Jenna Rice Rahaim
Visiting Assistant Professor · Charity, Humanitarianism, and Gifts
Macalester CollegeAbout
Jenna Rice Rahaim is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Macalester College, based in Carnegie Hall, Room 04F, with contact number 651-696-6381 and email jrice2@macalester.edu.
Her educational background:
- International Diploma: Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po), Paris (2004)
- BA: UC Berkeley (2005)
- MA: Stanford University (2009)
- PhD: Stanford University (2016)
Professor Rahaim's research centers on migration and ethical practices in the Middle East, particularly Lebanon's response to Syrian refugees. Her key interests include charity and humanitarianism, empathy and obligation, migration dynamics, sectarian sentiment, kinship structures, and postcolonial feminist literatures. Her dissertation, 'Imagining Debt, Practicing Obligation: Family, Charity, and Humanitarianism in Saida, Lebanon', reveals how charitable giving negotiates sectarianism, religion, and political alliances amid growing inequality and welfare state contraction, based on ethnographic fieldwork with donors, volunteers, and refugee-affected communities.
