Bayan Abusneineh

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Bayan Abusneineh

Assistant Professor
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abusneineh.1@osu.edu

308D Dulles Hall
230 Annie and John Glenn Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210

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Areas of Expertise

  • Reproductive Justice
  • Middle East and Palestine Studies
  • Black Feminism(s) and Transnational Feminist Studies
  • Settler Colonialism and Antiblackness
  • Interdisciplinary Methods and Cultural Studies
  • Law and Human Rights

Education

  • Ph.D., Ethnic Studies with a Graduate Certificate in Critical Gender Studies, University of California, San Diego, 2022
  • M.A., Ethnic Studies, University of California, 2016
  • B.A., Political Science and Gender Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 2013

Bayan Abusneineh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her research examines the relationship between racial and reproductive politics in Palestine and Israel, with an emphasis on genocide, family separation, and intimacy. Her teaching interests are broadly around reproductive rights and justice, transnational feminisms, race and ethnic studies, and women of color feminisms. 

Publications: 

Bayan Abusneineh, "Who is Entitled to Bear Children: Discourses of Race and Eugenics in the Law of Return," Critical Ethnic Studies Journal 9, Issue 1 (2024). https://manifold.umn.edu/read/ces0901-04/section/9655366b-5d00-469a-bb8c-074804b82e1e

Bayan Abusneineh, "(Re)producing the Israeli (European) Body: Zionism, Anti-Black Racism, and the Depo-Provera Affair," Feminist Review, 128, Issue 1 (2021): 96-113. https://doi.org/10.1177/01417789211016331