Micah Khater is an Assistant Professor in the Department of African American Studies at the University of California-Berkeley.
In 2020-2021, Khater was a Center for Engaged Scholarship Fellow. Her research has also been funded by the Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration; the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition; and the Frances S. Summersell Center for the Study of the South, among others. Her work has been published in Southern Cultures and is forthcoming in Disability Studies Quarterly.
Khater’s poetry and prose can be found in Sukoon and Taos Journal of International Poetry & Art.
Photograph by Amira Maxwell