Tony Chamoun

Bio

My work broadly centers on how the politics of difference shape and are shaped by biocultural bodies. As an historical bioanthropologist, I engage the articulations and materializations of estrangement, race, and religious sectarianism through decedents of an early modern/modern cemetery from the port city of Beirut, Lebanon. Relatedly, future research sets out to examine the production of difference via bodies moving not only into the Middle East, as in the case of Beirut, but also bodies moving outside it, as afforded by the geographies of ports in the thick of modern empire. Tony has been involved in projects in North America, South America, and the Middle East. An earlier article entitled “Caring Differently: Some Reflections” is published in the journal Historical Archaeology (2020). His forthcoming chapter, “Violent Histories in a Diasporic Register: Between Bodily Durabilities, Sacrificial Others, and Racialized Strangers,” will appear in an edited volume from SAR/University of New Mexico Press.

Publications

• Caring Differently: Some Reflections , Historical Archaeology (2020)

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