Dr. Lisa Bhungalia is a postdoctoral fellow in OSU’s Department of Geography. For the April conversation at Thompson Library, Dr. Bhungalia will discuss her current research on the intersection of liberal war, national securitization, and transnational linkages and encounters between the United States and the North Africa/Middle East region. Based on research conducted in Israel/Palestine, her talk examines transnational articulations of U.S. national securitization tracing in particular how U.S. counterterrorism laws and polices shape American civilian aid programs to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Then attending to domestic dimensions of the “war on terror,” she explores how American counterterrorism strategies are being transmitted, adapted, and refined within the United States. Attention is afforded in particular to recent court cases involving prosecutions of Arab and Muslim charities under U.S. material support legislation and to the broader impacts of these prosecutions on political organizing in the United States and charitable giving abroad.