The Center for Palestine Studies congratulates Alessandra Amin on her appointment as an Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania!

Alessandra Amin is a historian of modern art in the Arab world, specializing in Palestinian painting and graphic arts during the second half of the twentieth century. Her work explores the aesthetic and philosophical currents mediating artists’ relationships to Palestine across chasms of space, time, and catastrophe, paying particular attention to the gendered dimensions of Palestinian futurities. Her research has been supported by the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University, the Social Science Research Council, the Palestinian American Research Center, Darat al-Funun, and the U.S. Department of Education. Her writing has appeared in Trans Asia Photography, MAVCOR Journal, and Art Journal, and is forthcoming in ARTMargins. At Penn, she will continue working on her first book project, Mother Figure: Art and the Palestinian Dream-State.

Alessandra was previously the Ibrahim Abu-Lughod 2022 - 2023 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Palestine Studies.

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