Douglas Biow, Director
MEZ 3.126, Mailcode A1800, Austin, TX 78712 • 512-232-3470
Sofian Merabet
Assistant Professor — Ph.D., Columbia University
Contact
- E-mail: sofian.merabet@austin.utexas.edu
- Phone: 512-471-0057
- Office: SAC 5.164
- Office Hours: Spring 2011 - Friday 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
- Campus Mail Code: C3200
Biography
Sofian Merabet is a socio-cultural anthropologist with an expertise in the modern Middle East and the wider Muslim world, including immigrant communities in Europe. His interdisciplinary research analyzes the human geography of queer identity formations and the social production of queer space as constitutive features of wider class, religious, and gender relations. His professional interests draw on comparative methodologies and approaches ranging from religious and cultural history to the politics of sexuality.
Interests
Socio-Cultural Theory/Psychoanalysis/Urban Studies/Gender Studies/Queer Theory/Middle East, North Africa, and Europe


