Eda Pepi

Eda Pepi is Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. As a sociocultural anthropologist specializing in MENA regions, her research examines how gender, kinship, and state power intersect in contexts of statelessness and migration.

Research projects:

• Marital States: Reproductive politics of citizenship in Jordan
• Grounds for Divorce: Transnational kinship in Western Sahara

Focus areas:

• State regulation of family structures
• Transnational domestic arrangements
• Colonial legacies in family law