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Rochelle A. Davis
Center for
Contemporary Arab Studies
Edmund A. Walsh
School of Foreign Service
Georgetown University
Washington DC
20057-1020
Tel: (202)-687-0351
Fax: (202)-687-7001
E-mail:
rad39@georgetown.edu
Rochelle Davis joined the Center for
Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh
School of Foreign Service in the Fall of 2005 as an Assistant Professor of
Arab Culture and Society. She is an anthropologist by training.
Dr. Davis' teaching interests include Arab society and culture; refugees,
migrants and immigrants in and out of the Arab World; popular culture; and
tradition, conflict and change. She uses different genres of texts and
other forms of media in her classroom to expose students to the wide range
of material – both primary and secondary – about the Arab World. Her
syllabi include a wide variety of material: ethnographies,
autobiographies, scholarly books and articles from different disciplines,
blogs, cartoons, films, novels, poetry, and journalistic articles.
Her past research has explored Arab and Arab American identity and
Palestinian social and cultural life prior to 1948. She has also collected
over fifty oral histories of Palestinian Jerusalemites about their lives
in the twentieth century. Her most recent work deals with village memorial
books published by Palestinian refugees about their villages that were
destroyed in 1948. A book manuscript on the subject is currently in
progress.
Dr. Davis is fluent in Arabic (Levantine colloquial) and Modern Standard
Arabic (reading/writing/speaking), a skill which she developed as a
graduate student of Arabic literature and during ten years of living in
the Middle East. During that time she volunteered and interned at a number
of human rights organizations (Egypt), a local development group (Jordan),
and an artists’ NGO (Palestine) while she was working or studying. She
studied at Yarmouk University, the University of Jordan and the American
University of Cairo (year abroad and CASA). She continues to be active as
a consultant for a number of local NGOs.
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