| Office Location: | 201G Science Building |
| Office Phone: | 919 668 5252 |
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Office Hours:
Tuesdays 4:00-6:00
Education:
- PhD UC Berkeley 2005
- MA UC Berkeley 1999
- MPhil University of Cambridge 1998
- BA Harvard University 1997
Research Interests: medical and psychological anthropology, ethics and subjectivity, liberalism and human rights, peace and conflict, migration and borderlands, history and memory, film and visual culture, social and political theory, Europe and the Middle East
My research in the eastern Mediterranean (Greece, Turkey, and Cyprus) focuses on the psyche and the body, their implication in social conflict and in the ties that bind people to communities and the state. I have just completed a book manuscript, "Bad Souls [Κακόψυχοι]: An Ethnography of Madness and Responsibility in Greek Thrace," which explores humanitarian psychiatric reform, and the ethics of personal responsibility for patients facing life “in the community,” in the culturally heterogeneous borderland between Greece and Turkey. In 2007, I began a new project on suspicion/paranoia, intelligence, and post-conflict statecraft in Cyprus. This project comprises research on both sides of the newly-porous border between northern and southern Cyprus, as well as a documentary film on cross-border movement, surveillance, and memory.
