CPS congratulates Hadeel Assali on her appointment as Postdoctoral Scholar at Columbia’s Center for Science and Society. Hadeel will teach an interdisciplinary graduate course, Seminar in Race, Climate Change, and Environmental Justice, in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and will start a new research project tentatively focused on the scientific and social aspects of waterways.

Hadeel is currently an ACLS Emerging Voices Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Pennsylvania and a former chemical engineer with nearly 10 years of experience with a major oil corporation. She also holds an affiliation with the University of Houston. She recently completed her Ph.D. in Anthropology at Columbia University. Her dissertation, titled "Prophecies of Palestine: Geology and Intimate Knowledge of the Subterranean" explores the colonial legacies of geology in southern Palestine. She is also a filmmaker working on her first feature-length documentary.