Musa al-Gharbi

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A close-up of Musa al-Gharbi.

Musa al-Gharbi

The Humanities without Boundaries series these days seems to be ever-more-ironically named, as the humanities are encountering nothing but boundaries. This Wisconsin Center for the Humanities event, presented in conjunction with the Havens Wright Center for Social Justice, features Musa al-Gharbi speaking on topics covered in his first book, We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite. al-Gharbi, a sociologist and assistant professor at Stony Brook University, rejects the concept of “woke” and suggests the supposedly woke use “the language of social justice to gain more power and status — without helping the marginalized and disadvantaged.”

media release: Elvehjem Building, Room L150, 800 University Avenue

Free and open to all. Part of the Humanities Without Boundaries series.

Musa al-Gharbi is a sociologist and assistant professor in the School of Communication and Journalism at Stony Brook University. His research primarily focuses on the political economy of knowledge production and the social life of scholarly and journalistic outputs. He is a columnist for The Guardian, and his writing has also appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and more. al-Gharbi’s first book, We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite, was published by Princeton University Press in October 2024.