Danya Al-Saleh

Danya Al-Saleh is an Assistant Professor in the Jackson School of International Studies. She is a geographer with research and teaching interests in political economy, energy, environmental justice, critical university studies, and the Middle East/North Africa. Her current research project examines the everyday politics of US universities in Qatar and is situated at the intersection of studies of fossil fuels, capitalism, engineering, and gender. Through this research, she traces how the relationship between U.S. higher education and the oil and gas industry takes shape across national borders in an era that is described as post-oil. This research has earned awards from the American Association of Geographers Middle East and North Africa Specialty Group, the Energy and Environment Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers, and the Critical Education Geographies Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers. Her work has also been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Science Foundation.