Stephen Sheehi

Stephen Sheehi is the Sultan Qaboos Professor of Middle East Studies at William & Mary, holding a joint appointment in Modern Languages, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and the Asian and Pacific-Islander American Studies Program. He directs the Decolonizing Humanities Project. Educated at the University of Michigan, he specializes in psychoanalysis, photography, and decolonial studies with a focus on Palestine, Lebanon, and Arab diasporas.

His research integrates psychoanalysis with colonial history, examining settler colonialism's psychological impacts. Key works include *Psychoanalysis Under Occupation* (2021), which won the 2022 Palestine Book Award, and *Camera Palaestina* (2022), analyzing Palestinian photographic archives. He co-edited *The Arab Imago* (2016) on early Arab photography and authored *Islamophobia: The Ideological Campaign Against Muslims* (2011), critiquing US anti-Muslim discourses.

Research interests span indigenous photography, liberation thought, and the interplay between colonialism and subjectivity. He serves on boards for USA-Palestine Mental Health Network and the Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World. Current projects include *Intimacies of Guerillas* and *The People’s History of the Maronites*.