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Douaa Sheet

Douaa Sheet is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan and faculty associate of the Program in International and Comparative Studies, the Global Islamic Studies Center, and the Donia Human Rights Center. She received her PhD in cultural anthropology with distinction from the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY). She works at the intersection of human rights studies; post-conflict mechanisms of justice, reconciliation, and repair; notions of time in political utopias; Islam; gender; and the politics of new social media. Her first book length project, The Politics of Dignity and the Tunisian Truth Commission (2011-2019) builds on her fieldwork in Tunisia in the aftermath of the 2011 uprising. She is the recipient of numerous grants including from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the National Science Foundation, the Institute for Citizens and Scholars (formerly the Woodrow Wilson Foundation), and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. Her work is forthcoming in the Journal of Human Rights and other journals.

ARTICLES BY Douaa Sheet

  • Scholars in Context: Douaa Sheet

    Scholars in Context: Douaa Sheet

    I work on transitions: political, geographic, temporal. My dissertation, and first book-length project, is a study of the Tunisian transitional justice process that was launched in the aftermath of the 2011 uprising.