Congratulations to the thirteen undergraduate and graduate students who presented at the 2023 UC Davis Middle East/South Asia Studies Student Research Conference!

Panel One, Moderator: Professor Jocelyn Sharlet, Comparative Literature and ME/SA

Jena Tufail, The Evil Eye and Shamanism in South Asian and Middle Eastern Communities

Amandeep Dhaliwal, The Incomplete Stories of Shattered Lives: 1947 Partition Narratives from Punjab

Tasnim Saada, Musical Nationalism: Rai Music's Influence on Algerian Revolutionary Movements

 

Panel Two, Moderator: Professor Nicole Ranganath, ME/SA

Harleen Bal, Unpacking Immigration: Digital Storytelling of Punjabi Meatpacking Labor in California

Aryan Nooshi, The Relationship Between Tunisian Men and The New York Times Media Coverage in the 1940s (Dr. Joseph Research Lab)

Ali Misleh, The Racialization of Arabs in The New York Times: the 1940s (Dr. Joseph Research Lab)

Kavika Kapoor, The Representation of Arab Men in The New York Times in the 1940s (Dr. Joseph Research Lab)

Aaminah Fatima Mohammad, The New York Times Media Project: the 1960s (Dr. Joseph Research Lab)

Hadil Djadri, The Algerian War of Independence: the 1960s Through the Lens of The New York Times (Dr. Joseph Research Lab)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Panel Three, Moderator: Professor Flagg Miller, Religious Studies and ME/SA

Pooja Hazra, Mughal Munshis and an Emergent Culture of Documentation in the Mughal Empire

Indranil Basu, Queer(ing) Indian Cinema Identity, Otherness, and the Beauty of Being Queer in Indian Cinema

Anisha Patwardhan, An Adapted Parampara: Bharatnatyam Education in the Bay Area

Nicole Dodd, What makes sentences more difficult to process and why? New research on Modern Standard Arabic

Katia Bouali, The Mujahideens of Algeria: A collection of inspirational women