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I am a dance consultant and researcher in comparative literature and performing arts. I hold a PhD and have a postdoctoral research background in comparative literature, with specific experience in intermedia and interart studies, which I currently teach at the University of Lisbon. I also hold a Master of Arts in Performing Arts and I am specialised in dance. In recent years I collaborated with the project Modern Moves, studying the dynamics and interconnections of dance practices of African origin in the diaspora, focusing especially on Angolan, Brazilian and Goan dances and their socio-hi...

Moving beyond the paradigmatic divides of area studies, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East explores the shared concerns and histories of these regions, offers stimulating perspectives on interdisciplinary debates, and challenges established analytic models. CSSAAME publishes articles from around the world, providing a distinctive link between scholars living and working in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia and their counterparts in Europe and the Americas.

Chart showing reported hate incidents against Asians on Stanford's campus. (Chart: RACHEL OH/The Stanford Daily) on April 20, 2021 The mass shooting that left six Asian women dead in Atlanta, Ga. last month captured headlines and shook Asian communities across the country amid a reported rise in anti-Asian violence since the pandemic began. But anti-Asian hate violence did not begin with COVID-19. The Daily’s Data Team analyzed hate incidents against Asians at Stanford and across the nation in the years leading to and during the pandemic.  The number of reported hate incidents at Stanford ...

Stanford Prof's Book Explores U.S. Violence And The Law By Sameer Rao | April 18, 2021, 8:02 PM EDT In "A Pattern of Violence," David Alan Sklansky illuminates how the U.S. legal system's overdependence on faulty understandings of violent crime has fueled some of today's most pressing criminal and social justice issues. The most important question of the virtual panel that Stanford Law School recently held to discuss professor David Alan Sklansky's latest book, "A Pattern of Violence: How the Law Classifies Crimes and What It Means for Justice," arrived about 40 minutes into the se...

I am a social and cultural historian of the modern Middle East, with a particular focus on nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Egypt. My research and teaching explore transnational processes and questions of state governance in provincial settings, empire, and the mobility of people, ideas, and goods. I am currently working on a manuscript titled "Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said, 1859-1906: Labor Mobility and the Making of the Suez Canal." In this book, embracing labor migrants who followed domestic as well as international routes, I trace the social and cultural history of the S...