Stephen Sheehi

Stephen Sheehi is Sultan Qaboos Professor of Middle East Studies in Asian and Middle East Studies Program, Arabic Studies, and the Asian and Pacific Islander Studies Program at William & Mary. He is also the founding Director of the Decolonizing Humanities Project. He is the author of numerous books, articles, book chapters and op-ed pieces. More importantly, he the co-author of two books on Palestine: Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine with Lara Sheehi (Routledge, 2022) and Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories with Salim Tamari and Issam Nassar (Fall, 2022). Stephen is currently co-editing with Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian a special issue of State Crime Journal, “Settler-Colonialism As State-Crime: Abolitionist Perspectives” (December 2022). He is also the author of Arab Imago: A Social History of Portrait Photography 1860-1910 (2016), Islamophobia: The Ideological Campaign Against Muslims (2011) and Foundations of Modern Arab Identity (2004). Stephen is most recently the recipient of the Mary Cornille Distinguished Professorship of the Humanities at Wellesley College and PARC’s NEH/FPIRI Fellowship that facilitated the earliest stages of “Psychoanalysis Under Occupation.”