Mona Khneisser is a PhD student in Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests include social movements, critical development studies, infrastructure, and political economy, focusing on Lebanon. Her current doctoral research examines crisis and everyday life amidst the financial and economic collapse in Lebanon.

Her MA research in Sociology at AUB examined alternative forms of collective mobilization and organization that developed during the 2015 garbage crisis in Lebanon, and was published in the Journal of Critical Sociology and awarded the Erik Olin Wright Distinguished Article Award (2020). Her MA research at UIUC examined the World Bank-funded Bisri Dam project, offering a material hydro-geological lens on post-colonial state-building, and the political economy of infrastructural developments in Lebanon.