Alessandra Amin (she/her)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Global South Humanities Initiative
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Research Interests: Arab art and visual culture, 19th-21st centuries; imaginaries of exile and statelessness; intersections of gender, sexuality, and nationalism
Education: PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
Alessandra Amin is a historian of modern art in the Arab world, specializing in Palestinian painting and graphic arts during the second half of the twentieth century. Her work explores the aesthetic and philosophical currents mediating artists’ relationships to Palestine across chasms of space, time, and catastrophe, paying particular attention to the gendered dimensions of Palestinian cultural imaginaries. Between completing her PhD (UCLA, 2022) and arriving at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Amin held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania's Wolf Humanities Center and the Columbia University Center for Palestine Studies. At Hopkins, she is working with Dr. Aamir Mufti on the development of the new Global South Humanities Initiative.