BIO
Foroogh Farhang is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Vermont. She completed her PhD in Cultural Anthropology at Northwestern University after receiving an MA in Gender Studies from Central European University. She also received a graduate certificate in Middle East and North African Studies from Northwestern University.
Foroogh’s research explores the shifting governance of borders and bodies in the face of ongoing and increasing migration flows. Since 2013, she has conducted research throughout Lebanon, as well as in different regions of Iran, including Eastern Kurdistan. Her multi-method approach combines long-term ethnographic fieldwork with in-depth interviews, media and document analysis, and archival research. Her current book project is based on 18 months of fieldwork with Syrians, Lebanese, and Palestinians in northern and eastern Lebanon. It takes displaced Syrians’ quests for a proper burial in Lebanon as a focal point to examine how networks of people self-organize to navigate the constraints of national and transnational modes of care, and in the process, make new modalities of living, dying, and community-making possible. Her book project bridges critical refugee studies, the anthropology of humanitarianism, and historical political economy by emphasizing the entanglement of the lives and deaths of newly displaced Syrians with other marginalized communities in Lebanon in ways which fall outside of legal and spatial frameworks of the existing refugee regime. This research was supported by the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Max Weber Foundation, and the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs.
Before joining UVM, Foroogh was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University where she researched and taught courses in International and Public Affairs (IAPA). Prior to this, she taught in the Department of Anthropology and the International Studies program at Northwestern University. She enjoys creating curricula and teaching a variety of course in her area of research expertise including displacement, borders and mobility, and borderland; revolutions and social movements; human rights and humanitarianism, introduction to cultural anthropology, political and economic anthropology, and the Middle East.
Area(s) of expertise
Migration and displacement, war and conflict, uprisings and social movements, ethics, gender, inequality and poverty, human rights and humanitarianism, borderland and the Middle East
Bio
Foroogh Farhang is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Vermont. She completed her PhD in Cultural Anthropology at Northwestern University after receiving an MA in Gender Studies from Central European University. She also received a graduate certificate in Middle East and North African Studies from Northwestern University.
Foroogh’s research explores the shifting governance of borders and bodies in the face of ongoing and increasing migration flows. Since 2013, she has conducted research throughout Lebanon, as well as in different regions of Iran, including Eastern Kurdistan. Her multi-method approach combines long-term ethnographic fieldwork with in-depth interviews, media and document analysis, and archival research. Her current book project is based on 18 months of fieldwork with Syrians, Lebanese, and Palestinians in northern and eastern Lebanon. It takes displaced Syrians’ quests for a proper burial in Lebanon as a focal point to examine how networks of people self-organize to navigate the constraints of national and transnational modes of care, and in the process, make new modalities of living, dying, and community-making possible. Her book project bridges critical refugee studies, the anthropology of humanitarianism, and historical political economy by emphasizing the entanglement of the lives and deaths of newly displaced Syrians with other marginalized communities in Lebanon in ways which fall outside of legal and spatial frameworks of the existing refugee regime. This research was supported by the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Max Weber Foundation, and the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs.
Before joining UVM, Foroogh was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University where she researched and taught courses in International and Public Affairs (IAPA). Prior to this, she taught in the Department of Anthropology and the International Studies program at Northwestern University. She enjoys creating curricula and teaching a variety of course in her area of research expertise including displacement, borders and mobility, and borderland; revolutions and social movements; human rights and humanitarianism, introduction to cultural anthropology, political and economic anthropology, and the Middle East.
Areas of Expertise
Migration and displacement, war and conflict, uprisings and social movements, ethics, gender, inequality and poverty, human rights and humanitarianism, borderland and the Middle East