Associate ProfessorLucia Sorbera
Chair of Discipline_Arabic Language and Cultures (ARBC)
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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- Chair of Discipline_Arabic Language and Cultures (ARBC)Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
RESEARCH INTERESTs
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Modern and contemporary history of West Asia and North Africa
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Women’s movements, gender, and sexuality
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Oral history, archives, and memory
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Postcolonial studies and feminist historiography
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Decolonial and Indigenous epistemologies
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Contemporary Arab cultural production
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Forced displacement, trauma, and artistic practices in sub‑Saharan Africa
FUNDED RESEARCH
- GRANT"And So, the Bulldozers Came..." Historical Memory and Resilient Cultures in the Face of Displacement in Ezbet Khairallah (Cairo, Egypt), Port Harcourt (Nigeria) and Redfern (Sydney, NSW)Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences1 Jan 2023People funded by this grant:
- Sorbera L
- GRANTEnhancing cultural competence and cross-cultural interdisciplinary effectiveness (Open Learning Environment - Undergraduate)DVC Education1 Jan 2017People funded by this grant:
- Sorbera L,
- Moores S,
- Penaloza FM,
- Suter R
- GRANTA Continuing Spring: Arab and Australian views on social justice, equitable economic development and cultures of freedomCouncil for Arab Australian Relations1 May 2014People funded by this grant:
- Sorbera L