Catherine (Cat) Abou-Khalil

Catherine (Cat) Abou-Khalil is a Political Science Ph.D. Candidate and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality graduate certificate recipient at BU. Cat’s work broadly focuses and intersects with international human rights, forced migration, and gender and security. Her approach to her research is interdisciplinary and intersectional, centering identity and various methodological approaches, such media analyses, to understand people’s experiences in vulnerable situations.  To learn more about Abou-Khalil’s research and publications, visit her webpage.

In Spring 2023, Cat was awarded a mini travel and conference grant which will support her travel to present at the American Political Science Association (APSA) 2023 Annual Conference to present her co-authored work titled, “Can Pandora’s Box Be Closed? Information Access in Post-Coup Myanmar.” This paper analyzes interviews with people from Myanmar before and after the military coup to assess how they access and identify trustworthy sources during a time of political tension and changing mediascape as the military has blocked access to Facebook, a tool that has been used to share information about the military’s repression and mobilize protests. Learn more in our featured article.