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Douaa Sheet Assistant Professor Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations

Degrees
PhD in Cultural Anthropology, City University of New York (CUNY)

Favorite Spot on Campus
My office (SIS 225)
Bio
Douaa Sheet is an anthropologist who works at the intersection of human rights and transitional justice, Islam, temporality and new social media in the Middle East and North Africa. Her first book project, entitled The Politics of Dignity and the Tunisian Truth Commission, is an ethnographic study of the Tunisian democratic transition in the aftermath of the 2011 uprising and the Truth and Dignity Commission that was inaugurated from 2014-2018. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals including in the Journal of Human Rights and Cultural Anthropology.
She joins American University from the University of Michigan where she was a Postdoctoral Fellow, AY 2022-23.
For the Media
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Teaching

Fall 2024

  • SISU-106 First Year Seminar: Human Rts Age of New Soc Media

  • SISU-370 Topics Just/Ethics/Human Rgts: Post-Conflict Justice/Repair

Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Research Interests

Transitional justice, human rights, dignity, justice, reconciliation, reparations, temporality, gender, prisons, trauma theory, psychoanalysis, Islam, migration, Middle East and North Africa 

Selected Publications

Sheet, Douaa. 2023. “National Reconciliation in the Age of New Social Media.” Cultural Anthropology 38 (3): 361–85. https://doi.org/10.14506/ca38.3.03. 

Sheet, Douaa. 2023. “On Conceptions of Time in Human Rights Studies: The Afterlife, Islam, and Reparative Justice in Post-Uprising Tunisia.” Journal of Human Rights 22 (4): 524–40. https://doi.org/10.1080/14754835.2023.2170708.