Assistant Professor, American Culture/Women's and Gender Studies
Surface Mail: 505 S. State Street | 3722 Haven Hall Ann Arbor MI 48109-1045
phone: 734.764.8363
About
Charlotte Karem Albrecht received her Ph.D. in 2013 in Feminist Studies from the University of Minnesota. Her research interests coalesce around issues of power and subjectivity for Arab Americans and how Arab American experiences, historical narratives, and cultural production have been formed in relation to other minoritized communities. Her analytical approach is particularly concerned with questions of sexuality, race, and gender. Karem Albrecht's first book, "Peddling an Arab American History," is in progress. It traces the anxieties surrounding Arab American migrant peddlers and their economic networks at the turn of the twentieth century and argues that this profession, which employed large numbers of men and women, constituted Arab immigrants as racial and sexual ‘others.’ She is also beginning a second project that puts Arab American history in conversation with studies of U.S. settler colonialism. Karem Albrecht's work has been published in Arab Studies Quarterly, Gender and History, and Mizna.
Research Areas: Arab American studies, queer of color critique, interdisciplinary and historical methods, history of gender and sexuality, women of color and transnational feminisms
Affiliations: Department of American Culture, Arab and Muslim American Studies, Department of Women's and Gender Studies
