Overview
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.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Professor of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies
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2021 - Present
Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Associate Professor of International Comparative Studies
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2011 - Present
International Comparative Studies,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Professor of History
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2021 - Present
History,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Professor of Sociology
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2022 - Present
Sociology,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Publications
"Obstetricians Are Always Taking a Position Against Us": The Politics of Contemporary Midwifery and Childbirth in Palestine
Journal Article Jerusalem Quarterly · May 2024 Featured Publication Although until the late 1960s women's reproductive health care had been largely the domain of Palestinian women healers, midwives, and nurse-midwives, the contemporary reproductive healthcare system in Palestine is medicalized, masculinized, and commodifie ... Open Access Link to item CiteBeyond the Treatment Room: The Psyche-Body-Society Care Politics of Cairo’s El-Nadeem
Journal Article Signs · September 1, 2023 Featured Publication Full text Open Access CiteEducation, Training & Certifications
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor ·
1997
Ph.D.