Karen Culcasi
Associate Professor of Geography
Profiles and Info
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My research and teaching focus on a variety of topics within political geography, critical cartography, and geopolitics in Southwest Asia and North Africa (a region often called “Middle East,” but this is a problematic term so I use Southwest Asia and North Africa).
Education
PhD, Maxwell School, Syracuse University
M.A., Maxwell School, Syracuse University
B.A., University of Vermont
Research
My research uses critical and feminist geopolitical frames to examine contested places and identities. My work focuses on the "Middle East," the Arab world, and Appalachia.
I am currently working on:
- A West Virginia Humanities funded project on Islamophobia and Muslim's daily lives in West Virginia.
- A Franklin Philosophical Society Grant for archival research on maps of the so-called "Middle East," which have been published in textbooks from across many Arab-majority states since the early 20th century.
Recent Publications
- Book, Displacing Territory: Syrian and Palestinian Refugees in Jordan, Check it
out at the University of
Chicago Press or
Amazon.
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As part of the celebration of the 100th edition of the Arab World Geographer, I published a paper titled "Decolonizing the 'Middle East'"
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Funded through WVU's Humanities Center, I am pleased to post a set of "fact sheets" on Refugees and US Refugee Laws.
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Please see my recent review of Jillian Schwedler's fantastic book, Protesting Jordan.
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