Danya Al-Saleh
About
Prof. Al-Saleh is accepting new MA and PhD students for the 2025-2026 academic year
Danya Al-Saleh is a feminist and economic geographer with research and teaching interests in energy, political economy, environmental justice, and the Middle East/North Africa. Her current research project examines the everyday politics of US universities in Qatar and is situated at the intersection of studies of fossil fuels, capitalism, engineering, and gender. Through this research, she traces how the relationship between U.S. higher education and the oil and gas industry takes shape across national borders in an era that is described as post-oil. This research has earned awards from the American Association of Geographers Middle East and North Africa Specialty Group, the Energy and Environment Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers, and the Critical Education Geographies Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers. Her work has also been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Science Foundation.
Education
- University of Wisconsin - Madison, Ph.D., Geography, 2021
- CUNY Graduate Center, M.A., Cultural Anthropology, 2014
Selected Courses
Selected Publications
US Higher education and fossil fuels -the limits of liberalism in university climate action
Publication type:
Article
Co-Author(s):
Neha Vora
Published in:
Climate and Development
Publication Date:
2023
Political ecologies of a university and land at Cairo’s urban periphery -The American University in Cairo's suburban desert campus
Publication type:
Article
Co-Author(s):
Mohammed Rafi Arefin
Published in:
Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space
Publication Date:
2023
Who will man the rigs when we go? -transnational demographic fever dreams between Qatar and Texas
Publication type:
Article
Published in:
Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, Volume 40 Issue 5
Publication Date:
2022
Organizing for collective feminist killjoy geographies in a US university
Publication type:
Article
Co-Author(s):
Elsa Noterman
Published in:
Gender, Place & Culture A Journal of Feminist Geography, Volume 28, - Issue 4
Publication Date:
2021
Contestations of Imperial Citizenship -Student Protest and Organizing in Qatar's Education City
Publication type:
Article
Co-Author(s):
Neha Vora
Published in:
International Journal of Middle East Studies
Publication Date:
2020
