Randa Tawil is an Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Texas Christian University. She received her doctorate in the Department of American Studies at Yale University, and she specializes in migration and mobility, ethnic studies, and Arab/Middle Eastern American studies. She is interested in how race and gender are made meaningful for migrants during transit, and how sites outside of the United States contribute to racial and gender formations within the country.

photos from my research trips

  • Vieux Porte (the old port), Marseille
  • view from the corniche, beirut
  • ruins of an old silk factory on Mt. Lebanon
  • Gate to the “Liverpool Sailor’s Home” founded in 1852 to help sailors on their sojourn in the city
  • abandoned quarantine “pavilon hoche,” Île de Frioul, Marseille
  • abandoned quarantines on the Île de Frioul, Marseille
  • militarized border wall Nogales, AZ

AWARDS and FELLOWSHIPS

2024-2025 University of Washington Simpson Center Scholar in Residence

2024-2025 American Council of Learned Societies Research Fellowship

2022-2023 American Association of University Women Fellowship

2022-2023 Cokie Roberts Research Fund in Women’s History, National Archives Washington DC

2020 Wise Woman Teaching Award for Feminist Pedagogy, Texas Christian University

2019-2020 American Counsel of Learned Scholars Dissertation Completion Fellowship