Said Graiouid

Provost, Dean of Faculty & Senior Executive, School for International Training at School for International Training

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).

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  • Provost, Dean of Faculty & Senior Executive, School for International Training

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  • Dean of Faculty

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