4, GRADUATE FELLOW, GRADUATE -A-C, Women Mobilizing Memory
Tamer Marshood
Bürge Abiral

Doctoral Student, Cultural Studies, Sabanci University

Bürge Abiral is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. She received her BA from Williams College and her MA in Cultural Studies from Sabancı University, Turkey. Her research interests include human- environment relations, climate change, agriculture, political violence, and gender and sexuality. Her translation of Toward an Anthropology of Women (ed.

Bürge Abiral
VISITING FELLOW, VISITING -A-B
Tamer Marshood
Fariba Adelkhah

Fellow, Anthropology, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

Fariba Adelkhah is Senior Research Fellow at Sciences Po in Paris. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS, 1989).  An anthropologist, her main research interests focus on the relationships and interplay between social changes and political transformations throughout the second half of the 20th century in Iran.

Fariba Adelkhah
VISITING -A-B, RGFGV
Tamer Marshood
Nissreen Haram

Fellow, Economics, Mount Holyoke College

Nissreen Haram holds a B.A. in economics from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts and an M.A. in Islamic Studies from McGill University in Montreal. She has had a diverse career as a Trade Policy Advisor, Law Firm Director, Children’s Museum Director, and Artisan Cheese maker. She has also been member of the Yale Law School Middle East Seminar, and its organizing committee for more than 15 years. She is actively interested in Islamic legal and intellectual history, and contemporary approaches to religious reform.

4, GRADUATE FELLOW, GRADUATE -A-C
Tamer Marshood
Kata Ámon

PhD Student, Sociology and Social Policy, Corvinus University of Budapest

Kata Ámon
Faculty, VISITING -A-B, RURAL URBAN INTERFACE
Tamer Marshood
Delali Margaret Badasu

Fellow, Geography, University of Ghana

Delali Margaret Badasu is a Senior Research Fellow at the Regional Institute for Population Studies, University of Ghana. She specializes in demography, geography, and medical geography. 

Delali Margaret Badasu

Afronordic Feminisms

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Faith Adiele

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Faith Adiele

Professor Adiele teaches in the creative writing programs at California College of the Arts (San Francisco, Calif., USA) and Stonecoast Low-Residency MFA Program (Portland, Maine, USA). Her writing classes focus on decolonial travel writing and hybrid (multiracial/multigenre) memoir; her literature courses specialize in contemporary African literature, the literature of intersectional passing, and international Young Adult (YA) literature and film.

Her memoir Meeting Faith, an account of becoming Thailand’s first Black Buddhist Nun (Norton 2004), received the PEN Open Book Award and is widely taught in American universities. She is also writer of My Journey Home, a PBS documentary about finding her family in Nigeria, author of The Nigerian-Nordic Girl’s Guide to Lady Problems, a tri-cultural digital chapbook about black women and fibroids, and co-editor of Coming of Age Around the World: A Multicultural Anthology.

Professor Adiele founded the USA’s first writing workshop for travelers of color through the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation, writes a weekly travel column for Detour: Best Stories in Black Travel, which appears in the Miami Herald, and is senior editor of Decolonising Travel in UK-based journal Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature. She also hosts an African Book Club at San Francisco’s Museum of the African Diaspora and produces Africana content for the Calm meditation app.

She is currently at work on the USA’s first decolonial travel craft book (forthcoming from Columbia University Press) and several hybrid chapbooks about her Nigerian-Nordic-American heritage (forthcoming from Texas Review Press).