Amina Zarrugh, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

amina.zarrugh@tcu.edu817-257-6856Scharbauer Hall 4214

Program Affiliations

AddRan College of Liberal Arts Sociology & Anthropology

Race & Class /
Social Movements /
Gender & Sexuality /
Middle East Studies /
Political Sociology

Education

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Texas at Austin
MA, Sociology, University of Texas at Austin
BA, Sociology and Government, University of Texas at Austin

Courses Taught

Gender Politics: International Perspectives
Introductory Sociology
Political Sociology
Sociology of Race and Racism

Areas of Focus

Gender, global and transnational sociology, law, political sociology, race & ethnicity, religion, social movements, North Africa

Zarrugh, Amina and Luis A. Romero. (Forthcoming). “Genetic Racialization: Ancestry Tests and the Reification of Race.” Social Problems.
Romero, Luis A. and Amina Zarrugh. (2023). “Teaching Race After the Genome: An Approach to Challenging Biological Understandings of Race in the Classroom.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. DOI: 10.1177/23326492231172746
Zarrugh, Amina. (2023). “Uncertainty as Statecraft: Family Movements Contesting Disappearance.” Women's Studies Quarterly 51 (12): 97-115.
Zarrugh, Amina. (2022). “Toward a Sociology of Family Movements: Lessons from the Global South.” Sociology Compass 16 (5): 1-12.
Charrad, Mounira M., Amina Zarrugh, and Hyun Jeong Ha. (2021). “The Reclamation Master Frame: A Visual Study of the Arab Uprisings.” Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change 44: 11-36.
Charrad, Mounira M., Amina Zarrugh, and Hyun Jeong Ha. (2021). “In Pictures: The Arab Spring Protests.” Contexts 20 (1): 58-61.
Zarrugh, Amina, Erin Carpenter, Jason Ginnings, Devin Kaiser, and Suzanne Yost. (2020). “What is Title IX? Toward a Campus-Based Pedagogy to Study Inequality.” Teaching Sociology 48 (3): 196-210.
Zarrugh, Amina. (2020). “The Development of U.S. Regimes of Disappearance: The War on Terror, Mass Incarceration, and Immigrant Deportation.” Critical Sociology 46 (2): 257-271.
Zarrugh, Amina and Luis A. Romero. (2019). “Detention, Disappearance, and the Politics of Family.” Contexts (Summer): 32-35.
Romero, Luis A. and Amina Zarrugh. (2018). “Islamophobia and the making of Latinos/as into terrorist threats.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 41 (12): 2235-2254.
- Covered by The Guardian, Vice, Pacific Standard, The Islamic Monthly, Estadão Internacional, and the American Sociological Association.
- Reprinted in Renton, James (ed.) 2019. Islamophobia and Surveillance: Genealogies of a Global Order. Routledge
Zarrugh, Amina. (2018). “‘You exile them in their own countries’: The Everyday Politics of Reclaiming the Disappeared in Libya.” Middle East Critique 27 (3): 247-259.
Zarrugh, Amina. (2016). “Racialized political shock: Arab American racial formation and the impact of political events.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 39 (15): 2722-2739.
Charrad, Mounira M. and Amina Zarrugh. (2014). “Equal or Complementary?: Women in the New Tunisian Constitution After the Arab Spring.” The Journal of North African Studies 19 (2): 230-243.

Last Updated: November 19, 2024

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