Biography
Hanan Toukan completed her PhD at SOAS, University of London, where she won the Middle East Studies Association of North American Malcolm H. Kerr Award for best PhD in the Social Sciences for 2012. Her research sits at the intersection of Middle Eastern studies, international politics, critical theory, art and visual culture, and colonial/postcolonial studies. She has held faculty positions at Bard College Berlin and Brown University and taught at SOAS University in London and Bamberg University in Germany. She is a recipient of several research awards and was the EUME-CNMS Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2019-23). Toukan is the author of The Politics of Art: Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy in Lebanon, Palestine and Jordan published with Stanford University Press (2021).
Courses
Bachelor of Arts in Global Liberal Arts
- GLAS 202A — Social Inequalities: Social, Economic, Political
- GLAS 202B — Social Inequalities: Gender, Sexuality, Race, Class
- GLAS 230 — Seminar in Art, Power, and Society
- GLAS 250 — Space, Place, and Identity
- GLAS 400 — Senior Thesis/Project Seminar
- GLAS 401 — Senior Thesis/Project
- SOAN 225 — Gender and Culture
Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
- GLAS 250 — Space, Place, and Identity
- PHPE 100 — Introduction to PPE
- PHPE 201 — Conflict, Peace, and Justice
- PHPE 310 — Research Design in PPE
- PHPE 400 — Regional Topics in PPE
- PHPE 401 — Special Topics in PPE
- PHPE 410 — PPE Dissertation I
- PHPE 411 — PPE Dissertation II
- PSPA 200 — Introduction to Political Thought
- SOAN 225 — Gender and Culture