Frances Susan Hasso | Scholars@Duke

Frances Susan Hasso
Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies

I am an Associate Professor in the Program in Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke with a secondary appointment in the Sociology Department and an affiliate appointment in the Duke Middle East Studies Center. 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 an Editor of the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015-2018) with miriam cooke and Banu Gökariskel. I have been a Rockefeller fellow, SSRC/ACLS fellow and Columbia University Visiting Fellow. My research has additionally been supported by the SSRC, National Science Foundation, American Sociological Association, Woodrow Wilson National National Fellowship Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Palestinian American Research Center (Ford, Rockefeller, and U.S. Department of Education), the Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (Leiden), Duke Islamic Studies Center (Carnegie Corporation of NY) grants, The Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation Endowment, and a Duke Arts & Sciences Faculty Committee Research Grant. See my personal website for publication details.

Office Hours

By appointment on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2011
Associate Professor of International Comparative Studies, International Comparative Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2011
Associate Professor of History, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2017
Associate Professor of Sociology, Sociology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2017

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 at Ann Arbor 1997
Duke Appointment History
- 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 2018
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - Hasso, F., and Z. S. Salime, eds. Freedom Without Permission Bodies and Space in the Arab Revolutions. Duke University Press Book, 2016.
  - 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 University Press, 2005.
- Academic Articles
  - Hasso, F. S. “Generations.” Journal of Middle East Women’S Studies 14, no. 3 (November 1, 2018): 265–67. https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-7025371.
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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. “Editorial Introduction.” Journal of Middle East Women’S Studies 14, no. 1 (March 1, 2018): 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-4296977.
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  - “Cover Art Concept.” Journal of Middle East Women’S Studies 14, no. 1 (March 1, 2018): 92–93. 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 13, no. 2 (July 1, 2017): 337–45. https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-3861411.
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  - Cooke, M., and F. Hasso. “Association tounissiet.” Journal of Middle East Women’S Studies 11, no. 3 (January 1, 2015): 365–67. https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-3142581.
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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 (January 1, 2015): 605–21. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-3426445.
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  - Hasso, F. “Editor's comment.” Journal of Middle East Women’S Studies 11, no. 3 (January 1, 2015). https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-3142526.
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  - Kahraman, H., and F. Hasso. “Art concept.” Journal of Middle East Women’S Studies 11, no. 2 (January 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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  - 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, 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. 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 of Middle East Studies 32, no. 4 (January 1, 2000): 491–510. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743800021188.
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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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- 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
  - 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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- 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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Teaching & Mentoring
Recent Courses
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."
Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
Presentations & Appearances

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Education, Training, & Certifications

Duke Appointment History

Subject Headings

Global Scholarship

Expertise

Selected Grants

Selected Publications

Books

Academic Articles

Book Sections

Other Articles

Digital Publications

Recent Courses

Advising & Mentoring

Presentations & Appearances