Raneem Ayyad is a PhD student in the combined degree program in Anthropology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. She holds an MA in Human Rights and the Arts from Bard College (2024) and a BA in Architectural Engineering from Birzeit University (2021). Her research examines how space is produced and contested in colonial, decolonial, and domestic settings, with particular attention to the everyday practices of marginalized urban communities. She is interested in how these practices reflect and reshape power, identity, and belonging through vernacular spatial forms.
She co-authored a chapter titled Ramallah: ‘Nazlet al-Bareed’ and Insights into Mid-Twentieth Century Modernism in Palestine Modern: The Unfulfilled Promise, a book edited by architect and anthropologist Khaldun Bshara and published by RIWAQ. In addition to her academic work, Raneem engages with interactive performance art and has showcased at Abrons Arts Center.