CSSD Director Marianne Hirsch writes about her experience as a "stateless" child

Marianne Hirsch, Director of the Center for the Study of Social Difference (CSSD), wrote about her experience as a "stateless" child and the importance of protecting the rights of those who have received legal status through DACA and those who qualify to apply.

"At 11, I left communist Romania with my parents. Upon our emigration, our citizenship was revoked; the state I.D. card replaced by a little booklet with our pictures, a travel permit. On the paper, our nationality was marked as 'stateless.'" - Marianne Hirsch

Read Hirsch's article in the Los Angeles Review of Books here.

Lila Abu-Lughod joins amicus brief against the Executive Order on the "Muslim Ban"

Lila Abu-Lughod, a director of the CSSD projects Reframing Gendered Violence and Religion and the Global Framing of Gender Violence, joined several scholars in an amicus brief filed with the Supreme Court in the case by Muslim Advocates against the Executive Order on the "Muslim Ban."

Her research in Do Muslim Women Need Saving? supported the argument that invoking "honor killings" in the Executive Order indicates animus toward one religious group.

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, CSSD Project Director, interviewed about Rohingya refugee disaster

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, CSSD Project Director, interviewed about Rohengy refugee disaster

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, director of the CSSD Rural-Urban Interface project, was interviewed about the Rohingya refugee disaster for TBS eFM's "This Morning" English radio program in Seoul, Korea.

Spivak's interview is available for online listening here.