Suzanne Morrison
Assistant Professor
- Email: Suzanne.Morrison@zu.ac.ae
- Telephone: +971 2 599 3401
- Address: Dubai Academic City, MF1-2-053
Introduction
Suzanne Morrison has a PhD in Political Science from the London School of Economics and an MA in Political Science from the American University in Cairo, where she earned the Tawfiq Doss Award for best thesis in Political Science. She is a scholar of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, political and social change, political economy, globalization, and post-sovereign forms of state. Her research has been funded by the Emirates Research Scholarship at the LSE and a Visiting Research Scholarship through the Council for British Research in the Levant at the Kenyon Institute in Jerusalem. Prior to joining Zayed University, she held a Visiting Research Fellowship at the Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Institute of International Studies and taught at Birzeit University in Palestine.
Qualifications
PhD Political Science, London School of Economics, UK, 2016
MA Political Science, American University in Cairo, Egypt, 2010
BA International Politics, The Evergreen State College, USA, 2003
Memberships
International Studies Association
Middle East Studies Association
Palestinian American Research Center
Research and Professional Activities
Middle East politics, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, political and social change, social movements and social movement theory, political economy, global politics, globalization, post-sovereign forms of state
Teaching Areas
Introduction to Political Science
Applied Research Methods
Senior Seminar: Modernity and its Challenges
World History
“Border-Crossing Repertoires of Contention: Palestine Activism in a Global Justice Context.” Globalizations (2020). https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2020.1844973
“Whither the State? The Oslo Peace Process and Neoliberal Configurations of Palestine.” Social Science Quarterly 101, no. 7 (2020): 2465-2484. https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.12914
“Organising the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement: The Case of the ‘We Divest’ Campaign. Conflict, Security & Development 15, no. 5 (2015): 575-593. https://doi.org/10.1080/14678802.2015.1100015
“The Emergence of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement.” In Contentious Politics in the Middle East, edited by Fawaz Gerges, 229-257. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.