Sociology Graduate Students
- Pronouns she/her
- Title
- Graduate Student
- Division Social Sciences Division
- Department
- Sociology Department
- Affiliations Feminist Studies Department
- Website
- Office Location
- Rachel Carson College Academic Building, 000
- Mail Stop Rachel Carson College Faculty Services
- Mailing Address
- 1156 High St.
- Santa Cruz California 95064
Research Interests
My dissertation, tentatively titled "'Poetry is Not a Luxury': Decoloniality and Palestinian-American Youth Artivism" explores how Palestinian-American youth use poetry to imagine and craft alternative decolonial futures, critique colonial systems of knowledge, and organize alongside other global and local anti-colonial movements.
Biography, Education and Training
M.A., Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz (2021)
M.A., Peace and Conflict Management Studies, University of Haifa, Occupied Palestine (2016)
B.A., Sociology & Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, University of Washington, Seattle (2014)
Honors, Awards and Grants
FLAS fellowship, Summer 2022
UCSC Regents’ Fellowship - 2019-2020
“Soar Award” for Outstanding Adjunct Faculty of the year, Columbia Basin College, Pasco, WA 2019
Faculty of the Year Nominee, Yakima Valley College, Grandview, WA 2016/17
Herring-Phelps Award for Scholarly Activism, University of Washington, 2014
Selected Publications
Gabriel, Robin (2022). “Coloniality & Necropolitics in the Age of Covid-19: The Question of Palestine” Asian Journal of Law and Society, Special Issue.
Hiroshi Fukurai, Robin Gabriel, and Xiaochen Liang (2022) “The COVID-19 crisis, Herd Immunity, and “Vaccine Apartheid” in the Age of Anthropocene” Asian Journal of Law and Society, Special Issue.
Co-editor of the forthcoming special issue in The Asian Journal of Law and Society, “COVID-19 and Herd Immunity in Asia in the Age of Anthropocene”
Gabriel, Robin. (2021). “Book Review - Justice for Some: International Law and the Question of Palestine by Noura Erakat” Asian Journal of Law and Society, 8:1.
