Dr. Manal Hamzeh, Assistant Professor of Women's Studies
Email: manahamz@nmsu.edu
Spring Office Hours:Tuesday 1:30-2:15 and Wednesday 1:30-2:30
and On Skype By Appointment
Education: Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction, 2007 (New Mexico State University); M.S., Clinical Audiology, 1986 (Gallaudet University); M.A., Human Development and Early Childhood Special Education (George Washington University); B.A., Communication Disorders (Speech, Hearing, Language Sciences), 1983 (George Washing University)
Teaching Interests: Feminist Research Methods; Feminist Postcolonial Theory; arab-muslim women and the hijabs
Courses Taught: Feminist Research Methods; Feminist Postcolonial Theories; Women in arab/muslim Cultures; Representing Women across Cultures.
Research Interests: My research focuses on normative discourses shaping girls' experiences of their bodies. My specific area of emphasis is on/with muslim girls' negotiating the hijab discourse, or the many veils in their lives. My research is guided by questions exploring arab-muslim girls' language of critique and acts of deveiling the hijab discourse. At this point, my empirical research is guided by a commitment to access the lives of muslim girls, work with them to challenge and interrupt the hijab discourse in their lives, and find ways to widen their opportunities of learning. I approach this research as an arabyyah/muslimah feminist working in the diaspora while being guided by feminist postcolonial theories.
Select Publications
- Hamzeh, M. (in press). DeVeiling Pedagogies: Muslim Girls and the Hijab Discourse. Critical Constructions: Studies on Education and Society. Series Editor: Curry Malott, West Chester University. Charlotte: NC, Information Age Press.
- Hamzeh, M. (in press). DeVeiling body stories: Muslim girls negotiate visual, spatial, and ethical hijabs. Race Ethnicity & Education.
- Oliver, K. L., & Hamzeh, M. (2010). "The boys won¹t let us play": 5th grade mestizas publicly challenge physical activity discourse at school. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 81(1), 39-51.
- Hamzeh, M., & Oliver, K. (2009). Gaining Research Access into the Lives of Muslim Girls: Researchers Negotiating Muslimness, Modesty, Inshallah, and Haram. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 22(6),1-16.
- Oliver, K., Hamzeh, M., & McCaughtry, N. (2009). Girly girls can play games/Las niñas pueden jugar tambien': Co-creating a Curriculum of Possibilities with 5th Grade Girls. Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 28(1), 90-110.
Awards
Dr. Manal Hamzeh and Dr. Kim Oliver have won the Exemplary Paper award from SIG Reseach on Learning and Instruction in Physical Education for 2009 for their paper, "Girlie girls can play games/Las ninas pueden jugar tambien: Co-Creating a Curriculum of possibilities with fifth-grade girls," which is published in The Journal of Teaching in Physical Education volume 28.
Dr. Hamzeh is recipient of the 2011 Lillian Robinson Scholar designation from Simon de Beauvoir Institute Universite Concordia in Montreal Quebec.
Guest Lectures
- Westfield State University on April 14th
- Interview for Westfield State event
- University of Wisconsin at River Falls on February 24 2011
Past Events
- October 28th, 2009: As a Visiting Professor at the Women and Gender Studies Institute of the University of Toronto will present "Interrogating the Hijab Discourse," part of the "Brown Bag" lectures series of the Center of Women Studies in Education-Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE).
- November 10th, 2009: Video lecture for the College of Education at Monash University, Australia, "Negotiating the Neoliberal Discourse: Crossing Pedagogies of an arabyyah-muslimah Professor at New Mexico State University."
