Said Graiouid, PhD
Dr. Graiouid is provost and dean of faculty at School for International Training in Vermont, U.S., where he oversees a portfolio of more than 85 undergraduate programs, graduate immersive and hybrid programs, and a professional doctorate. He is responsible for the articulation of the institution’s top priorities for academic programs and policies, teaching and learning, research and thought leadership, and faculty affairs.
Dr. Graiouid is a program builder who innovates through planned diversification, data-driven approaches to internationalization, and enhancement of an inclusive pedagogy that reckons with the values of social justice. His commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and access informs his vision of SIT as a global university and a leader of international innovative academic programs recognized for their high impact approach to teaching and research, and intellectual engagement with the complexity of critical global issues from non-hegemonic perspectives.
As a scholar, Dr. Graiouid has decades of research and intellectual engagement with the politics of identity, youth culture, migration studies, critical theory, and the cultural interrogations of political systems and social movements in Morocco and across the Mediterranean. At Mohammed V University in Rabat, he has been affiliated with the graduate program on culture and development as head of the Research Group on Migration and Culture and later as director of the Research Center Homme, Langues, Cultures et Religions. He has taken part in international collaborative research projects, supervised doctoral dissertations, served as consultant for the Moroccan Ministry of Higher Education, Research, and Innovation, and organized symposia and international conferences including on Migration and Human Rights (2012); Art, Revolutions, and the Arab Spring (2015); and “Music and Migration: North African Artists’ Networks across Europe and Africa” (2008) in partnership with universities in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the United States. In 2020, he launched the SIT Perspectives from the Global South Lecture Series, a space to celebrate perennial systems of becoming and pluriversal epistemologies and practices. The series brings into conversation a diverse pool of thought leaders, philosophers, and a global audience from dozens of countries.
Dr. Graiouid was general editor of Langues et Littératures, Mohammed V University’s journal of humanities, fine arts, and social sciences. In 2009, he edited a special issue on cultural representations in Morocco that has become a main reference in the study of cultural politics in Morocco.
His most recent research interests focus on the theorization of academic excellence through diversity, equity, and inclusion, and an examination of political culture through the lens of the interface between Islamists, social media influencers, and the neoliberal state.
Dr. Graiouid was educated at Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco, (BA and MA), University of Surrey, UK (PhD), and the University of Texas at Austin (Fulbright Scholarship).
Select Publications
BOOKS
Graiouid, Said and Belghazi, Taieb (eds.). (2014). Migration, Human Rights & the Politics of Identity in a Globalized World. Rabat: Publications of the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences
Graiouid, Said and Belghazi, Taieb (eds.). (2012). International Education and Global Justice: Rethinking the Politics of Sustainability. Rabat: Publications of the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences
Graiouid, Said. (2011). Communication and Everyday Performance: Public Space and the Public Sphere in Morocco. Rabat: Publications of the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences
BOOK CHAPTERS
Political Violence, Narratives of the Nation, and the New Global Rearrangements (co-authored with Taieb Belghazi). (2016). Smith, Andrew. Ed. Radical Conflict: Essays on Violence, Intractability and Communication. Lanham, MD
Post-Colonial Literature in Morocco: Nation, Identity and Resistance Aesthetics. (2013). Maghraoui, D. Ed. Revisiting the Colonial Past in Morocco. London: Routledge
Uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa: Universalism and Transnational Nomadism. (co-authored with Taieb belghazi). Graiouid, S. & Belghazi, T. Eds. (2013). Migration, Human Rights & the Politics of Identity in a Globalized World. Rabat: Publications of the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences
Political Change and the Future of Study Abroad in MENA Region. Graiouid, S. & Belghazi, T. Eds. (2012). International Education and Global Justice: Rethinking the Politics of Sustainability. Rabat: Publications of the Faculty of Letters
Immigration, Security and Visual Rhetoric in Morocco. Belghazi, T. M. Ezroura, & R. Judy. Eds. (2008). Who Can Act for the Human? Rabat: Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences
L’Université Marocaine: Savoir et Education. Berriane, M. et Belghazi, T. Eds. (2008). L’avenir des Facultés des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines. Rabat: Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences
How Can Migration Contribute to Cross-Cultural Dialogue? Reflections from the Field. Azzouzi, A. Ed. (2008). Cultural and Civilizational Realities. Paris: L’Harmattan
Post-Colonial Interactions: Urban Communication, Globalization and Moroccan Identities. Belghazi, T. Ed. (2005). Urban Generations: Post-Colonial Cities. Rabat: Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences
Social Exile and Virtual Hrig: Computer Mediated Interaction and the Public Sphere in Morocco. Wiberg, M. Ed. (2005). The Interaction Society: Practice, Theories and Supportive Technologies. New York: Idea Group Publishing, pp. 57-92. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-530-6.ch003
The Most Outstanding Trait of the Moroccan Character: Observed in the Café. Youssi, M., M. Dahbi & L. Haddad. Eds. (2003). The Moroccan Character. Rabat: AMPATRIL
Towards a Post-Traditional Aesthetics: The Moroccan Film and the Politics of Everyday. Belghazi, T. and Haddad, L. Eds. (2001). Global/Local Cultures and Sustainable Development. Rabat: Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences
Theories of Communication and Ideas of the University: The University as an Alternative Public Space. In Belghazi, T. Ed. (1997). The Idea of the University. Rabat: Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences
JOURNAL ARTICLES
The intellectual as zaṭāṭ: the public sphere, the state, and the field of contentious politics in Morocco. (2020). In The Journal of North African Studies. DOI: 10.1080/13629387.2020.1768853
Cultural production and cultural patronage in Morocco: the state, the Islamists & the field of culture (co-authored with Taieb Belghazi). (2013). In Journal of African Cultural Studies, 25:3, pp. 261-274
Mohamed Abed al-Jabri and Abdallah Laroui on modernity and tradition: the design of grand narratives. (2010). In Langues et Littératures, 20
Images of Morocco: the politics of visual construction in a post-colonial context. (2009) In Langues et Littératures, 19
We have not buried the simple past: the public sphere and post-colonial literature in Morocco. (2008). In Journal of African Cultural Studies, 20:2
From post-modernism to post-tradition: rethinking social organization in a post-traditional society. (2007). In Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, 7:4
A place on the terrace: the café and the public sphere in Morocco. (2007). In The Journal of North African Studies, 12:4, December
Creative deviations in a global market: undocumented cultures and Moroccan identities. (2005). In Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings, 5:1
Communication and the social production of space: the hammam, the public sphere and Moroccan women. (2004). In The Journal of North African Studies, 9:1, pp. 104-130. DOI: 10.1080/1362938042000292324
Café culture and cultural politics in Morocco. (2004). In Langues et Littératures, 18. pp. 155-171
Select Presentations
“Three-pronged approach for academic excellence in global learning.” American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) Virtual Conference “Global Learning Reimagined,” October 7-9, 2021
“Decoloniality and the Future of Democracy,” Perspectives from the Global South Lecture Series, Discussion with decolonial and critical theorists Walter Mignolo and Taieb Belghazi, February 17, 2021
“Representations and Epistemologies of DEI: A Conversation with Leading Postcolonial Theorist Homi K. Bhabha,” October 18, 2021
“The Future of Justice-Based International Education,” SIT Critical Conversations, Celebrating International Education, November 20, 2020
“Education Abroad and the Vivre-Ensemble Ideal: Creating Shared Designs in an Environment of Populism and Contentious Politics”. The Forum on Education Abroad 15th Annual Conference “Broadening the Circle of Education Abroad”, March 27-29, Denver, Colorado, USA, 2019
“Diversity, Community, and International Education in the Context of Present-Day Europe”. The Forum’s European Conference “Local, National Global: Understanding Diversity and Community in Europe”, October 17-19, 2018, Prague, Czech Republic
“Contemporary cultural production and patronage in Morocco: The plastic arts and postcolonial expressions of modernity”. The Middle East Studies Association conference (MESA), November 21-24, 2015, Denver, Colorado, USA
“Between Nashwa and Ihbat: Emotional Perceptions of the Arab Uprisings”. The Middle East Studies Association conference (MESA), November 22-25, 2014. Washington, DC
“The Arab Spring and Models of the Public Sphere”. The international conference on “Mobilizing Art in the Middle East”, May 28-29, 2014, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco
“Uprisings in North Africa & the Middle East: Universalism and Transnational Nomadism” Paper presented at the University of Denver, Colorado, USA, 2012
“XXI Century Innovative Approaches in Research” Paper presented at the SIT Academic Workshop, Vermont, USA, 2012
“Moroccan Identities and Diversity” Paper presented at the Workshop on l’Université Citoyenne, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco, 2010
“Moroccan Hip-Hop Music and Its Reception among Moroccan Youth” Paper presented at the Marginalization and Mobilization of Youth in the Near East Conference, May 30-31, 2009, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
“Human Rights and Media Research” Paper presented at the Workshop on Globalization, Development and Human Rights, August 2-9, 2008, Kathmandu, Nepal
“Migration and Development: Conceptual Framework for the Future” Paper presented at the International Conference on the Union for the Mediterranean: What Conditions for What Perspectives? The Moroccan Interdisciplinary Center on Strategic and International Studies, June 5-6, 2008, Fes, Morocco
“Cross-Cultural Communication and the Teaching of Arabic” Paper presented at the Arabic Language Teacher Training Workshop Center for Cross Cultural Learning, April 21-26, 2008, Rabat, Morocco
“Constructing Migration in Morocco” Paper presented at the international workshop on EU Neighborhood Policy and Migrations November 27-December 2, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
“Human Rights in the Context of Global Media” Paper presented at the Memory Workshop, October 23-25, 2007, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK
“Premium Morocco: Riads, Maisons d’Hôtes, and the Construction of Post-Modern Exoticism” Paper presented at the international conference on Morocco in Western Art, The Moroccan Fulbright Alumni Association & University Cadi Ayyad, November 6-7, 2006, Marrakech, Morocco
“The Export of Democracy: Cultural Translation and the Public Sphere in Morocco” Paper presented at the international conference on Self and Subject: African and Asian Perspectives Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies, Open University, Edinburgh, Scotland, September 20-23, 2005
“Cultural Particulars/Universals and Democracy” Paper presented at the workshop on Culture, Cultures, Mohammed V University in Rabat & Konrad Adenauer Foundation, May 26-29, 2005, Marrakech, Morocco “Electronic Exiles and Virtual Access: Cyber Culture and the Public Sphere in Morocco” Paper presented at the international conference on Exiles and Outsiders, Ecole Supérieure Roi Fah de Traduction & University of Wales, Aberswyth, University of St Andrews, April 25-26, 2002, Tangier, Morocco
“Electronic Exiles and Virtual Access: Cyber Culture and the Public Sphere in Morocco” Paper presented at the international conference on Exiles and Outsiders, Ecole Supérieure Roi Fah de Traduction & University of Wales, Aberswyth, University of St Andrews, April 25-26, 2002, Tangier, Morocco
Education
- PhD, University of Surrey
- MA, University Mohammed V Agdal
- BA, University Mohammed V Agdal
