Camelia Suleiman has a Ph.D. in (Socio)linguistics from Georgetown University.
Suleiman is an associate professor at the Department of linguistics, Languages, and Cultures at Michigan State University, where she led the Arabic program from 2012-2020. She teaches courses in Global Studies, and Women Studies. Many of her students received nationally recognized scholarships. She also has spent time as a visiting professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
A true believer in the superficiality of disciplinary boundaries, she draws in her research and teaching from cultural studies, post-structuralism, anthropology and history. Her research emphasizes the importance of seeing the world through the eyes of the communities she studies. Her interests and publications are in Sociolinguistics, Communications, and Middle East Studies. A Palestinian herself, a steady stream in her writing is the fate of Palestinians in the aftermath of the Nakba, and the encounter of the Palestinian narrative with Zionism, Orientalism and in today’s world, American xenophobia.
Suleiman is on the editorial boards of the following journals: Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, and the Journal of Social Distress and Homelessness. She is also on the advisory board for the journal of Analysis of Current Trends in Antisemitism.
