Samira Chatila
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Pronouns: she, her, hers
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Doctoral Student, CIDE
Areas of interest
- Education policy
- Education in society
- Language and identity
- Forced migration and protracted displacement
MA, Education, Lebanese American University, 2019
BS, Medical Laboratory Sciences, American University of Beirut, 2016
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Awards
ICGC Fellowship, 2020-21
Provost's Fund Fellowship, 2020-21
Journal Special Issue (Guest Editor)
Chatila, S. & Alatas, S. F. (2022). Southern contributions to the sociology of knowledge. Idafat: The Arab Journal of Sociology in Arabic: مساهمات جنوبية في علم إجتماع المعرفة.
Journal Articles
Abu El-Haj, T. R., & Chatila, S. (forthcoming, 2022). “Miss, our clothes are clean”: Contesting liminality in Lebanese kindergarten classrooms. International Journal of the Sociology of Language.
Abu El-Haj, T. R., Kaloustian, G., Bonet, S. W., & Chatila, S. (2018). Fifi the punishing cat and other civic lessons from a Lebanese public kindergarten school. Journal on Education in Emergencies, 4(1), 13-44.
Chatila, S. (forthcoming, 2022). Recognizing the Bara: Misrecognition of Arab and Muslim American students in U.S. schools. International Journal of Middle East Studies.
Chatila, S. (2022). Sustainable development or chronic underdevelopment? A case study of international development in Lebanon. Idafat: The Arab Journal of Sociology, 1(57-58), 103-122. [in Arabic | التنمية المستدامة أم التخلف المزمن؟].
Chatila, S. (2022). “Book Essay Review: Development as a Panacea for Uncertainty: Schooling, Migration, and Community Building.” Comparative Education Review, 66(2), 365-371.
Chatila, S. (2020). “Book Review: Peace Education: International Perspectives edited by Monisha Bajaj and Maria Hantzopoulos.” Journal on Education in Emergencies, 5(2): 179-181.
Kelcey, J., & Chatila, S. (2020). Increasing Inclusion or Furthering Fragmentation? How the Global Strategy to Include Refugees in National Education Systems Has Been Implemented in Lebanon. Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, 36(2), 9-19.
Reports
Shuayb, M., Chatila, S., Kelcey, J., Maadad, N., Zafer, A., Crul, M., & Aboulhosn, A. (2020). Towards an inclusive education: a comparative longitudinal study of the education of refugee and national children in Lebanon, Turkey, and Australia – Australia Report 2020 (Rep.). CLS.
Shuayb, M., Chatila, S., Kelcey, J., Maadad, N., Zafer, A., Crul, M., Aboulhosn, A, & Hammoud, M. (2020). Towards an inclusive education: a comparative longitudinal study of the education of refugee and national children in Lebanon, Turkey, and Australia – Turkey Report 2020 (Rep.). CLS.
Shuayb, M., Chatila, S., Kelcey, J., Maadad, N., Zafer, A., Crul, M., & Aboulhosn, A. (2020). Towards an inclusive education: a comparative longitudinal study of the education of refugee and national children in Lebanon, Turkey, and Australia – Lebanon Report 2020 (Rep.). CLS.
Shuayb, M., Ahmad, N., & Chatila, S. (2019). Barriers to implementing Article 19: A study on the institutionalization of persons with disabilities in select Arab countries (Rep.). ESCWA & CLS.
Blog Posts
Kelcey, J., & Chatila, S. (2020). Syrian refugees and the politics of education governance in Lebanon [web log].
Chatila, S., & Kelcey, J. (2019). Increasing Integration or Furthering Fragmentation? The Inclusion of Syrian Refugees in the Lebanese Public Education System [web log].
Presenter at 66th Annual Conference of the CIES “COVID is the Least of Our Worries in Lebanon: The Impacts of Intertwined Local and Global Crises on Education” (Minnesota, USA). [Apr 2022]
Roundtable discussion organizer and co-presenter at 66th Annual Conference of CIES “Indigenous and endogenous relationships with place: Generative and restorative educational practices for global wellness” (Minnesota, USA) [Apr 2022]
Panelist at American Educational Research Association, the 2022 Annual Meeting: “Language and Liminality in the Schooling of Non-Dominant and Immigrant Youth” [Jan 2022]
Panelist at Truth and Responsibility, the 2021 AAA Annual Meeting: “Youth at the Margins: Anthropological Perspectives on Language and Liminality.” [Nov 2021]
Presenter at the Pakistani Student Association at UMN: “In the rare event of peace: A comparative proxy critique of the SDGs via the MDGs.” (Remote). [Apr 2021]
Keynote speaker at Climate of Emotions Retreat for Radical Reimagination of the Future organized by Six Seconds – The Emotional Intelligence Network: “(Re)centering Indigeneity in Ecology & Emotional Intelligence” (Remote). [Apr 2021]
Presenter at Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development Student Conference (UMN) “In the Rare Event of Peace: A Comparative Proxy Critique of the SDGs via the MDGs” (Remote). [Mar 2021]
Presenter at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) virtual workshop on Education in conflict and exile: “Determinants of Refugee Children Educational Performance: A comparative study of refugees in Lebanon, Turkey, and Australia.” (Remote). [Oct 2020]
Presenter at the 64th Annual Conference of the CIES. “Promising partnership models for education in emergencies: case studies from the Lebanese education response to the Syria crisis” (Miami, USA). [Mar 2020]
Presenter at the First International Conference, Cross-Cultural Communication: Studies in Literature, Linguistics, and Translation held at the British University in Egypt. “Language as a tool for marginalization of disadvantaged students in Lebanon” (Cairo, Egypt). [Feb 2020]
Presenter at UKFIET held at the University of Oxford: “Increasing inclusion and furthering fragmentation: How national systems shape global policy outcomes.” (Oxford, UK). [Sept 2019]
Presenter at LAU, Department of Education: “Increasing inclusion and furthering fragmentation: How national systems shape global policy outcomes” (Beirut, Lebanon). [Sept 2019]
Presenter at ESCWA's Expert Group Meeting on Disability in the Arab World (Beirut, Lebanon) [Mar 2018]