Sherena Razek
Biography
Sherena Razek is a diasporic Palestinian feminist educator, scholar, activist, and labor organizer. She is Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at UMass Boston and previously held a President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Gender Studies at UCLA. She received her PhD from the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University where she was the President of the Graduate Labor Organization and co-founder of the Palestine Solidarity Caucus. Her research focuses on Palestinian visual culture, anti-imperialist struggle, and decolonial feminist ecologies.
Area of Expertise
Palestine; indigeneity; transnational feminisms; environmental media; decolonial theory; visual culture
Degrees
Ph.D, Brown University, Modern Culture and Media
M.A., Brown University, Modern Culture and Media
M.A., University of British Columbia, Art History, Visual Art, and Theory
B.A., University of Ottawa, History and Theory of Art
Professional Publications & Contributions
Journal Articles
2024 “Fire as Elemental Intifada in Colonized Palestine.” Journal of Palestine Studies. ‘Mediating Palestine: Representation, Mobilization, Experimentation and Play.” Vol. 53, No. 3: 1-14. doi:10.1080/0377919X.2024.2422287.
2018 “Black and White and Back: Reversed Negatives in Rula Halawani’s Series Negative Incursions.” InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture. University of Rochester: NY. Digital.
Book Chapters
2026 “Beneath the Colony, the Commons: Indigenous Palestinian Feminist Ecologies in Film.” Cambridge Companion to Palestinian Cinema. Edited by Nadia Yacub. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. (In Press).
“How the Sabr Sees: Palestinian More-Than-Human Rights.” In Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights: History, Politics, Practice, Second Edition. Edited by Rajini Srikanth and Elora Halim Chowdhury. Routledge: New York. (In Press).
2021 “From Environmental Nakba to a Worldly Hydrocommons: Reading the Waterscapes of the Jordan River and the Dead Sea as Ecopolitical Refusal.” In Views from the Edge: Ephemeral Coast. Edited by Celina Jeffery. Vernon Press: Wilmington, pp.117-139.
Other Publications
2026 “Elemental Intifada: How Palestine Unmakes the Anthropocene.” The Markaz Review. “TMR 61: Anthropocene.”
2024 “Potentializing Palestine: Gaza Bursts Open the Imperial Shutter.” Social Text Online. ‘Palestine Now’ Series.
2024 “Making the Postcard Women’s Imaginarium: Photography Preserves Sovereign History as Incomplete.” In Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography. Edited by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Wendy Ewald, Susan Meiselas, Leigh Raiford, Laura Wexler. Thames and Hudson, pp. 186-187.