Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf | |
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Born | 2 October 1967 Sudan |
Alma mater | University of Connecticut |
Occupation(s) | Academic; Anthropologist |
Organization | Georgetown University in Qatar |
Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf is a Sudanese ethnographer and is Professor of Anthropology at Georgetown University in Qatar.
Biography
Abusharaf was born on 2 October 1967 in Sudan. Her parents Mustafa and Fatima were both teachers. In 1987 she married the academic Mohamed Hussein, they have two children. She was educated at Cairo University, where she was awarded a BA from the School of Social and Political Sciences. She studied at the University of Connecticut for both her MA and her PhD.
Research
Abusharaf's research focuses on the anthropology of gender, human rights and diaspora issues in Sudan, culture and politics. Migration whether inside Sudan, or externally in a major theme in her research and she has worked on Sudanese migration to North America. Her interest in Sudanese politics has led to a study of Abdel Khaliq Mahgoub, his role in the Sudanese Communist Party and his interpretation of Marxism.
She has published work on the lives of displaced women living in squatter settlements, as well as research on the migration of Sudanese women more generally. She has researched female circumcision in Africa, in particular foregrounding the experience of indigenous women's voices. She supports the need for "own voices" to be part of the critical discourse on FGM and includes other African feminist opinions in research. Her research in FGM has explored the role of colonialism in its expression. Her work on colonial Sudan includes work on Dr Ina Beasley, who was Controller of Girls' Education in the Anglo-Sudan, 1939–49.
Violence in the lives of women in Sudan is another area of Abusharaf's research, particularly within politics. This study has extended to research on how violence in Darfur is discussed within Sudan, Qatar and the United States. She has also written about the intersection of gender justice and religion in Sudan. She has worked on interpretations of feminism within the life of the radical Mona Abul-Fadl.
Abusharaf also researches relationships between Africa and the Gulf region. She has published the first research into migration to pre-oil Qatar, looking to the country's history pre-1930s.
She has previously been a visiting scholar in human rights at Harvard Law School. She is co-editor of HAWWA: Journal of Women of the Middle East and Islamic World.
References
- ^ "Faculty". gufaculty360.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 2019-12-24.
- ^ "Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa 1961- | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2019-12-24.
- Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa (1998). "War, Politics, and Religion: An Exploration of the Determinants of Southern Sudanese Migration to the United States and Canada". Northeast African Studies. 5 (1): 31–46. doi:10.1353/nas.1998.0006. ISSN 1535-6574. S2CID 145500004.
- Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa (2009-07-01). "Marx in the Vernacular: Abdel Khaliq Mahgoub and the Riddles of Localizing Leftist Politics in Sudanese Philosophies of Liberation". South Atlantic Quarterly. 108 (3): 483–500. doi:10.1215/00382876-2009-004. ISSN 0038-2876.
- Transforming Displaced Women in Sudan.
- Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa (2001). "Migration with a Feminine Face: Breaking the Cultural Mold". Arab Studies Quarterly. 23 (2): 61–85. ISSN 0271-3519. JSTOR 41858374.
- "Female Circumcision | Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf". www.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2019-12-24.
- Shell-Duncan, Bettina; Hernlund, Ylva (2000). Female "circumcision" in Africa: Culture, Controversy, and Change. Lynne Rienner Publishers. ISBN 978-1-55587-995-2.
- Abusharaf, Rogia Mustafa (2001-02-01). "Virtuous Cuts: Female Genital Circumcision in an African Ontology". Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies. 12 (1): 112–140. doi:10.1215/10407391-12-1-112. ISSN 1527-1986. S2CID 71202486.
- Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa (2006-09-01). ""We Have Supped So Deep in Horrors": Understanding Colonialist Emotionality and British Responses to Female Circumcision in Northern Sudan". History and Anthropology. 17 (3): 209–228. doi:10.1080/02757200600813908. ISSN 0275-7206.
- Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa (2010). "The Words of Ina Beasley: Glimpses from a Life in British Sudan". Hawwa. 8 (3): 317–347. doi:10.1163/156920810x549758. ISSN 1569-2078.
- Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa (2006-01-01). "Competing masculinities: Probing political disputes as acts of violence against women from Southern Sudan and Darfur". Human Rights Review. 7 (2): 59–74. doi:10.1007/s12142-006-1030-7. ISSN 1874-6306. S2CID 73705826.
- Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa (2010-10-22). "Debating Darfur in the World". The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 632 (1): 67–85. doi:10.1177/0002716210378631. ISSN 0002-7162. S2CID 145629117.
- Banchoff, Thomas; Wuthnow, Robert (2011-03-01). Religion and the Global Politics of Human Rights. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-971107-9.
- Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa (2004-07-09). "Narrating Feminism: The Woman Question in the Thinking of an African Radical". Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies. 15 (2): 152–153. doi:10.1215/10407391-15-2-152. ISSN 1527-1986. S2CID 143302816.
- Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa; Eickelman, Dale F., eds. (2015-09-30). Africa and the Gulf Region: Blurred Boundaries and Shifting Ties. Gerlach Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctt1df4hs4. ISBN 978-3-940924-71-1. JSTOR j.ctt1df4hs4.
- Alsudairi, Mohammed; Abusharaf, Rogaia Mustafa (2015). "Migration in Pre-oil Qatar: A Sketch". Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism. 15 (3): 511–521. doi:10.1111/sena.12164. ISSN 1754-9469.
- "Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf". www.press.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2019-12-24.
- Hale, Sondra; Kadoda, Gada (2016-09-14). Networks of Knowledge Production in Sudan: Identities, Mobilities, and Technologies. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 303. ISBN 978-1-4985-3213-6.