Suzanne Morrison

Assistant Professor
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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.