Mezna Qato, third recipient of the Ibrahim Abu Lughod Award in Palestine Studies, completed her post-doctoral fellowship in the field of Palestine Studies at Columbia University.
Mezna expressed her gratitude saying: “It’s been such a fruitful experience, and the time given to think and write at this early stage in my career invaluable”.
Qato spent spring 2014 at Columbia University working on a book project based on her dissertation, a social history of the Palestinian educational experience in Jordan between 1948-1967. It examines how Jordan and international humanitarian agencies developed the structure and content of the educational system and institutionalized mechanisms of inspection in order to pursue their own political and pedagogical ends.