April 2023 Symposium Publications

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April 2023 Symposium Publications

Amir Husak, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, The New School

Emma Shaw Crane, Postdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Columbia University in the City of New York

Guadalupe De La Cruz, Florida Program Director, American Friends Service Committee

Abosede George, Tow Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies, Barnard College – Columbia University

Azra Hromadžić, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Syracuse University

  • Faculty page: https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/directory/azra-hromad%C5%BEi%C4%87
  • Publications:
    • Hromadžić, A. Migrant Encounters in Bihać: Anthropologies of Dislocation, Extraction and Refusal.
    • “Migrant Journeys: Lives and Deaths in Transition. Sawyer Seminar Series, Boston University (April 2023)
    • Hromadžić, A. 2020. “Notes from the Field: ‘Migrant Crisis’ in Postwar Bosnia.” Movements: Journal for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies 5(1): 163-180
    • “Haunted by Violence: Conversation with Saida Hodžić, Azra Hromadžić and Larisa Kurtović.” Ethics in Forced Migration Research. Refugee Research Network, March 2022.

A. George Bajalia, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Wesleyan University

Milad Odabaei, Associate Research Scholar (Postdoctoral Fellow), Princeton University

Larisa Kurtovic, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Ottawa
  • Websites:
  • CV: https://www.larisakurtovic.com/
  • Publications:
    • Kurtović, Larisa. 2021. “When the ‘people’ leave: Emptiness, labor migration and the limits of nationalist(bio)politics in postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina,” Nationalities Papers, 49(5), 873-892.
    • Kurtović, Larisa. 2018. “Between expert and witness: insider anthropology and public engagement”Anthrodendum (Formerly known as Savage Minds) February 5.https://anthrodendum.org/2018/02/05/between-expert-and-witness-insider-anthropology-and-public-engagement/
    • Kurtović, Larisa. 2017. “The Right Kind of a Refugee,” Refugees Write Back, (special section convened by Saida Hodžić) in Maintaining Refuge: Anthropological Reflections in Uncertain Times, CORI volume on the Refugee Crisis, Committee on Refugees and Immigrants (AAA), 175-181.
  • Talks: “Haunted by Violence” with Saida Hodžić and Azra Hromadžić, Online event organized by Local Engagement Refugee Research Network (LERRN), the Refugee Research Network (RRN) and the Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS) at York University, March 11, 2022.

Anu (Aradhana) Sharma, Associate Professor, Wesleyan University

Nell Gabiam, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Political Science, Iowa State University

  • Website – https://language.iastate.edu/directory/gabiam/
  • Publications:
    • 2021: “Palestinians and Europe’s ‘Refugee Crisis’: Seeking Asylum in France in the Wake of the SyrianWar.” Journal of Refugee Studies, 34(2):1327–1347.
    • November 2022: “Palestinian Refugees in Syria: The Politics of Identity, Citizenship, and Return in the Wakeof the Syrian War.” Insaniyyat, Society of Palestinian Anthropologists. (Virtual)
  • November 2022: “Care and Survival during the War in Syria: The Limits of Institutionalized Humanitarianism.” Panel on “Humanitarian Work in War.” Norwegian Center for Humanitarian Studies. Bergen. Norway.

Eda Pepi, Assistant Professor, Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Yale University

  • Website: https://wgss.yale.edu/people/eda-pepi
  • Pepi is completing her first book — UnCitizenship: The Global Politics of Reproductive Borderwork in Jordan — which explores how states manage political and economic problems, like statelessness, through families.
Vinh Nguyen, Associate Professor, University of Waterloo

Eman Ghanayem, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Comparative Literature, Cornell University

  • Websites:
  • Publications:
    • “Being Indigenous and Refugee: The Duality of Palestinian and American Indian Narratives,” in TheRoutledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives, eds. Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi and Vinh Nguyen (New York:Routledge, 2023), 381-92.
    •  “Proactive Grief: Palestinian Reflections on Death,” Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 21, no. 2(2022): 397–412.
    • Co-authored with Rana Sharif and Jennifer Mogannam, “Locating Palestinians at the Intersections: Indigeneity, Critical Refugee Studies, and Decolonization,” Amerasia 47.1 (2021): 9–19.

Hannah Ali, PhD Student, Cornell University

  • Website: https://anthropology.cornell.edu/hannah-ali
  • Helped with the Successful Tenancy Project for the Woman Abuse Council of Toronto. The projectexamined how domestic abuse survivors navigated Toronto’s Private Rental Sector. 2022.
  • “ Thick Intersectionality.” Medusa Graduate Conference. Ontario, Canada. The University of Toronto. 2021.
  • “ Yuta Anthropology.” McMaster Anthropological Graduate Society Virtual Conference. Ontario, Canada.McGill University. 2021.
  • “ Islamophobia and Anti-Blackness: A conversation between Mohamed Duale and Na’ima Robert.

Yen Le Espiritu, Distinguished Professor, UC San Diego

  • Website:
  • Publications:
    • Espiritu et al. Departures: An Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies. University of California Press, 2022.
    • Guest Editor (with Lila Sharif). Amerasia Journal 47:1 (2021). Special issue on “Critical Refugee Studies”.
    • “Critical Refugee Studies and Asian American Studies: Vietnamese Refugees in Asian America.” Journal ofAsian American Studies (JAAS) 25:2, June 2022, 159-169.

Jeffrey Palmer, Associate Professor of Performing and Media Arts, Cornell University

  • Website: https://vimeopro.com/user2833074/jeffreypalmer
  • (“Ghosts”, 17 mins.) “Ghosts” tells the story of three Kiowa boys’ daring escape from a government boarding school in Anadarko, Oklahoma in 1891, to attend a ghost dance ceremony at a distant Kiowa encampment. After being whipped for, so-called, insubordination and feeling defeated, CHARLES, a rebellious teenager, plans to escape with an unlikely group of partners, the spiritual ZEPH, who has visions of his grandfather and an upcoming ghost dance, which is sweeping across Indian Territory promising the resurrection of their ancestors, and JUDAH, a trickster, who seizes the opportunity to join them and help them flee. “Ghosts” is an oral history of tribal alliance, resistance, and survival from the degradation of forced assimilation.

Karina Edouard, Doctoral Student, Cornell University

Mostafa Minawi, Associate Professor of History, Cornell University

Jane Juffer, Professor, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Department of Literatures in English, Cornell University

Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Asiya Zahoor

Saida Hodžić