Current position: Migrations Postdoctoral Fellow, Einaudi Center for International Studies, Cornell University

Chloe affiliation: PhD ’23, JHU Department of Political Science

Sabrina served as the graduate assistant for the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship (RIC) for two years before the launch of the Chloe Center.

How did your experience with the program shape your intellectual trajectory?

Working for RIC helped me think about the dynamics of racism, immigration and citizenship, how they intersect, and how they can be applied to understand different settings. One of the conferences that I helped organized was questioning some of the legal categories with which we operate.

The second conference, which I co-led with Heba Islam, was really thinking about surveillance—how different dynamics of racism, immigration, and citizenship play out in surveillance in global contexts and how surveillance furthers them. So, the goal was to get to the heart of that intersection, and to also think more about how to bring together the global, the national, and the local. In the programing I helped organize, we tried to bring together these three dimensions.

My work with RIC opened my eyes and broadened my horizon in terms of thinking about how these intersecting dynamics play out in relation to various issues across the world.