Sarah Gualtieri

Sarah Gualtieri is Professor of History and American Studies at Georgetown University in Qatar. Professor Gualtieri’s research and teaching cover Middle Eastern studies, migration, Arab American studies, and critical ethnic studies, with a particular focus on race, gender, and power.

Professor Gualtieri is the author of Between Arab and White: Race and Ethnicity in the Early Syrian American Diaspora (University of California Press, 2009), which examines the history of Arab racial formation in the United States with an emphasis on the question of “whiteness.” Her second book, Arab Routes: Pathways to Syrian California (Stanford University Press, 2019), looks at the histories of Syrian, Lebanese, and Palestinian migrants in Southern California, focusing on connections and solidarities with the Latin American community. Arab Routes won the Arab American Book Award and the Alixa Naff Prize in Migration Studies.

Professor Gualtieri joins GU-Q from the University of Southern California, where she was Professor in the departments of American Studies and Ethnicity, History, and Middle East Studies. She has received numerous national fellowships, including the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Social Science Research Council.

Professor Gualtieri received her Ph.D. in Middle East History from the University of Chicago.