Douaa Sheet

Douaa Sheet is a doctoral candidate in Anthropology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her work examines the role of moral values in mobilizing social movements. Funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the National Science Foundation, her dissertation fieldwork traced the role of dignity in mobilizing the 2011 Tunisian uprising, the transitional justice efforts to address the former regime’s human rights violations, and the different redress efforts in the transition to democracy. This research project addresses her broader interests in the morality of political action, human rights frameworks of reparation, and alternative utopias of egalitarian societies in the Middle East and North Africa. She has taught at Baruch and Hunter College, CUNY.