About
Sascha Crasnow, Ph.D. is a Lecturer of Islamic Arts in the Residential College and Affiliate Faculty at the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies (CMENAS). She received her BS Honors in Psychology from the University of Washington, her MA in Art History from CUNY-Hunter College, and her PhD in Art History from the University of California, San Diego. Her research focuses on contemporary art from the Middle East and North Africa, and in particular the effects of socio-political changes and colonial (and neo-colonial) histories on contemporary art production.
She is currently working on a book manuscript, tentatively titled After the Intifadas: Art in the Age of Disillusionment, based on her dissertation, which examines the effect of the inter-Intifada period and failure of the peace process on Palestinian art production after 2000. She is also revising an article about the difficulties that arise when attempting to exhibit work by Palestinian artists or about Palestine in the United States for a special edition journal issue about Agnotology in Middle Eastern Contemporary Art. Her upcoming research projects include an article investigating the experiential qualities of two sound art installations that use documentary recordings at sites of incarceration/occupation, and a book length project that explores the power dynamics of language through the work of contemporary artists in North Africa and beyond.
