Professor Yasmine Shamma

PENN America Award for Oral History
2024

Description Yasmine Shamma, How to Wait: What Refugees Teach Us About Living in Waiting

At a crucial time of global attention and anguish about questions of displacement, home and belonging in the Middle East, Yasmine Shamma’s How to Wait: What Refugees Teach Us About Living in Waiting is an urgently needed book. Deeply personal, well informed, and highly researched over nine years in the Levant and worldwide, Shamma’s compelling prose insists that migration crises can have never-ending and multi-generational consequences. With her more than 75 interviews with refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers, Shamma grounds political theory and philosophy in lived experience. Her narrators’ experience is also her own: as a descendant of Palestinian and Lebanese refugees, Shamma deftly weaves between her own narrative and others, reflecting on the ways they echo, harmonize, and create dissonance.

Description	Yasmine Shamma, How to Wait: What Refugees Teach Us About Living in Waiting At a crucial time of global attention and anguish about questions of displacement, home and belonging in the Middle East, Yasmine Shamma’s How to Wait: What Refugees Teach Us About Living in Waiting is an urgently needed book. Deeply personal, well informed, and highly researched over nine years in the Levant and worldwide, Shamma’s compelling prose insists that migration crises can have never-ending and multi-generational consequences. With her more than 75 interviews with refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers, Shamma grounds political theory and philosophy in lived experience. Her narrators’ experience is also her own: as a descendant of Palestinian and Lebanese refugees, Shamma deftly weaves between her own narrative and others, reflecting on the ways they echo, harmonize, and create dissonance.

AHRC Research Networking Grant
2021 - 2024

Description Co-investigator alongside PI Dr Rona Cran on grant funding the creation of the Network for New York School Studies.

URL https://www.nnyss.org/

Description	Co-investigator alongside PI Dr Rona Cran on grant funding the creation of the Network for New York School Studies.
URL	https://www.nnyss.org/

Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship
2020 - 2023

Arts Council Grant
2020 - 2022

Description Arts Council National Lottery Grant, for "Making Drama out of Crisis" | 2021 - 2022
I serve as a co-investigator and part of Jude Haste's team on this grant.

Affiliated Organisations Arts Council England

Description	Arts Council National Lottery Grant, for "Making Drama out of Crisis" \| 2021 - 2022 I serve as a co-investigator and part of Jude Haste's team on this grant.
Affiliated Organisations	Arts Council England

British Academy Being Human Award
2020 - 2020

Description Grant supporting "Making Home Away: Tented Lives of Refugees". This pop-up tent exhibit will actively seek to engage public audiences in the town centre of Reading, in the Autumn of 2020.

Affiliated Organisations British Academy

Description	Grant supporting "Making Home Away: Tented Lives of Refugees". This pop-up tent exhibit will actively seek to engage public audiences in the town centre of Reading, in the Autumn of 2020.
Affiliated Organisations	British Academy

British Academy Summer Showcase Grant
2020 - 2020

Description This life-size interactive display of a Syrian refugee's tent invites visitors to walk through and around it, so to imagine what it feels like to live in such temporary spaces. This grant funded the co-creation of this tent with a resettled refugee in the UK, and a co-exhibitor from Jordan.

Affiliated Organisations British Academy

Description	This life-size interactive display of a Syrian refugee's tent invites visitors to walk through and around it, so to imagine what it feels like to live in such temporary spaces. This grant funded the co-creation of this tent with a resettled refugee in the UK, and a co-exhibitor from Jordan.
Affiliated Organisations	British Academy

British Academy International Grant
2019 - 2021

Description This project centres on the descriptions of homes that have been lost and found by refugees of the recent Syrian crisis.

Experiences of urban life are negotiated in particularly complex ways by refugees moving across regions and nations in pursuit of home. In these negotiations, they expand the dimensions of home. How do the mobile dimensions of home constitute programs of making and remaking home, while also underscoring testimonies of migration, displacement and resettlement?

Incorporating a digital archive, this project situates the contemporary refugee's pursuit as part of a larger 20th century project of post-camp migration and re-settlement. The digital archive will represent different disciplinary approaches, revisiting archived materials while hosting new materials. As this project's main focus, the archive aims to enhance international understanding of the contemporary Syrian refugee crisis while encouraging policy makers to rethink policy reform, within the UK and beyond.

This archive is part of the "Lost and Found: Testimonies of Migration, Resettlement, and Displacement" project funded by the British Academy's "Tackling the UKs International Challenges" grant scheme. It is led by Principal Investigator Dr Yasmine Shamma, Co-Investigators Professor Vicki Squire, and Professor Suzan Ilcan, and Postdoctoral Research Assistant Dr Helen Underhill.

Affiliated Organisations British Academy

URL https://makinghomeaway.com/

Description	This project centres on the descriptions of homes that have been lost and found by refugees of the recent Syrian crisis. Experiences of urban life are negotiated in particularly complex ways by refugees moving across regions and nations in pursuit of home. In these negotiations, they expand the dimensions of home. How do the mobile dimensions of home constitute programs of making and remaking home, while also underscoring testimonies of migration, displacement and resettlement? Incorporating a digital archive, this project situates the contemporary refugee's pursuit as part of a larger 20th century project of post-camp migration and re-settlement. The digital archive will represent different disciplinary approaches, revisiting archived materials while hosting new materials. As this project's main focus, the archive aims to enhance international understanding of the contemporary Syrian refugee crisis while encouraging policy makers to rethink policy reform, within the UK and beyond. This archive is part of the "Lost and Found: Testimonies of Migration, Resettlement, and Displacement" project funded by the British Academy's "Tackling the UKs International Challenges" grant scheme. It is led by Principal Investigator Dr Yasmine Shamma, Co-Investigators Professor Vicki Squire, and Professor Suzan Ilcan, and Postdoctoral Research Assistant Dr Helen Underhill.
Affiliated Organisations	British Academy
URL	https://makinghomeaway.com/

US Embassy Grant
2018

Description Supporting "Network for New York School" Symposium (Beta)

Description	Supporting "Network for New York School" Symposium (Beta)

WIRL-Cofund Research Fellowship
2017 - 2019

Description Supporting "Voices from the Camps": Refugee Senses of Home book project
Durham University, UK.

Affiliated Organisations Durham University

Description	Supporting "Voices from the Camps": Refugee Senses of Home book project Durham University, UK.
Affiliated Organisations	Durham University

HD Fellowship in American and English Literature
2016 - 2017

Description Supporting work towards Joe Brainard's Art
Beinecke Library
Yale University, CT.

Affiliated Organisations Yale University

Description	Supporting work towards Joe Brainard's Art Beinecke Library Yale University, CT.
Affiliated Organisations	Yale University

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