Funded through WVU's Humanities Center, I am pleased to post a set of "fact sheets" on Refugees and US Refugee Laws.
I am happy to share this recent book chapter, co-authored with Christabel Devadoss, Orientalist-settler colonialism: foundations and practices of post-9/11 white nationalism in the United States in Handbook on the Changing Geographies of the State.
My research uses critical and feminist geopolitical frames to
examine contested places and identities. My work
focuses on the "Middle East," the Arab world, and Appalachia.
I am currently working on a book, under contract at the University
of Chicago, on refugee practices and territorial imaginings in Jordan.
I have recently begun a new funded project on Islamophobia and Muslim's daily lives in West Virginia.
My older work within critical cartography continues to influence my work on spatial imaginings and (counter)representational practices.
Culcasi, Karen (2017). “Multiple Identities of Egypt: Cartographic Constructions
of the Modern Egyptian Nation-State.” In Maps and Decolonization, James Ackerman
(ed). Chicago: University of Chicago.
Culcasi, Karen (2013). “Geography of Egypt.” In The Middle East in Focus: Egypt, Mona Russell (ed). 1-15, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC CLIO. (Non-Peer Reviewed)
Culcasi, Karen (2013). “Cartographies of nation building: Creating and contesting the Egyptian geo-body.” Arab World Geographer, 16,1, 30-53.
Culcasi, Karen. (2010). “Locating Kurdistan: Contextualizing Kurdistan’s Ambiguous Boundaries.” In Borderlines and Borderlands: Political Oddities at the Edge of the Nation-State, Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen (eds). 107-120, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Culcasi, Karen. (2008). “Cartographic Constructions of the Middle East.” Imago Mundi, 60, 1, 120-121.