Dr Hashem Abushama appointed Fellow and Tutor in Geography at St Peter’s College

St Peter’s College is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Hashem Abushama as Fellow and Tutor in Geography. Dr Abushama joins the University of Oxford as Associate Professor in Human Geography and Tutorial Fellow at St Peter’s College. He holds a DPhil in Human Geography and an MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies from the University of Oxford, and a BA in Peace and Global Studies from Earlham College in the United States.

Dr Abushama is a human geographer with interests in the urban geographies of arts and capital, and the contemporary and historical geographies of dispossession within colonial and settler colonial contexts. His training in geography is highly interdisciplinary and engages with debates in postcolonial Marxist geographies, settler colonial studies, cultural studies, and development geographies. He has two developing research projects, including a forthcoming monograph, Cities and the Settler Colony: Accumulation, Dispossession, and Arts, which examines Palestinian cultural productions in Haifa (1948 territories) and Ramallah (Occupied Palestinian Territories)

At the undergraduate level, Dr Abushama delivers lectures for the Preliminary Examination and the Final Honours School. At St Peter’s College, he and his colleagues are responsible for teaching students across the breadth of geographical topics for the Preliminary Exams and the Final Honours School. At the postgraduate level, Hashem teaches on extraction, colonialism and capitalism for the MSc in Nature, Society and Environmental Governance. 

Dr Abushama also has an interest in countermapping both as a pedagogic tool and a site of inquiry. He integrates countermapping techniques in his teaching. He also has an enthusiastic interest in food as a practice and archive and works closely with the Kitchen Marronage collective as a chef-in-residence, curating recipes, food seminars, and collaborations.

Beyond Oxford, Dr Abushama is also an EUME Fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin as well as a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Palestine Studies. He has authored several academic and journalistic articles on dispossession, arts, urbanization, the archives, and postcolonial Marxism.

He said, ‘St Peter’s College is renowned for its nurturing scholarly community, which I am excited to join. I also very much look forward to working closely with the students at St Peter’s College in highlighting the central role that geography can play in addressing the unjust political, social, and economic realities that engulf today’s world.’

Read more about Dr Abushama and his latest scholarship here.