Bayan Abusneineh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University. Her research explores how racial and reproductive politics intersect in Palestine and Israel, with particular attention to genocide, family separation, and the regulation of intimacy. Her current book project argues that reproductive politics—ranging from coerced contraception and child removal to the deliberate targeting of pregnant people and newborns—are not incidental but foundational to Zionist state-building. Drawing on archival research, feminist theory, and transnational frameworks, she shows how Palestinian reproductive life has been systematically disrupted through policies of family separation, ecological destruction, and reproductive genocide. Her broader teaching and research interests include reproductive justice movements, transnational feminisms, critical 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