Youth in the Middle East
An undergraduate elective on youth cultures, social change, and political imaginaries in the contemporary Middle East.
Teaching
Lindsay Mackenzie: “Young Tunisians sit on the steps of the Municipal Theatre on Bourguiba Avenue in downtown Tunis on 19 May 2011. The area is covered in revolutionary graffiti.”
Gulf Urban Societies
A course on Gulf urbanism focused on migration, planning, infrastructure, and everyday social life in rapidly transforming cities.
Shaima Al Tamimi. Souq Waqif, Doha (Qatar), 2017.
Beyond Nature-Culture
A Core Colloquium course introducing key anthropological debates around the nature-culture divide through classic and contemporary texts.
Composite elephant (navanārīkuñjara), wooden panel, Sri Lanka, 19th century.