Affiliations

Affiliations

Academic Appointments

  • 2022 - Present

    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