Assistant Professor, Anthropology
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Office Information:
101 West Hall, 1085. S. University Ave. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1107
phone: 734-764-6858
hours: 222-D West Hall
Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies;
CMENAS Faculty;
Global Islamic Studies Center;
GISC Faculty;
African Studies Center;
ASC Faculty;
GISC Executive Committee
Education/Degree:
BSc, Georgetown University; MA, School of Oriental and African Studies; MPhil, New York University; PhD, New York University
About
I am an anthropologist of religion and media with a focus on the Middle East. I am also a practicing visual ethnographer. I am interested in understanding the mass mediation of religious life and in approaching film as a medium of anthropological argument. More broadly, my research is informed by a conceptual attunement to difference and emancipatory politics in nonliberal traditions and within authoritarian contexts. My upcoming book explores Islamic television channels as sites of critique in the revolutionary Egypt of the 2011 uprising. My newest research revolves around two topics: a Henry Luce-funded collaborative project with Emory University on the global politics of “moderate Islam” and a co-creative, multi-modal project on Nubian cultural activism and material heritage across Egypt and Sudan, funded by the Humanities Collaboratory.
Affiliation(s)
- Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies
- Anthropology
- History Program
Award(s)
- Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
- National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
- Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Fellowship
- Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship
- Wenner-Gren Doctoral Dissertation Fieldwork Award
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Field(s) of Study
- Media
- Visual Culture
- Activism
- Islam
- Contemporary Middle East
- Egypt
