Sara Katona

College

St Antony’s

Supervisor:

Dr. Michael J. Willis

Biography:

Academically raised an interdisciplinarian, I am examining Moroccan national identity through a lens that bridges cultural anthropology, human geography, and political thought. My academic path has been shaped by years of living, studying, and teaching across the Mashreq and Maghreb, experiences that continue to inform both my research and teaching philosophy.

I have held teaching and research posts in the USA, Iraq, Sudan, Egypt, China, and Morocco, including teaching identity politics at the American University of Iraq–Baghdad and as an English instructor at Al Neelain University in Khartoum, Sudan.

My broader interests include questions of local epistemology, identity formation, postcolonial belonging, and the politics of cultural production in the Maghreb. Alongside my academic work, I am an editor for the Oxford Middle East Review and love putting my free time into Gardening Soc, Vegan Soc, and the Oxford Utopia Reading Group.

Educational Background:

Al Akhawayn University 2019-2020, MA North African and Middle Eastern Studies

St. Edward’s University 2013-2017, BA Global Studies

Research interests

Identity, cultural studies, Maghreb, belonging, political anthropology, postmodernism, epistemic violence, subaltern

Recent publications

Journal of Islamic Marketing

Co-Author – Accepted March 2025

Zakat Compliance Behavior: Case of Small and Medium Enterprises

Moving Abroad, edited Palgrave volume

Author – Published July 2024

Becoming in Baghdad – when normative meets empirical in a classroom

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-97-2765-0

International Journal of Logistics Economics and Globalisation

Co-Author – Published January 2023

Service recovery: the moderating role of customer loyalty in the context of Moroccan retail banking

DOI:10.1504/IJLEG.2023.10057471

Journal of Islamic Marketing

Co-Author – Published April 2023

Antecedents of Charitable Donations (Sadaqah) During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Does Islamic Religiosity Matter?

DOI: 10.1108/jima-09-2021-0296

Review of Behavioral Finance

Co-Author – Accepted June 2022

Determinants of annual reports complexity in the United States of America: an application of the Tobit model

DOI: 10.1108/RBF-12-2021-0265

Strife Journal at King’s College London

Author – Fall 2021

Religion’s Role in Identity Construction of Urban Moroccan Youth: We’ve God it Wrong