Position Title
Assistant Professor
Ali H. Musleh is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. He received a PhD in Political Science from the University of Hawaii at Mānoa in 2022. From 2023-2025, he was the Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Fellow at Columbia University’s Center for Palestine Studies. His research explores how contemporary forms of war shape the worlds we inhabit through questions of media, design, technology, embodiment, and aesthetics. His book project To What Abyss Does This Robot Take the Earth forays into the warscapes of Palestine where drones, autonomous weapons, and artificial intelligences permeate the terrains of the everyday as pervasive objects that differentially materialize Palestinian and Jewish-Israeli life and mediate them to the global world.
- Ph.D., Political Science, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, 2022
- MBA, Design Strategy, California College of the Arts, 2012
- BA, Industrial Design, Yarmouk University, 2008
- ANT 142 — Peoples of the Middle East
- Palestine
- Middle East
- Technology
- War
- Media
- Aesthetics
- Beller, Jonathan, and Ali Musleh. “The Question of Genocide.” Social Text, vol. 42, no. 4, 2024, pp. 81–102, https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-11369803.
- Musleh, Ali H. “The Kill Zone: Choreographies of Life at the Limits of a Death-World.” Necrogeopolitics, edited by Caroline Alphin and François Debrix, 1st ed., Routledge, 2020, pp. 142–62, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429457760-9.
- Musleh, Ali H. “Designing in Real-Time: An Introduction to Weapons Design in the Settler-Colonial Present of Palestine.” Design and Culture, vol. 10, no. 1, 2018, pp. 33–54, https://doi.org/10.1080/17547075.2018.1430992.