Professional Affiliation

Professor, Georgetown University in Qatar

Expert Bio

Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf is a Professor of Anthropology and author of Darfur Allegory. (University of Chicago Press, 2021) Transforming Displaced Women in Sudan: Politics and the Body in a Squatter Settlement (U. of Chicago Press 2009); and Wanderings (Cornell University Press 2002). She is the editor of 2010 special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly (Duke University Press) and Female Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives (Ed.).(University of Pennsylvania Press 2006). She is the co-editor with Dale Eickelman of Africa and the Gulf: Blurred Boundaries Shifting Ties and Higher Education in the Gulf both from Gerlach Press in 2014 and 2015 respectively. In addition to numerous book chapters and essays, some of her articles appeared in the Sciences, South Atlantic Quarterly, Differences, Anthropology and Humanism, History and Anthropology, Oriental Anthropology, International Migration, Radical Philosophy Review and Anthropology News, Transition: International Review, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences and Black Renaissance. She is the founding editor of Monsoon: Journal of the Indian Ocean Rim (Duke University Press) She was a recipient of Postdoctoral and Senior fellowships at Durham University in the U.K., Brown and Harvard. Her work was supported by Guggenheim Foundation, the Royal Anthropological Institute, the Sir William Luce Memorial Fellowship, Andrew Mellon and MIT Center for International Studies and Rockefeller Bellagio Study Center. Abusharaf's work was also featured in media interviews with NPR, Voice of America, Progressive Radio, Ontario Public TV and more recently Africa and the World Documentary Film Series. She writes on culture and politics, anthropology of gender, human rights, migration and diaspora issues in Sudan, the Gulf, Oman and Zanzibar and the Indian Ocean.