CO-FOUNDERS


CAROL FADDA

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Carol W.N. Fadda is Associate Professor in the English Department at Syracuse University, where she is also affiliated faculty in the Women's and Gender Studies Department and the LGBT Studies Program. Her research and teaching interests extend to American Studies, critical race and ethnic studies, Arab American studies, women’s and gender studies, and transnational SWANA (South West Asia and North Africa) studies. She is the author of Contemporary Arab-American Literature: Transnational Reconfigurations of Citizenship and Belonging (NYU Press 2014) and Carceral Witnessing: Abolitionist Testimonies from the “Edges” of US Empire (NYU Press, forthcoming). She is also the co-editor (with Lisa Suhair Majaj and Pauline Kaldas) of The Routledge Companion to Arab American Literature (Routledge, in press). Fadda serves as the book series editor of the Critical Arab American Studies series, published by Syracuse University Press. She was a Visiting Associate Professor in the Women, Society, and Development MA Program at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Doha, Qatar in 2021-2022, and she is currently a 2026-2027 Distinguished Visiting Associate Professor in the Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR) at The American University of Beirut in Lebanon.  

DANA OLWAN

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Dana M. Olwan is Associate Professor in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at Syracuse University, where she also serves as Director of Graduate Studies and Director of Undergraduate Studies and holds affiliate faculty appointments in Cultural Foundations of Education, Native American Studies, and LGBT Studies. She previously held faculty positions at Hamad bin Khalifa University, the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Simon Fraser University, and Queen's University. Her research examines gender violence, transnational feminism, and Arab and Muslim women's cultural production, with a particular focus on Palestine and the broader Middle East and North Africa. She is the author of Gender Violence and the Transnational Politics of the Honor Crime (Ohio State University Press, 2021) and co-editor of Muslim Mothering: Local and Global Histories, Theories, and Practices (Demeter Press, 2016), with a forthcoming co-edited volume, Reimagining Transnational Feminist Solidarity: Relationality, Accountability, and Movements for Justice (with Chandra Talpade Mohanty), under contract with Duke University Press. Her work has appeared in journals including Signs, Feminist Formations, American Quarterly, and Canadian Journal of Sociology, as well as public venues such as Al Jazeera and The Feminist Wire.


TEAM MEMBERS

PhD Candidate at Syracuse University

BARI Graduate Assistant from ‘25 - ‘26


AMAN KAUR VIRK

PhD Candidate at Syracuse University

BARI Graduate Assistant from ‘24 - ‘25

SHUKRI MOHAMED

BARI Researcher from ‘23 - ‘24

JOHANNA BERMUDEZ

ARIANNA TAYLOR

PhD Student at Syracuse University

BARI Graduate Assistant from ‘24 - ‘25

MAHDER HABTEMARIAM SEREKBERHAN

BARI Research Assistant  from ‘23 - ‘24


SARHIA RAHEEM

BARI Researcher from ‘23 - ‘24

ADVISORY BOARD:

Elham Abdelfatah from Community Care: https://www.syracuse.com/living/2023/02/meet-the-syracuse-woman-scooping-up-your-old-couches-to-help-families-start-over-in-america.html.

Brice Nordquist, Associate Professor of Writing & Rhetoric, Director of Engaged Humanities Network

Delali Kumavie, Assistant Professor, Global Black Studies, English Department, Syracuse University

Gwen Pough, Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility, College of Arts & Sciences, Dean's Professor of the Humanities, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies

Asteir Bey, Co-Director, Village Birth International

It is with much gratitude and respect that we remember Mark Cass, whose kindness, commitment, and spirit will remain with us and all the community members whom he tirelessly served and supported. We are privileged to have had the opportunity to work with Mark, and he will be sorely missed. We honor his memory and remember with gratitude the life he lived, the people he touched, and the lasting impact of his presence.