Rida Abu Rass
Doctoral Candidate
He/Him
MA Middlebury Institute of International Studies (2017); MA Brandeis University (2015); BA Brandeis University (2014)
Political Studies
Doctoral Candidate
Biography
Rida was born in Tayibe and raised in Jaffa, Palestine. He is interested in the factors that facilitate and obstruct political mobilization among indigenous and national groups, with an emphasis on the Palestinian citizens of Israel.
Rida received B.A and M.A degrees from Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (2014, 2015), and an additional M.A from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, CA (2017). Before matriculating at Queen’s, he worked as a data coordinator at B’tselem, a leading civil society organization that covers human rights violations in the Occupied Palestinian Terrirotires. In his spare time, he writes op-eds, and he blogs.
Research Interests
Comparative politics of nationalism, ethnicity and race, International Relations, social movements, Middle East politics, Israel-Palestine, peace and conflict, human rights, international law, democratization.
Awards
2022 Ontario Graduate Scholarship
2022 R. Samuel McLaughlin Fellowship
2020 Mitacs Research Training Award
2018 – 2022 Principal's International Doctoral Award
2018 – 2022 Queen’s Graduate Award
Teaching
Teaching fellow:
POLS 348 – Middle East Politics (Fall 2021, 2022)
Teaching assistant:
POLS 244 – Democracy and Democratization (Winter 2022)
POLS 261 – International Politics (Fall 2020)
POLS 242 – Contemporary Regimes (Winter 2019, 2020)
POLS 243 – State, Nation and Democracy (Fall 2018, 2019, 2020)
POLS 285 – Introduction to Statistics (Winter 2023)
Selected Publications
Publications
Abu Rass, R. (under review). The Two-Pronged Palestinian Response to Exclusion within Israel.
Abu Rass, R. & Jerreat-Poole, A. (forthcoming). Contaminating National Identity Through Intercultural Intimacy: (Im)purity and the Pandemic.
Haklai, O., & Abu Rass, R. (2022). The Fourth Phase of Palestinian Arab Politics in Israel: The Centripetal Turn. Israel Studies, 27 (1), 35–60.
Selected Academic Presentations
Abu Rass, R. (2023, April). Political Opportunity and Organizational Fragmentation: Palestinian Mobilization Within Israel. 2023 Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Abu Rass, R., & Jerreat-Poole, A. (2022, May). Contaminating National Identity Through Intercultural Intimacy: (Im)purity and the Pandemic. 26th Association for the Study of Nationalities Annual World Convention, Columbia University, New York, NY.
Abu Rass, R. (2021, August). The Two-Pronged Palestinian Response to Exclusion within Israel. Zionism: Inclusion within the Exclusion?, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
Haklai, O., & Abu Rass, R. (2021, June). The Fourth Phase of Palestinian Arab Politics in Israel. 36th Annual Conference of the Association for Israel Studies, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.
Abu Rass, R. (2019, May). The Dynamics of Palestinian Contention in Israel. 24th Association for the Study of Nationalities Annual World Convention, Columbia University, New York, NY.
Conference Publications
Haklai, O. & Abu Rass, R. (May, 2021). The Fourth Phase of Palestinian Arab Politics in Israel. Paper to be presented at the 25th Association for the Studies of Nationalities Annual World Convention, New York, NY.
Haklai, O. & Abu Rass, R. (June, 2021). The Fourth Phase of Palestinian Arab Politics in Israel. Paper to be presented at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Israel Studies, New Orleans, LA.
Abu Rass, R. (May, 2019). The Dynamics of Palestinian Contention in Israel. Paper Presented at the 24th Association for the Studies of Nationalities Annual World Convention, New York, NY.
Selected Op-Eds
Abu Rass, R. (2018, June 14). The silent transfer of Palestinians from Area C. Ynet News. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5286150,00.html
Abu Rass, R. (2017, February 26). The Occupation is Sustainable. Haaretz. https://www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/1.3885405
Abu Rass, R. (2015, October 3). What Abbas should have told the United Nations. +972 Magazine. https://www.972mag.com/what-abbas-should-have-told-the-united-nations/112259/vv