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Come have lunch with Dr. Najwa Mayer! Food provided with RSVP.

Najwa Mayer is an interdisciplinary scholar and teacher of Asian American, Gender and Sexuality, and Critical Muslim Studies, specializing in the cultural politics of US empire. Her current book manuscript examines the invention and conventions of “Muslim American” genres through the neoliberal intersections of racial, secular, and sexual politics within transnational markets. Her next project traces the geo-capitalist intimacies between weapons and art across the supply chains of the War on Terror, and through their afterlives in refugee cultural labor. Her research has received support from the Social Science Research Council, Andrew Mellon Foundation, and Henry Luce Foundation, among others. She holds a PhD in American Studies from Yale University.