Authors

Suad Joseph is Distinguished Research Professor of Anthropology and Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Davis. She is the founder of the Middle East Research Group in Anthropology (which evolved into the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association), founder and founding president of the Association for Middle East Women's Studies (AMEWS), and founder and director of the Arab Families Working Group. She founded and directs the University of California Davis Arab Region Consortium, including the American University of Beirut, the American University in Cairo, the Lebanese American University, Birzeit University, American University of Sharjah, and UC Davis. She was president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America in 2010 to 2011. She is co-founder and founding president of the Arab American Studies Association and co-founder of the Association for Middle East Anthropology, the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, and the Feminist Research Institute, UC Davis. Joseph is General Editor of the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. She has edited or co-edited ten books and has published over one hundred articles in journals and books, most recently Arab Family Studies: Critical Reviews (2018) and Arab American Women: Representation and Refusal (2021). She is the founder and founding director of the Middle East/South Asia Studies Program at UC Davis and was awarded the UC Davis Prize, the largest undergraduate teaching and research prize in the United States. She was awarded the Middle East Studies Association Jere L. Bacharach Life Time Service Award in 2019 and the UC Davis Edward A. Dickson Emeriti Professorship for 2020-2021.

Louise Cainkar is Professor of Sociology and Social Welfare and Justice at Marquette University, in Milwaukee, where she also directs the major in peace studies and minor in Arab and Muslim American studies. She is past President of the Arab American Studies Association and board member of the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies. She has published dozens of articles and book chapters on Arab Americans and Muslim Americans. Her 2009 book, Homeland Insecurity: The Arab American and Muslim American Experience after 9/11 (Russell Sage Foundation) was honored as Outstanding Adult Non-Fiction by the Arab American National Museum. Recent publications include Arab American Women: Representation and Refusal (Syracuse University Press, 2021), the forthcoming Sajjilu Arab American: A Reader in SWANA: Studies, co-edited with Pauline Homsi Vinson and Amira Jarmakani (Syracuse University Press, 2021), a special issue of the Journal of Palestine Studies (Spring 2021), and a range of journal articles and public scholarship. Cainkar is on the editorial board of the Review of Middle East Studies and currently serves on the American Sociological Association Committee on the Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Discipline. She is the 2021 recipient of Marquette University’s Faculty Community Engaged Teaching Award.