Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California
About
Evelyn Alsultany is an associate professor in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity.
Alsultany is the author of Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race and Representation after 9/11 (New York University Press, 2012) and co-editor of Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and Belonging (Syracuse University Press, 2011) and Between the Middle East and the Americas: The Cultural Politics of Diaspora (University of Michigan Press, 2013).
She is the guest curator of the Arab American National Museum’s online exhibit, Reclaiming Identity: Dismantling Arab Stereotypes (www.arabstereotypes.org). In 2017, she collaborated with colleagues at other universities to create the #IslamophobiaIsRacism Online Syllabus. She teaches courses on media representations, US cultural and racial politics, and Arab and Muslim Americans.
Prior to her position at USC, Alsultany was an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and an Associate Professor in the Department of American Culture at the University of Michigan where she co-founded and directed of the Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) program.
Current Work:
"It's Scandalous: How Controversial Speech is Shaping Conceptions of Discrimination in the United States," examines dozens of cases from the 1980s to the present in which public figures lose their job or endorsements for making racist, sexist, Islamophobic, anti-LGBTQ comments to understand the ways in which these scandals are shaping how racism and discrimination are understood in the United States today.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Race, media representations, Arab and Muslim Americans, cultural and racial politics
