I am proud to serve as a faculty mentor in the Richard Rubin Scholar Mentoring Program, which seeks to advance the academic, interpersonal, social, and professional success of first generation and underrepresented students at Swarthmore College. I sit on the advisory committee for Swarthmore's Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program, which aims to increase the number of minority students who will pursue Ph.D.'s in the the arts and sciences, in an effort to reduce racial and ethnic disparities among the professoriate. I am Swarthmore's campus advisor for the U.S. Department of State's Critical Language Scholarship and a lead faculty participant in the College's Friends, Peace, and Sanctuary program, a joint initiative with the City of Philadelphia and Syrian and Iraqi nationals who have resettled in the United States, that explores art's capacity to build empathy and create a deeper sense of belonging.
In 2018, I was elected to serve a two year term on the executive council of the American Political Science Association's Migration and Citizenship Section. I am co-founder (with Tani Sebro) of APSA's Political Ethnography Working Group and (with Sofia Fenner) of the Tri-College Global Ethnographies Workshop. At Swarthmore, I have organized numerous talks, workshops, and lecture series on themes such as Borders, Migration, and Human Rights and Contending Visions of the Middle East. Please see my events page for more details.
I am an editorial board member of Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism and a member of the communications team of International Political Sociology.
In 2018, I was elected to serve a two year term on the executive council of the American Political Science Association's Migration and Citizenship Section. I am co-founder (with Tani Sebro) of APSA's Political Ethnography Working Group and (with Sofia Fenner) of the Tri-College Global Ethnographies Workshop. At Swarthmore, I have organized numerous talks, workshops, and lecture series on themes such as Borders, Migration, and Human Rights and Contending Visions of the Middle East. Please see my events page for more details.
I am an editorial board member of Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism and a member of the communications team of International Political Sociology.