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Charlotte Karem Albrecht
Assistant Professor of American Culture and Assistant Professor of Women's Studies, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
University of Michigan
Education/Degree:
1 Feminist Studies (University of Minnesota)
About
Charlotte Karem Albrecht is an assistant professor of American culture and women's and gender studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she is also a faculty member for the Arab and Muslim American studies program and affiliated faculty for the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies. Her research interests include Arab American history, queer of color critique and women of color feminisms, relational ethnic studies, and interdisciplinary historicist methods. She holds a PhD in feminist studies from the University of Minnesota. Her work has been published in Arab Studies Quarterly, Gender & History, and the Journal of American Ethnic History.
Current Work
Dr. Karem Albrecht's research examines the liminal nature of early Syrian American racial positioning through foregrounding sexual and gender formations. Her first book, "Inconsistent Histories: Arab Americans and the Making of Sexuality, Gender, and Race" (in progress) parses how American perceptions of Arabs have long been rooted in ideas of their sexual and gender difference and how Arab responses to this phenomenon show varying modes of accommodating or resisting white supremacy through sexual and gendered norms. Dr. Karem Albrecht is also in the beginning stages of a second project that historicizes Arab immigrant relationships to indigenous sovereignty in North America.
Research Area Keyword(s)
Arab American feminism, Arab Americans, history of sexuality, interdisciplinary historicism, Queer theory