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Dr. Sophie Richter-Devroe
Associate Professor
Dr. Sophie Richter-Devroe
Associate Professor
Educational Qualifications
PhD in Middle East Politics
MSc Development Studies
Entity
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Program
Master of Arts in Women, Society and Development
Divison
Middle Eastern Studies Department (MESD)
Biography
Sophie Richter-Devroe is Associate Professor in the Women, Society and Development Program at the College of Humanities and Social Science, Hamad Bin Khalifa University.
Sophie's broad research interests are in the field of everyday politics and women's activism in the Middle East.
She is the author of “Women's Political Activism in Palestine: Peacebuilding, Resistance and Survival" (University of Illinois Press, 2018) which won the National Women's Studies Association/University of Illinois Press First Book Prize. The book analyzes Palestinian women’s creative and often informal everyday forms of political activism after the Oslo Accords.
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/35ghr7wd9780252041860.html
Sophie also conducted research on the oral histories, memories and narratives of women from the often forgotten Palestinian Naqab Bedouin population, and has worked with Dr Ruba Salih (SOAS) on a joint research on Palestinian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon and the West Bank. More recently, she has led a research project on Syrian refugees in Italy and Greece. The project investigates the impact of the Syrian refugee crisis on the family and family-making practices in a transnational context.
Sophie’s research is based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan and Greece.
PhD in Middle East Politics
University of Exeter, UK
2010
MSc Development Studies
SOAS, UK
2005
BA Honours in Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies
University of Cambridge, UK
2004
- Women, Gender and Politics in the Middle East (in particular women’s informal, everyday forms of activism and gendered approaches to war, peace, security, violence, conflict resolution and resistance)
- Palestine Question (in particular Palestinian women, Palestinian refugees, Palestinian cultural production and the Palestinian Bedouin)
- Oral History and Orality (in particular women’s oral histories, memories and narratives)
- Refugees and Migration (in particular gendered approaches to migration with a focus on Palestinian and Syrian refugees)
- Settler Colonialism and Indigeneity (in particular in the context of Palestine)
Associate Professor
Women, Society and Development Program, College of Humanities and Social Science, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
2018 - present
Honorary Research Fellow
European Centre for Palestine Studies, University of Exeter, UK
2016 - present
Associate Professor
Department of Politics and International Relations, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
2016 - 2018
Visiting Scholar
Center for Palestine Studies, Columbia University
2015
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Gender and Middle East Studies
Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, UK
2010 - 2016
- Nasasra, M., Richter-Devroe, S., Abu-Rabia-Queder, S., & Ratcliffe, R. (2014). The naqab Bedouin and colonialism: New perspectives. Routledge.
- 2021 HBKU Thematic Research Grant, Forced Migration, Digital Technology and Health
- 2017 OSRA-QNRF Grant for project on “Unfamiliar Families: Syrian Refugees’ Transnational Solidarity and Kinship Networks", Qatar.
- 2014 Early Career Fellowship from Arts and Humanities Research Council for project on “Gender and Settler Colonialism: Women's Oral Histories in the Naqab”, UK.
- 2013 Project Grant from Gerda Henkel Foundation for project on "Palestinian Refugees' Strategies of Conflict Resolution: Reconciling Citizenship Rights and Return", Germany/UK (with Dr. Ruba Salih, SOAS).
- 2012 National Women's Studies Association (NWSA)/University of Illinois First Book Prize for "Women's Political Activism in Palestine: Peacebuilding, Resistance and Survival" (University of Illinois Press, 2018)
- 2011 Winner of Cynthia Enloe Prize, for paper “Defending their Land, Protecting their Men: Palestinian Women’s Popular Resistance after the Second Intifada”, published in International Feminist Journal of Politics 14 (1).
- 2007 First Prize, Graduate Student Paper competition, for article “Gender, Culture, and Conflict Resolution in Palestine”, published in Journal of Middle Eastern Women's Studies, 4 (2).