{"id":16804,"date":"2020-02-27T12:26:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T12:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/?p=16804"},"modified":"2023-06-08T18:27:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T18:27:09","slug":"fulbright-morocco-alka-kurian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/2020\/02\/27\/fulbright-morocco-alka-kurian","title":{"rendered":"Alka Kurian receives Fulbright grant to Morocco"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Alka Kurian. UW Bothell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Alka Kurian, a senior lecturer at the University of Washington Bothell, has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar<\/a> grant for five months of research in Morocco for part of her upcoming book, \u201cTransnational Fourth Wave Feminisms: A Postcolonial Backlash\u201d (Routledge).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Originally from India, Kurian is particularly concerned with issues that affect the lives of people living in South Asia and the global south. Morocco is just part of her research territory. She plans to travel to Egypt and Tunisia. Further research for the book may take her to Latin America and Asia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

足彩app哪个是正规的 road to Morocco <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

足彩app哪个是正规的 Fulbright program is a cultural exchange funded by the U.S. State Department that provides recipients with travel, living and other expenses, and UW Bothell has had a stream of Fulbright scholars<\/a> the past few years, said Natalia Dyba, director of global initiatives<\/a>. Kurian is the latest from the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Starting in September, she will be based at the University of Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah in Fez, the second-largest city after Casablanca in the northwest Africa country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kurian, who has studied and taught French, has previously visited Morocco where French is a second language for many Moroccans. She said she enjoyed Arab hospitality, food, shops and alleyways similar to those in India. People of Marrakesh speaking fondly of Bollywood actors also re-affirmed her belief in global culture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the university in Fez, Kurian will give talks, mentor students and reach out to women\u2019s organizations. Her research will focus on women\u2019s use of social media that emerged in Morocco during the 2011 Arab Spring. She aims to compare that with digital feminism elsewhere in the global south and in the United States. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kurian will be on leave from UW Bothell and hopes to take a sabbatical to finish researching and writing the book by the end of 2021. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Global Bothell <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After completing the book, Kurian said she will bring the experience back to the University to further its efforts to enhance diversity and global studies. She also plans to develop new courses that center women from the Middle East and North Africa as leaders and influencers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis would be validating to all the students of color, something that is part of the learning objectives of our courses on transnational feminism,\u201d said Kurian, adding that she will be able to connect UW Bothell students with women\u2019s organizations in Morocco. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kurian sees her work advancing some of the same goals of International Women\u2019s Day<\/a> on March 8, which celebrates the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. As she writes in her latest article in 足彩app哪个是正规的 Conversation<\/a>, women activists across the world are involved in unprecedented protests, combining women\u2019s issues with a wider call for social justice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWomen are rising, and the focus is not exclusively on sexual violence,\u201d she said. \u201cWomen protesters want rights \u2014 human rights for all across social, class, religious and geographical borders.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teaching, research, community <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

At UW Bothell since 2010, Kurian teaches gender studies, film studies, literature and human rights. This year, with Associate Professor Camille Walsh, Kurian is leading a study abroad course, Gender, Culture and Human Rights in India<\/a>, which includes travel March 13-29 to Delhi and Mumbai. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Off campus, Kurian is a board member of Tasveer, a Seattle-based social justice nonprofit that uses film, art and storytelling. She also hosts the #SouthAsianFilmsAndBooks podcast, which is available on SoundCloud<\/a> and Apple Podcasts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kurian\u2019s research expands on ideas she wrote about in her previous book, \u201cNew Feminisms in South Asia\u201d <\/a>(Routledge 2017). She sees the development of a new wave of feminism, distinguished by social media, that combines women\u2019s struggles for freedom with a call for social justice for all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

足彩app哪个是正规的 #MeToo movement is an example of how social media breaks through barriers so that women\u2019s voices are heard, Kurian said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is the first time millions of women are talking to each other across the world,\u201d she said. \u201c足彩app哪个是正规的y don\u2019t have to wait for someone else to speak on their behalf.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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