B.A., University of Utah
M.A. Vanderbilt University
Research Interest:
Palestine Studies; Settler Colonialism, Indigeneity, & Diaspora; Environmental Sociology; Human Rights; Language, Repression, & Knowledge Production
Farah is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at University of California, Santa Barbara. Driven by a desire to understand state-sponsored violence against Indigenous populations, her research explores both systemic oppression and forms of resistance that challenge it. Her work centers on knowledge production and land as a site of memory. Through this lens, she maps complex power dynamics across environmental sociology, human rights, settler colonialism, and Palestine studies. In her Master's thesis, Farah examined the role of media in normalizing environmental violence against Indigenous populations, highlighting how ecological violence operates not only through material practices but also through discourse.
Farah received her B.S. in Sociology with a minor in Political Science from the University of Utah and her M.A. in Sociology from Vanderbilt University. She has contributed media analyses to the Institute for Palestine Studies’ Press on Palestine blog. She has also served as a graduate assistant with the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies at UC Santa Barbara.