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Susan Slyomovics is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), part of the UCLA College. She holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley (1985). Her research focuses on Gender Studies, Human Rights, Folklore, Material Culture, Visual Anthropology, and Middle Eastern and North African Studies. She has authored numerous books including Monuments Decolonized: Algeria’s French Colonial Heritage (2024), How to Accept German Reparations (2014), and The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village (1998), which won the Albert Hourani Book Award and Chicago Folklore Prize. Slyomovics has held prestigious fellowships such as the CAORC-NEH Fellowship (2023-24), TALIM Fellowship (2020), and IMéRA Fellowship (2019). She teaches courses on Arabic literature, Al-Andalus, oral traditions, and visual anthropology.
Her work critically examines colonial legacies, memory politics, and human rights in North Africa and the Middle East. She has published extensively on topics like Algerian monuments, Moroccan truth commissions, and Palestinian village narratives. Beyond academia, she has curated multimedia projects and translations, including works by Fatna El Bouih and Habib Tengour. Her contributions bridge anthropology, literature, and public scholarship, addressing themes of displacement, cultural heritage, and decolonization.
