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by Sue Kropp
Biographical
Information:
• B.A., UCLA (international relations, with a focus on the Middle
East)
• M.A., Georgetown University (Arab studies)
• M.A., University of Michigan (sociology)
• Ph.D., University of Michigan (sociology)
• Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies, University of Michigan
Related
Links:
Frances
Hasso's Home Page
NOVEMBER 25, 2002--Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Sociology Frances Hasso has always let her interests guide her research. For years now that research has taken her to the occupied Palestinian territories.
"The questions I've always been interested in have had to do with gender and women," Hasso says. "I'd always wanted to focus on issues of gender in the Middle East, and my training in international relations and Arab studies prepared me to do so."
As a graduate student during the first Palestinian uprising (1987-1991), Hasso went to the Israeli-occcupied territories of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem, where she interned with the Palestinian Federation of Women's Action Committees and interviewed more than 60 women who worked in the income-generating projects and preschools of the organization. She returned to the territories to work and to undertake research a number of times in the following 10 years.
"It was easier to move around Palestine when I was a graduate student," says Hasso. "When I conducted my last fieldwork stint in the summer of 2000, it was extremely difficult, even with a U.S. passport, to regularly travel between East Jerusalem and the West Bank, or East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. Now, it has become almost impossible. Many of my colleagues have given up their fieldwork in the Occupied Territories. I am currently working on Palestine-related research that does not require fieldwork, and developing research questions that will take me to other parts of the region in order to continue fieldwork in the Middle East and North Africa.
A Q&A with Frances Hasso:
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