Sofian Merabet
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Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Columbia University
Contact
E-mail: sofian.merabet@austin.utexas.eduPhone: (512) 471-0057
Office: SAC 5.164
Office Hours: Fall 2011 - By appointment only
Campus Mail Code: C3200
Interests
Socio-Cultural Theory/Psychoanalysis/Urban Studies/Gender Studies/Queer Theory/Middle East, North Africa, and EuropeBiography
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.


