Contact Information
702 S Wright Street
Urbana IL 61801
MC-454
Research Interests
Transnational Gender and Sexualities; Race and Ethnicity; Queer Theory; Queer of Color Critique; Urban Studies; Feminist Theory and Methods; Transnational Mobility; Affect; Qualitative and Interpretive Methods.
Education
Ph.D., Rutgers University
Grants
Multiracial Democracy Grant, University of Illinois, 2018
Awards and Honors
Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors (LEAP) Scholar 2019-21
Faculty Fellow at the Illinois Program for Research on the Humanities 2019-20
GWS Outstanding Faculty Award 2018-19
Humanities Release Time, University of Illinois, 2018-19
Honorable Mention for Best Faculty Research, Institute for Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, 2018
Faculty Partner in Excellence Award, LGBT Resource Center, University of Illinois, 2018
Teachers Ranked as Excellent, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign (Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2018-rated as outstanding, Spring 2019-rated as outstanding)
Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University, 2015
Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies, 2014
Graduate Fellowship at the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University, 2014-15
Harry C. Bredemeier Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University, 2014
Courses Taught
GWS 201: Race, Gender, Power
GWS 202: Sexualities
SOC 225: Race and Ethnicity
SOC 396: Sexuality and Society
GWS 580: Queer Theories & Methods
SOC 596/GWS 590: Gender, Race, Sexuality
SOC 596: Gender and Sexuality
Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Gender and Women's Studies
Assistant Professor, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
External Links
Recent Publications
Moussawi, G., & Vidal-Ortiz, S. (2020). "A Queer Sociology: On Power, Race, and Decentering Whiteness". Sociological Forum.
Moussawi, G. (2020). Disruptive Situations: Fractal Orientalism and Queer Strategies in Beirut. (Sexuality Studies). Temple University Press.
Moussawi, G. (2019). The Fraught Nature of Exceptional Gay Spaces. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. https://www.ijurr.org/spotlight-on/queering-urban-studies/the-fraught-nature-of-exceptional-gay-spaces/
Moussawi, G. (2018). Queer exceptionalism and exclusion: Cosmopolitanism and inequalities in ‘Gay-friendly’ Beirut. Sociological Review, 66(1), 174-190. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026117725469
Moussawi, G., & Khalil, H. (2018). Review: J. Puri's Sexual States: Governance and the Struggle over the Antisodomy Law in India. Duke University Press, 2016. Gender & Society, 32(6), 917-919. https://doi.org/10.1177/0891243218778499