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Haneen Ghabra (Ph.D., University of Denver) is Assistant Professor at Kuwait University’s Department of Mass Communication and author of the book, Muslim Women and White Femininity: Reenactment and Resistance (2018). She recently was the recipient for the Outstanding Article of the Year Award at the National Communication Association’s (NCA) Feminist Division (November 2018). Her work has been published in Communication Inquiry, Text and Performance Quarterly and Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies. Fatima Zahrae Chrifi Alaoui (Ph.D., University of Denver) is Assistant Professor and coordinator of graduate studies in the Department of Communication Studies at San Francisco State University. Her research engages critical rhetoric, political communication, new media, gender and sexuality studies, transnational feminism and social change in a variety of contexts, including social movements, political discourse and pop culture. More particularly, Dr. Alaoui’s scholarship considers how the often non-normative, un-institutionalized voices of resistance work to change their communities, and how normative or institutionalized discourses reinforce their ability to maintain power.Shadee Abdi (Ph.D., University of Denver) is Assistant Professor of Communication at San Francisco State University. She is a critical cultural communication scholar whose research interests include intercultural, international, and diasporic communication, sexuality studies, family communication, performance studies, and performances of Iranian diaspora. Broadly, her work explores how conflicting discourses complicate and enhance our intersectional understandings of identity and power relative to race, culture, sexuality, gender, nationality, religion, ability, class, and family. She is specifically interested in narratives of resistance within familial and mediated contexts.Bernadette Marie Calafell (Ph.D., University of North Carolina) is Professor and the inaugural Chair in the Department of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at Gonzaga University. She is author of Latina/o Communication Studies Theorizing Performance and Monstrosity, Performance, and Race in Contemporary Culture. She was the recipient of the Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance, the Córdova-Puchot Award for Scholar of the Year, the Lambda Award, and the Francine Merritt Award from the National Communication Association.
