Anne Kirstine speaks with Dana El Kurd about how she navigates her identity as a Palestinian woman scholar in academia, in the field, and in the public sphere. Dana also shares perspectives from her research on the decolonisation of social sciences. Dana is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Richmond and a Senior Nonresident Fellow at the Arab Center Washington. Her research focuses on authoritarian regimes and state-society relations in the Arab world. She is author of the book, 'Polarized and Demobilized: Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine'.