Deama Khader, PhD, specializes in cultural heritage preservation and archiving with an emphasis on documenting ephemera. Her dissertation examines Palestinian street art and other ephemeral art documents created in a conflict zone as a case study for understanding preservation practices for communities with culture at risk of erasure. At the University of North Texas, she leads courses in digital imaging and information retrieval. Khader has worked with the Kimball Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas as a registrar intern. She is the Our Refugee Stories Archive curator and also manages the Ambreen Butt Art Studio as studio lead and archivist.
