I wrote Possible Histories for two interrelated reasons. First, I wanted to understand the paradox at the heart of how early Arab American history has been narrated, particularly in community narratives and some early Arab American studies..
Charlotte Karem Albrecht
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 core 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, histories of gender and sexuality, women of color feminist theory, queer of color critique, and interdisciplinary historicist methods. Her first book, Possible Histories: Arab Americans and the Queer Ecology of Peddling, was recently published with University of California Press and is also available as an open access ebook. Karem Albrecht holds a PhD in Feminist Studies from the University of Minnesota. Her work has also been published in Arab Studies Quarterly, Gender & History, the Journal of American Ethnic History, and multiple edited collections.
