Faculty Member
 Susan Ossman
(Professor, Ph.D. 1991 University of California Berkeley)
Office: 1233 Watkins Hall
Phone: (951) 827-5524
E-mail: susanossman@ucr.edu
Susan Ossman has developed new modes of comparative and multi-site research to explore how media shape urban space and rework social and political boundaries in and around North Africa, Europe and the Middle East. Her current fieldwork explores emerging forms of transnational social life and political engagement from the perspective of serial migrants, people who have lived in several countries. Paying attention to who can gain access to distinct social, ethical and aesthetic worlds leads to theorizing social distinction and cultural differences in ways that take into account how who we are is related to how we move. Susan draws on her ethnographic research to examine these emerging worlds in an upcoming book. Her previous publications include The Places we Share , Migration, Subjectivity and Global Mobility (Lexington Books 2007), Three Faces of Beauty, Casablanca, Paris, Cairo (Duke 2002)., Miroirs Maghrébins, Itinéaires de soi et Paysages de Rencontre (CNRS 1998), Mimesis: imiter, représenter, circuler, (Hermès, CNRS,1998) and Picturing Casablanca, Portraits of Power in a Modern City (California1994).
Susan is currently the Director of UCR's Global Studies program. She previously taught at Goldsmith's College, University of London, Georgetown University, Rice University, The American University of Paris and the CELSA-Sorbonne. In 1992 she founded the Rabat center of the Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain (IRMC- now Centre Jacques Berque) where she was research fellow and director until 1996.
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