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

SEEDS OF DIASPORA

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Anelise Chen

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Anelise Chen (Assistant Professor of Fiction in the School of Arts) recently served as Director of Undergraduate Studies in Creative Writing. Her books include the experimental novel So Many Olympic Exertions, a VCU Cabell Award Finalist, and her forthcoming hybrid memoir is an investigation into metaphors of shell-making. She is a “5 under 35” National Book Foundation honoree, and has received a Junior Faculty Provost Grant, a Hettleman Grant, and fellowships from Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Blue Mountain Center, and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop.

Working Group

Seeds of Diaspora