Frances Susan Hasso | Scholars@Duke

Frances Susan Hasso
Professor of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies

I am a Professor in the Program in Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke University with secondary appointments in the Department of History and Department of Sociology. I taught in and directed the International Comparative Studies Program at Duke from 2010-2015 and was a member of the Oberlin College faculty from 2000-2010. I am Editor Emerita (2015-2018) of the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies . I have been a National Humanities Center fellow, an ACOR fellow, a Rockefeller fellow, and an SSRC/ACLS fellow. My research has additionally been supported by the National Science Foundation, American Sociological Association, Woodrow Wilson National National Fellowship Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Palestinian American Research Center, the Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (Leiden), The Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation Endowment, and Duke Arts & Sciences Faculty Committee Research Grants. My latest book, Buried in the Red Dirt: Race, Reproduction and Death in Modern Palestine, is released from Cambridge University Press as a Creative Commons Open Access monograph. Many of my publications are accessible open access through my personal website https://franceshasso.net/publications/. I can be reached at fsh5@duke.edu.

Office Hours

By appointment on weekdays.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Professor of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2021
Associate Professor of International Comparative Studies, International Comparative Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2011
Professor of History, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2021

Contact Information

118 East Duke Building, Durham, NC 27708
Box 90760, Durham, NC 27708
frances.hasso@duke.edu (919) 684-5097
Hasso personal website

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1997
Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2011 - 2021
- Associate Professor of History, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2017 - 2021
- Associate Professor of Sociology, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2017 - 2019
- Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2011 - 2016
- Director of the International Comparative Studies Program, International Comparative Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2011 - 2015
- Visiting Associate Professor in Women, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2010
Expertise
Subject Headings
Global Scholarship
- Expertise
Research
Selected Grants
- Hasso NHC Fellowship awarded by National Humanities Center 2018
- Palestinian Young Child and Pre-Natal Death during the British Mandate awarded by American Center of Oriental Research 2018
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - Hasso, Frances S. Buried in the Red Dirt: Race, Reproduction, and Death in Modern Palestine. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009072854.
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  - Hasso, F., and Z. S. Salime, eds. Freedom Without Permission Bodies and Space in the Arab Revolutions. Duke University Press Book, 2016.
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  - Hasso, F. S. Consuming Desires: Family Crisis and the State in the Middle East. Stanford University Press, 2011.
  - Hasso, F. S. Resistance, Repression and Gender Politics in Occupied Palestine and Jordan. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2005.
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- Academic Articles
  - Hasso, Frances S. “Disruptive Situations: Fractal Orientalism and Queer Strategies in Beirut. By Ghassan Moussawi. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2020. Pp. 210. $94.50 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).” American Journal of Sociology 127, no. 2 (September 1, 2021): 679–81. https://doi.org/10.1086/715270.
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  - Hasso, F. S. ““I have ambition”: Muhammad Ramadan's proletarian masculinities in postrevolution Egyptian cinema.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 52, no. 2 (May 1, 2020): 197–214. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743820000033.
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  - Hasso, F. S. “Masculine love and sensuous reason: the affective and spatial politics of Egyptian Ultras football fans.” Gender, Place and Culture 25, no. 10 (October 3, 2018): 1423–47. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2018.1531830.
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  - Hasso, F. S. “Civil and the Limits of Politics in Revolutionary Egypt.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 35, no. 3 (December 29, 2015): 605–21. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-3426445.
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  - Kahraman, H., and F. Hasso. “Art concept.” Journal of Middle East Women’S Studies 11, no. 2 (July 1, 2015): 233–34. https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-2886595.
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  - Hasso, F. S. “Bargaining with the devil: States and intimate life.” Journal of Middle East Women’S Studies 10, no. 2 (January 1, 2014): 107–34. https://doi.org/10.1353/jmw.2014.0019.
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  - Hasso, Frances S. “Desiring Arabs.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 20, no. 3 (September 1, 2011): 652–56.
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  - Hasso, Frances S. “<i>Desiring Arabs</i> (review).” Journal of the History of Sexuality 20, no. 3 (2011): 652–56. https://doi.org/10.1353/sex.2011.0054.
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  - Hasso, Frances S. “Deconstructing Sexuality in the Middle East: Challenges and Discourses.” Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 39, no. 1 (January 2010): 47–48. https://doi.org/10.1177/0094306109356659w.
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  - Abu-Lughod, L., F. J. Adely, and F. S. Hasso. “Overview: Engaging the Arab Human Development Report 2005 on Women.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 41, no. 1 (May 28, 2009): 59–60. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743808090107.
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  - Hasso, F. S. “Empowering governmentalities rather than women: The Arab Human Development Report 2005 and western development logics.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 41, no. 1 (May 28, 2009): 63–82. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743808090120.
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  - Hasso, F. S. “'Culture Knowledge' and the Violence of Imperialism: Revisiting The Arab Mind.” Mit Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies 7, no. Spring (2007): 24–40.
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  - Hasso, Frances S. “Book Review: Geographies of Muslim Women: Gender, Religion, and Space.” Gender &Amp; Society 20, no. 6 (December 2006): 826–28. https://doi.org/10.1177/0891243206292857.
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  - Hasso, F. S. “Discursive and political deployments by/of the 2002 Palestinian women suicide bombers/martyrs.” Feminist Review, no. 81 (November 1, 2005): 23–51. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400257.
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  - Hasso, F. S. “Problems and promise in Middle East and North Africa gender research.” Feminist Studies 31, no. 3 (January 1, 2005): 653–78. https://doi.org/10.2307/20459056.
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  - Hasso, F. “Women and gender in early Jewish and Palestinian nationalism.” Middle East Journal 58, no. 1 (December 1, 2004): 163–64.
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  - Hasso, Frances, and Mounira M. Charrad. “States and Women's Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.” Contemporary Sociology 31, no. 6 (November 2002): 735–735. https://doi.org/10.2307/3089962.
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  - Hasso, F. S. “Feminist generations? The long-term impact of social movement involvement on Palestinian women's lives.” American Journal of Sociology 10, no. 3 (January 1, 2001): 586–611. https://doi.org/10.1086/338974.
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  - Hasso, F. S. “Modernity and Gender in Arab Accounts of the 1948 and 1967 Defeats.” International Journal Middle East Studies 32, no. 4 (2000): 491–510.
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  - Hasso, F. S. “Modernity and gender in arab accounts of the 1948 and 1967 defeats.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 32, no. 4 (January 1, 2000): 491–510. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743800021188.
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  - Hasso, Frances. “Glenn Robinson, Building a Palestinian State: The Incomplete Revolution. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 41, no. 1 (January 1999): 209–10. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0010417599231921.
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  - Hasso, F. S. “The "women's front" - Nationalism, feminism, and modernity in Palestine.” Gender & Society 12, no. 4 (August 1998): 441–65. https://doi.org/10.1177/089124398012004005.
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  - Kahraman, Hayv, and Frances S. Hasso. “Editor's Note,” n.d. https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-3142526.
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  - Kahraman, Hayv, and Frances S. Hasso. “Editor's Note,” n.d. https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-3142526.
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- Book Sections
  - Hasso, F. S. “Shifting Practices and Identities: Nontraditional Relationships among Sunni Muslim Egyptians and Emiratis.” In Family, Gender, and Law in a Globalizing Middle East and South Asia, edited by Kenneth M. Cuno and Manisha Desai, 211–22. Syracuse University Press, 2009.
  - Hasso, F. S. “Comparing Emirati and Egyptian Narratives On Marriage, Sexuality, and the Body.” In Global Migration, Social Change, and Cultural Transformation, edited by Emory Elliott, Jasmine Payne, and Patricia Ploesch, 59–74. Palgrave Publishers, 2007.
  - Hasso, F. S., and L. M. Lopez. “Frontlines and Borders: Identity Thresholds for Latinas and Arab American Women.” In Everyday Inequalities: Critical Inquiries, edited by J. O’Brien and J. Howard, 253–79. London: Blackwell, 1998.
- Other Articles
  - Sibai, Suhair, and Frances S. Hasso. “Cover Art Concept.” Journal of Middle East Women’S Studies. Duke University Press, July 1, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-6680335.
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  - Hasso, F. S. “Cover art concept.” Journal of Middle East Women’S Studies, January 1, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-4297132.
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  - Hasso, F. S. “Entering and remaking spaces: Young palestinian feminists in Jerusalem.” Journal of Middle East Women’S Studies, July 1, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-3861411.
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  - Hasso, F. S., D. Brinkley, G. F. Spagna, E. J. Chin, and D. Lynn. “What People Just Don't Understand About Academic Fields.” The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 11, 2003.
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  - Hasso, F. S. “Who Covered The War Best? Try al-Jazeera.” Newsday, April 16, 2003.
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- Journal Issues
  - Hasso, F. S. “Generations.” Journal of Middle East Women’S Studies, November 1, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-7025371.
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  - Hasso, F. S. “Editorial Introduction.” Journal of Middle East Women’S Studies, March 1, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-4296977.
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- Digital Publications
  - Hasso, F. S. “Since the Revolutions: The Challenge of Contemporary Middle East Studies.” Stanford University Press Blog, January 4, 2014.
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  - Hasso, F. S. “Alternative Worlds at the 2013 World Social Forum in Tunis,” May 1, 2013.
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  - Hasso, Frances. “Decolonizing Middle East Men and Masculinities Scholarship: An Axiomatic Approach,” n.d.
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Teaching & Mentoring
Recent Courses
- GSF 369S: Transnational Feminism 2022
- GSF 960S: Interdisciplinary Debates (Topics) 2022
- HISTORY 249S: Transnational Feminism 2022
- RIGHTS 369S: Transnational Feminism 2022
- SOCIOL 208S: Transnational Feminism 2022
- GSF 199S: Thinking Gender: An Introduction to Feminist Theory 2021
- GSF 274S: Masculinities & Global Politics 2021
- GSF 369S: Transnational Feminism 2021
- GSF 494: Honors Independent Study 2021
- GSF 499S: Senior Seminar in Women's Studies 2021
- HISTORY 249S: Transnational Feminism 2021
- HISTORY 280S: Masculinities & Global Politics 2021
- ICS 274S: Masculinities & Global Politics 2021
- LIT 374S: Masculinities & Global Politics 2021
- PUBPOL 276S: Masculinities & Global Politics 2021
- RIGHTS 369S: Transnational Feminism 2021
- SOCIOL 375S: Masculinities & Global Politics 2021
- GLHLTH 208: Transnational Feminism 2020
- GSF 369: Transnational Feminism 2020
- GSF 493: Honors Independent Study 2020
- GSF 499S: Senior Seminar in Women's Studies 2020
- GSF 890S: Advanced Topics in Feminist Studies 2020
- HISTORY 249: Transnational Feminism 2020
- HISTORY 890S-08: Research Topics in Gender 2020
- ICS 208: Transnational Feminism 2020
- RIGHTS 369: Transnational Feminism 2020
Advising & Mentoring
- UNDERGRADUATE HONORS THESES
  
  Thesis Supervisor: Diala Alqadi. International Comparative Studies Program, Duke University, 2015. “’The Door that Cannot Be Closed’: Citizens Bidoon Citizenship in the United Arab Emirates.”
  
  Thesis Supervisor: Jeline Rabideau. International Comparative Studies Program, Duke University, 2013. “Application of the UNHCR's ‘Ceased Circumstances’ Cessation Clauses to the Rwandan Refugee Crisis.”
  Thesis First Reader: Joline Doedens. Women’s Studies Program, Duke University, 2012. “Under the Mask of Tolerance: A Psychoanalytic Investigation of Tolerance in Dutch Society.”
  
  Thesis Supervisor: Assiatou B. Diallo. Gender and Women’s Studies Program (double major in African and African American Studies), Oberlin College, 2008. “Pleasure, Pain and Power: Experiences of Female Genital Cutting Among Guineans in New York City.”
  
  Thesis Supervisor: Eva Seligman. Gender and Women’s Studies Program (double major in Religion), Oberlin College, 2005. “Body, Mind, Gender, and Self in the New Buddhism.”
  
  Thesis Supervisor: Sarah “Annie” Gebhardt. Gender and Women’s Studies Program (double major in Sociology), Oberlin College, 2003. “Broadening the Boundaries of the Birds & the Bees: Pre-Adolescent Sexuality Education in Elementary Schools.”
  
  Thesis Committee Member: Mitali J. Routh. Art History, Oberlin College, 2003. "Documenting Documenta 11: Contemporary Art & Global Politics."

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Education, Training, & Certifications

Previous Appointments & Affiliations

Subject Headings

Global Scholarship

Expertise

Selected Grants

Selected Publications

Books

Academic Articles

Book Sections

Other Articles

Journal Issues

Digital Publications

Recent Courses

Advising & Mentoring