Charlotte Karem Albrecht

Charlotte Karem Albrecht is Associate Professor of American Culture and Women’s and Gender Studies and Director of the Arab and Muslim American Studies program at the University of Michigan. She is also affiliated faculty for the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies and the Law, Race, and History program. Her research interests include Arab American history, histories of gender and sexuality, women of color feminist theory, queer of color critique, and interdisciplinary historicist methods. Her first book, Possible Histories: Arab Americans and the Queer Ecology of Peddling, was published with University of California Press and is also available as an open access ebook. Karem Albrecht holds a Ph.D. in Feminist Studies from the University of Minnesota. Her work has also been published in Arab Studies Quarterly, Gender & History, the Journal of American Ethnic History, and multiple edited collections.

Research Areas

• Arab American studies, queer of color critique, interdisciplinary and historical methods, history of gender and sexuality, women of color and transnational feminisms

Affiliations

• Faculty: Department of American Culture (AC), Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS)
  Faculty: Department of Women's and Gender Studies
• Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies (CMENAS)
• Program in Race, Law, and History