Affiliations

Affiliations

Dr. Sa’ed Atshan currently serves as the Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Anthropology at Swarthmore College and has many affiliations with other institutions of higher learning.

Academic Appointments

  • 2023 - Present

    Department Chair, Peace & Conflict Studies
    Swarthmore College

  • 2023 - Present

    Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Anthropology
    Swarthmore College

  • 2022 - 2023

    Associate Professor of Anthropology (with tenure)
    Emory University

    Affiliated Faculty: Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies; Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Institute of African Studies; Department of German Studies

  • 2021

    Acting Associate Professor of Anthropology
    Emory University

  • 2021 - 2022

    Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies (with tenure)
    Swarthmore College

  • 2020 - 2021

    Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Senior Research Scholar in Middle Eastern Studies
    University of California, Berkeley

  • 2017 - 2021

    Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies
    Swarthmore College

  • 2015 - 2017

    Visiting Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies
    Swarthmore College

  • 2013 - 2015

    Postdoctoral Fellow, Watson Institute for International Studies
    Brown University

Education

  • 2013

    PhD — Harvard University
    Faculty of Arts and Sciences
    Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies

    Dissertation: “Prolonged Humanitarianism: The Social Life of Aid in the Palestinian Territories”
    Committee: Arthur Kleinman (Chair), Byron Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Kimberly Theidon

  • 2010

    MA — Harvard University
    Faculty of Arts and Sciences
    Social Anthropology

  • 2008

    MPP — Harvard University
    John F. Kennedy School of Government
    Public Policy

  • 2006

    BA — Swarthmore College
    Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies

    Spring 2005, Visiting Student, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
    Fall 2004, Visiting Student, American University in Cairo, Egypt

Research Affiliations

  • 2015 - 2016

    American University of Beirut
    Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship

  • 2011 - 2013

    Harvard University
    Weatherhead Center for International Affairs

  • 2010 - 2011

    Columbia University
    Center for Palestine Studies

  • 2010 - 2011

    Birzeit University
    Institute of Community and Public Health

  • 2010 - 2011

    Birzeit University
    Center for Development Studies

Dr. Sa'ed Atshan