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• May Kosba
• Bio: May Kosba is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis at Rutgers University. She holds a Ph.D. in the Historical and Cultural Studies of Religion from the Graduate Theological Union (GTU) in Berkeley, California, and an M.A. in Islamic Studies, also from the GTU. Prior to Rutgers, May spent the last two years as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Program in African Studies at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) at Princeton University. Her research broadly examines how the liminality of the modern Egyptian identity between the Black and White binary in the Eurocentric global racial hierarchy impacts the crossing over or translation of Black struggle with racism in Egyptian consciousness. Her work grapples with how North African “Arabness” is a contested presence and a marker of privilege and oppression in the Black African imagination and provides a more nuanced perceptions of Arabness and Africanness which challenge prevalent reductionist and apologetic approaches in the field. As a Postdoctoral Fellow at RCHA, May’s project contributes to the center’s theme, “Black Power and White Supremacy: The Cyclical Dialectics of Power.” It focuses on the cyclicality of (re)territorializing Black resistance to white supremacy, where she centers the lives and intellectual legacies of three Pan-African intellectuals and activists–– Dusé Muhammad Ali, David Graham DuBois, and Mostafa Hefny. This project demonstrates that this relocation of the struggle against white supremacy from one geography to another follows a cyclical pattern and is an essential strategy for political resistance.