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FASS welcomes two Farley Scholars in History
We are pleased to welcome Rana Barakat and Nalini Mohabir to 911吃瓜's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) as the 2026-2027 Jack and Nancy Farley Distinguished Visiting Scholars in History.
Housed in the departments and programs within FASS, the appointment is dedicated to teaching and stimulating discussions on stories of the past across disciplines. Farley Scholars normally teach one course or lead other types of relevant intellectual activities that are open to the public and students across the university.
911吃瓜 the 2026-2027 Scholars
Rana Barakat
September 2026 to May 2027
International Studies
An associate professor of history at Birzeit University and the former director of the Birzeit University Museum in Palestine (2021-2025), her research interests include the history of colonialism, nationalism, museum and archive studies, and rebellion. She received her PhD in history from the University of Chicago.
Barakat鈥檚 book, (UNC Press, 2026), contributes an Indigenous reading of time, space, and memory in Palestine. She is currently working on two book projects. The first, titled 鈥淯nsettling the Museum,鈥� explores the acquisition, management, care and display of collections. Focusing on the Tawfiq Canaan Amulet and Talisman Collection and the Huxley Collection, both early twentieth century ethnographic collections from Greater Syria, the book follows the collection鈥檚 journeys from their origins into 鈥渕useums鈥� to explore and dismantle the relationships between collectors, objects, preservation, and colonial extraction. The second project, titled "Rhythms of Rebellion: The Buraq Revolt in Palestine and its Many Afterlives," traces the concept and practice of rebellion, from the 1929 revolt to the present in Palestine.
Nalini Mohabir
January 2027 to August 2027
Global Asia
Nalini Mohabir is an associate professor in the Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment at Concordia University. She is also the director of the at Concordia.鈥疢ohabir teaches in the fields of feminist and postcolonial geographies. She is a Caribbeanist, with a focus on Asian indentureship. Her work on indentureship is concerned with questions of diasporic return and its (im)possibilities; the implications of pivotal historical turning points for Afro-Indo Caribbean relations; and visual representation of indentureship and its legacies.
She has published articles in various journals and she has been working with long-time collaborator鈥疪onald Cummings (McMaster University), on a series of publications about the Sir George Williams student protest鈥� and an upcoming anthology on the visualities of the protest.鈥疶ogether with Cummings, she is the co-editor of Topia: A Canadian journal of Cultural Studies. She is also the Caribbean area editor for the Journal of Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas and a member of the editorial board of Trans Asia Photography.