Dr Lana Tatour
Tatourearned her PhD in Politics and International Studies in 2017 from the University of Warwick in the U.K and holdsan MSc. in NGOs and Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Lana Tatour is a Lecturer in Developmentat the School of Social Sciences, UNSW Sydney.She works on settler colonialism, indigeneity, race, citizenship, human rights, and the Middle East with a focus on Palestine and Israel. Prior to joining the School of Social Sciences, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University, and held visiting fellowshipsat the Palestinian-American Research Center, the Australian Human Rights Centre, UNSW Faculty of Law and UNSW School of Social Sciences. She is on theboard ofThe Australian Journal of Human Rights. She iscurrently working on her manuscript Ambivalent Resistance: Palestinians in Israel andthe Liberal Politics of Settler Colonialism and Human Rights,and on an edited volume together with Dr Ronit Lentin on Race and the Question of Palestine.
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Selected Grants and Awards:
- Race, Religion, and the Question of Palestine,Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life, Columbia University.
- Ibrahim Abu Lughod Postdoctoral Award,Centerfor Palestine Studies, Columbia University
- Grant Writing Fellowship,Faculty Law, University of New South Wales
- Research Grant, Mada al-Carmel: ArabCenterfor Applied Social Research
- Research Grant,British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES)
- Research Grant,Palestinian American Research Center
- Research Grant,Council for British Research in the Levant
Tatour's doctoral research was awarded as runner-up in the Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize for best Ph.D. dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic in the Social Sciences or Humanities by the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies.
My Teaching
ARTS2754 - Development Research
ARTS2751- International Development
SOCW7852 - Politics of International Aid