Bio

As an anthropologist, my work centers on how politics of difference shape and are shaped by biocultural bodies. This has taken the form of studying the articulations of estrangement, race, and religious sectarianism via 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. I have been involved in projects in North America, South America, and the Middle East. Publications include an earlier article entitled “Caring Differently: Some Reflections” is published in the journal Historical Archaeology (2020). An accepted 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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