Arwa Arwan
Arwa Arwan , CSRPC Residential Fellow
Arwa Awan is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Chicago. Her research interests are in the history of political thought, especially French, Iranian, and Caribbean anti-colonial thought, as well as Marxist social theory, race, and political economy. Her dissertation examines receptions of Marx and Marxism in twentieth century anti-colonial thought by bringing to light a distinct approach to anticolonial critique that adopted alienation as a central idiom. She holds an MA in Political Science from the University of Chicago. Last year, she was a doctoral fellow at the Pozen Center for Human Rights. Her article "Aimé Césaire’s ‘Tropical Marxism’ and the Problem of Alienation" is forthcoming in the journal Political Theory.