immigrants as racial and sexual ‘others.’ She is also beginning a second project that puts Arab American history in conversation with studies of U.S. settler colonialism. Karem Albrecht's work has been published in Arab Studies Quarterly, Gender and History, and Mizna.
Affiliations:
Core Faculty Program in Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)
Professor Karem Albrecht holds a joint appointment in the Departments of American Culture (AC) and Women's and Gender Studies (WGS)
