Lecturer, Islamic Arts and Culture in the Arts and Ideas in the Humanities Program; Affiliate Faculty in Arab and Muslim American Studies and Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies
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), the Arab and Muslim American Studies (AMAS) program and the Global Islamic Studies Center (GISC). 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 SWANA region, with a particular focus on issues related to contemporary socio-politics, critical race studies, and gender & sexuality.
Her book manuscript, "The Age of Disillusionment: Palestinian Art After the Intifadas", examines the effect of the inter-Intifada period and failure of the peace process on Palestinian art production after 2000 and is currently under review with Duke University Press. She has articles published in a number of peer-reviewed journals, including an analysis of cultural appropriation and Arab erasure of the Mizrahi Jewish population in Israel in Lateral, and an examination of the use of hybrid mythological figures among queer and non-binary SWANA artists in the Journal of Visual Culture. An exploration of what Trans Studies can bring to bear on the fields of Art History and Visual Culture will be published in Art Journal in December 2021. Her essay situating the artist’s work within the broader context of contemporary research-based art practices will also appear in a forthcoming book on Tania El Khoury, and she will contribute an essay on the use of al-buraq in contemporary SWANA artists’ practices for an edited volume on religion in contemporary art.