Featured PhD Minor Graduate: Suhaila Meera

Suhaila Meera is a director, dramaturg, and scholar whose research traces the planetary stakes of mass displacement through figurations of the child refugee. Her dissertation, "Playing Children: Displacement and the Performance of Childhood," investigates shifting conceptions of childhood and nation-statehood amidst the backdrop of the escalating global refugee situation. A relational approach inspired and strengthened by her time at CCSRE allows her to highlight South-South solidarities as they unfold even in countries like the U.S. and the U.K.. Suhaila became an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Lewis & Clark College in Fall 2023.