GHEA21 Faculty

Hanan Toukan

Hanan Toukan is Professor of Middle East Studies. Her research sits at the intersection of Middle Eastern studies, international politics, critical theory, colonial/postcolonial studies, decolonial theory, contemporary art theory, visual cultures and cultural studies. Her writings are concerned with the political and social roles art and cultural institutions play in our lives; the function(s) of art in international politics; museums and exhibitionary practices; migration and the movement of art objects; and the politics of knowledge production in and about the memories, displacements, racializations, histories and ecologies of Global South contexts. She was previously visiting Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies and History of Art at Brown University and Visiting Professor of Cultural Studies of the Middle East at Bamberg University. She is also a recipient of several research awards including most recently from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Toukan completed her PhD at SOAS, University of London were she won the Middle East Studies Association of North American Malcolm H. Kerr Award for best PhD in the Social Sciences for 2012.